Abraham
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Contents
Foreword
On the Other Side of the River
The Call of God
Faith and Unbelief
Refusing and Choosing
Victory and Defeat
Son-ship and Inheritance
The Flesh and the Law
The Almighty God and the Everlasting Covenant
Blessings and Privileges
Friendship With the World
The Works of the Flesh
The Birth of the Heir
The Offering Up of Isaac
The Death of Sarah
The Call of Rebekah
Foreword
It would hardly be possible to overestimate the importance of a knowledge of God's dealings with Abraham and his seed for a proper understanding of the Bible. To him the Lord said, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 12: 3). From Galatians 3: 16 we learn that that seed was "Christ," and in Him alone are all the blessings of the covenant realized.
Abraham is also one of the most interesting characters of Bible history. There are few people mentioned so frequently in the Scriptures. Concordance pages show that besides the many, many places where his name appears in the Old Testament, he is mentioned more than seventy times in eleven books in the New Testament. He has the distinction of being called "The Friend of God" (James 2: 23 ).
To fit Abraham for the place God had purposed for him, the God of glory appeared to him (Acts 7: 2) and gave him wondrous visions — visions of the Lord Jesus (John 8: 56) and visions of a heavenly city "which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Heb. 11: 10).
The practical lessons we learn from his life are emphasized in Mr. Hamilton Smith's book — Abraham, the Friend of God. We trust it may be blessed of the Lord as have been his former books, including those on Joseph, Elijah and Elisha.
The Publishers February, 1957
The God of Abraham praise,
Who reigns enthroned above;
Ancient of everlasting days
And God of love:
Jehovah, great I AM,
By earth and heaven confessed,
I bow and bless the sacred Name,
Forever blessed.
The God of Abraham praise
At whose supreme command
From earth I rise to seek my joys
At His right hand.
He calls me to forsake
Earth's wisdom, fame and power,
And Him my only portion make,
My shield and tower.
The God of Abraham praise,
Whose all-sufficient grace
Shall guide me all my pilgrim days,
In all my ways.
He calls a worm His friend,
He calls Himself my God,
And He shall save me to the end,
Through Jesus' blood.
He by Himself hath sworn,
I on His oath depend,
I shall, on eagle wings upborne,
To heaven ascend:
I shall behold His face,
I shall His power adore)
And sing the wonders of His grace
For evermore.
— T.Oliver.
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