Bible studies with Pastor Gene Pensiero of Calvary Hanford. In this series titled Best Friends Forever: The Life Of Abraham, we learn about the life of the patriarch, with whom God would promise to make a great and everlasting nation.
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As he readies for death Abraham reveals his will for all of his sons (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
After instructing his servant about where to find a proper wife for his son Isaac, Abraham has him swear an oath by placing his hand under his thigh (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
When his wife, Sarah, dies, Abraham secures a cemetery plot where she, he, and their descendants after them, can be buried (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Abraham places his son, Isaac, on an altar as a sacrifice to God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Even in the mundane routine of day-to-day living God was revealing Himself to and through Abraham (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
The weaning of Isaac is accompanied by two very different types of laughing (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Abraham once again asks Sarah to tell everyone she is his sister (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Sexual sins are the backdrop for Godʼs judgment upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Abrahamʼs prayer for the righteous within Sodom and Gomorrah is an example of what Jesus meant when He encouraged His disciples left in the world to “Occupy till I come” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
After Abraham and Sarah show hospitality to the Lord, He tells them that Sarah will conceive and bear a son (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
God changes Abramʼs and Saraiʼs names by adding the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ה (HEH, pronounced hey) to each of them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Sarah calls upon her maidservant, Hagar, to bear Abraham a son (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
God causes a deep sleep to come upon Abraham as He promises him to give him the Promised Land as an inheritance (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Abraham is told that the descendants who will be both born and born-again because of him will be as innumerable as the stars in the heavens (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Despite the fact Lot brings it upon himself by making terrible personal choices, Abraham risks his own life to rescue his brotherʼs son (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Given his choice of grazing land, Lot chose the lush fertile plains of Jordan (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Fearing for his life in Egypt, Abraham asks his beautiful wife Sarah to lie and tell everyone she is only his sister (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Abraham begins his lifelong pilgrimage in response to Godʼs call (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Abraham sets out for Canaan but hesitates in Haran for a long while before fully heeding Godʼs call (Pastor Gene Pensiero)