Leaving, Losing and Letting Go
Romans 4:15
15 because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 4:16-17
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Romans 4:17
(as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Habakkuk 2:4 …the just shall live by his faith.
Romans 1:17b …the just shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:11b …the just shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10:38a the just shall live by faith…
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him:
Hebrews 11:8-9
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Hebrews 11:17-18
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19 accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure
1. Abraham Had LAND He Had To LEAVE
Genesis 12:1
“Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your father’s house,
to a land I will show you…
Genesis 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:
V4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him;
James 2:22
Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
2. Abraham Had a Love He Must Let Go Of.
Genesis 17:16
“I will bless her and also give you a son by her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her”
Genesis 17:17
When Abraham heard that he “fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, ‘Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old bear a child?’”
Genesis 17:18
“Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”
3. Abraham Had A LIFE He Must LOSE
Genesis 22:2-3
“Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’”
“And He said, ‘Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall tell you’”
Genesis 22:12
“And He said, ‘Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me’”