1. Why is Abraham Significant to Joelle? Or Michelle, or Leanne, or Murray, or the other Michelle, or the other Mike, or Richard...? The L ORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2. Backstory Creation Fall and promise Outside the garden – Cain and Abel – Nephilim and Flood – Babel 1.How do humans get back into the garden? 2.How do humans get back into a relationship with God? 3.What will become of sinful humans ‘outside the garden’? Abraham is the next beginning…

3. God’s Saving Story

4. God’s Relationship with People When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.” Genesis 17:1

5. Father of Faith Therefore Abrahams faith “was credited to him as righteousness.” Now the words, “it was credited to him,” were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be credited to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification. Romans 4:22-25

6. Father of Many New people

7. Man of Mistakes 1.Gives his wife over to Pharaoh 2.Takes Hagar as a surrogate wife 3.Gives his wife over to Abimelech

8. Life From Death By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son, of whom he had been told, “It is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.” He considered the fact that God is able even to raise someone from the dead—and figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. Hebrews 11:17-19