Text: Genesis 12:1-9

God’s Sovereign Call to Abram (Gen. 12:1-3)

• God called Abram to turn away from idol worship and leave his homeland, never to return.
• God called Abram to trust in His Word and believe His promises.

Abram’s Obedient Faith in God (Gen. 12:4-6)

• Abram obeyed God in faith, taking God at His Word to guide and protect him.

Abram’s Dedicated Worship to God (Gen. 12:7-9)

• God appeared to Abram, reaffirming His promise to give him the land of Canaan.
• Abram responded in worship as he built an altar and called upon the name of the Lord.

Text: Romans 8:1-11

Freedom From Slavery (v.2)

• Former law, Mosaic law, was never meant to save us.
• Former law was meant to point to our need for a savior.

Freedom From Condemnation (v.3)

• God knew the former law was unable to save us.
• In response, He sent His Son to us to do what the law could not do.

Freedom From Being Controlled (v.4)

• Because Christ is in us and we are in Christ, all of God’s requirements are fulfilled in us.
• We must live out who we are in Christ, not by doing good works in itself, but, by focusing on what God has done.

Freedom From Defeat (v.5-8)

• Paul is comparing the saved and the unsaved.
• One lives for the flesh and the other The Spirit.
• Living a life for the flesh IS death.
• If you are unsaved, you are not battling sin.
• If you are fleshly, then you are trying to please yourself, not God.

Texts: Genesis 11; Acts 2:1-11, 37-39

Man’s Arrogant Defiance to God’s Reign (Gen. 11:1-4)

• In Babel, there was unity without obedience to God and ambition without submission to God.
• In Babel, man’s goal was self-exaltation, not God's glory.

God’s Authoritative Response to Man’s Pride (Gen. 11:5-9)

• God condescended to earth to see the “big” tower that man had constructed.
• God confused their language and scattered them throughout the earth.

God’s All-Encompassing Blessing to the Nations (Gen. 11:10-32; Acts 2:1-11, 37-39)

• In this list of Shem’s descendants, we see God’s unfolding promise to bless the nations through Abraham’s lineage.
• Despite Sarai’s barrenness, God’s plan to bless the nations would not be thwarted.
• In Acts 2, we see God’s plan to bless the nations in the proclamation of the Gospel in everyone’s language.