Title: The Blessings of Getting Out

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Genesis 12:1-5

12 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.

2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

3 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.”

4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

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Title: The Blessings of Getting Out

As you know, Abram was the Father of faith to Israelite.

so from his age until now, God is called the God of Abraham.

They all liked him and honored, and wanted to be like his life to be blessed by God. We also would like to be like him, his faith to be blessed by God.

He is the model of our faith, our blessing, our victory.

Let me ask you.

Do you want to be blessed by God like Abraham, as much as him, more than him?

Today, my subject is the blessing of getting out.

When the Lord called Abraham, He commanded him to get out of his country, his family, his father's house.

Is it not strange ?

Why did God say to him to come out of his hometown ?

Getting out of hometown that we are familiar with is not easy.

Moving into another city is very difficult.

By the way, all of sudden, God said to him to go to a land that He will show him.

Where should we move and go to be blessed by God like him ?

Where is the blessed land that we should go and live ?

What did it mean that Abraham had to come out of his country ?

It meant that he had to come from sinning with worshiping idles.

Any way, God commanded him to get out of impact of sin.

God's blessing begins from getting out of sin.

By the way, when he did not know where to go, God gave him a direction to move.

Take look at verse12, " To a land that I will show you."

God did not command him without regarding, meaning.

He prepared the blessed land, Canaan which flows with honey and milk for him.

1. God will give us a right direction to be blessed like him, when we get out of the place of sin.

We must get out of a sinful place so that we may enter the thing in which God wants us into.

Getting out of his country is to change his spiritual address as well as geographical address.

By faith we can move to the land of blessing according to the word of God.

2. He gives us a identity, when we get out of the place of sin.

verse2, "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing."

God blessed for his nation to be great, and for his name to be great.

So He blessed him to become the person of blessing.

Our name as well as our nation must be blessed by God to be great.

3. God gave him approval, (anointing and appointment).

verse 3,"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."

What does it mean?

It means to become the pathway(Father, source) of blessing for all the people in the world.

Abraham's blessing can be transferable to all people who believe in Jesus.

Galatians 3:9 says, "So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

We also have to be the pathway of blessing for others to be saved, to be blessed.

Let me close.

We have the great task and responsibility to become the pathway of blessing, so that so many people may believe in Jesus and be saved by God.