LIFE OF ABRAHAM

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LIFE OF ABRAHAM

• The Friend of God
• Lesson 8

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Abrahams Descendants
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New Names
The Lord God Most High Lord God
God Almighty (El Shaddai)
Abraham (Father of a Great Number)
Abram (Exalted Father)
Sarai (My Princess)
Sarah (Princess)
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New Command
I am God Almighty
Walk before Me and be blameless
Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly
beyond all that we ask or think . . .
I, therefore . . . entreat you to walk in a
manner worthy of the calling . . .
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New Promises

• I will make you a Great Nation
• Descendants as the dust of the earth
• Descendants as the stars in the heavens
• I will greatly multiply your descendants

• I will Multiply you Exceedingly
• I will make you the father of a Multitude of
  Nations
• I will make you Exceedingly Fruitful
• Kings shall come forth from you

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New Sign of the Covenant

• Every male to be circumcised in the flesh of his
  foreskin
• To be done when eight days old
• Servants included
• Refusing circumcision was breaking the covenant

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One More Promise

• Sarah will have a son
• Abraham laughs
• Oh that Ishmael may live before Thee!
• Son will be named Isaac he laughs
• Covenant will be with Isaac
• But Ishmael will be blessed also

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Challenges to Abrahams Faith

• Believed Ishmael was the son of promise
• Thought it impossible that he and Sarah could
  bear a child at such an old age
• Promises of descendants even more intense
• Wearing a new name
• Circumcision

Abraham Obeys God (1722-27)