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- Who were the people who were born after Noah?
-They were your ancestors and my ancestors.
- Did our ancestors know about God?
-Yes.
- How did our ancestors know about God?
-Firstly, the older people told the younger people about God and the flood.
- What did the older people tell the younger people about God and the flood?
-That God hates sin, and had, therefore, destroyed all of the people except Noah and his family.
- How else did our ancestors know about God?
-Secondly, the rainbow told our ancestors about God.
- What did the rainbow tell our ancestors about God?
-That God loves people, and that He will never destroy the earth again with a flood.
- How else did our ancestors know about God?
-Thirdly, our ancestors knew about God because the sky, the mountains, the rivers, and the trees told them about God.
- What did the sky, the mountains, the rivers, and the trees tell our ancestors about God?
-That God alone is God, and that people should follow God alone.
- Did most of our ancestors believe in God?
-No.
-Only a few of our ancestors believed in God.
- Instead of following God, whom did most of our ancestors follow?
-Most of our ancestors followed Satan and his lies.
- What did Satan tell our ancestors to do?
-To worship the sun, moon, and stars.
-To worship the spirits.
-To worship carved wood and rock which looked like people and animals.
- Why did God not want the people to all live together in one place?
-So that they would not forget about God and that their sins would become very many.
- Why did the people begin to build a tall tower at Babel?
-Because the people were very proud.
-Because the people wanted to make a name for themselves.
- When the people began to build the tall tower, did God see?
-Yes.
- Does God know all of the thoughts of all people?
-Yes.
-Before someone even starts to think a thought, God knows all of his thoughts completely.
- Does God know all of the words of all people?
-Yes.
-Before someone even starts to say a word, God knows all of his words completely.
- Does God know all of the deeds of all people?
-Yes.
-Before someone even starts to do something, God knows everything that he is going to do completely.
- Does God forget about people?
-God never forgets what people think.
-God never forgets what people say.
-God never forgets what people do.
- Because our ancestors disobeyed God, God decided to punish them.What was the punishment that God decided?
-God gave the people different languages so that the people would not be able to understand one another.
- After God gave all of the people different languages, what else did He do?
-God scattered all of the people to different places on the earth.
- How did your ancestors finally arrive here?
-After many, many years, they came here by foot and by boat.
-Our ancestors who lived after Noah disobeyed God, and built the tall tower at Babel.
-They followed the lies of Satan, and not the truths of God.
-They followed their own way, and rejected God.
-Even though our ancestors rejected God, did God abandon His plan to save the people?
-No.
-Even though our ancestors rejected God, did God abandon His plan to send the Savior?
-No.
-If God makes a promise, He always keeps His promise.
-In the Garden of Eden, God promised Adam and Eve to send the Savior.
-God will not break His promise.
-God promised Seth and Enoch and Noah to send the Savior.
-God will not break His promise.
-Even though our ancestors rejected God, God did not abandon His plan to send the Savior.
-Even though our ancestors rejected God, God still wanted to send the Savior to save people from sin.
-Even though our ancestors rejected God, God still wanted to send the Savior to save people from death.
-Even though our ancestors rejected God, God still wanted to send the Savior to save people from Satan.
-Can people stop God from sending the Savior?
-No.
-Can demons stop God from sending the Savior?
-No.
-Can Satan stop God from sending the Savior?
-No.
-Who can stop God from sending the Savior?
-No one.
-When God decided to send the Savior, no one can stop God.
-Because many of our ancestors rejected God, God decided to choose one man through whom to send the Savior.
-The name of the man that God chose was Abram.
-God chose to send the Savior through Abram.
-Why did God choose Abram through whom to send the Savior?
-Did God choose Abram because Abram did not sin?
-No.
-Abram was a sinner.
-Abram was a descendant of Adam.
-Abram was born into sin.
-Why did God choose Abram?
-Abram believed that God was holy.
-Abram believed that he had sinned.
-Abram believed that his sin merited death.
-Abram believed that only God was able to save him.
-Abram believed that God would send the Savior.
-Because Abram believed in God, God chose to send the Savior through Abram.
-Abram’s father was Terah.
-Terah was the descendant of Shem.
-Do you remember the names of Noah’s sons?
-Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
-Abram was the descendant of Shem, one of Noah’s sons.
Let’s read Genesis 11:27 & 29-30
27-This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
29-Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
30-Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
-One day, Abram married.
-Abram married a woman named Sarai.
-Yet, Abram and Sarai had no children.
-Why did Abram and Sarai have no children?
-Because Sarai was barren.
-Abram and Sarai lived in the city of Ur.
-The people of Ur did not believe in God and His truths.
-The people of Ur followed Satan and his lies.
-The people of Ur were wicked people.
-While Abram was still living in Ur, God appeared to Abram.
-Here is what God said to Abram:
Let’s read Genesis 12:1
1-The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”
-What did God tell Abram to do?
-God told Abram to leave his country, and go where God would lead him.
-Why did God tell Abram to leave Ur and his country?
-Because the people of Ur did not believe in God and his truths.
-Because the people of Ur only followed Satan and his lies.
-Because God wanted to separate to Himself a people who would believe in God.
-How did God speak to Abram?
-God spoke to Abram with His voice.
-God spoke to Abram with His voice because God’s Bible was not yet written when Abram was living.
-How does God speak to us today?
-Today, God does not most often speak to us with His voice.
-Today, God most often speaks to us through His Bible.
-We can hear God’s Words by reading them in His Bible.
-We can know what God says to us by reading His Words in His Bible.
-When God spoke to Abram, God promised something.
-Here is what God promised Abram:
Let’s read Genesis 12:2
2-The LORD said to Abram, “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.”
-What did God promise Abram?
-Firstly, God promised that Abram would have many descendants who would become a great people.
-At that time, how many children did Abram and Sarai have?
-None.
-Why did Abram and Sarai have no children?
-Because Abram’s wife Sarai was barren.
-Even though Abram had no children, God promised that Abram would have many descendants.
-Secondly, God promised that He would bless Abram.
-Let’s read what God also promised Abram:
Let’s read Genesis 12:3
3-The LORD also said to Abram, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
-Thirdly, God promised that He would bless those who blessed Abram, and curse those who cursed Abram.
-Fourthly, God promised to bless all people through one of Abram’s descendants.
-This promise that God would bless all people through one of Abram’s descendants is the greatest promise of all.
-Who would be the descendant of Abram, through whom all people would be blessed?
-The Savior.
-What would the Savior do?
-The Savior would come to defeat the power of sin.
-The Savior would come to defeat the power of death.
-The Savior would come to defeat the power of Satan.
-The Savior would come to bring God and people back together again.
-The Savior would defeat Satan, and bless all people in the world.
-Did Abram believe the promises of God?
-Yes.
-Abram believed that God would not lie.
-Abram believed that God would only tell the truth.
-After God made His promises to Abram, what did Abram do?
Let’s read Genesis 12:4-5
4-So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
5-He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
-Abram left the country where he lived, and followed God to the country where God was leading him.
-To where did God lead Abram?
-God led Abram to a new land called Canaan.
-In the next lesson, we will learn about what happened to Abram in the land of Canaan.