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"GET YOURSELF OUT"
(Weekly Reading>> Genesis 12:1-17:27, Isaiah 40:27-41:16, Romans 3:19-5:6)
The Generations from Shem to Abram
(Genesis 11:10-32)
Following Noah’s life span, the Scriptures trace his son Shem’s lineage for ten generations leading to the life of Abraham (Abram). We see Yahweh choose Abraham and Sarah and how He caused them to separate from their family and the paganized lifestyle of the nations around them, to become a redeemed people unto Himself.
•Terah had four children: three sons named Abraham, Nahor and Haran, and a daughter named Sarah (Sarai) by a second wife (Genesis 20:12).
•Haran was the father of a son Lot and of two daughters Milcah and Iscah.
•Milcah married her uncle Nahor (Genesis 11:29).
•Abraham married his half sister Sarah (Genesis 20:12).
•Terah took Abraham, his grandson Lot and his daughter-in-law Sarah from Ur, with the intent of going to Canaan. Along the way they stopped in Haran and settled there. While in Haran, Terah died, leaving Abraham, Sarah and Lot to continue the journey.
The Setting-Apart of a Righteous People
With Abraham, there began a new birth in the history of mankind - the history of a monotheistic faith, the worship of the One true God Yahweh and obedience to His Word. The awareness of an omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power) and an omnipresence (present everywhere) Creator.
Abraham is the beginning of Yahweh’s Torah (the gospel) being birthed in mankind. This is where our study begins.
“Yahweh’s Presence rests upon man to the extent that man permits. If he observes Yahweh’s command only so long as they do not conflict with a particular passion – be it a desire for food, lust, intellectual stimulation – then to whatever extent that weakness conflicts with his dedication to the will of Yahweh, the Spirit of Yahweh cannot rest upon him”
Yahweh calls Abraham to take his wife Sarah and leave his whole family and all he had known. Abraham obeyed part of God’s directives. He left his country but kept his father’s family household with him by allowing his nephew Lot to stay with them. This was not part of the original plan.
Genesis 12:4 “So Abram departed as Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.”
Yahweh blessed Abraham saying,
“I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:2-3).
This prophetic promise imparted to Abraham, has been fulfilled. In Acts 3:25 in the New Testament when Peter shared with the men of Israel he said,
This blessing from Yahweh was the preparation of Abram to be set apart from a world of commonality that was full of death and destruction and brought into the promises of an abundantly blessed future, both for his family and all mankind. Abram also received a new name - Abraham. We are Abraham’s future that he saw in his day. As it has been for generations, this blessing rests on those today who believe in the Messiah – the promised seed of Abraham.
Abraham’s Faith: Part One
Abraham obeyed Yahweh’s Word and walked by faith.
Faith is like having a camera that can take pictures of the future that Yahweh offers us but with us in the picture. In Hebrew this future is called the Olam Haba. This way we can see that what scripture says about us is true. Our future is bright and we do not fear it if we have faith. Faith trusts Yahweh and the future plans He has for us, as we can see the promises are true in His word and so we choose to walk in them regardless of what we see around us on an earthly level. To look at faith as already taken hold of our future means we must walk in a heavenly nature/kingdom.
The fruits of the Spirit are found in the Tree of Life. To walk in faith is to be finished with the sinful nature and the counterfeit lifestyle of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which leads to spiritual and / or physical death and poverty.
Colossians 3:8-17 “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds [the sinful nature/Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil – the Olam Hazeh], and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him [fruit of the Spirit/Tree of Life – the Olam Haba], where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but the Messiah is all and in all. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as the Messiah forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of the Messiah dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of Yeshua, Ha Mashiach, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
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"GET YOURSELF OUT"
(Weekly Reading>> Genesis 12:1-17:27, Isaiah 40:27-41:16, Romans 3:19-5:6)
The Generations from Shem to Abram
(Genesis 11:10-32)
Following Noah’s life span, the Scriptures trace his son Shem’s lineage for ten generations leading to the life of Abraham (Abram). We see Yahweh choose Abraham and Sarah and how He caused them to separate from their family and the paganized lifestyle of the nations around them, to become a redeemed people unto Himself.
•Terah had four children: three sons named Abraham, Nahor and Haran, and a daughter named Sarah (Sarai) by a second wife (Genesis 20:12).
•Haran was the father of a son Lot and of two daughters Milcah and Iscah.
•Milcah married her uncle Nahor (Genesis 11:29).
•Abraham married his half sister Sarah (Genesis 20:12).
•Terah took Abraham, his grandson Lot and his daughter-in-law Sarah from Ur, with the intent of going to Canaan. Along the way they stopped in Haran and settled there. While in Haran, Terah died, leaving Abraham, Sarah and Lot to continue the journey.
The Setting-Apart of a Righteous People
With Abraham, there began a new birth in the history of mankind - the history of a monotheistic faith, the worship of the One true God Yahweh and obedience to His Word. The awareness of an omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power) and an omnipresence (present everywhere) Creator.
Abraham is the beginning of Yahweh’s Torah (the gospel) being birthed in mankind. This is where our study begins.
“Yahweh’s Presence rests upon man to the extent that man permits. If he observes Yahweh’s command only so long as they do not conflict with a particular passion – be it a desire for food, lust, intellectual stimulation – then to whatever extent that weakness conflicts with his dedication to the will of Yahweh, the Spirit of Yahweh cannot rest upon him”
Genesis 12:1 “Now Yahweh said to Abram, ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you.’”
Yahweh calls Abraham to take his wife Sarah and leave his whole family and all he had known. Abraham obeyed part of God’s directives. He left his country but kept his father’s family household with him by allowing his nephew Lot to stay with them. This was not part of the original plan.
Genesis 12:4 “So Abram departed as Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.”
Yahweh blessed Abraham saying,
“I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:2-3).
This prophetic promise imparted to Abraham, has been fulfilled. In Acts 3:25 in the New Testament when Peter shared with the men of Israel he said,
“You [believers in Yeshua, men of Israel/Jacob] are sons of the prophets, and of the Covenant that Yahweh made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed’” (Acts 3:25).
This blessing from Yahweh was the preparation of Abram to be set apart from a world of commonality that was full of death and destruction and brought into the promises of an abundantly blessed future, both for his family and all mankind. Abram also received a new name - Abraham. We are Abraham’s future that he saw in his day. As it has been for generations, this blessing rests on those today who believe in the Messiah – the promised seed of Abraham.
John 8:56 Yeshua said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Galatians 3:29 “And if you [believers] are Christ’s/Messiah’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Galatians 3:29 “And if you [believers] are Christ’s/Messiah’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Abraham’s Faith: Part One
Abraham obeyed Yahweh’s Word and walked by faith.
“Now faith is the substance [physical] of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen [called the Olam Haba]. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going” (Hebrews 11:1, 8).
Faith is like having a camera that can take pictures of the future that Yahweh offers us but with us in the picture. In Hebrew this future is called the Olam Haba. This way we can see that what scripture says about us is true. Our future is bright and we do not fear it if we have faith. Faith trusts Yahweh and the future plans He has for us, as we can see the promises are true in His word and so we choose to walk in them regardless of what we see around us on an earthly level. To look at faith as already taken hold of our future means we must walk in a heavenly nature/kingdom.
“That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been” (Ecclesiastes 3:15).
The fruits of the Spirit are found in the Tree of Life. To walk in faith is to be finished with the sinful nature and the counterfeit lifestyle of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which leads to spiritual and / or physical death and poverty.
Colossians 3:8-17 “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds [the sinful nature/Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil – the Olam Hazeh], and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him [fruit of the Spirit/Tree of Life – the Olam Haba], where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but the Messiah is all and in all. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as the Messiah forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of the Messiah dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of Yeshua, Ha Mashiach, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
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