Call To Obedience

BIBLICAL REFERENCES: GENESIS 12:1-9. GENESIS 22:1-19

SUB TOPIC:                    

MEANING OF OBEDIENCE

ABRAHAM OBEYS GOD’S CALL

BLESSING FROM OBEYING GOD’S CALL

CONTENT:

Meaning of Obedience

Obedience means doing what you are told to do. It is to comply with the rules and regulations at home and at school, and with the laws in the community. It is to adhere to instructions given to us or to act upon any order or command given to us.

Abraham obeys God’s call (Genesis 12:1-9)

Abraham’s father was Terah. He was the descendants of one of those people who were scattered in small language groups after the Tower of Babel incident. He grew up in Ur of Chaldeans.

When Terah died in Haran, Abraham a young man took over the responsibilities of his family. Abraham lived with his family till he was seventy-years. Then God called him. God told Abraham:

“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.’’

Blessing from obeying God’s call

God promised to bless Abraham if he obeyed the call to leave his country. God promised Abraham four things:

1. A new land.
2. A great nation.
3. Bless those who bless Abraham.
4. A blessing to all mankind or generation.

From Haran, Abraham and his group travelled southwards for weeks and months. Finally they entered the land of Canaan and came to the city Shechem. In the centre of the town was a sacred tree called the ‘Oak of Moreh.’ Abraham and his group stopped by the sacred tree and spent the night there. In the night God appeared to Abraham in Shechem and promised him the land – Canaan to give him and his descendants.

Religious and Moral Lessons:

1. You must learn to pray to God to help you to be obedient in all things as Abraham did.
2. Pray to God to help you to be obedient in order to be blessed by Him.
3. Ask God for help to show faithful obedience in your relationship with Him.

EVALUATION:

1. What is Obedience?

2. In what ways did Abraham demonstrated his obedience?

3. Mention the four things that God promised Abraham for his obedience.

BIBLICAL REFERENCES: GENESIS 12:1-9. GENESIS 22:1-19

SUB TOPIC:

ABRAHAM DEMONSTRATES HIS OBEDIENCE

THE BIRTH OF ISAAC

THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC

CONTENT

ABRAHAM DEMONSTRATES HIS OBEDIENCE

In the land of Canaan, Abraham continued to trust God. When Abraham was ninety years old, God appeared to him and made a covenant (agreement) with him, which also extends to his descendants. Then God asked him to do two things to demonstrate his obedience to him: First, Abraham and his descendants were to circumcise all their male children on the eight day. The second was to sacrifice his only son Isaac.

THE BIRTH OF ISAAC AND THE CIRCUMCISION OF MALE CHILDREN (Gen. 21:1-9)

In the agreement, God promised Abraham that his wife who was barren would give birth to a baby boy. They believed the promise and soon afterwards his wife conceived and bore him a son, he named him Isaac. Exactly eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham demonstrated his obedience to God by circumcising him.

THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC (Genesis 22:1-19)

When Isaac was about twelve years of age, God asked Abraham to go and offer the child as a sacrifice to Him in the land of Moriah. God wanted to test Abraham’s obedience and confidence because He knew Abraham loved Isaac very much.

Abraham obeyed God’s command without question. When he took out his knife to slay Isaac for the sacrifice, an angel of the Lord stopped him. Abraham took the ram that was provided for him in a thicket and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. Abraham therefore called the name of the place: `The Lord will provide-Jehovah Jireh’.

God was so happy with the obedient trust of Abraham that He decided to reward him for his faithfulness.

MORAL INSTRUCTION

1. Abraham left his country to an unknown destination as directed by God. We should never question God when he directs.
   1. Abraham agreed to sacrifice Isaac to God in obedience to Him. Today we should obey God by sacrificing our time money and resources for the progress of the Church.
   1. We should trust in God as Abraham did and he received the blessing.
   1. If we believe in God as Abraham did, it will also be reckoned to us as righteousness.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1. What did God expected from Abraham to do so as to possess the blessing?
2. Describe how Abraham answered the question of Isaac on the way to the sacrifice.
3. List the promises God promised Abraham.
4. Can you say God fulfilled his promise of many Nation to Abraham? How?    

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT:

OBJECTIVES:

1. Before God called Abraham, he lived in the town of ………….. in Mesopotamia.
2.   Tyre         B.   Sidon         C.   Haran        D.   Shechem
3. God called Abraham at the age of
4.   95            B.   89              C.  79.              D.   75.
5. Abraham’s nephew was
6.   Terah       B.   Lot C.   Laban         D.   Seth.
7. When Abraham first arrived in Canaan, he stayed in …………. where there was the oak of Moreh.
8.  Shechem  B.   Bethel          C.   Shiloh                   D.   Midian
9. Abraham called the place where he sacrificed a ram instead of Isaac ……….
10.  The Lord is my Salvation. B.   The Lord is my Shepherd.

C. The Lord will provide.   D.   The shield of Abraham.

THEORY:

1. Show the two ways Abraham displayed complete trust in God.
2. What did God told Abraham in the land of Canaan?