Installment for today (Friday)

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CHAPTER ONE - SOME INFORMATION ABOUT
JESUS

MEETING WITH ABRAHAM

Who is Jesus? To understand who Jesus
is we must go back further in time to a man
named Abraham. Abraham learned how to hear
the Voice of God, just like we will learn to hear
God from reading this book. Originally
Abraham was known as Abram and years later
his name was changed to Abraham.


Gen_12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a
land that I will shew thee:
Gen_12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD
had spoken unto him;


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Here we see from the Bible’s book called
Genesis, and in chapter 12 and in verses 1 and
4, that Abram was able to hear God’s voice.
Please notice that Abraham heard God and
then he obeyed what God asked him to do.
Abraham shows us two things that are the
most important in our relationship with God:
Faith and Obedience.

FAITH AND OBEDIENCE

The dictionary tells us that faith is
complete trust or confidence in someone or
something. We all practice faith every day.
When you are driving you have faith that the
other driver will stop at a red light and that you
can proceed safely through your green light.
Please stop and think of other ways that we use
faith in our everyday lives. We live in a faith-
based creation.


Heb_11:1 Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.


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The Bible defines faith as a substance,
which is real physical matter, and so that
matter is the substance of our hope. Also, faith
is the evidence of a reality even though we may
not see it. A good example is the air that we
breathe. We cannot see the oxygen molecules
but we have faith that they are present. Our
faith, then, becomes the substance of our hope
and the evidence that the oxygen will be there
when we breathe.


Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him.


RELATIONSHIP WITH FATHER GOD

The first step in building a relationship
with Father God is to have the faith that He
exists. We must believe in God. When we seek
God, He blesses us with good things.
The second step in building a relationship
with Father God, that Abraham shows us, is
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obedience. As we learn to hear God’s voice,
just like Abraham did, then we will hear His
advice on decisions that we have to make. At
that point we can choose to obey God’s
guidance or not. If we obey God’s
commandments that He gives to us personally,
then our lives will be blessed.
Abraham teaches us that faith and
obedience pleases God. Why do we want to
please God? Just as we do with a human
father, we children want our behavior to please
Father God because it makes Him happy and
proud of us. Father God does everything for
us, He gives us life and all good things come
from God. In return for His blessings then, we
should give Him our desire to make right
decisions.

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