Abraham’s Children In Trouble Part 1 Series

Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice Isaac, his son, who was his dearest treasure and future hope. He did not argue with God for he knew that it was God who provided the son and could provide another Isaac by resurrection. It was the same Abraham who argued with God when He wanted to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He did not even tell Sarah or Isaac himself or his slaves about his adventure with God. This would have been termed sheer madness by his people. There is no such thing like bad news for a person moving in faith. Bad news poses a challenge to our faith and as we move forward in faith, we have the courage to challenge God with bigger problems that come our ways. Many people pray against cancer but have not succeeded in dealing with common headache. Many people are praying that God should remove every obstacle on their ways, but they forget that that would make them to be lazy and good for nothing soldiers to God.

When I was in the junior school, I was always beaten up by the grown-ups. As I kept complaining, somebody encouraged me to try to fight back whenever they came to attack me. One day, one grown-up challenged me and I dipped my fingers into his eyes so that he could not see. Then I carried him and threw him on the ground and took to my heels. From that day he kept a distance from me. What did I do to deliver myself? I flexed my muscle and it worked. This underscores the saying that the best method of defence is to attack. God has not called His children to be harassed by the enemy.

The question now is, why are the children of Abraham always in trouble?

1. Sin: Abraham’s children are wedded to sin. And since Mr. Sin is the husband whilst the sinner is the wife, an evil covenant is formed. Mr. Sin will continue to force the sinner to commit sin regularly. As long as the wedding is in place, trouble will continue to have a field day in the sinner’s life.

Sometime ago, I went to preach somewhere and a boy of 16 was brought to me for prayers. His problem was that he was addicted to prostitutes. He had stolen about forty thousand naira of his mother to patronize prostitutes. He told me he was in a senior secondary school and that he was born again. But here was a born again Christian whose life had been damaged by the sin of immorality. He was so devastated that all his private parts were full of terrible sores. Nevertheless, he still maintained he could not stop going to prostitutes. This is an example of a life married to sin.

At times when you give some people prayer points and tell them to keep away from anger if they want answers to the prayers, they will say they cannot guarantee that. It is because there is an evil marriage in place. If you remove the issue of sin from the Bible, there will be no Bible, and there would not have been the need for the Saviour to come to the world to sacrifice Himself for mankind. You may attend a lot of Bible colleges, but if sin is not dealt with in your life, all the knowledge you might have required amounts to nothing. All your lecture topics would be mere theories. That is why the Bible says that people will shun sound teachings in the last days and would heap up for themselves teachers with itching ears.