The Sunday Message - Aug 17, 2025 Primal

Genesis 12:1-6 marks a pivotal turning point in biblical history as God initiates His covenant relationship with Abraham. Written by Moses as part of the foundational narrative of Israel's origins, this passage records God's sovereign choice to call one man out of a pagan world to become the father of many nations. Here was a man who was middle-aged, settled, prosperous, aristocratic, and probably pagan (although it is possible that among the gods he revered there was a remembrance of the ancestral God Yahweh). Then suddenly the word of the Lord came to him, although it is not known exactly how. He obeyed the word, turned his back on the old ways, and obediently left Ur to follow God's command. God calls Abraham to be a blessing to "all the families of the earth" and shapes the future of his family by numerous promises.