Title: Obedience/Genesis 12:1-9
Content Title: Obedience
Text: Genesis 12:1-9
Key Verse: (Genesis 12:1) And the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your land, your relatives, and your father's house, and go to the land I will show you.
Because it is a given command, the courage to abandon the settled place of life and leave the land leaves many lessons. How could a single grain of wheat fall to the ground and die completely? He must have been a man in great need in his father's home on the mainland, but God's way is different from what man thinks. It was after he had given up life in the flesh that he came to the Promised Land as a blessing to Abram. Anyone who will receive great blessings and become a source of blessings must be commanded to “get out of here, that is, be prepared to die.”
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 don't we have the courage to leave?
2. Do not touch anything unclean.
What pleases the peripheral nerves of the body generally interferes with keeping our sanctified soul in many ways. If it becomes an obstacle to serving God as an unclean and holy body of the Lord, then shake off your hands and move your feet. And purify the body. We are the vessels of God. Rather, consider yourself dead to sin.
3. Be alone.
God gave Abraham a covenant, “(Genesis 12:2) I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” Instead of leaving him alone in the wilderness, who should be called by God and set off on a lonely journey, God promises to be with him and make him great. Lonely beings, if we don't want to be alone, we must fall to the ground and die. 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 not a zealot. Alone and quietly await the next command from the righteous mind and commander. Listen alone and listen.
4. Leave by faith.
“(Hebrews 11:8) By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a land he was to receive as an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.” People would call this an adventure, but the ground he stepped on was not the air, but the rock. Day by day, as he passed through the desert, the way was opened, and all his needs were met down to the blessed land. Death is the door that leads to life. Because he died in Haran, he brought forth fruit in the whole world.
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1) True communication with God is achieved by escaping from the world of sin.
2) Turn away from the unclean world and listen to the voice of God.
3) God's commands are sometimes vague and lonely. However, the results of obedience are great, giving infinite thanks and glory to God.