Genesis 11:10-26

Genesis 11:10-26

"And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters. When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran." Genesis 11:25-26

The beginning of Abraham. The stage is setting for the relationship Abram has with God: something so great that it has to be learned about again and again.

"By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going." Hebrew 11:8 

Abraham was a man who knew to trust God, having faith, and walk by God's leading alone. The trust replaces the need-to-know details! Abraham walked completely by faith. He had no idea where he was going, but knew God is much greater, and counted on God to show him the steps to take. He had faith that God would make Sarah able to bear children even when she was childless and had been barren.

Faith.
Faith*

Faith!

Because Abraham trusted God, and had faith, Scripture says: "And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. (Hebrews 11:12)

13 "All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." (11:13-16)

Abraham trusted that God would do as he said: making his offspring as numerous as the stars in the sky! He did not see the fulfillment of God's promise, but he knew God's promise would come in full. Abraham's descendants became as numerous as the stars in the sky? Why Abraham? He chose to trust in God and have a relationship with Him. He chose to walk in continual, habitual fellowship with God, just as Enoch had done earlier in Genesis.

17 "By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.""(17-19)

His faith is well worth noting. His faith in God was great. Also, his obedience. He walked by faith..