Genesis Twelve….(v.1-8) Abraham's Obedience
Verses 1-8….
The Scripture clearly says that Terah took Abram (and the others) with him from Ur to Haran. Then we read that God spoke to Abram and told him to leave his father and carry on to another land that God would take him to….
There is no suggestion that Abram dithered around….verse 4 says that Abram did as God told him and left his father at Haran (where he eventually died). It is not said of Abram that he was a just or perfect man as it says of Noah, but it IS said that he was a man of faith and action (verse 4; Hebrews 11:8-9).
James refers to him as "the Friend of God" (James 2:23). Abram took Lot and Sarai his wife, plus his servants, goods and animals, and set off travelling south for six hundred miles. The land there was inhabited by the descendants of Ham. The first place he stopped at, he built an altar to the Lord, and God appeared to him, giving him for the second time the promise of this land for his descendants. He then carried on to Bethel where he built his second altar to the Lord.
Abram obeyed all God's Word, He did exactly what he had heard;
Taking Lot and Sarai, off he went, To do as he was plainly meant.
We should like Abram, God obey, And follow Him from day to day.
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