{"id":21427,"date":"2016-08-19T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0113-the-call-of-abram\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T01:22:10","slug":"0113-the-call-of-abram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0113-the-call-of-abram\/","title":{"rendered":"0113.         The Call of Abram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Call of Abram<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, * * unto a land that I will shew thee * * and thou shalt be a blessing * * in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed&quot; (Gen_12:1-3).<\/p>\n<p>This passage shows that God called Abram because God wanted to make him a world-wide blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Abram was not blessed that he might hoard his blessings:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Have you had a kindness shown, pass it on;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Twas not given to thee alone, pass it on.<\/p>\n<p>Let it travel down the years,<\/p>\n<p>Let it wipe another&#8217;s tears,<\/p>\n<p>Till in Heaven the deed appears,<\/p>\n<p>Pass it on.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Saved to serve,&quot; is a true motto. God chose Abram, and called Israel that He might have a channel through which He could make His Name known among the nations.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Take and give&quot; is another true saying. The lake that takes and keeps, becomes a salt lake. There must be an outlet to keep the waters fresh. The life that gets and does not give, is sure to become a stagnant pool.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of God&#8217;s call to Abram encompassed the whole world, &quot;all the families of the earth&quot;. We need to be enlarged according to God&#8217;s rule, abundantly, to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond us. We should not fail to include in our service and prayer the whole world. &quot;Every creature&quot; should be our aim.<\/p>\n<p>When we think of the fact that millions of people on earth today have never heard of Christ and of the Cross, how we should bestir ourselves!<\/p>\n<p>Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Call of Abram &quot;Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, * * unto a land that I will shew thee * * and thou shalt be a blessing * * in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed&quot; (Gen_12:1-3). This passage shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0113-the-call-of-abram\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;0113.         The Call of Abram&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}