Finding the Way Home, Part 4

What does it look like to follow God when the future is unclear, the promise feels delayed, and your own failures threaten to derail the story? In Part 4 of Finding the Way Home, Pastor Paul walks through the story of Abram—later Abraham—to show how God begins His rescue of humanity not through ideal people, but through deeply flawed ones. Called out of exile after the scattering of Babel, Abraham is invited into a new story shaped not by control or self-made security, but by trust, surrender, and obedience.

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The story that you believe you are living in will direct how you live your life.

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The Exodus Pattern
God rescues, God forms, God dwells, and God sends.

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Genesis 12:1-4
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household 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.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him…

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Lesson #1
Entering God’s story involves surrendering control.

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Genesis 13:14-17
The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

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Lesson #2
When we drift, God gently reminds us of who He is and who we are.

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Genesis 7:1-8
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

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Lesson #3
Living and growing in God’s story demands a growing level of obedience.

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Genesis 22:15-18
The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”-We are educated far beyond our level of obedience.

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