Blessed to be a blessing. S1e68 Gen12:1
Making a great nation FOR A REASON
Making you great to be great for others
Making your NAME great SO THAT you will be a blessing
Making you bigger than yourself
Making you something at 75 years old
Making you move beyond your old borders
Making you an associative pathway to me: those who bless you, I God will bless
Making a blessing for OTHERS in this blessing to you
Watch for ACTIVITY OF People of God
Go, recieive my blessing , and be a blessing
4 so Abram went AS THE LORD TOLD HIM
Take relatives
Watch for activity of people NOT (yet) of God
Bless the people of God
Don’t dishonor the people of God for that will end in a curse of self
Associated with you, all other family on earth be blessed
12 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the landthat I will show you. 2 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. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
See here the absolute free-will of people and decisions regarding God, and by association the people of God
Unmooring of family, place
Sobering, unconditional outcomes for His little nation, and all other nations a conditional outcome
Witness here not to plan A, like there is going to be a smorgasboard of options that God puts forth: like we humans could choose an option H or Y
No this is the one and only plan, through this one and only people, in this one and only place through eventually the one and only Savior.
Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Only plan for Abram. Only plan for lot. Sarai. Nebraska, Egypt, maori every tribe, tongue, of every place
Genesis: book of beginnings.
Conditions: just like Noah obeyed, watch here the super important next moment SO ABRAM WENT
The spiritual walk is WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT? Decide, say,*********
Don’t forget this “exhalted father” Abram HAS NO CHILDREN
Tension of trust BEFORE the Promise******
Different picture if there were maybe 12 children
Great name
Tower: make a name for OURSELVES
Abram: I GOD will make your name great
Promise: repeated 8 times in Genesis; Isaac, Jacob
FAVOR
Those who bless—plural, many
Him who dishonors—sinular
IN YOU
God is chosing a way, identifying a way that He is pleased: BY FAITH
This person is going to be a story about FAITH
Praised for it: Trusting in the person of God before the promises of God are evident.********
Covenantal representative.: you can please God in the same way: faith
Conclusions
If you are particularly blessed, perhaps there is a reason that is beyond you
Here a people swallowed by God to be forefront of redemptive history
Not just for themselves, but for YOUR family
Your family gets choice here in honoring activity and people of God
At this point in history, the response to the family of Abram cannot be separated from ones response to God
At this point in history, the treatment of, the family of Abram cannot be separated from the treatment towards God
ABRAM moves his place TRUST in this world to a place in another world
Moves toward the desires of God
Moves toward desires that are not his own
Changes his orbital patterns from the universe revolving around himself to self orbiting around God—larger body so to speak
Copernican revolution model of understaning. Changed everything
YOU: Covenantal representative.: you can please God in the same way: faith
Sometimes your greatness comes AFTER you.
YES, great ness from God.
Yes, greatness from God for a purpose, a plan a sovereignty plan
Yes, Lord’s presence: speaking, sending, showing, making you a blessing.
The spiritual walk is WHAT DO YOU DO NEXT? Decide, say,*********
Trusting in the person of God before the promises of God are evident.********
I pray you find peace with your relationship with hGod. That your response as yo hear this is YES. I believe,I yield. I too want to be. Blessed. So that I can be a blessing.
