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The Bible Study Podcast

#16 - Abraham tests and is tested

The Bible Study Podcast

The Bible Study Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2007

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Two interesting stories from Abraham's life. In the first one Abraham barters with God to try and save Sodom and Gomorrah if only he can find some…

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The Bible Study podcast, episode 16. Today, the Bible study podcast takes a second look at Abraham.

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Yeah. Study Podcast takes a second look at Abraham. There wasn't time last week to deal with all the stories about Abraham, and there won't be time this week either, but there are two additional stories that I didn't talk about last week that I'd like to bring up.

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The first one is from Genesis 18, and it's the second half of that chapter, starting in verse 16.

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And the second half of chapter 16 is about these three visitors, that's what the Bible calls

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them, who come to see Abraham and they tell him that indeed Sarah will become pregnant within

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the year. But as the end of their leaving, there's this interesting little dialogue. Starting

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in verse 16, when the men got up to leave, they looked down towards Sodom,

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and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. Then the Lord said,

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Shall I hide for Abraham what I'm about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful

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nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him, for I have chosen him so that he

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will direct his children and his household after him

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to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about

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for Abraham what he has promised him. Then the Lord said, the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is

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so great, and their sins so grievous, that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that

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has reached me. If not, I will know. The men turned away and went towards Sodom, but Abraham

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remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said, will you sweep away the

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righteous with the wicked? What if there are 50 righteous people in the city? Will you sweep

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it away and not spare it the place for the sake of the 50 righteous people in the city? Will you sweep it away and not spare

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it the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in the city? Far be it from you to do such a

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thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike,

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