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Faith #1 Abraham
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A Man Called Abraham
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The earth was filling up with people. Everyone was spreading out, building houses and making cities. Then God spoke to one man. The man was from Ur of the Chaldeans. God said, ‘Abraham, leave your country and go to another land which I will show you. I will give you a very big family and they will become a great nation. In you, all the families of the earth will be blessed’. (God was going to give Abraham a son, some grandchildren and great grandchildren etc. etc. At last one of them would be Mary and another would be Joseph. Mary’s Son would be Jesus who would come to save us from our sin).
So left his country. He left his relatives, his nice house, his good took his wife , the servants, gold, silver, job and all his friends. was 75yrs old. cows, camels and sheep and started his journey. was the . (It took a long time The land God showed for everyone to get there because the sheep were so slow!)
When they arrived, God walked with all through the Land - to the North and the South and the East and the West. It was beautiful! God said I am going to give it all to your children and your children’s chiland set up their tents and lived in the dren. So One night sat down to think about God’s promise. He said to God ‘We do not have any children! How is your promise going to happen?’ to go outside his tent and look up at the in the God told night sky. They were shining bright. Some were large and beautiful. . Can you Some were small and twinkly. God said ‘Look up the count them all?’ There were far too many stars to count. ‘This is how believed God’s promise. big your family will be’, said God. turned 99! (It really seemed like Years and years went past. God had forgotten about His promise). But then God spoke and , ‘I will make you and Sarah the father and again to mother of many nations. I will bless Sarah and give her a son. You will call him Isaac’. When and heard this, they both laughed! How could it happen?!?! He was nearly 100 and she was 90! They were old enough to be grandparents – not parents! It was totally impossible! But God said ‘Don’t laugh! Is there anything to hard for me?’ Sure enough, it was not to long before and had a son. They called him . Then started to laugh. She could not stop laughing! She laughed again and again – she could not believe it! Who would have thought! Look what God can do! , and were very happy. (God was going to keep his whole promise. From Abraham had come Isaac. From Isaac would come the whole nation called Israel… from Israel would come The Lord Jesus Christ - the Saviour of the world).
The man called Abraham is famous for his Faith!
Claire’s Column Before you read this page, I want you to do something pretty hard. Get your Bible and read Romans 4:18-25. These verses explain Abraham’s faith. Read them slowly and carefully at least 3 times & try to understand them.
Abraham HEARD God’s promise Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Abraham THOUGHT About ‘The Impossible’ Faith is not blind or dumb… ...It thinks seriously and faces the impossible.
Abraham BELIEVED God Faith realises God is God. He will keep all His promises. He can do anything!
Abraham OBEYED God Faith is always shown by our actions.
This is TRUE Faith
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Tricky trivia questions (super hard!): [From somewhere in your Bible] Name one shepherd _________________________________ Name 1 carpenter___________________________________ Who became a king at age 7? __________________________ Who was the wisest man? ____________________________
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God wants us to have the same faith as Abraham.
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Abraham You & Me God Speaks
God spoke to Abraham out of the sky.
God speaks to us from His word.
God’s Message is Still the Same God’s promise to Abraham was about Jesus Christ coming to be the Saviour of the world.
The message for us is that Jesus Christ the Lord has come. He died for our sins and rose again from the dead.
God asks us to Hear, Think, Believe, Obey Abraham did these things and he was made right with God.
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved [Rom 10:8-13].
Abraham had true faith The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God. No matter what we do, how hard we try, how good our lives are, what church we attend or how often we go, the fact remains that none of these things will please God if we don’t have true faith.
Faith is the way in which God communicates all the blessings of true salvation. Just like a pipeline that carries water from the reservoir to the kitchen tap, God pours out His blessing through the channel of faith to those who trust Him. Faith is important because it is essential to our pleasing God and without it we will never receive the blessing of God.
What is Faith? We must know the correct answer to this question. Only then can we see if we really have got it. What does the Bible mean by faith?
1. To Believe This means that I accept and agree that what God has said is true. • I believe that Jesus Christ is God - the Bible says so [John 20:31]. • I believe that Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose again the third day – the Bible says so [1 Cor 15:3-4]. • I believe I am a sinner – the Bible says so [Rom 3:23]. • I believe Jesus Christ is the only Saviour of sinners – the Bible says so [Acts 4:12]. This is what Romans 10:9 means when it says “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus is Lord.” You are prepared to say who He is. He is God. But this is not all that faith is. The devil and his demons believe all of this. In
fact, they believe and tremble but they certainly do not have faith [James 2:19]. Faith is not just believing.
2. To be Sure This is more than agreeing something is true, thinking something is true or even saying something is true. It is KNOWING something is true. Knowing in your heart. This is what Romans 10:9 means when it says “and believe in your heart.” To have this belief is like having a witness ‘within’ you. You are fully persuaded.
3. To Obey This is a key point of true faith. It is a belief that obeys. It is because you believe and know it is true that you trust and do what God says. Without obedience to God and His word there is no true faith. The Bible talks of the obedience of faith [Rom 16:26]. Faith always obeys God. I believe because God said it. I am fully persuaded because God said it. I obey because God said it. Faith gives all the glory to God!
Abraham had true faith.
Abraham is the clear, Biblical example of what faith is and what faith does.
He OBEYED God when God called him to leave his country [Heb 11:8]. He fully TRUSTED God because when he left he did not even know where he was going [Heb 11:8]. He did not have all the answers, but he still went. He BELIEVED God when God told him at 99 years of age (and his wife 90) that he would have a son [Rom 4:18-22]. Abraham was not stupid. He knew that it was physically impossible to have children at that age, yet he believed all things are possible with God and in the face of what seemed impossible he still believed God. It was through this faith that BELIEVED, TRUSTED and OBEYED that God declared Abraham as righteous [Gen 15:6]. This is true saving faith and its reward. Without it “it is impossible to please God.”
Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. [Rom 4:3]
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