#845 – Walking by Faith (Genesis 12:1–3)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

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As Abraham walked by faith and not by sight, may the same be said of us. May we cling to the cross of Christ for all of our days.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.6	Genesis chapter 12 verses 1 through 3
0:11.1	Now the Lord said to Aram, go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
0:20.0	And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
0:27.0	I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse.
0:32.0	And in you, all the families of the earth shall be
0:36.7	blessed. What a picture of God calling Abram who will become Abraham and promising Abraham
0:48.8	blessing like beyond what he could imagine.
0:53.0	I will make of you a great nation,
0:55.3	I will give you a land and I will use your life
0:59.1	and those who come after you, the offspring that comes after you,
1:03.7	to bless all the families of the earth.
1:07.0	What a picture, like it's hard to imagine a more bountiful
1:11.8	promise of blessing, but think about Abram when he hears these words.
1:17.0	Like, in that moment, nothing practically had changed right in front of him.
1:24.0	Like tomorrow he still had to get up and decide what to do.
1:28.0	He had to decide, do I trust this promise? Do I trust this promise?
1:33.0	Do I pick up my family and go to a land that I don't even know exactly
1:40.0	where it is or what it will involve.
1:44.3	Like, Abraham had a decision whether or not to trust God.
1:49.8	And the whole picture that we see of Abraham's life after this and that we have of
1:54.8	Abraham's life and the rest of the Bible is a man who trusted God who believed
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