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Abraham, A Man Challenged
Contributed by Raymond Smith on Jan 19, 2008 (message contributor)
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1. Abraham, A Man Challenged #1
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
Lessons we can learn from the life of Abraham
Abraham, a man Challenged a man of Faith, a man of Promise Reading: Genesis11:27-12:9 In the coming weeks we are going to be looking at Abraham, a man Challenged, a man of Faith, a man of Promise. He was a man who was prepared to shun many of the conventions of his day, to walk with God. ...read more
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2. Abraham, A Man Challenged #2
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
Lessons we can learn from the life of Abraham
Abraham, a man Challenged (ii) A man of Faith, a man of Promise. Reading: Genesis12:1ff Abraham, this great figure of the scriptures who is seen as the father of the nation of Israel, and in the broader context, of those who are of the household of faith. He is a man who was willing to shun ...read more
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3. Abraham, A Man Challenged #3
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
The Significance of the Personal Alter
Abraham, a man Challenged a man of Faith, a man of Promise. The Significance of the Personal Alter Reading: Genesis 12:7+8; 13:1 - 4 + 18 Abraham, this great figure of the scriptures who is seen as the father of the nation of Israel and in the broader context, of those who are of the ...read more
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4. Abraham, A Man Challenged #4
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
The Significance of the Personal Alter (ii)
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith, Promise The Significance of the Personal Alter (ii) Reading: Genesis12:7+8; 13:1-4 + 14-18 The places that Abram built alters are places of encounter, encounter with God and encounter with self. They were places where there was the coming to terms with ...read more
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5. Abraham, A Man Challenged #5
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
Melchizedek, Priest and King
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith, Promise Melchizedek, Priest and King Reading: Genesis 14:18ff We have in our reading a figure that is very much a person of mystery. In the O.T. there are actually only two references to him, here in our reading and in Psalm 110:4, where David is ...read more
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6. Abraham, A Man Challenged #6
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
After the Battle and the Offering, The Re-Affirmation
Abraham, a Man of challenge, Faith, Promise After the Battle and the Offering, The Re-Affirmation Reading: Genesis15:1-6 We, from time to time, hear stories about people who are unwilling hero’s. They are for what ever reason, in a particular place at a time when heroic measure are ...read more
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7. Abraham, A Man Challenged #7
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
A Man of Covenant
Abraham, a Man of challenge, Faith, Promise A Man of Covenant Reading: Genesis 15:7ff "...he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness." As we trace the life of Abram, we can clearly see growth in his comprehension of and faith in God. There are times when no ...read more
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8. Abraham, A Man Challenged #8
Contributed on Jan 19, 2008
Growing Faith
Abraham, a Man of challenge, Faith, Promise Growing Faith Reading: Genesis 15:12ff Abram has spent all day, in the heat and the sun, defending what God had told him to do. It would seem that the vultures had been persistent in their attempts to feast upon what God had told Abram to do, and ...read more
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9. Abraham, A Man Challenged #9
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
A Division that comes from loss of Vision
Abraham, a Man of challenge, Faith, Promise A Division that comes from loss of Vision Reading: Genesis.16:1ff In view of developments in recent years in our society of surrogate motherhood, egg and sperm donation for use in cases of infertility, this patriarchal equivalent is not so ...read more
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10. Abraham, A Man Challenged #10
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
The Changing of the names
Abraham a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise The Changing of the names Reading: Genesis 17:1ff Abram, his family and entourage had first entered the land of Canaan some 24 or 25 years earlier. Abram was 75 and Sarai was some 62 years old. Both well advanced in years, yet willing to ...read more
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11. Abraham, A Man Challenged #12
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
Overcoming The Status Quo
Abraham a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise Overcoming The Status Quo Reading Genesis 18:1-15 There is a tendency, a leaning, if not a disposition that we can hold, if not succumb to, that can and does rob us of what our Lord is wanting to do in our lives. This is true for individuals ...read more
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12. Abraham, A Man Challenged #13
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
The Potency of Righteousness
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise The Potency of Righteousness Reading: Genesis 18:16-22 Last time we were looking at this chapter, we looked at the terrible tendency of human nature to accept the Status Quo, as somehow being the inevitable, unchangeable, the "this is the way it ...read more
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13. Abraham, A Man Challenged #14
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
God’s response to Integrity
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise God’s response to Integrity Reading: Genesis 28:1ff Last time we looked at "God’s Response to Intercession," along with the call of our Lord to this fellowship to strong prayer. Abraham has now moved from Hebron, he has come into the country ...read more
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14. Abraham, A Man Challenged #15
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
From Barrenness to Fruitfulness
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise From Barrenness to Fruitfulness Reading: Genesis 20:14 - 21:7 One of the keys of seeing our God move is our coming to the understanding that He does because of His name, and not because we have in any way built up some credit with Him. This is ...read more
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15. Abraham, A Man Challenged #16
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
The Weighing of God
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise The Weighing of God Reading Genesis 22:1ff In the course of these studies we have seen the way in which our Lord has over many years has developed in Abraham, not just a sense, but also the reality of what his Lord was going to do through him ...read more
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16. Abraham, A Man Challenged #17
Contributed on Jan 20, 2008
By Death Comes The Inheritance
Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise By Death Comes The Inheritance Reading Genesis 23:1ff In the record and the narrative of the life of Abraham, we are now looking at the closing years of his life. When Sarah dies she was some 127 years old, and Abraham was about 137 years old, ...read more