Call of Abram/Abram & Lot

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Call of Abram/Abram & Lot
Genesis 12:1-9, 13:1-18
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The Story
Abram was a man who the shepherds and servants
worshiped God. He lived in Ur of the could not find room for them. The
Chaldeans. Ur was a beautiful place, shepherds and servants started
but many of the people there did not to argue and fight. Abram did
worship the true God. The people built not like the arguing. He did not
towers called ziggurats. They used the like the fighting. He wanted his
towers to worship the moon god. This new home to be peaceful.
made God very sad. Abram had an idea.
God loved Abram so much. He Canaan was a big land. He
wanted to make sure Abram would could live in one part. Lot could
not worship the moon god. God told live in another part. Abram and
Abram to move away from his family Lot looked at the big new land.
and friends who worshiped the moon The best land was on the right.
god. God promised to take care of There was a river. There was
Abram in a new home. He promised green grass. There were large
Abram he would have many children cities. On the left there were just
and grandchildren in the new home. trees and fields. Abram told Lot
One day Jesus would be born into to choose first. Lot chose the best
Abram’s family! land. He took his sheep, camels,
Abram did what God told him to shepherds, and servants to the
do. Abram took his wife, Sarai, and his green grass near the river and
nephew, Lot, to the new home. the cities. Abram took his sheep,
Abram and Lot had many sheep and camels, shepherds, and servants
camels. They had many shepherds to the trees and fields. The
and servants. The sheep, camels, arguing and fighting stopped.
shepherds, and servants all went, too. Everyone was happy again.
They walked, and walked, and God was happy Abram was
walked. At last they came to their new in his new home. He reminded
home. It was called Canaan. Abram about His promises. God
Everyone was happy to be there! promised all of Canaan would
Abram built an altar in Canaan. He belong to Abram some day. He
thanked God for leading him to his promised Abram would have as
new home. many children and grandchildren
God took care of Abram, Sarai, as the dust of the earth. Abram
and Lot in Canaan. Soon there were believed God’s promises. God
many more sheep and camels. There kept His promises!
were so many sheep and camels that
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Activity One - Review: Draw a happy face if the sentence tells about
something that makes God happy. Draw a sad face if the sentence tells about
something that makes God sad.
1. Abram worshiped God.
2. People worshiped the moon god.
3. Abram did what God told him to do.
4. Abram thanked God for leading him to his new home.
5. The shepherds and servants argued and fought.
6. Abram told Lot to choose first.
7. Lot chose the best land.
8. Abram believed God’s promises.
Activity Two - Tell how God takes care of you in your home. Draw a picture of
your home.
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God’s hand in Abram’s life led him to
earthly and eternal treasures.
God’s hand supports and saves those who put their
faith and trust in Him.
Passage
Hebrews 11:8 “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out
to the place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance.
And he went out.”
Hymn
- TLH 428, v. 1, 4
I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus,
Trusting only Thee;
Trusting Thee for full salvation,
Great and free.
I am trusting Thee to guide me;
Thou alone shalt lead,
Ev’ry day and hour supplying
All my need.
Prayer
Dear Jesus,
Thank you for taking care of Abram in his new home. Help me to
remember that you promise to take care of me, too. Amen.
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Call of Abram/Abram & Lot
Genesis 12:1-9, 13:1-18
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The Story
God promises to support and many sheep, cows, and camels.
bless those who love and trust in him. Abram also had silver and gold. Lot
Today we will learn about a man also had many sheep, cows, and
who put his faith and trust in the Lord. camels. Abram and Lot had so
His name was Abram. many animals that sometimes it was
Abram was a man who hard to find enough food and water
believed in the Lord. He lived in Ur. for the animals. Many times Abram’s
He lived with his wife Sarai and shepherds and Lot’s shepherds
nephew Lot. Abram and Sarai had would argue for the best land for the
no children. animals.
The land where Abram lived Abram heard about the
had many people who worshiped arguing. He talked to Lot and said,
idols. The idols were made out of “We should not argue about pasture
wood or stone. for our sheep, cows, and camels. I
One day the Lord came to talk have a plan. Look at all of the land
to Abram. The Lord said, “ Leave before you. You choose the place
your home in Ur and go to a land where you want to live. I will take
that I will show you. I will bless you my shepherds and animals in the
and make your name great. I will opposite direction.”
make your family the size of a great Lot chose the best land near
nation.” the Jordan River for himself. There
Abram did not know anything was plenty of pasture and water for
about the land the Lord wanted him his animals. Lot’s decision to take
to live in, but he listened to the Lord. the best land was not wise. He lived
Abram believed the Lord’s promises. near the city of Sodom. The people
He knew that the Lord would keep who lived in Sodom were very
His Word. wicked.
Abram gathered everything Abram took the land that Lot
that he owned, his wife, and Lot. He did not choose. The land Abram
left Ur and the rest of his family for lived on did not look like the best,
the land the Lord promised to him. but the Lord blessed Abram. The
Abram traveled for many days Lord came to Abram and said, “I will
and came to the land of Canaan. give all the land that you see to you
The Lord came to Abram and said, and your family. The people in your
“This is the land I will give to you and family will be so many that no one
your family.” Abram believed the will be able to count them.”
Lord and built an altar to worship Abram believed the Lord’s
Him. promise and he built an altar to
The Lord blessed Abram with worship the Lord.
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Activity One
- Discuss the following questions.
1. What promises did the Lord make to Abram?
2. What happened between Abram’s and Lot’s shepherds?
3. What was Abram’s plan?
4. In whom did Abram put his love and trust?
Activity Two
- Put the following events of the story in order. Place the numbers 1-5 in
the blanks before the sentences to show the correct order.
_______ Lot chose the land near the Jordan River.
_______ The Lord told Abram to leave his home and go to a new land.
_______ Abram’s shepherds and Lot’s shepherds were arguing.
_______ Abram gathered everything that he owned and left Ur.
_______ Abram came up with a plan.
Activity Three
- Read the passage below and answer the question.
Hebrews 11:8 “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out
to the place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance. ‘And
he went out…’”
How did Abram show that he trusted in the Lord?
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God’s hand in Abram’s life led him to
earthly and eternal treasures.
God’s hand supports and saves those who put their
faith and trust in Him.
Passage
Hebrews 11:8 “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to
the place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance.
And he went out.”
Matthew 10:37 “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not
worthy of Me.”
Hymn
- TLH 428, v. 1, 4
I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus,
Trusting only Thee;
Trusting Thee for full salvation,
Great and free.
I am trusting Thee to guide me;
Thou alone shalt lead,
Ev’ry day and hour supplying
All my need.
Prayer
Dear Jesus,
Thank You for taking care of Abram in his new home. Help me
to remember that you promise to take care of me, too. Amen.
Old Testament 4 Abraham Called - Level 2
Call of Abram/Abram & Lot
Genesis 12:1-9, 13:1-18
If you were going on a “road trip” what would you use to
help you plan?
Maps and directions help us to find our way, especially in
areas that are new to us. In today’s story the Lord provides the
map and the directions and tells Abram “Go!”.
Prayer

God of Abram and my God also in Jesus, thank You for being with
me today. Guide me as I study Your wonders. Through Jesus
Christ, my Savior. Amen.
Promises to Abram
Now the LORD had said to Abram: And there he built an altar to the LORD,
"Get out of your country, From your family who had appeared to him.
And from your father's house, To a land {8} And he moved from there to the
that I will show you. {2} I will make you a mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched
great nation; I will bless you And make his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on
your name great; And you shall be a the east; there he built an altar to the
blessing. {3} I will bless those who bless LORD and called on the name of the
you, And I will curse him who curses you; LORD. {9} So Abram journeyed, going on
And in you all the families of the earth shall still toward the South.
be blessed." {1} Then Abram went up from Egypt,
{4} So Abram departed as the LORD he and his wife and all that he had, and
had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Lot with him, to the South. {2} Abram was
And Abram was seventy-five years old very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
when he departed from Haran. {5} Then {3} And he went on his journey from
Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his the South as far as Bethel, to the place
brother's son, and all their possessions that where his tent had been at the beginning,
they had gathered, and the people between Bethel and Ai, {4} to the place of
whom they had acquired in Haran, and the altar which he had made there at first.
they departed to go to the land of And there Abram called on the name of
Canaan. So they came to the land of the LORD.
Canaan. {5} Lot also, who went with Abram,
{6} Abram passed through the land had flocks and herds and tents. {6} Now
to the place of Shechem, as far as the the land was not able to support them,
terebinth tree of Moreh. And the that they might dwell together, for their
Canaanites were then in the land. {7} Then possessions were so great that they could
the LORD appeared to Abram and said, not dwell together. {7} And there was strife
"To your descendants I will give this land." between the herdsmen of Abram's
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livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's the plain and pitched his tent even as far
livestock. The Canaanites and the as Sodom. {13} But the men of Sodom
Perizzites then dwelt in the land. were exceedingly wicked and sinful
{8} So Abram said to Lot, "Please let against the LORD.
there be no strife between you and me, {14} And the LORD said to Abram,
and between my herdsmen and your after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your
herdsmen; for we are brethren. {9} "Is not eyes now and look from the place where
the whole land before you? Please you are; northward, southward, eastward,
separate from me. If you take the left, and westward; {15} "for all the land which
then I will go to the right; or, if you go to you see I give to you and your
the right, then I will go to the left." descendants forever. {16} "And I will make
{10} And Lot lifted his eyes and saw your descendants as the dust of the earth;
all the plain of Jordan, that it was well so that if a man could number the dust of
watered everywhere (before the LORD the earth, then your descendants also
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the could be numbered. {17} "Arise, walk in the
garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt land through its length and its width, for I
as you go toward Zoar. {11} Then Lot chose give it to you."
for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot {18} Then Abram moved his tent,
journeyed east. And they separated from and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees
each other. {12} Abram dwelt in the land of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built
of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of an altar there to the LORD.
Outer Aim - God’s hand in Abram’s life led him to earthly and eternal treasures.
What the Story Tells Us
– (T)rue or (F)alse. Choose the correct answer.
1. T or F God told Abram to travel alone to the a land that God would give
Abram.
2. T or F Abram was seventy-five years old when God told him to move.
3. T or F God promised Abram great riches and honor in the land of promise.
4. T or F Abram settled in the area between Bethel and Ai.
5. T or F The first thing Abram did was build an altar.
6. T or F The Lord blessed Abram with much wealth because of Abram’s faith.
7. T or F A strife between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot was over pasture
land for the flocks.
8. T or F Abram put Lot first and offered him the choice of land to settle in.
9. T or F Lot settled in Shechem because the pasture land was very rich
there.
10. T or F God scolded Abram for not keeping the best for himself.
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