Abraham: The Call

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Abraham The Call

• Genesis 121-9
• God initiates We respondGod blesses
• God calls to change

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Abraham Response

• Trusts in God (Faith)
• He leaves family, friends, countrymen to go to a
  new land

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Abraham Blessing

• Relies on God to protect save him
• Becomes father of the Hebrew Nation

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Abraham Covenant

• Genesis 151-21
• Father of a son, a great nation Blessed
  protected by God

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Abraham Sign of Covenant

• Genesis 171-27
• Circumcision brings them into Gods family.
  (Baptism)

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Abraham Faith

• Doesnt know or understand all of Gods plan.
  But does Gods will

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Abraham Promise

• Genesis 189-15
• God promises a child
• Everything is possible for God

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Abraham Fulfillment

• Genesis 21 1-8
• No matter how impossible, You can rely on Gods
  word

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Abraham The Test

• Genesis 221-19
• Prefigures the sacrifice of Jesus

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Abraham Sacrifice

• Abrahams love for and trust in God is so great
  that he would do anything for God

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Abraham Sacrifice

• Abraham holds nothing back from God (Abel, Noah)
  not even his son

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Abraham Gods love

• Gods love for you is so great that He would do
  anything for you (sacrifice His son)

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Abraham Gods love

• God holds nothing back from us (Creation, life,
  love, His Son)

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Abraham Gods love

• That Abraham would sacrifice his son shows that
  God is 1 in his life

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Abraham Gods love

• That God would sacrifice His son for you shows
  that we are 1 in Gods life

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Abraham Revelation

• When religion isnt revelatory like ours, people
  have to figure out what gods want

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Abraham Revelation

• Most end up with human sacrifice
• This story is against human sacrifice

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Abraham Revelation

• We dont have to guess. God reveals what He
  wants.
• We respond to God

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Abraham Church

• We worship the way that God tells us to
• Church listens responds to God