Title: Obedience (Genesis 12:1-9)
The courage to abandon the settled life and leave the land because it is a given command, leaves many lessons.
Can a grain of wheat fall to the ground and die completely?
He must have been a man in great need in his father's home,
God's way can see things different from the thoughts of men.
It was after he gave up his physical life that he came to the Promised Land as a blessing that Abram received.
Anyone who will receive great blessings and become a source of blessings
He receives the command, “Get out of here, be prepared to die.” you can see that
1. Leave the land of idols
Across the Euphrates, Terah and his people worshiped other gods.
Had Abram remained there, he would have touched the unclean thing.
But God kept him clean, so that his people believed in one God.
Did we associate with darkness, with Belial, with idols?
Get out of there, don't be with them, be separate.
The Lord's voice telling us to leave the scene of sin is constantly being heard, but we do not have the courage to leave that place.
2. Don't touch anything ominous
In general, pleasing the peripheral nerves of the body is an obstacle to keeping our sanctified soul.
If that is an obstacle to serving God with an unclean and sanctified body of the Lord, then it is to shake off your hands and move your feet.
And the body must be purified.
Because we are the vessels of God.
Rather, consider yourself mortal to sin.
3. Be Alone
God said to Abraham, “I will bless you and make your name great” (Genesis 12:2).
gives you a promise.
Instead of leaving him alone in the wilderness, who should be called by God and set out on a lonely journey, God promises to be with him and make him great.
lonely being,
If we hate to be alone,
You must fall to the ground and die. (one grain of wheat on the ground)
In order to make us great, God first makes us small.
But there is no loneliness for those who are with God.
Even if you face the world alone, you are superior, not inferior.
Alone and quietly await the next command from the righteous mind and commander,
Listen alone and listen.
4. Leave by faith
He “went out, not knowing where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8b).
People would call it an adventure, but it was the rock, not the void, in which his feet believed.
Day by day through the desert a road was opened,
All his needs were met until he reached the blessed land.
Where death is the door that leads to life.
Because he died in Haran, he brought forth fruit in the whole world.
“Application”1). True communication with God is achieved when we get out of the world of sin.
2). Turn away from the impure world and listen to God's voice.
3). God's commands are sometimes vague and lonely.
However, the results of obedience will be great, giving God infinite thanks and glory.