| Introduction:Believe, Respond, Obey When we are learning to do something, it is always helpful to havesomeone al~er whom to model our actions. Having a prototype willget us started, and from there we can adapt our role model s actionsto our own pace. That s what we propose to do in this book. In learning how to walk with God, let s take a dose, long walkwith a man who dominates the Old Testament. He is, in fact, men-tioned seventy-three times in the New Testament, more than anyother Old Testament figure. He s one of the central figures of theentire Scripture, related not only to those of the Old Covenant, butto those in the New as well. Without knowledge of him, I dare saythat we do not completely know who we are. I m referring to Abra-ham. Abraham towers at the very beginning of the Scripture as a manwhom God sought out amidst the whole of the earth. He touched thatman and entered into a covenant with him, a covenant that has so firmly bound the Lord God to His people that thereafter He wasknown as "the Lord, the God of Abraham" An important statement was made in the hook of Isaiah:Listen to Me, you who follow after righteouaness,/You whoseek the LOgD:/Look to the rock from which you were hewn/And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug./Look toAbraham your father. (Isa. 51:1,2)Often in the book of Isaiah, it is as if the Lord God is really trying toget our attention. "Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted,/Who arefar from righteousness" (46:12). And, "Hear this, O house of |
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