Father Abraham (4 of 5)
Series: Children's Stories (Part 1)
Jeff Strite
Hebrews 11:8-10
There's a children song I'd like you to sing with me this morning. It's a fairly long drawn-out action song with quite a few body motions, so I'm only going to ask you to do a couple of the hand motions with me this morning. It's called ''Father Abraham'' and it only has one verse. Sing it with me:
''Father Abraham had many sons, Many sons had Father Abraham.
And I am one of them, and so are you. So let's just praise the Lord. Right arm
(the audience should start pumping their arm in the air until the verse has been resung, at which point, I'd say ''Right arm, left arm'' and they'd pump both arms in the air)
The song ends each verse with another motion. There's Right Arm''; then ''Left Arm''; then ''Right Leg''; then ''Left Leg''; then ''Turn Around;'' and finally ''Sit Down.''
Little kids really love that song because it's fun, it's fast, and it's a chance to act really goofy. But it's more than that! It's also a song that teaches a deep Biblical truth. And that truth is this: Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ is a child of Abraham. If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are son/daughter of Abraham.
That's what Paul tells us in Romans: ''(Abraham) received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had BY FAITH while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe... That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, ''I have made you the father of many nations.'' Romans 4:11, 16-17
What Paul was saying was that Abraham was the father of those who all those have had faith in God. First for the Israelites under the Old Testament, and for all those who believed in Christ in the New Testament. And ...
Series: Children's Stories (Part 1)
Jeff Strite
Hebrews 11:8-10
There's a children song I'd like you to sing with me this morning. It's a fairly long drawn-out action song with quite a few body motions, so I'm only going to ask you to do a couple of the hand motions with me this morning. It's called ''Father Abraham'' and it only has one verse. Sing it with me:
''Father Abraham had many sons, Many sons had Father Abraham.
And I am one of them, and so are you. So let's just praise the Lord. Right arm
(the audience should start pumping their arm in the air until the verse has been resung, at which point, I'd say ''Right arm, left arm'' and they'd pump both arms in the air)
The song ends each verse with another motion. There's Right Arm''; then ''Left Arm''; then ''Right Leg''; then ''Left Leg''; then ''Turn Around;'' and finally ''Sit Down.''
Little kids really love that song because it's fun, it's fast, and it's a chance to act really goofy. But it's more than that! It's also a song that teaches a deep Biblical truth. And that truth is this: Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ is a child of Abraham. If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are son/daughter of Abraham.
That's what Paul tells us in Romans: ''(Abraham) received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had BY FAITH while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe... That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, ''I have made you the father of many nations.'' Romans 4:11, 16-17
What Paul was saying was that Abraham was the father of those who all those have had faith in God. First for the Israelites under the Old Testament, and for all those who believed in Christ in the New Testament. And ...
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