SABBATH SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY (LESSON 02) || Abraham The First Missionary || Qrt 3-2015

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Recorded in Pretoria, South Africa, this is the second of a 13-part series of MelVee Sabbath School Bible Study Series on the theme Biblical Missionaries: The Great Commission. This week we are studying Abraham as the first Missionary. It’s no coincidence that three of the world’s major faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are sometimes called the “Abrahamic faiths.” That’s because all three, in one way or another, trace their roots back to this great man of God. Though Abraham is admired as the defining example of faithfulness, this week’s lesson will examine this faithfulness from a different angle. That is, we want to view him as a missionary, as someone called by the Lord to go to another land and witness to the people about the true God, the Creator and Redeemer. The book says, “So also Abraham ‘believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: ‘All nations will be blessed through you.’” (Galatians 3:6-8). God gave Abraham, and his family after him (see Gal. 3:29) a threefold purpose: 1. To be recipients and guardians of the divine truth of God’s kingdom that had been lost in the earlier history of humankind; 2. To be the channel through which the Redeemer would enter history; and 3. To be, as God’s faithful servants, a light to the nations, a light to those who needed to know the Lord.