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    Why Did God Choose Abraham?

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    God called Abraham to leave his home in Ur and travel to an unknown destination. Abraham obeyed God instantly, though it may have taken time to make preparations. God chose Abraham, a pagan living in an idolatrous society, to bless him and the world through him. When God spoke, Abraham listened; when God promised, Abraham trusted; and when God commanded, Abraham obeyed. Abraham took his family, including his nephew Lot, and departed from Ur to travel to the land of Canaan, though they initially settled in Haran, where Abraham's father Terah later died.

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    God called Abraham to leave his home in Ur and travel to an unknown destination. Abraham obeyed God instantly, though it may have taken time to make preparations. God chose Abraham, a pagan living in an idolatrous society, to bless him and the world through him. When God spoke, Abraham listened; when God promised, Abraham trusted; and when God commanded, Abraham obeyed. Abraham took his family, including his nephew Lot, and departed from Ur to travel to the land of Canaan, though they initially settled in Haran, where Abraham's father Terah later died.

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    God called Abraham to leave his home in Ur and travel to an unknown destination. Abraham obeyed God instantly, though it may have taken time to make preparations. God chose Abraham, a pagan living in an idolatrous society, to bless him and the world through him. When God spoke, Abraham listened; when God promised, Abraham trusted; and when God commanded, Abraham obeyed. Abraham took his family, including his nephew Lot, and departed from Ur to travel to the land of Canaan, though they initially settled in Haran, where Abraham's father Terah later died.

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    Why Did God Choose Abraham?

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    God called Abraham to leave his home in Ur and travel to an unknown destination. Abraham obeyed God instantly, though it may have taken time to make preparations. God chose Abraham, a pagan living in an idolatrous society, to bless him and the world through him. When God spoke, Abraham listened; when God promised, Abraham trusted; and when God commanded, Abraham obeyed. Abraham took his family, including his nephew Lot, and departed from Ur to travel to the land of Canaan, though they initially settled in Haran, where Abraham's father Terah later died.

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    Why Did God Choose Abraham?

    By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to
    receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. (11:8)

    It was not Abrahams plan to leave Ur and then Haran, and eventually settle in the land
    of Canaan. In fact, when he left Ur he had no idea where he was going. He was called
    by God, and only God knew what was in store for him.
    In the Greek, he was called is a present participle, and the translation could be, when
    he was being called. In other words, as soon as he understood what God was saying,
    he started packing. It was instant obedience. It may have taken several days, or even
    weeks or months, to make final preparation for the trip, but in his mind he was already
    on the way. From then on, everything he did revolved around obeying Gods call.
    Abraham was a sinful heathen who grew up in an unbelieving and idolatrous society.
    We do not know exactly how or when God first made Himself known to Abraham, but he
    was raised in a home that was pagan (Josh. 24:2). His native city of Ur was in Chaldea,
    in the general region called Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It
    was a fertile land and was culturally advanced. It was near where the Garden of Eden
    was located (cf. Gen. 2:14) and was some 140 miles from where the great city of
    Babylon would one day be built.
    Isaiah refers to Abraham as the rock from which you were hewn and the quarry from
    which your were dug (Isa. 51:12), reminding his fellow Jews that God sovereignly
    condescended to call Abraham out of paganism and idolatry in order to bless him and
    the world through him. He may have had higher moral standards than his friends and
    neighbors, but this was not the reason God chose him. God chose him because He
    wanted to choose him. And when God spoke to him, he listened; when God promised,
    he trusted; when God commanded, he obeyed.
    This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And
    Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans. Then Abram and
    Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,
    the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had
    no child. And Terah took his son Abram, and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his
    daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the
    Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of
    Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

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