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Prayer
With this week being Father’s Day, we thought it would be a good time to conduct a baby dedication service...
as well as recognize our Graduate for 2018.
With that said, we’re going to be looking at another Father in scripture...
ABRAHAM
367 years after the Flood, God seeks out Abraham, and calls him out to use him for His purposes.
It was with Abraham that God establishes a covenant...and it was through Abraham that God would reveal His plan of redemption.
See we talked about how mankind up to that point was 0-3.
The Fall
The Flood
The Tower of Babel
Each one an instance where sinful man rebelled against God,
received judgment,
and then God stepped in to redeem.
This is the pattern we see throughout the OT:
People sin...
people face the consequences....
God redeems
The covenant established with Abraham brought with it numerous promises from God.
God promised Abraham:
Land
Descendants
Blessing
The land that God promised Abraham and his descendants was the land of Canaan.
In order for that to happen, God would need to supply Abraham with descendants......
and so this became apart of the covenant as well...
the promise of descendants
The last promise that was apart of the covenant was that "in Abraham, all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
And so God's plan for Abraham is not that Abraham would receive all these blessings from God merely for Abraham......
BUT that Abraham would be individually blessed, for the purpose that now thru Abraham, this blessing would extend to the whole world.
Abraham was blessed...to be a blessing
And so - This week - In light of Father’s Day...
we’re going to focus in on the faith of Abraham (A Father’s Love)
What I'd like to do first is go through the historical account of Abraham's response to God’s call in his life......
and then circle back to look more closely at the implications for us.
Dad’s - Listen up…Look at this man’s life...
At 75 years of age, Abram answers the Call of God to leave his country, his kindred, and his father's house and go to a land that would be shown to him later.
He departs Haran, taking with his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all his possessions, and all the people they had acquired in Haran......and they head to Canaan.
Some time later, there was a great famine in the land, and so Abram makes his way to Egypt....
..to temporarily stay there.
His wife Sarai was with him, and because he thought the Egyptians would kill him to take his wife....
..he tells her to say that she's merely his sister.
She complies...and tells this to the Egyptians.
And so they then take Sarai to the Pharaoh, thinking she's Abram's sister.
God then fills Pharaoh's house with great plagues because of the situation.
Pharaoh gives Sarai back to Abram, and they continue on.
The group continues making its way back to Canaan, and Lot and Abram realize the land won't sustain both of them....
..so they decide it best to separate.
Abram settled in the land of Canaan,
and Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Following this God makes his covenant with Abram...
Promising him land, descendants, and blessing.
10 years after getting to Canaan, Abram and Sarai are still without child,
...and so they take matters into their own hands.
Sarai, goes and gets Hagar, one of her female Egyptian servants, ...
and has Abram take her as a wife.
They get together, and Hagar ends up birthing Ishmael.
Abram was 86 years old at this point.
13 years later, when Abram was 99 years old, God establishes a covenant of circumcision with him...
with the circumcision being the sign of the covenant.
This is when God changes Abram's name to Abraham.
Abram = revered father
Abraham = father of a multitude
God then promises a son to be born to Abraham and his wife, Sarah......and the child was to be called "Isaac".
God promises to establish his covenant with Isaac and his descendants as well.
When Abraham was 100 Years old, Isaac was born.
Years later (and this is what we’ll focus on today) God would ask that Abraham sacrifice "his only son" Isaac.
ISAAC...The one that had fulfilled the promise of God.
God now asking for Abraham to offer him up.
WHAT DOES ABRAHAM DO?
Abraham complies, but right before he kills him, the angel of the Lord stops him.
And so looking at this story, we might be thinking - why are we talking about this Father who was about to slaughter his son - - ON FATHER’S DAY…?
I think (i hope) - that as we look at this story, we’ll see the TRUE love that Abraham had for his son ISAAC...
And so what I want to focus on today is - the FAITH of Abraham!
SLIDE: The Faith of Abraham: Based on Revelation
The Faith of Abraham
We can see throughout this story here that God was constantly revealing Himself to Abraham, guiding him along the way.
In Ur of the Chaldees:
At Haran of Mesopotamia:
The Lord helped guide Abraham at Shechem in Canaan:
The Lord helped guide Abraham after Lot moved to Sodom...
Many more times God revealed Himself to Abraham in guiding him.
Genesis chapters 15, 17, 18, and 22.
And so by God revealing Himself to Abraham, He provided Abraham with ample evidence for him to put his faith and trust in God.
And so this speaks to us today.
Our Faith Must be Based on Revelation
NOW - We know that God doesn't reveal Himself in the same exact ways He did with Abraham......BUT He DOES reveal Himself....through His word.
So the Word of God produces spiritual hearing, and spiritual hearing produces faith.
We MUST be in this Word.
We MUST breathe in this Word.
**I love to ask myself questions when it comes to this.
Think back to the last time you opened up His Word.
Now, if someone told you that they'd give you $5 million to read the entire book of Romans tonight, would you do it?
Would you adjust your schedule to make it happen?
Would you cancel plans to make it happen?
Let's answer that question......
and then let's think back again to the last time we opened the Word.
Is there a disconnect there?
Has it been ages since we last opened up His Word on our own....
..but now at the possibility of $5 million would we drop everything to make it happen?
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