A Faith Like Abraham’s Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: A Faith Like Abraham’s -------------------------- Date: 12/8/2000 Keywords: "Abraham" "faith" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Hebrews 11:8-10* 8. By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; 10. for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. Questions 1. Abraham is singled out here as a man of great faith. For what does the author of this passage commend him?   2. Have you ever felt as if you were being asked to journey to a land you have never seen? Does quitting your involvement with pornography seem like that kind of journey?   Practical help Abraham was called by God to leave the land in which he was living (the city of Ur in Chaldea) and travel to Canaan, the land of promise. Scary stuff. He had never seen Palestine before, although he had heard about it. He was secure living in the land of Chaldea — secure but surrounded by the religious pornography of idolatry. Pulling up stakes and moving to Canaan meant leaving friends, family, security and wealth. It meant trusting that God was telling the truth when He said that Canaan was better than Chaldea. You are being called by God to leave the land of porn. Scary stuff. You like it there, it is well known, secure, enjoyable (at times). But the land of porn is the moral equivalent of Chaldea. God says that He has a land flowing with milk and honey waiting for you, a land of freedom. But you’ll never find it while you’re logged on to porn.com. No, first you have to pull up stakes and move away from that land and go where God points you. That involves faith, the one thing that impresses God (see Hebrews 11:6). eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."