| God's Promise | Abram goes to Canaan | God's Promise | God's Promise | God's Promise |
| Abram Lied | [Lot] | Hagar | They Laughed |
| Abraham Pleads | God Keeps Promise | Abraham Offers Isaac | God's Promise |
| Abraham Lied | [Hagar] |
| 12:2,3,7 God's promise: I will make you a great nation = promise of child(ren)
12:5 Abram goes to Canaan -- 11:31 Set out to go to Canaan -- 12:1 The Lord “had” said |
| 12:12ff Abram lied "Say you are my sister” Motives: life will be spared and treated well Results: Abram was treated well, his life was spared, and Pharaoh's household was plagued Abraham lied, but God watched out for him Compare: Psalm 139:16 All the days ordained for me were written before they came to be. |
| 13:15 God's promise: Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth All the land you see will be yours and your offspring's |
| [Lot: capture and rescue; destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah] |
| 15:4-6 God’s promise: A son coming from your own body will be your heir Offspring as many as the stars Abraham believed the Lord!! |
| 16:2ff Hagar: "Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Dilemma: God will make me into a great nation, but I have no children Hagar wrongs Sarai; Sarai wrongs Hagar 17:20 Ishmael will be blessed |
| 17:2ff God's promise: I will establish my covenant with Isaac, Sarah’s son (Circumcision) 17:4-6 You will be a father of many nations 17:10-11 Circumcision will be a sign of the covenant 17:16 I will bless Sarah and surely give you a son by her Abraham obeyed that very day!! |
| They laughed 17:17 Abraham laughed—we are old; will I now have this joy?! (Genesis 25:1 – other wife and sons) 18:12 Sarah laughed—past the age of childbearing; will I now have this pleasure?! Sarah lied 18:14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? |
| 18:23ff Abraham pleads Abraham approaches the Lord Maybe Lot and all his servants --- 50 Maybe Lot and most of his servants --- 45 Maybe Lot and many of his servants --- 40 Maybe Lot and half of his servants --- 30 Maybe Lot and some of his servants --- 20 Maybe Lot and his family and sons-in-law --- 10 |
| 20:2 Abraham lied "She is my sister" 20:9-13 What was your reason for doing this?! Motive: Fear of death Abraham assumed that there was no fear of God there Half truths are still whole lies |
| 21:1 God keeps promise: Isaac is born at the very time God had promised 21:4 Abraham circumcised Isaac as God had commanded 21:12 It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned (counted or recorded) |
| [Hagar] |
| 22:1ff Abraham offered Isaac God tested Abraham 22:2 Take your beloved, special son and sacrifice him Abraham went the very next morning Statements of faith: 22:5 We will go, we will worship, we will come back 22:8 God will provide the lamb 22:10 He reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son Hebrews 11:19 "Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death." 22:13-14 God did provide; Abraham called that place “The Lord Will Provide” 22:17 God's promise: I swear by Myself that I will bless you * Your descendants will be as many as the stars and the sand * They will defeat their enemies * All nations on earth will be blessed through your seed Why? Because you have obeyed Me |
