GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST

And in our worship service too!!

Before the Throne of God Above

Before the throne of God aboveI have a strong and perfect plea

A great high priest whose name is love

Who ever lives and pleads for me

My name is graven on His handsMy name is written on His heartI know that while in heaven He

standsNo tongue can bid me thence departNo tongue can bid me thence depart

When satan tempts me to despair And tells me of the guilt within

Upward I look and see Him there Who made an end to all my sin

Because the sinless Savior diedMy sinful soul is counted freeFor God the just is satisfied

To look on Him and pardon meTo look on Him and pardon me

Behold Him there the risen Lamb My perfect spotless righteousness

The great unchangeable I AMThe King of glory and of grace

One with Himself I cannot dieMy soul is purchased by His

bloodMy life is hid with Christ on high

With Christ my Savior and my God

With Christ my Savior and my God***

The Curtain Opens Man has made a mess of his own

history by rejecting God and suffering the consequences.

But in Genesis 12, God starts with a brand new cast, and brings to the world stage His incredible plan.

Shifts from the whole world to four individuals

Scene One God turns from the human race to a

single man--Abraham Would you do what God did? God delights in using people to work

His plan through them. Whenever God desires to do

something, He will look for a human being!

2 Chronicles 16.9a For the eyes of

the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.

God’s Constitution for the Recovery of Man Genesis 12:1-3 All the rest of Scripture and God’s activity

is tied to these promises. How is making a new nation going to help

in redeeming man from God’s wrath against sin?

Isaiah 55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

We must trust that God will reveal how Genesis 12:1-3 moves us toward His greater glory and our rescue.

When Jehovah says, "I will", He is really saying:

"This is what I am going to do; be sure of it!"

God’s working is miraculous

Do you see the wonder here? Abraham is one man A very old

man The husband of a wife who is...barren.

Would you begin to build a nation this way, through this man?

Why does God work this way?

God alone is going to “get ‘r done.” Perhaps it is so no one else can take the

credit for what gets done. He calls on us to live by faith so we can

watch Him work and give Him glory.

Why God operates as He does From beginning to ending, the building of Abraham’s nation and His working in our lives will be His undertaking. The participants are required to live

by faith.