Abraham
God chose Abraham`s family to weave His scarlet thread
through the linen of humanity. It was through Abraham`s
descendants that the Jewish nation would arise, a people
who would receive the covenant of the Lord, and that one of
those descendants would be the Savior, not only for the
Jews but for the whole world.
Abraham lived in the city of U...
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God promised to give Abraham a son through his wife Sarah
who was barren (unable to bear children). Through this son,
a mighty nation would arise and also an uncountable amount
of descendants, and one of those descendants would be a
blessing to all the nations in the world.
This promise seemed impossible because they were so old but
Abraham be...
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It was with Abraham that God established His covenant. This
was God`s promise:
Gen 12:1-3 Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your
country, from your family and from your father`s house, to
a land that I will show you. I will make you a great
nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you
shall be a blessing. I will bless t...
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Circumcision was the seal and reminder of the covenant, and
so all of Abraham`s male descendants would be circumcised
to remind them that God would someday fulfill all the
promises that He made to Abraham. Notice that Abraham
believed before he was circumcised. Faith came before
works. This is an important point that Paul makes in the
book of...
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There was a very beautiful yet wicked place in Canaan
called Sodom and Gomorrah and the Lord told Abraham that He
was going to destroy it but Abraham pleaded with God to
spare the sinful cities for that is where his nephew Lot
lived. God sent an angel to rescue Lot and his family but
destroyed the cities because of their homosexuality and
oth...
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As Abraham grew stronger in faith, God told him to offer
his son Isaac as a burnt offering to prove his faith (Gen
22), Abraham obeyed and brought Isaac to Mount Moriah, laid
him on the altar and at the last minute the Lord told him
not to kill Isaac and gave him a ram for the sacrifice.
Here we see Abraham`s faith (Heb 11:17-19) and a beautif...
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Gen 15:13-14 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that
your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not
theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them
four hundred years. "And also the nation whom they serve I
will judge; afterward they shall come out with great
possessions."...
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