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God’s Blessing Missions & Personal Reflections An open message covering Genesis 12:1-3.

Explore Dr. Dan Poenaru's sermon on Genesis 12:1-3, uncovering the Hebraic and Jewish blessings, the Abrahamic covenant, and the call to share God's blessings with the world. Discover the importance of obedience, timing, and sacrifice in experiencing and spreading God's blessings.

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God’s Blessing Missions & Personal Reflections An open message covering Genesis 12:1-3.

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  1. God’s BlessingMissions & Personal ReflectionsAn open message covering Genesis 12:1-3. Sunday, October 3, 2010 Speaker: Dr. Dan Poenaru

  2. Irish Blessings • “As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.” • “May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don’t love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming.”

  3. Hebraic blessing? • Baruch ataadonai • The Jewish blessing

  4. Genesis 12:1-3 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

  5. Abram’s journey

  6. The Abrahamic covenant • 3-fold call: to leave... • his land, • his people, • his father’s house • 3-fold promise: to become... • a great nation, • a great name, • a great blessing.

  7. God’s blessing… • comes in God’s timing

  8. God’s blessing… • comes in God’s timing • requires full obedience (and even sacrifice)

  9. Experiencing God (H. Blackaby)

  10. God’s blessing… • comes in God’s timing • requires full obedience (and even sacrifice) • is to be shared

  11. Genesis 12:1-3 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

  12. The first Great Commission? • 4 steps • Historical periods

  13. Sharing the blessing • Genesis 18:18 • “Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.” • Genesis 22:18 • “through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”

  14. Give it away “whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it”Luke 17:33 "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.“martyred missionary Jim Elliot

  15. God’s blessing… • comes in God’s timing • requires full obedience (and even sacrifice) • is to be shared

  16. God bless!

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