Promises! Promises!
This was Abraham's age when God called him out of Ur of the Chaldees
What is 75 years old
He initially took the family from Ur toward the promised land
Who is Terah
Who is Lot
This was the number of people that God finally agreed to in his decision to spare Sodom
What is 10 people
This is the TOTAL number of times the Bible records "And Abraham believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness"
What is three (4)
This was Abraham's age when he sees the fulfillment of the promise of a son.
What is 100 years.
This was the family relationship that Abraham told Sarah was to him
What is his sister?
When Abraham prays for the city of Sodom, he focuses on these character qualities of God
What are...
1. Justice
2. Compassion
3. Righteous
These are the two required responses of Abraham to see God's promises fulfilled.
What is Trust and wait
This is why Sarai was unable to have children.
What is she was barren
This is the length of time that Abraham and Sarah had to wait for the promise of a son to be fulfilled
What is twenty-five (25) years
This was Sarai's reaction to Hagar AND Hagar's reaction to Sarai
What is...
Sarai treated Hagar with harshly and Hagar ran from Sarai
This was the direction that Humanity generally traveled in the post-Noahtic flood time AND with what it generally was associated.
What are Eastward and rebellion from God
After rescuing Lot, Abram refuses to take a share of the spoils because he ultimately saw these two (2) things:
What is...
1. Everything is ultimately God's
2. It was God who really saved the captives
Who is Sarah
These are the three (3) aspects of the Abrahamic Promise
What are
1. Numerous offspring
2. A great name
3. To be a blessing to the whole world
What is...
1. to get Abraham to send them away
2. to be saddened by this, but listened to God telling him to send her way.
What is
1. Confess sin
2. Act to restore\Make things right
3. Distance ourselves from sin
These are the three (3) parts of the standard pattern that God sets for all believers who walk in faithfulness when calling Abram to a covenant.
What is...
1. Expectation of being different
2. A Change in core identity
3. Blessings because of God's work.
This is what the folly and sin of Abraham's family is met with
These are the three ways Abraham responds to God when God visits him at the oaks of Mamre AND how Abraham did them.
1. Hospitality -- Opens all he has to them
2. Humility -- Bows low to the ground
3. Hastily -- Abraham "ran" or "went quickly"
As God called Hagar to return to Sarai and submit to her he focused on conflict resolution through these two actions AND their tie into Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
What are...
Humility -- "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Relationship Restoration -- "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
These are the four (4) major contrasting differences between the story of Abraham’s time in Egypt and his time with Abimelech.
1. In Egypt they tried to escape the famine \\ Abimelech they were just living life
2. Pharaoh was a pagan \\ Abimelech he feared God
3. In Egypt there were plagues \\ Abimelech there was a warning and protection
4. In Egypt Abraham was kicked out of the land \\ Abimelech he was not
As a new follower of God, Hagar does these three (3) important things that we as Christians need to also do
What is
1. Worship God in faith
2. Share the testimony of how God is working in her life
3. Obey what God told her to do.
When hearing the promise of God that a son would be born "this time next year", THIS is the reason Sarah does not believe, What God focuses to emphasize on in his response, and What God addresses Sarah's disbelief with
What are...
1. A perspective of Human inability
2. Divine POWER
3. His identity.