Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Devotion Assignment Key Due Dates: Preparation Part 1 (Oct 2, submitted in-class), Preparation Part 2 (Oct 9, submitted in-class), Outline Form (Oct 16, typed submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8am)
Journal 2-3: Study Packet, page 11.
- Take out your Pre-Reading Form & your book. Set them on your table, next to you so I can get them. Then start this journal:
- Use Bible footnotes (at the bottom of the page) to help answer these.
- - Read Genesis 17:1-8
- - - 1) How old is Abram?
- - - - 99 years old!!!
- - - 2) How do you spell ‘God Almighty’ like the Hebrew sounds?
- - - - El-Shaddai
- - - 3) What is “Abram” mean?
- - - - Exalted Father
- - - - What does “Abraham” mean? "Father of Many"
- - - - Names are important
- - - - In the Bible they'll often rename someone based on something significant that happened in their life (e.g. Saul to Paul and Simon to Peter in the New Testament)
- - - 4) What type of covenant does God establish? (v7) An everlasting covenant! (With Abraham and his descendants)
- - - - That means, even if Abraham and his descendants make mistakes, God will still fulfill His side of the covenant to the end of time!
- - - - What was the key to His side? To be their God --- the focus is on their relationship to God.
- - - - Recognize what happened in the New Testament...
- - - - - Galatians 3:29, "And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise."
- - - - - By God's grace, through our faith in Jesus, we become, spiritually, descendants of Abram! Thus we fall under this promise/covenant!
- - - 5) What does God give to Abraham & his family?
- - - - Canaan
- When you’re done, work on your Study Packet:
- - Ensure pages 1 (Short Answers 1-2), 4-7, & 9-10 are done
- - On page 13 & fill in the entire left side & the top right
Genesis 12:10-18:33) Believing God’s Promises In All Situations: Study Packet, Page 2
- Abram is learning to trust God...
- - In Famine: When a famine strikes Canaan, Abram flees to Egypt
- - In Fear: Abram fears people may kill him to take his wife, he lies to escape it
- - In Family Drama: When their flocks grow too large for the land, Lot & Abram part ways
- - - Lot takes the 'better' land (near Sodom), leaving Abram in harder mountains
- - - God comes to Abram & encourages him, “I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.” – Gen 13:16
- - In Fights: Abram forms a small army that rescues Lot from a much larger army
- On his return, Melchizedek;..
- - - Meaning: “King of Righteousness”
- - - King of Salem: Possibly Jerusalem
- - - Priest of God Most High: “El Elyon”
- - Speaks God's blessing to Abram
- God comforts, encourages, & warns Abram:
- - God promises to
- - - Protect/reward Abram
- - - Give him a son w/countless descendants
- - - - “"Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."” – Genesis 15:5
- - Abram believed the Lord!
- - - God counted it to him as righteousness
- - - "Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness." - Genesis 15:6
- - God warned Abram about…
- - - The future slavery & saving of his descendants
- - God confirmed this covenant
- - - Showing that breaking it will result in death
- Hagar & Ishmael:
- - Not fully trusting & waiting for God…
- - - Sarai (old & barren) & Abram have a child through Hagar (Sarai's Egyptian servant)
- - - The child is named Ishmael ("God Hears")
- - Hagar & Sarai fight…
- - - Hagar ran away, but God directed & protected Hagar to return
- - - God promised to bless Ishmael
- - God gives circumcision to Abram's family
- - - As a sign of their covenant w/God
- - - God Almighty ("El Shaddai") renames:
- - - Abram ("Exalted Father") to Abraham ("Father of Many")
- - - Sarai to Sarah ("Princess")
- - - Their child Isaac ("Laughter")
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