1. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house!' (1)1 The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go 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’ (Gen. 12:1-3)

2. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house!' (2)2 After the death of his father, God sent him to this land … He gave him no inheritance here … But … promised him that he and his descendants … would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child (Acts 7:4,5) By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going (Hebr. 11:8)

3. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house!' (3)3 These are the clans of Noah’s sons … within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood (Gen. 10:32) … there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation … (Rev. 7:9)

4. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house!' (4)4 Only …?

5. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house! (5)5 Or just …?

6. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house!' (6)6 Or rather …?

7. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house!' (7)7 THEME 9 GOD’S PLAN ENCOMPASSES ALL NATIONS GOD’S PLAN ENCOMPASSES ALL NATIONS

8. 9 - 'Abram, Go, leave your father's house (8)8 Discussion & dialogue Discuss among yourselves: When God is interested in all nations, yes even in all different people groups of those nations, what does that have to say to you as national Christians? Discuss which six themes of the ten reoccur in Abram’s story? Describe how they feature