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Lesson
2: Adam through Abraham |
| Objective:
To learn from biblical example, the importance of obedience in the
Christian life. |
Read:
Genesis
4-7, 12, 22
Memorize: Romans
4:20-21 |
The fall of Adam
not only affected man's relationship with God, but it eventually caused
a breach in human relationships. The downward course of human nature plunged
even deeper with the murder of Abel by his brother Cain.
As people began to
forge a civilization without God, violence and death became constant realities
of human existence. Man's wickedness became so vile that God regretted
ever making a human being.
Finding only Noah
and his family worthy of saving, God decided to destroy His creation by
flood. Nevertheless, after the flood, man's inherent sin nature caused
him to once again go his own willful way. This time, God met man's arrogance
by confusing the language of evil people and scattering them over the
face of the earth.
Even so, we see
the redemptive heart of God at work in the stories of Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, and Joseph. The calling of Abraham brought the promise of salvation.
Because Abraham obeyed God in faith and love, God was able to give him
a promise of blessing to the world. The story of Abraham shows how God
developed and tested Abraham's faith in relationship to the promise.
The chosen line through
Abraham and Isaac led down to the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ, who
fulfilled the promise of blessing and redemption. The lineage of Christ
is part of the fabric of the Book of Genesis. Those selected to be in
the line were chosen because they were men of faith like Abraham. Today,
we who choose Jesus by faith have our part with faithful Abraham (Romans
4:16).
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