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We focus the call of Abraham in this study

                                           Study Series Number 01

 

                                           ABRAM’S OBEDIENCE

                                     Text: Genesis chapter 12: 1-6

 

Introduction

The LORD God, who created the heavens and the earth, spoke to Abram and instructed him to leave his home country for a place He – God was going to show Abram. The instructions were not simple, except for those who had submitted themselves to God. This study raises the following questions:

  1. How did Abram know that God was speaking to him (not his thoughts or hallucinations or a demon that would destroy him)?
  2. Why did Abram obey God and leave for a place with which he was not familiar?
  3. How did Abram know who to take along with him on this journey?

(Form a group of five, discuss the above questions for about five minutes, and return to the central place to continue with this study).

Remember that Abram’s father, Tarah, began the journey to Canaan but stopped at Haran (Genesis chapter 11, verses 31 and 32). Unfortunately, Abram’s father died in Haran and could not complete the long journey. Finally, Abram was called by the LORD to continue his father’s legacy, and he left his homeland for Canaan, as instructed by the creator God (Genesis 12, verse 5).

Lessons

When God gives instructions or leads His people in a particular way, He has His reasons which may or may not be fully known to that person(s) at the initial stage of their interaction with God. The important thing is to verify whether God is the One speaking, your human thoughts, or just your feelings.

Mention other people in the Bible who knew God spoke to them but waited to be sure before acting on the words they heard, so as not to act on an incorrect order that did not originate from their Heavenly Father/God.

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Yes, Samuel asked Eli if Eli was calling him. Gideon asked the LORD to do certain things that only God could do to reassure him that God was the One giving him instructions before he began to act upon the given directives. Paul wanted to preach in some places, but God/the Spirit of Jesus did not allow him until he had a dream of a man asking Paul to come and help them in Macedonia. On waking up, Paul asked his Christian companions to let them go to Macedonia to serve God.

What lessons can we learn from the people of God whom God guided in the Bible as we live for God in this generation as Bible-believing Christians?

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  2. …………………………………………………………………
  3. ………………………………………………………………….
  4. ………………………………………………………………….

Yes, we need to make a commitment to God as our Heavenly Father so we can understand Him when He speaks or guides us. There are exemplary Bible personalities that we often refer to as trusted in God, and God makes Himself available to speak to them regularly. He has started speaking to you, too, when you read the Bible, but he will speak specifically to you and your situation as your Heavenly Father when you commit to believing in His Son, Jesus Christ, and follow his guidance. Additional studies will be conducted to further explain this finding in subsequent studies.

Final questions

  1. How was Abram able to hear the LORD and understand his guidance?
  2. Why did Abram immediately obey it?
  3. What will you do to know God better? Read John 3:1-5, 16, 17. John 5:11, 24

Let us pray: LORD Jesus, guide us to understand your plan of salvation, to believe in You, and to have access to all that God has planned for those who believe in You, in Christ’s name. Amen.

 

                               

                                                        Bible Club 2025

                                                Study Series Number 02

                                        GOD WHO SEES ALL THINGS

                                                   Text: Genesis 12: 10 – 20

 

INTRODUCTION 

ABRAM was human like us. There were times he was afraid and times he was confident and strong (Genesis 12:4-6; 14:22-24). There was a time he was single and a time he married. There were also times when he panicked when faced with uncertainties in life. There were decades when his desire to have children was not met (Genesis 15:1-5). However, on each occasion mentioned above, he often talked to God or returned to God for God’s opinion and intervention (Genesis 15: 8)

  1. List a few examples of how or when you were anxious, worried, or had unmet needs.
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  2. How did you feel during the time you mentioned above?

All these show that we are humans. What makes the difference is that Abram knew how to either talk to God or return to God for God’s opinion and seek God’s intervention in his predicament (Genesis 17:1-5. 15-19; 18:1-5, 16-21).

 In the above story in Genesis 12:10 – 20, ABRAM was on a journey to a foreign country (or city) in ancient Egypt but might have heard of the rumour of the way their king behaved. He told his wife to pretend and tell the half-truth that she was a sister (but not the other side of her life that she was ABRAM’s wife. ABRAM did a similar thing to King Abimelech (Genesis 20:11-13), while his son Isaac did the same to King Abimelech some decades later (Genesis 26:6-16). We may call this a compromise. ABRAM thought that if he let King Pharaoh know that Sarai was his wife, the King might kill him and take his wife as his own. Fear! ABRAM was probably correct because the supposed sister of ABRAM was taken away from him to live in the Palace with the Pharaoh, but the Pharaoh had not taken her as a wife before the Pharaoh knew she was another man’s wife.

ACTIVITIES:

Let us go into groups with a maximum of five and discuss the following questions.

  • What is half-truth, and how can we avoid it?
  • Considering how God fought for ABRAM by allowing a plague in the house of Pharaoh, who took away his supposed sister and/or wife by force, what could have happened if ABRAM had been quiet rather than saying half-truth?
  • Why do you think God fought to defend ABRAM in this story (considering him powerless and not in authority to fight for himself)?

GOD KNOWS US WELL:

God does not allow injustice to go unpunished. The king began to see a certain unexpected illness in his family and palace untraceable to any known scientific cause that he could rectify with medication. Egypt was an ancient, advanced city good at medicine and surgery, mathematics like algebra and geometry, philosophy, science, architectural design, religion, and magic, yet it had no solution to the palace plague. The King later knew that the cause was the way he snatched away somebody else’s wife to add to his own. He immediately repented and returned the woman to her husband. The problem they faced in the palace disappeared after the repentance and restitution of the woman back to the owner/husband. This means that the problem was not medical in that instance but spiritual.

LESSONS 

  1. Let us now discuss the lessons learned in this study.
    1. As children ……………………………………………………
    2. As teenagers ………………………………………….………
    3. As adults ……………………………………………….………
    4. As married people ……………………………………………
    5. As singles ……………………………………………………….
    6. As people in authority (leaders) ………………………….
  2. Other lessons include the following.
    1. talk to God about your situation,
    2. return to God if you are not in a good relationship with HIM,
    3. ask for God’s opinion in prayer about the matter of your concerns
    4. seek God’s intervention.
  3. Avoid covetousness. Not everything beautiful (humans, houses, land) or expensive (cars, mansions, etc.) should belong to you; often acquired through crooked means. If you do not get rid of covetousness, you will end up in crisis as Pharaoh did.
  4. Guide your heart. ABRAM, Sarai, Pharaoh, and the palace staff all fell into sinful and polluted minds by not guiding their hearts well.
  5. Purified lives can be acquired through Christ Jesus. John the Baptist said this about Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verse 29.

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold! The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

The fallen nature of mankind to bad influence and Satan has been handled by Jesus Christ who is ‘the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’. Why do you not think about your life and believe the work of redemption Jesus came to do in the Bible and ask Jesus to save you from your sin? Hebrews 7:25 states

 Therefore, He (Jesus Christ) is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

 ACTION AND CLOSING PRAYER

 Lord Jesus Christ, help me in my current situation. I believe that you came to save as many who believe in you. Come into my life, save me, and save my soul. Deliver me from Satan, and from now on, let me live for You, Your words, and Your purpose. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and teach me Your word daily, in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.

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