Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee:
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… of creation. God, out of his mercy, chose to save Abram, and he gave this command. Look at verse 1, Genesis chapter 12. Then the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. Remember, whenever God gives a command, that command doesn't always make sense, but it is always accompanied by a promise. That was true for Abraham. And we find those promises that followed God's command in verses one to three of Genesis 12. Look at it with me. Now, the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your father's house to the land I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Now, the promise to Abraham was a land and a blessing. Now quickly, I want you to look at three characteristics of this promise that are key to understanding Bible prophecy. First of all, I want you to notice that God's promise to Abraham was a literal promise. …
… wisdom is built. You can say amen to that. That is a great word. God wants you and I to be a blessing. In Genesis chapter 12 verse 1, a very profound portion of scripture regarding blessing. Now the Lord had said to Abram, get out of your country, that is Ur of the Chaldees, that is a pagan land. Abraham was a pagan, remember? Abraham was a Gentile before he ever became a Jew. From your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you. Verse two, I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I love that. Verse three, I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. A little clarification in our modern age during these most recent debates that we hear about. Notice this. God says to one singular man, I am going to make you a blessing. …
… I want us to focus just on verse 1. Genesis chapter 12, verse 1. Once you found it, once you say, I got it. If you can't find it, say, Lord, help me. Amen. Genesis 12, verse 1. Bless the Lord. Let's read together with uplifted voices. The Lord had said to Abram, Go from your country, your people, and your father's household to the land I will show you. Let's read it again with a little bit more vim, vigor, and vitality. Come on, everybody. The Lord had said to Abram. Go from your country, from your people, and your father's household to the land I will show you. Bless the Lord. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. The Lord said to Abram, go from your country, your people, and your father's household to the land I will show you. I want to preach this morning using as a subject, there's been a change in plans. There's been a change in plans. Would you look at the person beside you and tell them, I really need you to pray for me. …
… And if that's not the story of faith, I don't know what it is. Genesis chapter 12, verse one, the Lord said to Abram, leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you. God says to Abraham, get up, leave where you are, leave everyone and everything and go somewhere new. And we celebrate him as the father of faith. And yet no one talks about how he did that. God says, Abraham, leave everyone. And Abraham says, okay, but I'm gonna bring Lot. Leave everyone, family member, your father's family, everyone that you know, go. He says, absolutely, God, I respond in faith. I hear your presence calling to me. I'm gonna step into what's next. I'm gonna go, but bring Lot. Abraham took a lot with him. The story of Abraham is the story of faith. And the story of faith is the very thing that unites each and every one of us. But the truth is when God calls each and every one of us, we have this same tendency as the father of faith to say yes to the promises of God, say yes to the presence of God and bring along this one little thing. …
… you just see the same thing. You fast forward to Genesis chapter 12, verse one through three, and God blesses Abraham. He says, I'm going to bless you and your offspring. How is God's blessing going to be evident in Abraham's life? certainly in the land, he promised to give him land, but also in descendants. God said, I'm going to give you descendants. He gave the promise to Abraham, then Isaac in Genesis chapter 26 verse 4, Jacob in Genesis chapter 28 verse 14. God says, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, I'm going to bless you, and that blessing is going to be evident in descendants like the stars in the sky. Descendants everywhere. And the points of tension in the book of Genesis, do you remember? points of tension oftentimes revolve around barrenness and questions about an heir, descendant coming. The whole issue with Abraham and Sarah. Sarah was barren, and it was a miracle that God provided them with a child in very old age. And the whole picture was God saying, I'm going to bless you in this way. Same thing happened with Rachel. You look in the Old Testament, you'll see key points where barrenness is an issue. …
… walk into that promise you're in the wilderness of sin got to wrap up a few thoughts but I want you to see and know about your life today that God keeps his promises all the way back to Genesis chapter 12, verse 1, God spoke to Abraham and said, I want you to leave this land, and I'm going to lead you to a new land. And on this day that we're standing in right now where God says, Moses is dead, Joshua, and you're my guy. You're going to lead these people into the promised land. He's fulfilling something that he'd spoken to Abraham in the 12th chapter of the word of God. This is the moment. So if it looks like in your story today that God isn't in it anymore, I'm here today to encourage you and remind you that God's promise for your life, if you're breathing today, is not null and void. God is still on the scene and he still has a plan for you. Amen? He still has a plan for you. If you fast forward to the end of Joshua, Joshua speaking to the people and look at what he says. So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors and they took possession of it. See, there it is again. He swore to give it. They took possession. Do you see how this is going to happen as we play out this collection? And they settled there. The Lord gave …
… and your father's household for the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you, I will curse. all the families of the earth will be blessed because of you. And in that one moment, and you know, how did God speak to him? I think God spoke to him through a whisper, a nudge, the sort of voice you feel inside. And in that one moment, you know, Abraham's whole future and actually the future of God's people were held up in that one moment. Would Abraham say, Lord, my family's here. I'm comfortable here. I'm 75 years old. I'm just gonna stay here forever. Or would he listen to that little nudge inside and say, okay, I'm gonna go. Where are you gonna go? That way. He didn't even know where. But here's what we find in scripture. …
… Genesis chapter 12, it says this. The Lord had said to Abraham, go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you and I will make your name great. let me just pause there if you really want your name to be great and you've been working hard on social media to get a platform I have found that when God promotes you it's better than when you promote you I will make your name. God will put some respect on your name. Remember in Lion King where he said, Mufasa. He goes, say it again. God will put respect on your name. And you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. And whoever curses you, I will curse. And all the peoples on the earth will be blessed through you. I want to preach a message today, write down the title, it's called Faith for the Impossible. …