The Call, the Promise, and the Sacrifice
Abraham: The Father of the Faith • Sermon • Submitted
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Big Idea
Big Idea
Tension: How does Abram respond when God promises to give him a land, to multiply him, to bless, to make the name great, to bless others through him, and a seed?
Resolution: By making atonement for his sins.
Exegetical Idea: When God promises to give Abram the land, to multiply him, to bless him, to make his name great, to bless others through him, and to provide a seed to him, Abram makes atonement for his sins.
Theological Idea: Before God can give Abram and his family the blessings of the promise, sin must be atoned for.
Homiletical Idea: If God is going to bless his people, he must atone for our sins first.
Big Idea: Before we experience the goodness of God’s blessing, we need atonement.
Outline
Outline
Introduction:
Background in Genesis
The first audience
Creation
Fall
Cain and Abel
Flood
Tower of Babel
Genesis
Effectual Call of Abraham
When God calls Abram, he’s not seeking after the truth, he’s not looking for the Lord, he’s not really interested in finding the Lord. No, he’s a pagan idolater. (Joshua 24:2)
So before Abram ever has faith, God calls him. You see, it’s God’s call that creates faith. (Paul, Disciples of Jesus, Lydia)
Leave
Your country
Your kindred
Your father’s house
In other words, leave the old gods your family and your
Six Promises - As Christians, we know that all of these are fulfilled in the New Covenant.
A new land (New heavens and new earth; Is 66:22-23)
make you a great nation (Gen 1:28)
make your name great (Acts 11:26)
you will be a blessing (Matt 5:13-16)
those who bless you I will bless/those who curse you I will curse - This is covenant language. (Jeremiah 31:33)
all the families of the earth will be blessed in you (Matthew 28:16-20)
Abraham leaves
Headed towards Canaan
He thinks Lot will be his heir
Second Call
I will give this land to your offspring
Seventh promise
This will not be Lot
zera - seed protoeuaggelion (Gen 3:15)
He makes atonement
Abraham knows that if he is going to receive all of these promises, the chief obstacle is going to be sin, and the only thing he can do about it is to ask God to look on the sacrifice rather than on him. So he builds an altar.
What Abram does not yet know is that the seed that he will get, will himself deal with the problem of sin, he himself will make atonement, he will be atonement. (Gal 3:15-16)
Abram calls on the name of the Lord
The character of God - What we see here is that God is so good and gracious. Abraham doesn’t deserve this. Abraham is not a particularly worthy. In a lot of his life, he’s a pretty miserable person. He’s a bad husband, not a great father, an idolater, and he even mocks God at one point. But God is so good and so gracious to him.