Big Idea: We say “yes” because God is faithful, not because we are able. Genesis 12:1 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. God uses ordinary people to accomplish His extraordinary purposes. Genesis 11:31 31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. God does not call us to be a “Halfway” Christian. There will always be people and places that try to get us to settle for halfway. Partial obedience and delay in following God leads to desolate destinations. Ephesians 4:22–23 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Genesis 12:4–5 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. … Genesis 12:2–3 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” In Christ… You are blessed to be blessing. Next Week’s Text: Judges 4–5