The 25-Hour Answer That Abraham Enjoyed (Genesis 12:1-5) 1/15/2023
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The 25-Hour Answer That Abraham Enjoyed (Genesis 12:1-5) 1/15/2023
After Noah’s flood, people were scattered across the world. The human race and nations were formed through their posterity. However, humans, corrupted by nature, again fell into self-centeredness, flesh-centeredness, and success-centeredness, and the age of the Babel Tower opened. The Mesopotamian civilization, historically known as one of the greatest empires, was established during this period. What is the age of the Babel Tower? It is the worst culture that humans who have lost God have created. It is one where man strives to go to the greatest place without God. They made and worshiped idols for that desire (Satan worship). The Babel Tower was an idol shrine built in each region. Then, humankind began to become endlessly corrupt. The worldly culture filled with human desires, outbreaks of war (superpower nations) derived from corruption and desire to seize territory, and idol worship that follows continues to this day (Matthew 4:8-9). God chose one person, Abraham, during that age and used his descendants and family line to save the world. God chose Abraham Himself, sent him to the land of Canaan, and gave him unprecedented blessings (25-hour answer). God strengthened him to where he could raise 318 trained men and save his nephew Lot (Genesis 14:14). He received financial blessings to where he gave large amounts of tithes by receiving the blessings of the High Priest (Genesis 14:20). Later in his life, God also allowed him to be greatly respected by all the tribes in Canaan (Genesis 24:11). The twelve tribes of Israel were established through his descendants, and Christ came through that. It says that all believers in Christ have become people of the covenant who will enjoy the blessings of Abraham (Galatians 3:14,29). May you become the main figures of this 25hr answer.
- What is the beginning of the 25hr answer that Abraham enjoyed?
1) It was God’s selection of grace (Romans 4:2). God has an absolute plan for each of us within this.
① Salvation is also by God’s selection of grace (Ephesians 1:3-5).
② Disciples used by God are also God’s selection of Grace (Mark 3:13).
③ It said that the standard and reason was to choose the weakest so that they may only boast of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:29), in order that in the coming ages we might show the incomparable riches of God’s grace (Ephesians 2:7). The remnants of powerful nations are especially important. God sent the weakest to the powerful nations and raised them as witnesses and summits.
2) God desires to raise us as witnesses of these answers and blessings from His Grace. It is a life of thanksgiving and testimony regarding the incomparable riches of God’s grace. People are living contrasting lives (three incorrect misconceptions).
① People think their lives belong to them. Therefore, people according to what they want, their greed, and do whatever for those things (Romans 1:24-25).
② People have a misconception that they can do anything however they want and by their power (Romans 1:28). Then, they become arrogant if they fulfill something and fall into darkness, confusion, and emptiness if they are met with limits.
③ They rely on various religions and idols at that time. It is the most foolish misconception (Romans 1:22-23). We do not believe in religion. Religion has the misconception that humans can save themselves through their own effort. Christianity is not a religion. He came for us because we could not do it. He came as Christ. He became flesh, came to the lowest place, and he received the curses of humankind in our place (Colossians 1:13-14), destroyed Satan’s authority through His resurrection (1 John 3:8), and became the way, truth, and life to meet God (John 14:6). That is the gospel (Luke 2:10).
- What was the method of the 25-hour answer that Abraham enjoyed? We need to do 24 hours with what God has given us.
1) It is covenant 24. It is this week’s scripture passage. It said to leave your country, people, and father’s household and go to the promised land.
① It is a field in which all scars, limitations, and spiritual problems that we have come. No longer be bound by that. What is the covenant God gives us? It said you will be a source of blessings (foundational covenant), a great nation will be established (representative covenant), and those who bless you will be blessed, and those who curse you will be cursed (irresistible covenant). It said that all nations on earth will be blessed through you (historical covenant).
② If people lose hold of this covenant, they fall into anxiety, worries, and unbelief, and they have no choice but to dwell in their own standard and level (humanism).
Difficulties and problems coming is the greatest opportunity for this covenant to become imprint, root, and nature.
2) It is Word (pulpit) 24(Acts2:42, I Thessalonians 2:13).
① God accurately gave the Word to Abraham (daily, during conflict and crisis, during the uncertainty of where to go). God surely gives the Word to those whom He loves. Abraham meditated on that Word and followed that Word (verse 4).
② It says He still disciplines, rebukes, and corrects with the Word (2 Timothy 3:16).
He makes all things prosperous (Psalms 1:1-3) and moves angels to fulfill the Word (Psalms 103:19-21).
3) It is worship 24. Abraham built an altar wherever he went (verses 7-8). He received God’s strength through worship. A life that loves and looks unto God daily, discovers His will, and exalts Him is worship 24 (Romans 12:1-2).
- It is what we must do now. We need to do this as we enjoy covenant 24, Word 24, and worship 24. In other words, we must see God’s time schedule and enjoy God’s things (blessings of the throne) in all problems and incidents.
1) For believers, God’s time schedule is in all problems and incidents. It is not merely time that passes. It is a time schedule for the things God promised to be fulfilled (Kairos’ time).
① There is a time schedule for all the things we pray for to be answered (Revelation 8:3-4). It never falls to the ground.
② The various problems, conflicts, and failures are a time schedule for us to see our hidden spiritual problems and be healed.
We cannot be used for important works without being healed. We should not be attacked by Satan when in an important position (Luke 22:31-32, Acts 5:3).
③ Times of despair are for us to enjoy God’s 25. Only, uniqueness, and recreation come from that. The time we call an ‘end’ is God’s beginning. The time Abraham and Sarah had Isaac was a time such as this (Hebrew 11:11).
2) The things of God are the blessings and answers of the throne. God still reigns over all creation on the throne. Christ protects, helps, and gives signs to the evangelists while He sits on the right hand of the throne (Mark 16:19-20). Although the Devil works to destroy the believers and evangelists, he cannot defeat the throne (Romans 16:20, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 21:7).
3) The conclusion of the blessing of the throne is the world evangelization that saves all 237 nations and 5,000 tribes.
It said, “because of you,” and later, “through your seed” (Genesis 22:18), all nations and peoples will be blessed. Pray that I, my posterity, and my church which is my spiritual family, will be used in the works to save the coming three ages.
Conclusion – The entire world is filled with Towers of Babel that has no choice but to crumble. May you stand as the main figures of the 25-hour answer within that.