December 1st, 2024 - Blessed Through You?

Scripture Passage:  Genesis 12:1-9

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Advent -
"In the Fullness of Time"

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Guiding verse for Advent
17 Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.

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Advent 1: Father Abra(ha)m
"Blessed Through You"

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God calls people into his mission
  The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you."

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a. Through a trust relationship that moves you
  The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country...

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b) through a new sense of family
  “Go from ... your people and your father’s household
...I will make you into a great nation,
...To your offspring

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c) through a new sense of place
  “Go ... to the land I will show you.
...and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
...There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord

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Reality check
a) untrusting, immovable people
b) exclusive, elitist community
c) cursed and dispersed

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Jesus
a) came to live among us
b) was family but not offspring
c) taught kingdom of heaven

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Blessed through you
a) Go
b) make disciples, baptizing...
c) all nations... I am with you

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Take home:
Are you so aware of the blessing received that you are a blessing to others?