ABRAHAM SHOWS THE ROAD MAP TO SAVING FAITH.
(Genesis 12-17)
Abraham, the father of all those that believe, left behind him a road map to true faith. Anyone sick and tired of today’s free and easy self-will religion from the ‘come and get it’ evangelism of the West, can learn much from Abram’s saga. The eleven disciples of Jesus went through a similar sequence before they received the righteousness of faith on the first day of Christ’s rising from the dead.
1. (Genesis 11) Abram was arrested by the call of the Lord to seek. Him (Genesis 11-12)
2. .(Genesis 12) Abram as a pilgrim heard and learned of the Father’s promises. In his awakened state.
3. (Genesis 12) He discovered that his heart led him astray by its wilful deceit as he went down to Egypt.
4. (Genesis 12) He was convicted of his sin and returned to seek God at Bethel and rebuilt his commitment to seek the Lord.
5. (Genesis 12): He separated from his worldly argumentative kin, refusing to pitch his tent in the godless plain of Jordan, going up instead to Hebron in Mamre to live.
6. (Genesis 13):Abram leaves Hebron to rescue his nephew and against all odds defeats superior forces and retrieves Lot, his family and his goods. He has further discovered God is “with him”, though not yet eternally ‘within him’.
a. (God is ‘with’ all awakened unregenerate disciples while being drawn by the Father to the day of second birth). (Cp: John 6 ‘except the Father draw him’; & John 14: ‘with you’; ‘shall be in you’.)
7. (Genesis 14): Abram, after rescuing his captured nephew while returning to Hebron encounters Christ in the form of Melchisedek, who blesses him with His grace as God the Father further draws him.
8. (Genesis 15): In spite of the many promises God had given him over his conceiving a child in his old age by God, he did not yet believe them. In a short space of time since his encounter with Melchisedek he is soon captivated by grace and in a supernatural visitation he is enlightened and illuminated. He receives the “righteousness of faith” to believe the promise that his seed will number as the sand grains and the stars. His own faith had been double minded, fickle and inconstant.
a. (Cp: Luke 24: ‘eyes opened’; and John 20: ‘grace’ of Christ enables indwelling of the Spirit to regenerate them.)
9. (Genesis 15): Now justified by faith through grace his sins are no longer reckoned against him by God, his sins are covered and not imputed to him. Righteousness is instead is reckoned (imputed to him).
10. ( Genesis 17) Abram’s name is changed by God the Father, who adopts him as his own son. As such he is become the father of all them that believe in every nation, whether Jew or Gentile.
a. All regenerated disciples become sons and daughters of God the Father when His Spirit indwells them at the time of repentance and faith through grace.
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HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.
As we are educated to be doubters and skeptics, one way or another, you need to employ the willing suspension of disbelief at the very start and if you have not believed the following tenets enumerated below you must pretend they are true while reading.
1. Read it as if it is the infallible Word of God.
2. Remember in the first chapter of the first of sixty-six books: Genesis, these words appear:
a. “God said-God made-God called”
i. God said what you’re reading
ii. God made the patriarchs, prophets & apostles write them.
iii. God called ordinary men to write His Words. Do not treat them as in any other book.
3. Do not analyze it by your own intellect for logic or truthfulness;
4. Do not judge it by your powers of mental reason or of popular philosophy;
5. Read it as God’s Word demonstrating the waywardness of rebellious human nature cursed by sin;
6. Read it noticing the rare men or women that wholeheartedly seek God sincerely without ulterior motive;
7. Read it noticing the futile attempts of men to keep the moral law, vainly worshipping with lip service;
8. Read it and continue the habit even when you do not understand it for God is secretly at work because the Bible says:-:
a. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God:
i. Romans 10: 17.
b. The pre-eternal Christ’s name is the Word, in the triune godhead of the Father, the Word & Spirit:
i. 1st John 5:7; 1st John 1:1; John’s Gospel 1:1.
9. Read it without the help of church or clergy until there arises within your heart a pang of hunger to wholeheartedly be a daily Bible reader.
10. Read it until God’s grace enlightens the eyes of your understanding to fathom Christ’s message to you in both the Old and New Testaments (excepting the uninspired Apocrypha in some Bibles)
11. Read it noticing the principles of the wise reader found in the following Bible references:-
a. Proverbs 3:5-6; 1st Corinthians 2:14; 2nd Timothy 3:16; Romans 1:17; John’s Gospel 1:17.
12. Keep in mind that the minute your mind asserts superior wisdom over your Bible reading you are a fool.
a. Romans 1:22.
13. The reason the mind blindly argues against the credibility of Scripture that the problem is from the heart:
a. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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