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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. A study of the life and faith of Abraham wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t include his grandsons, Jacob and Esau. We’ve already covered Isaac and his surrender to his father’s will, and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The key event of Chapter 23 is the death of Sarah, Abraham’s wife and the mother of Isaac, the promised son. It was shortly after the events on Mt. Moriah when Abraham offered up a willing Isaac on the altar, that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’ve studied Genesis 22. And in typology, the events of that chapter give a picture of the cross. We see the father, who loves his only son. He is willing to lay his son on the altar and sacrifice him as a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Genesis 22 is an amazing chapter. It records God’s testing of Abraham’s faith and obedience. The chapter begins with God telling Abraham to offer his son, Isaac, on the altar of sacrifice. Jews refer...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Genesis 21 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The last section of Chapter 19 (verses 30-38) dealt with the destiny of Lot and his two unmarried daughters (his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt, Gen 19:26). Recall that the angels had instructed them...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. After appearing to Abraham and telling him that He would judge the two great cities of the plains, Sodom and Gomorrah, the LORD listened as Abraham pleaded that the cities be spared (Read: Abraham Pleaded for Mercy...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In Genesis 18:1-15 we read of three men visiting Abraham and Sarah at the oaks of Mamre. One of the three men was the Lord Himself. Genesis 18:16-19 16And the men rose up from thence and looked toward Sodom: and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Before we consider what took place at the Oaks of Mamre, let’s review. In our study of chapter 17, we read of God doing the following: changing Abram’s name to Abraham (Gen 17:5) declaring circumcision...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Genesis 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. Once again, God added a “hey” (“h”) to a name. (Read: Abram...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In our last study, we learned about Hagar and Ishmael. While God promised safety and prosperity to Ishmael and his descendants, God made it clear that Ismael was not Abram’s son of the promise. Abram’s son of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Three things to remember as we continue our study of the life of Abram: God’s timetable for fulfilling His promises would be much longer than Abram expected. Abram himself would not live to see the total...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. While Abram’s faith in God was deemed sufficient by God, his faith was yet still “young” and still in need of growth and maturation. This highlights that our salvation (redemption) is an event in God’s hands...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Abram was called by God to come “out of the world” and to be “separate” from the world. God was molding Abram to be “His own” and making Abram holy (set apart) and consecrated (useful for God’s purposes). ...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Don’t you just love the wisdom of others? Some of the pithy sayings or the obvious truths spoken by friends, family and even people we’ve never met can cause us to stop and ponder. It’s Important...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’re looking at the life and faith of Abraham. In case you missed earlier lessons, there’s a listing of them at the end of this lesson. Abram and Melchizedek In our last study (Abraham and the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’re studying the life and faith of Abraham. If you missed earlier lessons, they are listed at the end of this lesson. Genesis 14:1-3 1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’re looking at the life and faith of Abraham. If you missed the first two articles, you can catch up here: Abraham – A Story of Relationship Abraham — From Haran to Canaan Next, we’ll look at Abraham...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Lord says, “By My Spirit” is how we are to live our lives. Not in our own strength or abilities. Yet, I’m sure you know that…”Sometimes fears can hide your vision. The loss of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’ve studied the first three verses of Genesis 12 (Read: Abraham – A Story of Relationship). Those three verses included God’s call to Abram and the covenantal promises that God gave to Abram Remember that God’s...
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