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IN T E R N A T IO N A L S U N D A Y SCHOOL LESSONS EXPOSITION and PERTINENT QUESTIONS on LESSON - T .C . Horton DEVOTIONAL C O M M E N T ............................................. D r.F.W . Farr COMMENT ........................................................................ KeitK L. Brooks ELEMENTARY - - - - - - - Mabel L. Merrill
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A P R I L 8 , 1 9 2 3 ABRAHAM, THE HERO OF FAITH Golden Text: Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. Romans 4:3. LESSON TEXT Ge. 12:1-5; He. 11:8-10, 17-19. Devotional Reading— Ps. 145:1-10. Outline: (1) The Call of Abraham (1) THE CALL OP ABRAHAM, “ Get thee out of thy country unto a land th a t I will shew thee.”
(2 ) The Covenant w ith Abraham . (3) The Canaan Conflict of Abra ham. (4) The Communion of Abraham. Introdnction: The tim es in which men live have much to do w ith th e ir characters. Abraham lived four hundred and twenty- years from Noah. The people had mul tiplied. The sons of LESSON Japh eth had moved EXPOSITION northw ard and begun T. C. Horton to populate Europe and Asia. The sons of Ham had moved to th e south in th e fertile plains of Chal dea, and under Nimrod had bu ilt cities and temples and cultivated the arts and sciences beyond th e ir fellows, b Into th is land came Terah, of Shem, and took up his residence In Ur, a t the mouth of th e E uphrates on th e P er sian Gulf, a seat of commerce. . The Ham ites had drifted into idolatry. Here, m idst th e luxury and licentious ness of th e heathen capital, Ahraham was born. T radition says he was never an idolater, though his fath er, Terah, was a m aker of idols.
Thus spake th e Lord to Ahraham as once before He spoke to one man, Noah. (Gen. 6 :1 3 ). The promise of God con cerning th e seed of th e woman (Gen. 3:15) must be fulfilled, and th e purpose of God is now made manifest. The con dition of th e world is much th e same as in th e dhys of Noah except th a t now a new ch aracteristic has appeared. Men have become devil-worshippers (Deut. 32 :17 ). “T h e y s a c rific e d to dev ils» n o t to G od) to g o d s w h o m th e y k n e w not» to n e w g o d s t h a t c a m e n e w ly , n p , w h o m y o n r f a th e r s f e a r e d n o t.” (1 Cor. 10 :20 ). “ B u t I s a y t h a t th e th in g s w h ic h th e G e n tile s sacrifice» th e y s a c rific e to devils» a n d n o t t o G od.” Abraham is God’s choice. He is to be th e progenitor of a new race. Stephen tells us (Acts 7 :2 ) th a t God ap peared to him in glorious m anifesta tion while he still dwelt in Mesopota mia. The call was clear and definite, but Abraham did not go far. He took w ith him - his father, Terah, and his nephew, Lot, and ta rrie d in H aran un til his fath e r died. H is life in H aran is a blank. There was no manifestation of God; no account of an altar. God is gracious, bu t He cannot operate in a
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