LIFE OF ABRAHAM

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LIFE OF ABRAHAM

• The Friend of God
• Lesson 3

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LIFE OF ABRAHAM
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Four Stages In Abrams Life

• Genesis 12-14
• His Call And Removal To Canaan
• Genesis 15-16
• Promise Of An Lineal or Direct Heir
• Conclusion of the Covenant
• Genesis 17-21
• Established The Covenant (Circumcision)
• Change of Name to Abraham
• Genesis 22-25
• Testing of Abraham to Offer Isaac
• Death

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Why Study Abraham?

• He Is Held In High Respect and Admiration
• All 3 Major Religions Call Him the Father of
  their Faith
• Islam, Judaism, Christianity
• He conceived the idea of a single, Almighty God
• National Geographic, Dec 1966, p. 740
• He Is The Prime Model Of Faith
• Through Abraham God Reveals His Purposes and
  Goals For Mankind
• Through His Promises, God Reveals That He Has A
  Plan!

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A New Beginning

• Adam
• Noah
• Abram
• Moses
• Jesus

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Genealogies in Genesis

• ADAM (930)
• Seth (912)
• Enosh (905)
• Cainan (910)
• Mahalalel (895)
• Jared (962)
• Enoch (Walked w/ God)
• Methusleah (969)
• Lamech (767)
• Noah (950)

• SETH (600)
• Arphaxed (438)
• Salah (433)
• Eber (464)
• Peleg (239)
• Reu (239)
• Serug (230)
• Nahor (148)
• Terah (205)
• Abram (175)

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The Line of Abraham
Josh 242 Served other gods
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What Happens To Abraham?

• God Calls Abram Out of Ur (not only in Haran)
• Get Out of the Land of your Birth
• Gen 1127-28 Gen 121 Gen 157 Neh 97 Acts
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• The Family Moves To Haran (Mistake 1)
• Terah may not have wished to be apart from Abram
• Nahor may have left with the family (Gen 24)
• God Calls Abram out of Haran To Canaan
• God Makes Promises To Abram

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Promise To ABRAM

• Go forth from your country, and from your
  relatives and from your fathers house, to the
  land which I will show you and I will make you a
  great nation, and I will bless you, and make your
  name great and so you shall be a blessing and I
  will bless those who bless you, and the one who
  curses you I will curse. And in you all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed.

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Commands Promises

• Go forth
• From your country
• From relatives
• From fathers house
• To the land which I will show you

• Land
• Nation
• I will make you a great nation
• Blessing
• Seed
• In you all the families of the earth shall be
  blessed

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Theme BLESSING

• Gen 128 Then God Blessed them
• Gen 91 So God Blessed Noah
• Gen 121-3 I will Bless you
• Gen 1314-16Descendants cant be numbered
• Gen 155 So shall your descendants be
• Gen 1518To your descendants I have given
• Gen 176-8- I will make you fruitful
• Gen 1818 All the nations shall be blessed
• Gen 2217-18 all the nations shall be blessed

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What Happens To Abraham?

• God Calls Abram Out of Ur (not only in Haran)
• Get Out of the Land of your Birth
• Gen 1127-28 Gen 121 Gen 157 Neh 97 Acts
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• The Family Moves To Haran (Mistake 1)
• Terah may not have wished to be apart from Abram
• Nahor may have left with the family (Gen 24)
• God Calls Abram out of Haran To Canaan
• God Makes Promises To Abram
• Abram Leaves Haran and Takes Lot
• (Mistake 2)

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The Covenant (Gen 121-3, 7)

• I will make you a great nation (122)
• I will make your name great (122)
• I will Bless those who bless you (123)
• I will curse those who curse you (123)
• I will (thru you) Bless all the families of the
  earth (3)
• I will give this land to your descendants
  (127)
• Your Descendants shall be as the stars (155)
• To your Descendants Ill give this land (1518)
• Gen 171-11 Repeats the Promises (Circumcision)

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Blessings / Conditions

• BLESSINGS
• NATION I will make you a great nation
• LAND I will make your name great. I will give
  this land
• SEED In you all the nations of the earth shall
  be blessed

• CONDITIONS
• Get out of your Country
• From Your Family (Kindred)
• From Your Fathers House (Home)
• Gen 265 Because Abraham obeyed My Voice

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Promises Fulfilled

• Josh 2314 God has kept His Promises
• Dt 197-9 Six Cities of Refuge
• Josh 207-8
• Josh 2143God gave ALL the land He promised
• Neh 97-8 you have performed your words

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The Compromise (4-6)

• Gen 124 So Abram departed as the Lord had
  spoken to him, and Lot went with him
• Get Out Of The Country of Your Birth
• And From Your Family.
• Trouble With Lot
• Gen 13 Please let there be no strife
• Lot Pitches His Tent Toward Sodom
• Abram has to Rescue Lot.
• Lot Lives In Sodom and It is Destroyed.

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What Happens To Abraham?

• God Calls Abram Out of Ur (not only in Haran)
• Get Out of the Land of your Birth
• Gen 1127-28 Gen 121 Gen 157 Neh 97 Acts
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• The Family Moves To Haran (Mistake 1)
• Terah may not have wished to be apart from Abram
• Nahor may have left with the family (Gen 24)
• God Calls Abram out of Haran To Canaan
• God Makes Promises To Abram
• Abram Leaves Haran and Takes Lot (Mistake 2)
• Abram Builds an Altar in Shechem
• Abram Moves To Bethel and Ai Built Altar
• Abram Journeyed Further South (9)

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The Confession (7-9)

• Abraham Pitched His Tent and Built Altars
• TENT A Pilgrim, Trusts and Depends on God
• ALTAR A Worshiper, Brings Sacrifices to God

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Altars

• Gen 127 At Shechem After Leaving Haran
• God Gives Abram the Land Promise
• Gen 128 Between Bethel and Ai
• He Called On The Name of The Lord
• Gen 1318 At Hebron
• After He Separated From Lot
• Gen 229 Offering Isaac
• Called it The Lord Shall Provide
• Abraham Built Alters
• For Regular Prayer and Worship
• To Remind Him Of Gods Promises To Bless Him

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What Happens To Abraham?

• God Calls Abram Out of Ur (not only in Haran)
• Get Out of the Land of your Birth
• Gen 1127-28 Gen 121 Gen 157 Neh 97 Acts
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• The Family Moves To Haran (Mistake 1)
• Terah may not have wished to be apart from Abram
• Nahor may have left with the family (Gen 24)
• God Calls Abram out of Haran To Canaan
• God Makes Promises To Abram
• Abram Leaves Haran and Takes Lot (Mistake 2)
• Abram Builds an Altar in Shechem
• Abram Moves To Bethel and Ai Built Altar
• Abram Journeyed Further South (9)

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What Does God Require of Us?

• Faith
• Heb 111 Faith is Substance / Evidence
• Heb 116 Impossible To Please Him
• Trust Matt 625-34 Seek ye first
• He who loves father or mother more than me
• Take up your cross and follow me
• He Requires That We Give Him Our Lives!