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    Abraham: Friend of God: Search For Truth Bible Series
    Abraham: Friend of God: Search For Truth Bible Series
    Abraham: Friend of God: Search For Truth Bible Series
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    Abraham: Friend of God: Search For Truth Bible Series

    By Brian Johnston

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    What do you do when God asks you for everything you've got?  That's what happened to Abraham, one of the most famous people in the Bible. Bible teacher, missionary and radio broadcaster Brian Johnston  explores how it all came about and what was Abraham's response. Abraham was known for his great example of faith in Hebrews 11 and for being a "Friend of God", but his nomadic life was far from plain sailing, and so it provides lots to learn for our own jpurney of obedience to God in discipleship today,. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2017
    ISBN9781386370536
    Abraham: Friend of God: Search For Truth Bible Series
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    Brian Johnston

    Born and educated in Scotland, Brian worked as a government scientist until God called him into full-time Christian ministry on behalf of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info). His voice has been heard on Search For Truth radio broadcasts for over 30 years (visit www.searchfortruth.podbean.com) during which time he has been an itinerant Bible teacher throughout the UK and Canada. His evangelical and missionary work outside the UK is primarily in Belgium and The Philippines. He is married to Rosemary, with a son and daughter.

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      Abraham - Brian Johnston

      Brian Johnston

      Abraham: Friend of God

      First published by Hayes Press 2012

      Copyright © 2012 by Brian Johnston

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      Brian Johnston asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      Unless otherwise stated, all Bible references are taken from the New King James version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Contents

      1. LEAVING HOME

      2. LEARNING FROM MISTAKES

      3. ENCOUNTERS WITH KINGS

      4. ABRAHAM’S FAITH & ISRAEL’S FUTURE

      5. HAGAR & ISHMAEL

      6. GOD’S COVENANT & ITS SEAL

      7. THE DAY IT RAINED FIRE

      8. REAL SATISFACTION

      9. TOTAL SURRENDER

      10. A BRIDE FOR THE SON

      11. THE DEATHS OF SARAH & ABRAHAM

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      LEAVING HOME

      Away beyond the great River Euphrates in Mesopotamia about 2,000 years before Christ there once lived a man called Terah. Terah was a family man with three sons, one called Abram – or Abraham as he came to be known. They lived about ten generations after Noah. This family were city-dwellers. They lived in the city of Ur - close to the shoreline of the Persian Gulf, at one end of what’s been described as the Fertile Crescent. At the other end was the Red Sea. The river valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates and Jordan rivers provided a great arc of richly irrigated land across this region. It seems cities of baked brick came to rise up along the length of these green river banks like shining objects glittering in a giant necklace.

      Various sources all point in the direction of this being an area of ancient civilisation - with its cities crowned with stepped pyramids (called ziggurats) dedicated to patron deities. It’s probable that the old capital of Sumer was Ur with its Temple of the Moon, so its people were moon-worshippers. From what we read in the book of Joshua (24:14) it might appear that Terah’s family there were no exception. That is, until one day, quite out the blue it seems, they had an encounter with the true and living God. Life was never the same after that. Here from Genesis chapter 11 is the Bible record of these facts:

      "This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai … But Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

      Now the LORD had said to Abram: ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed"’ (Genesis 11:27-12:3).

      The security, sophistication and splendour of Ur, where life was good and comfortable, paled into insignificance compared to the revelation of ‘the God of glory’ that day. The New Testament reveals that this must actually have been the second time God had spoken to Abram - or Abraham. For Stephen (the first Christian martyr named in the Bible) said, just before he was stoned by the Jews, that:

      … the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, and said to him, ‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell’ (Acts 7:2-4).

      So an ancient city-dweller had found God, or really, the sovereign God had found him. Abraham’s initial reaction could have been ‘why me?’ Just before this time we read about the tower of Babel, when the nations of the earth had tried to undertake the monumental task of constructing a skyscraper by which they hoped to make a name for themselves, all the while excluding God from their thinking. The nations of the world had shut out the God of heaven;

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