Wednesday, April 15, 2020

I will bless those who bless you

Genesis 12:1-5
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. "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. I will bless those who bless youand whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
God's command and promise to on man, Abram, and his obedient response. Yet the consequences of this simple act were to spread like ripples on a pond, leading to the birth of a new nation and in course of time benefits for the whole world.
Why?
How blessings to a man God will bless those who bless you.
People usually like to stay in prosper place instead go to an unknown place. But Abram listen to the word of God and left his home in Harran with all his family and property.
This is the faith in the Lord.
Faith does not know what is before but we have hope and trust in the promise.
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亞伯蘭在哈蘭有好生活,是富有人。如果人為了這個眼前的財富、就不往前走了。例如以色列人進迦南時看到河東之地的美好,就是想要河東之地。
要得到更大的祝福前,要放下眼前的好處。神事前不說,為什麼?讓人判斷好不好,不是真順服。由神來判斷,相信讓神帶一定好,這個才是真正的順服。人很想知道,知道以後就會自己去判斷。判斷後決定不是順服,是順服我們自己的判斷了。神只說下一步,要我們順服。
為什麼神不直接在哈蘭賜福給亞伯蘭?因為神要入離開自己的環境,舒適、習慣……。舊事已過都是新的了,我們要先脫下舊人成為新人。否則人常常新舊拉扯。神才能給人新的。
神賜福亞伯蘭成為大國。造城想要成為自己的統治區,造塔傳揚人的名。神給的方法是放下自己。放下土地,完全聽神的話,即完全讓神來安排,這大國不是一座城,而是全世界。
笥二個他蒙福祝福
第三個亞伯蘭蒙祝福是成為別人的祝福
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How?
Abram has faith in God's command.



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