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Genesis 12 Lesson 8

Narrative Review  Before the Flood  Genesis 1  Genesis 2  Genesis 3  Genesis 4  Genesis 5

Narrative Review  The Flood  Genesis 6  Genesis 7  Genesis 8  Genesis 9  Genesis 10

Build a city and a tower  A tower whose top is in the heavens  Make a name for ourselves  Had brick and mortar  A plain in the land of Shinar Review

Land of Shinar

A visitor  The LORD came down to visit the city  People all spoke one language  Let Us go down and confuse their language  Would not understand each other  Scattered over the earth  Building on city stopped Review

Babel  Place is called Babel  People were scattered  "Babel" means the "Gate of God“  According to the Bible, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew word balal, meaning to jumbleBabel Review

Going to Haran  Lot was son of Haran  Terah took Abram and Sarai and Lot and left Ur going to Canaan  They stopped and lived in Haran  Terah died in Haran Review

Abraham from Ur to Haran

“By Faith Abraham Obeyed”  God makes and keeps promises acted  God’s people of old acted based on their faith  God has made me a promise Based on my faith my obedient actions Achieved by my obedient actions

Patriarchs AbrahamIsaacJacob Genesis 12-50

Call of Abram  Genesis 12:1 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. (NKJV)

Call of Abram Get out of your country  Genesis 12:1 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. (NKJV)

Call of Abram From your family And from your father's house  Genesis 12:1 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. (NKJV)

Call of Abram To a land that I will show you  Genesis 12:1 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. (NKJV)

Three Promises NationSeedLand

Nation Promise  Genesis 12:2 I will make you a great nation a holy nation  Exodus 19:5 'Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. 'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

Nation Promise  Genesis 12:2 I will make you a great nation  Genesis 17:4 "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

Seed Promise  Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."  In thee—In thy posterity, in the Messiah, who shall spring from thee, shall all families of the earth be blessed; …His Gospel shall be preached throughout the world, and innumerable blessings be derived on all mankind through His death and intercession.

Nation Promise  Galatians 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

Abram and Family  Abram leaves Haran  He is 75 years old  Sarai is his wife  Lot is his nephew  Came to Canaan  Stopped at Shechem

Patriarchs Abraham Ur Haran Canaan

Land Promise  Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So the LORD gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers  Joshua 21:43 So the LORD gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it and dwelt in it.

Patriarchs Canaan Genesis 12:7

Worshiping God  Genesis 12:7 And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.  Moved to Bethel  Genesis 12:8 there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD

Worshiping God  Genesis 12:7 And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.  Moved to Bethel  Genesis 12:8 there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.  Moved on to the South (Negev)  Famine in the land

Patriarchs Famine Genesis 12:10 Canaan Egypt

Abram’s Request  Sarai was beautiful  Abram feared for his life  Tell them you are my sister  Genesis 20:12 "But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.  A half-truth or a half-lie???

Sarai With Pharaoh  Genesis 12:15. the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house-- Eastern kings have for ages claimed the privilege of taking to their harem an unmarried woman whom they like. The father or brother may deplore the removal as a calamity, but the royal right is never resisted nor questioned.

Sarai With Pharaoh  Abram is treated well  Plagues come on Pharaoh  Pharaoh learns the truth about Sarai  He returns Sarai to Abram  They are sent away; out of Egypt

Abram’s Faith By faith By faith  Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Abram’s Faith useless reasonings  Abram is proposed to us in the Scriptures as a pattern of faith, patience, and loving obedience. When he received the call of God, he spent no time in useless reasonings about the call itself, his family circumstances, the difficulties in the way. He was called, and he departed, and this is all we hear on the subject.

Our Faith  Implicit faith in the promise of God, and prompt obedience to his commands, become us, not only as HIS creatures, but as sinners called to separate from evil workers and wicked ways, and travel, by that faith which works by love, in the way that leads to the paradise of God.

Our Faith  Hebrews 11:10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. he lost sight of earth, that he might keep heaven in view  He knew that earth could afford no permanent residence for an immortal mind, and he looked for that heavenly building of which God is the architect and owner; in a word, he lost sight of earth, that he might keep heaven in view.

What do we lose/gain?  Luke 9:23 Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. desires to save his life  24 "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.  25 "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? lessons

What does it mean to be ‘ashamed of Christ?’  Luke 9:26 "For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.  Are we guilty? How? lessons

Song  All of Self and None of Thee  Some of All Self and Some of Thee  Less of Self and More of Thee  None of self and all of Thee lessons

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