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How Abram learned faith, fought fear and become a friend of God
Some of us come from a world far from God and have come close to God. Others were “born into” the family of God, with your faith journey established by your parents but you had to grow into your own unique relationship with HaShem. We are all on our own journey to the Kingdom of God, and we have met others on the same road who are heading in the same direction.
In the Torah reading לך לֹך Lech Lecha (“go forth,” Genesis 12–17), we see how God is establishing Abram as His emissary on earth, but it was not an easy path. Abram was not the perfect emissary. God often has to save Abram and his family from Abram’s errors in judgement. Unfortunately, Abram’s son Isaac repeats some of these errors.
We need to watch for repeating motifs in Scripture, because HaShem uses repetitions of words, phrases and details of key events and people to point us toward lessons. As those who have mastered a challenging skill know well, the best way to learn something is to repeat the lesson multiple times.
Where is our hometown? Where do we come from? The place where you were born isn’t necessarily your hometown. Your hometown is the place where your identity and values really gelled.
Abram was born and raised in Ur of the Chaldeans. He later moved, with his family to Aram. He later left Aram to the land God promised him. When Abram left Aram, he left behind all the idolatry and paganism that his brothers did not.
You can’t dabble in the dark side and presume it won’t taint you, because it will inevitably desensitize you. Lot later learned that the hard way because he didn’t change Sodom; Sodom changed him.
Have you ever returned to your hometown for a family reunion, high school reunion, etc.? When you return home you often feel like you are in an alien place because your life has grown in a different direction since you left.
Have you made progress in your path from bondage to freedom. We are told “you can’t take it with you” but we need to understand that we shouldn’t want to take it with us.
God of resurrection
Yeshua the Mashiakh (Jesus the Christ) was quizzed about whether there would be a resurrection, and Yeshua ties that reality that the LORD is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
“On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him, asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘IF A MAN DIES HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AS NEXT OF KIN SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER.’ “Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother; so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. “Last of all, the woman died. “In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”” (Matthew 22:23–28 NASB)
This question posed by the Saduccees shows that they were not really looking forward to the Kingdom of God because they wanted to know if they would have the same status in the Kingdom that they had on earth.
We are not to long for Mitzraim, we are not supposed to long for the life we lived before we came to the LORD.
“’For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?
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By Hallel FellowshipSome of us come from a world far from God and have come close to God. Others were “born into” the family of God, with your faith journey established by your parents but you had to grow into your own unique relationship with HaShem. We are all on our own journey to the Kingdom of God, and we have met others on the same road who are heading in the same direction.
In the Torah reading לך לֹך Lech Lecha (“go forth,” Genesis 12–17), we see how God is establishing Abram as His emissary on earth, but it was not an easy path. Abram was not the perfect emissary. God often has to save Abram and his family from Abram’s errors in judgement. Unfortunately, Abram’s son Isaac repeats some of these errors.
We need to watch for repeating motifs in Scripture, because HaShem uses repetitions of words, phrases and details of key events and people to point us toward lessons. As those who have mastered a challenging skill know well, the best way to learn something is to repeat the lesson multiple times.
Where is our hometown? Where do we come from? The place where you were born isn’t necessarily your hometown. Your hometown is the place where your identity and values really gelled.
Abram was born and raised in Ur of the Chaldeans. He later moved, with his family to Aram. He later left Aram to the land God promised him. When Abram left Aram, he left behind all the idolatry and paganism that his brothers did not.
You can’t dabble in the dark side and presume it won’t taint you, because it will inevitably desensitize you. Lot later learned that the hard way because he didn’t change Sodom; Sodom changed him.
Have you ever returned to your hometown for a family reunion, high school reunion, etc.? When you return home you often feel like you are in an alien place because your life has grown in a different direction since you left.
Have you made progress in your path from bondage to freedom. We are told “you can’t take it with you” but we need to understand that we shouldn’t want to take it with us.
God of resurrection
Yeshua the Mashiakh (Jesus the Christ) was quizzed about whether there would be a resurrection, and Yeshua ties that reality that the LORD is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
“On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him, asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘IF A MAN DIES HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AS NEXT OF KIN SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER.’ “Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother; so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. “Last of all, the woman died. “In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”” (Matthew 22:23–28 NASB)
This question posed by the Saduccees shows that they were not really looking forward to the Kingdom of God because they wanted to know if they would have the same status in the Kingdom that they had on earth.
We are not to long for Mitzraim, we are not supposed to long for the life we lived before we came to the LORD.
“’For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?