Shem to Abram:

The Blessings of a Lineage

Pastor Bob Thibodeau explores the significant moments in the life of Abram, focusing on God's call for him to leave his father's house and the land of Canaan. This episode emphasizes the importance of obedience to divine instruction, highlighting how Abram's journey begins at the age of 75, marked by God's promise that he would become a great nation and a blessing to all families on earth. The discussion delves into the historical context of Abram's lineage, particularly his connection to Shem, and sheds light on the decisions made by Abram and his father, Tara. As they navigate their path, the episode underscores God's faithfulness, even in the face of human fear and disobedience. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on what they might need to leave behind in their own lives to embrace the blessings that God has in store for them.

Takeaways:

• Pastor Bob Thibodeau discusses the significance of Abram's lineage and his connection to Shem, emphasizing the historical context of their relationship.
• The importance of obedience to God's direction is highlighted, particularly in Abram's initial decision to depart from his family.
• Shem's blessing and the promise of a great nation through Abram serve as a pivotal theme in the narrative.
• Thibodeau explains how God's protection over Abram is assured, even as he leaves his family behind.
• The story illustrates the consequences of fear and mistrust, as Abram lies about Sarai being his sister to protect himself.
• The episode concludes with a reflective question for the audience, prompting them to consider what they need to let go of to embrace God's blessings.

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Hello everyone everywhere.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk today.

We're so blessed you're joining us.

We're having a great time in this study of Genesis.

And we just studied in the prior episode the lineage of Noah with Shem, his firstborn.

And we studied the, the lineage of Shem all the way down to Abram.

Okay?

Abram being born to Tara.

And we studied how Shem was 390 years old when Abram was born.

So they under Abram knew who Shem was.

Shem knew probably he had so many grandkids, he probably didn't know, you know, oh, that's Abram.

I know he's going to be a blessing.

You know, I'm pretty sure it wasn't like that, but I can guarantee Abram knew who Shem was.

I can guarantee that.

Okay?

Be like if, if your second, if your brother's.

Let me just put it in a lineage like this.

Your grandfather's brother's son had a son who was the President of the United States, right?

You would know who he was in blood relative to you.

He may not know you from anybody, but you know who he is.

And that's what this is.

Abram knows who Shem is.

Shem right now probably doesn't know who Abram is because he has so many kids everywhere.

All right, so we know that God told Abram to leave his father's house.

Leave, go before I tell you to.

But instead he followed his dad to live in Haran and went into the land of Canaan, right?

Canaan is the cursed grandson of Noah, right?

Not the blessed son of Shem.

They didn't live where Shem was living at.

They went to the land of Canaan.

All right, so Canaan is, let's just call it the cursed son because he was the cursed grandson of Noah, right?

Shem was the blessed son of Noah.

They should be hanging out with Shem.

Instead, Tara decides, hey, maybe the land was, you know, more green or pastures or whatever the case may be.

They did, you know, Tara, the father of Abram decided he wanted to move the family over to Canaan.

And that's where they went.

All right?

Disobeying God.

And God just sat back, waited for Tara to die.

He was 205 years old when Tara died in Haran.

And now, verse 12.

The Lord said to Abram, get out of here.

Get out of this country, away from your family, to and from your father's house.

Don't be hanging around with them.

They want to stay here in the land of the cursing.

I'm going to show you a land that I need you to get to.

And I will make of you a great nation.

I will bless you.

I will make your name great.

And you shall be a blessing.

Abram's aware of the blessing because Shem is blessed.

He knows what that blessing means.

And now here is the God of Shem speaking to him, right?

He says, I will make of you a great nation.

I'll bless you.

I'll make your name great.

You shall be a blessing.

I will bless them that bless you.

I'll curse him that curses you.

In other words, you ain't got nothing to worry about, boy, about leaving your family.

Because back then, the family unit was, you know, not just, you know, a family kindred relationship there.

They stayed together to help each other.

If there was a problem, the family come together and help out.

If there was a roving band of murderers or robbers or thieves or whatever coming through, the family was the protective unit.

They didn't call the police.

They were the police.

All right?

So here he's talking about, leave all this behind and don't worry about where you're going to go, because I'll take care of you.

There ain't nobody going to hurt you, right?

He says, I will curse him that curses you.

Because in you, Abram, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

All of them are going to be blessed because of you.

Abram had heard that story before with Noah.

That's the blessing of Noah.

And now it's come from Noah through Shem down to him.

Praise God.

He know, he understands this.

All right, so verse four.

So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.

That's not what the Lord had spoken to him.

He said, leave the family behind.

But you know, Lot, his.

You know, Haran, Abram's brother died.

You know, he probably felt responsible for him.

He said, well, come on, boy.

Let's go.

Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran, okay?

So that's when God first promised him a son.

Think about it.

When he was 75 years old, right?

He said, through you, the whole, whole earth will be blessed.

All the families that be blessed through you.

Verse 5.

Abram took Sarah, his wife, Lot, his brother's son.

All their substance that they had gathered and the souls they got in Haran, in other words, the grandkids and all this stuff and the servants that they gotten and went forth to go into the Land of Canaan.

Because that's the way the Lord is leading.

And then he went forth to go into the land of Canaan.

And into the land of Canaan they came.

I love that.

I love that saying that word.

It just.

It just tickles me every time I read it.

Is it?

And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan.

And into the land of Canaan they came.

Praise God.

Verse 6.

And Abram passed through the land, went through the land of Canaan.

I didn't say stop.

They kept walking.

He didn't know where he's going.

He said, I'll show you where you're gonna go.

Just keep walking.

They may say, oh, this looks like a nice air.

Look at that little reservoir over it.

Keep walking, keep walking, keep walking, keep walking, keep walking.

He said, walk through.

Until the place of Sichem under the plain of Mori.

And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Verse 7.

And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto your descendants, unto your seed, unto your descendants, I'm going to give this land, this land.

Where was that land?

The Plain of Mori.

Right.

Unto the place of Sichem in the plain of Mori.

He said, I am going to give your descendants this land.

So that's that colon.

So Abram built an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him.

And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent.

Bethel on the west, hai on the east.

And there he built an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Now remember, I haven't been doing.

I've just been reading from the Bible.

But we covered back in the first two episodes of.

Of this study what that L O R D all caps means, right?

That is Elohim, right?

Elohim.

Elohim is the Triune, the.

The Godhead, the three person God, the Father God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit.

That's Elohim.

And here we are.

He says, built an altar onto Elohim and called upon the name of Elohim.

And Abram journeyed, still going on moving towards the south.

But he built the altar there because that's where God had come to see him.

At verse 10.

There was now a famine in the land.

So Abram went down into Egypt to live there.

For the famine was grievous.

In the land.

They just can't get away from them famines folks.

And the cursed land.

They just can't get away from.

From those famines.

We just seen one of you know that.

Well, anyway, I don't want to get ahead of myself.

Verse 11.

It came to pass when he came near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, look, I know you are a beautiful woman.

You're fair, a fair woman to look upon.

She's 65 years old.

All right, Imagine that.

Imagine that.

No plastic surgery, right?

No makeup and stuff to, you know, do all this stuff that women do today.

She's just naturally beautiful.

That's what I love about the Lord.

Folks, I'm not gonna, I'm not going to get down into the method here of, of talking bad about makeup and plastic surgery and all that stuff.

I'll just let that go for a different day, all right?

But here she's 65 years old and Abram's like, you are a good looking woman.

And therefore verse 12 it'll come to pass when the Egyptians see you, they're going to say, this is his wife, so they'll try and kill me so they can keep you alive and you'll be married to one of them.

Then he said, please say, I pray thee that you're my sister.

And we found.

We'll find out later and we'll read about this.

That he's a.

She's his stepsister basically.

Okay, father's daughter, right?

Haran's daughter, Tara's daughter, but not from the mother of Abram.

So she was probably born to a servant girl or something like that.

He said that you're my sister, so it'll be well with me for your sake because as long as we're together, you know, I'll be, I'll take care of you.

And we know what God said, we're going to be blessed and all that he said.

But you know, so it's okay with me so they don't try and kill me to take you.

Just tell them you're my sister and, and you know, they won't kill me.

My soul shall live because of you.

Verse 14 it came to pass and Abram would come into Egypt.

The, the Egyptians looked at Sarai for she was fair, she was a good looking woman.

The princes of Pharaoh saw her and commended her before Pharaoh.

You gotta see this woman, boss, right?

And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house and he entreated Abram well for her sake.

And he had sheep and oxen and he asses and men servants and maid servants.

She asked us.

I mean, he's just blessing Abram because man, you got one beautiful, you know, sister here, Abram, you know, I'm going to give you a Huge dowry for her, you know.

And when Abram agreed to that, he got all these animals.

He got this whole huge dowry.

Verse 17.

And the Lord Yah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues.

Because of Sarah, Abram's wife.

Someone was taking what belonged to Abram, right?

Abram was too scared to speak up about it.

So God's like, I gotta fix this.

Because Sarai is the one through whom the Promised One's coming.

They don't know that yet, but God does, all right?

So I gotta fix this.

And he says, he plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah, Abram's wife.

And let that be known to Pharaoh.

This is all happening because of her.

So Pharaoh, verse 18, called Abram said, what is this you've done to me?

Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?

Why did you say, she's my sister?

I might have taken her to me as a wife.

Now, therefore, just take your wife.

Take her.

Just go away.

Leave us.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him.

They should send him away.

Him, his wife and all that he had.

You know, they're going to talk.

Well, what about all this?

Don't worry.

Just get them out of here.

We got to stop this play.

Get them out of here.

And that's where we're going to leave it at for today.

Let me question, ask you a question.

What has God told you to leave behind?

What has God told you?

If you give this up, it's going to open doors for you that no man may shut.

If you do this and obey me, you'll be blessed beyond measure.

But we're still holding on to it.

That's what happened here.

But see, Pharaoh, he learned real quick that I gotta let go what belongs to Elohim.

He may not have known Elohim personally like Abram did, but he heard about it.

At any rate, we're all done for today.

Amen.

We'll take up chapter 13, verse 1 next time.

Till then.

This past about reminding you, be blessed in all that you do.