Genesis 12-26

There is no video this week, but there are reading questions for Genesis 12-26. Reviewing these questions will prepare you for the multiple-choice video quiz that follows.

Learning Objectives:
1. Examine the covenant God established with Abraham.
2. Identify the main characters of Genesis 12-26.
3. Identify the major events in the lives of Abraham and Isaac.

Memory Verse:
Galatians 3:6-7 (NIV)
6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

Galatians 3:6-7 (ESV)

6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham

In writing to the Galatian church (1st century A.D.), Paul quoted Genesis 15:6 and related Abraham’s faith (trust and confidence in God) with the inclusion of Gentiles into the people of God. Because of this inclusion, the Galatian Christians were to have the same faith in God as Abraham had centuries earlier.