Call of Abraham
Genesis 12:1-9
Are you attentive to God's voice in your life?
Are you growing in your relationship with Him?
"Many times, what passes for normal is neither healthy or natural."
Genesis 12:1-9
1 The Lord said to Abram:
Go from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
2 I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5 He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. 8 From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord. 9 Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.
Genesis 11:30 Sarai was unable to conceive; she did not have a child.
The purpose of life was the continuation of your kinship group.
Kindred (Israel)
Tribe
Clan
House (three generations)
Genesis 12:1
1 The Lord said to Abram:
Go from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:2-3
2 I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
God promises land, kindred (a great nation), and blessing to be a blessing.
Land- "Where do I belong?"
Kindred- "What is your life for?"
Blessing- "What does it mean to live out favor in ways that other people experience God's favor?"
