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*Abraham: Compelling Leadership*
3 billion.
250 million!
Big number.
If you were to take that many 1 dollar bills and place them end to end, you could circle the earth more than 15 times.
Big number.
Did you know that there are 86,400 seconds in a day?
But if you were to go back in time 3 billion, 250 million seconds, it would take you back to the time of the Civil War.
That many minutes ago would take you back over 6000 years.
Big number.
And that's the number of people who
*To one *degree *or another consider Father Abraham to be*
*Abraham.
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Did you know that?
(Betcha didn't)
Did you know that all three of the great monotheistic religions of the world, Jews, Christians and Muslims, consider Abraham to be their father figure?
A great leader of God's people.
*At this point, some of the more astute among you will be **asking, *So *what?*
• What can I learn *from an old dead guy?*/ Actually, quite a lot.
// The first thing that I learn from his story is this:/
I.
When God says go, you go.
/Obedience.
//A.
Examples from the life of Abraham/
1. From Ur to Canaan (an act of /faith)/
a) Not all is clear—we don't have a lot of info
b) But what we do know seems to indicate that Ur \\ was a VERY nice place to live.
They were prosperous \\ and sophisticated and located on a major river.
c) And what does God say to Abraham?
GO! Go \\ where?
Go to a place that I will show you!
Talk about \\ ambiguous.
d) So where does he end up?
In Canaan—by all \\ accounts a much rougher place to be than Ur.
e) But when God says Go! The man of faith goes.
2. Sending Hagar and Ishmael away (an act of faith)
a) Problems at home.
Sarah is not getting along with \\ Hagar and Ishmael.
She wants to send them away.
b) Abraham cannot do that.
Why?
Because Ishmael \\ is, after all, his son!
And the whole idea is wrong, \\ wrong, wrong.
c) But then God steps in and tells Abraham, "Do as \\ Sarah has asked.
Send them away.
I will not only take \\ care of them, I will make Ishmael into a great nation \\ too because he is your son."
d) What does Abraham do?
He sends them away.
\\ Why?
Because God said to.
And when God says Go, \\ you Go.
3. Sacrifice of Isaac (an act of faith)
a) Perhaps the most amazing instance of all.
God says.
Go sacrifice your son.
You know, the only one
\\ /you /have.
The one I promised to make a great nation.
/The /one through whom all my promises to you will be Fulfilled.
b) I know that the story is likely highly condensed, but the impression you get from the text is that Abraham did not hesitate to do what God said to do.
/B.
What about you?
Has God ever spoken to you? Have //YOU ever had an Abraham experience?/
1.
To one degree or another, the answer is yes.
God has \\ spoken to you—each one of you.
2. He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does \\ the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love \\ kindness.
And to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) \\ There are 3 pretty good things that God has told you to \\ do.
And what does the man of faith do when God tells him \\ to go?
He goes.
3. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all \\ your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your \\ strength.'
This is the first commandment.
The second is \\ like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
There \\ is no other commandment greater than these."
Mark \\ 12:30-31
4. Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in \\ the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy \\ Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have \\ commanded you.
You see ... Abraham is not the only one who has been told to Go!
And it is entirely possible that some of you might well \\ hear the voice of God even right here this morning—in \\ your own home church, in_______ .
Let me remind you, when that happens, when God says Go, the man of faith goes.
That can be difficult.
We dropped our own daughter off at Iowa School for the Deaf.
I know how difficult it can be to leave family.
But when God says Go, the man of faith goes.
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When Problems Arise, Adapt
/A.// From the life of Abraham/
1. Famine arises in the land to which God has brought \\ him!
What does a man of faith do?
Move.
When problems \\ arise, adapt.
2. Lot's herds and herdsmen just aren't getting along \\ with yours!
What does the man of faith do?
To borrow \\ from Paul, he does all that lies within his power to live at \\ peace with ail men.
When problems arise, adapt.
3. Sarah dies!
What does a man of faith do?
He mourns \\ and he grieves and he keeps on being a man of faith.
\\ When problems arise, adapt.
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