Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
:2 For by it the elders obtained a good
testimony.
Gal 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working
through love.
Rom 4:16 Therefore it is of faith that
it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to
all the see, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those
who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Rom 4:20 He did not waver at the
promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith,
giving glory to God.,
:21 and being fully convinced that what
He had promised He was also able to perform.
Heb 11:8 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.
Abraham (and us!) had to obey before he
could receive the inheritance.
Gen 12:1 Now the Lord had 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.
:2 I will make you a great nation; I
will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.
:3 I will bless those who bless you,
and I will curse those who curse you; and in you all the families of
the earth shall be blessed.”
:4 So Abram departed as the Lord had
spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five
years old when he departed from Haran.
:5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and
Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had
gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they
departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of
Canaan.
Gen 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine
years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am
Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
The King James says be perfect before
God.
Perfect means complete, whole, without
blemish, to be sound, uninjured.
2 Chron 20:7 Are You not our God, who
drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and
gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
John 15:14 You are My friends if you do
whatever I command you.
:15 No longer do I call you servants,
for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have
called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have
made known to you.
Where Abraham fell short:
Gen 12:1 Now the Lord had 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.
2 Cor 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with
lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
:15 And what accord has Christ with
Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
:16 And what agreement has the temple
of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God
has said: “ I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be
their God, and they shall be My people.”
:17 Therefore “Come out from among
them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
and I will receive you,”
:18 “I will be a Father to you, and
you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Ezra 6:21 Then the children of Israel
who had returned from the captivity ate together with all who had
separated themselves from the filth of the nations of the land in
order to seek the Lord God of Israel.
He was told to get out of his country
(and get his country out of him), to get away from his family. Yet he
took Lot with him. God had to bring strife and separation between
them before God gave Abraham the inheritance He promised him.
Abraham and Sarah had to wait a long
time for Issac.
He that endureth to the end shall be
saved.
Abraham left the seen for the unseen.
2 Cor 1:20 For all the promises of God
in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
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