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Re: Lesson Study #7 - The Man Abram
[Re: Daryl]
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11/12/06 05:25 PM
11/12/06 05:25 PM
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I like the introduction to this week's study in the Sabbath Afternoon section:
This week we begin looking at the life of Abram, his initial calling, his response, his humanity, and, most important of all, his relationship to God—the great exemplar of what it means for a fallen human being to live by faith, to be justified by faith, and to reveal that faith through works.
Abram, or Abraham, was a person of faith, demonstrated by his works of faith.
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Re: Lesson Study #7 - The Man Abram
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11/14/06 01:52 AM
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It tells me that God can and does use anyone. 1 Corinthians 1:26-28 covers this quite eloquently, quite timely for the NewTestament to reaffirm what God has done in the OldTestament
26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
God Bless, Will
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Re: Lesson Study #7 - The Man Abram
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11/14/06 09:27 PM
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Monday's study is all about The Call of Abram. Did Abram respond to the call immediately? The following in the lesson study for Sunday states that he didn't leave until after his father died.
Stephen states that God first appeared to Abram in Ur of the Chaldees and called him to go to the land He would show him. But he didn't go right away. Instead, there was the stopping point in Haran, where he lived until his father, Terah, died. It was after his father's death that he finally left for the Promised Land.
Here is what Stephen said about this:
Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
 When God called Abram, did God want Abram to respond right away, or did He leave it up to Abram to respond when he was good and ready to respond? What about when God calls us? Does God expect us to respond right way, or when we are good and ready to respond?
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Re: Lesson Study #7 - The Man Abram
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11/14/06 11:37 PM
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What about when God calls us? Does God expect us to respond right way, or when we are good and ready to respond? This is a rather loaded way of asking the question, isn't it? I mean, one couldn't really answer this, "when we are good and ready to respond," could one? It sort of begs the question, does God call us before we are ready to respond? What would be the point of that?
Those who wait for the Bridegroom's coming are to say to the people, "Behold your God." The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love.
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Re: Lesson Study #7 - The Man Abram
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11/15/06 08:56 AM
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It seems Haran would be half way between Chaldea and Canaan.
Also, what do we make out of this?
Gen 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Gen 11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Was it Abram or his father Terah who was first called? In either case it appears that it was Terah who first got started towards Canaan.
Galatians 2
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
It is so hazardous to take here a little and there a little. If you put the right little's together you can make the bible teach anything you wish. //Graham Maxwell
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