Obedience: Abraham

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. …

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

…and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’ …

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. …

Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?