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Church At Study | “The Roots of Abraham”
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Monday: Abraham’s Doubts
Read Genesis 16:1-16. What is the significance of Abram’s decision to go with Hagar, even despite God’s promise to him? How do the two women represent two attitudes of faith (Galatians 4:21-31)?
When Abram doubted (Genesis 15:2), God unambiguously reassured him that He will have a son. Years later, Abram is still without a son.
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Even after God’s last powerful prophecy, Abram seems to have lost his faith: he does not believe anymore that it will be possible for him to have a son with Sarai. Sarai, feeling hopeless, takes the initiative and urges him to resort to a common practice of that time in the ancient Near East: take a surrogate. Hagar, Sarai’s servant, is appointed for this service. The system works. Ironically, this human strategy seemed more efficient than did faith in God’s promises.
The passage describing Sarai’s relation to Abram echoes the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The two texts share a number of common motifs (Sarai, like Eve, is active; Abram, like Adam, is passive) and share common verbs and phrases (“heed the voice,” “take” and “give”). This parallel between the two stories implies God’s disapproval of this course of action.
The apostle Paul refers to this story to make his point about works versus grace (Galatians 4:23-26). In both accounts, the result is the same: the immediate reward of human work outside the will of God leads to future troubles. Note that God is absent during the whole course of action. Sarai speaks about God but never speaks to Him; nor does God speak to either of them. This absence of God is striking, especially after the intense presence of God in the previous chapter.
God then appears to Hagar but only after she has left the house of Abram. This unexpected appearance discloses God’s presence in spite of human effort to work without Him. The reference to “the Angel of the LORD” (Genesis 16:7, NKJV) is a title that is often identified with the LORD, YHWH (see Genesis 18:1, Genesis 18:13, Genesis 18:22). This time it is God who takes the initiative and announces to Hagar that she will give birth to a son, Ishmael, whose name means God hears (Genesis 16:11). Ironically, the story, which ends with the idea of hearing (shama‘), echoes the hearing of the beginning of the story, when Abram who “heeded” (shama‘) the voice of Sarai (Genesis 16:2).
| Why is it so easy for us to have the same lack of faith that Abram had here? |
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Sunday: The Faith of Abraham
Read Genesis 15:1-21 and Romans 4:3-4, Romans 4:9, Romans 4:22. How does Abram reveal what it means to live by faith? What is the meaning of the sacrifice that God had Abram perform?
God’s first response to Abram’s concern about an heir (Genesis 15:1-3) is that he will have a son from his “own body” (Genesis 15:4, NKJV). The same language is used by the prophet Nathan to refer to the seed of the future Messianic king (2 Samuel 7:12).
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Abram was reassured and “believed in the LORD” (Genesis 15:6), because he understood that the fulfillment of God’s promise depended not on his own righteousness but on God’s (Genesis 15:6; compare with Romans 4:5-6).
This notion is extraordinary, especially in that culture. In the religion of the ancient Egyptians, for instance, judgment was evaluated on the basis of counting one’s human works of righteousness against the righteousness of the goddess Maat, who represented divine righteousness. In short, you had to earn “salvation.”
God then sets up a sacrificial ceremony for Abram to perform. Basically, the sacrifice points to Christ’s death for our sins. Humans are saved by grace, the gift of God’s righteousness, symbolized by these sacrifices. But this particular ceremony conveys specific messages for Abram. The preying of the vultures on the sacrificial animals (Genesis 15:9-11) means that Abram’s descendants will suffer slavery for a period of “four hundred years” (Genesis 15:13), or four generations (Genesis 15:16). Then in the fourth generation, Abram’s descendants “shall return here” (Genesis 15:16, NKJV).
The last scene of the sacrificial ceremony is dramatic: “a burning torch that passed between those pieces” (Genesis 15:17, NKJV). This extraordinary wonder signifies God’s commitment to fulfill His covenant promise of giving land to Abram’s descendants (Genesis 15:18).
The boundaries of this Promised Land, “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates” (Genesis 15:18, NKJV) remind us of the boundaries of the Garden of Eden (compare with Genesis 2:13-14). This prophecy has, therefore, more in view than just the Exodus and a homeland for Israel. On the distant horizon of this prophecy, in Abraham’s descendants taking the country of Canaan, looms the idea of the end-time salvation of God’s people, who will return to the Garden of Eden.
| How can we learn to keep focused on Christ and His righteousness as our only hope of salvation? What happens if we try to start counting up our good works? |
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Scuola del Sabato – Lezione 7 – II trimestre 2022
Il patto con Abramo. Approfondimento della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 7 – II trimestre 2022 con Mariarosa Cavalieri e Saverio Scuccimarri. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REdqCI86-Sk
La Genesi. Introduzione alla lezione 7
Il patto Abramo. Introduzione alla lezione n. 7 Video introduttivo della lezione della Scuola del Sabato – II trimestre 2022 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nKBlwRRf5A
7.0 Introduction – THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
7.THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM |
The Abrahamic covenant is the second one after the covenant with Noah. |
Memory Text: Genesis 15:2 – But Abram said, ‘Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
7.0 Introduction
When a mighty one enters into a coalition with a weak one we are astonished.
My God bless you today and always.
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A Dream and a Prayer
It all began with a dream—one Liz Enid Polanco believes was divinely inspired. Polanco, a pastor, pastor’s wife, and sought-after public speaker from Puerto Rico, is a third generation Adventist. She …… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/a-dream-and-a-prayer
Sabato 7 maggio 2022
Proverbi 15:13 – Il cuore allegro rende gioioso il volto, ma quando il cuore è triste, lo spirito è abbattuto. Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, presentazione di Abby Miguel Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sllzhwM7Jk
Seventh-day Adventist Church Holds 40 Days of Prayer Before the GC Session; and other world news
This week on ANN The worldwide Adventist Church is holding a 40 Days of Prayer event ahead of the upcoming General Conference Session, which runs June 6 to 11 this year, in St. Louis, Missouri. The Church invites members from around the world to join in 40 Days of Prayer, from May 3rd to June 11th, which is the last day of the General Conference Session. Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic dedicated the first congregation specifically for the hearing impaired in southeast Santo Domingo. The ceremony drew church leaders, member volunteers, and more than 35 hearing-impaired people, to the church’s Southeast Conference Events Room, to celebrate and witness the first amongst the group to get baptized. Seventh-day Adventist temples in Brazil have worked to secure accessibility on all levels – physical, visual, auditory, and intellectual. In São Gonçalo, a municipality in the metropolitan region of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the Brazilian state of the same name, the result of the efforts of the Alcántara congregation was seen in the recent baptism of eight people, including two young women who are deaf, and an autistic youth. The congregation itself is encouraged to take a Libras class, the Brazilian Sign Language, demonstrating that accessibility is also a matter of attitude. More than 200 people attended the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists Community Services Convention to celebrate 50 years of humanitarian work. Former executive director of Adventist Community Services, Sung Kwon was honored during the event for his more than 20 years of service. The Adventist College of Bahia, in northeast Bahia, northeast Brazil, inaugurated the Institute of Missions, housing the first headquarters of the Colporteur Student Development Institute in Brazil, and a Missions Agency linked to the Adventist Volunteer Services Ministry. The opening ceremony brought together students, employees, local, regional, and national administrators, and representatives of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for Brazil and South America. The mission of Adventist Volunteer Services is to assist the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the proclamation of the gospel to all peoples by matching the talents, gifts, resources, and professional expertise of Adventist volunteers with defined ministry needs.
Nurturing children’s faith through an app. That’s the goal of the Children’s Ministry Department at the Seventh-day Adventist Church World Headquarters. For more news and current affairs within the Adventist community, visit Adventist.news Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99bqM81q-dY
