{"id":490,"date":"2025-12-15T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=490"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:05:21","slug":"genesis-program-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Genesis (Program #49)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Genesis (Program #49) – The Progress in Answering God’s Calling<\/p>\n

Our life study today is dealing with progress in answering God’s calling.\u00a0 A central item in God’s call to Abraham was the necessity for him to cross a river.\u00a0\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 The explanation should take into account both literal and the spiritual significance of this.\u00a0 Literally, Abraham had to cross a great river in order to go from one realm, the land of Chaldea into the realm, the good land into which God was calling him.\u00a0 Spiritually speaking, this points to the reality of the experience of baptism. \u00a0 Elsewhere in the Scriptures, when God’s people were to go from one realm to another, they pass through water. \u00a0 Noah passed through water to get into the realm of God’s new creation.\u00a0 The children of Israel passed through the water of the Red Sea and again through the water of the Jordan.\u00a0 All of these may be understood and rightly as types of baptism.\u00a0 When God calls us, we began in an old fallen realm.\u00a0 God wants to bring us out of that realm into a realm where Christ is everything to us.\u00a0 In order to make this transition by the Lord’s grace, we need so to speak to cross a river.\u00a0 We need to pass through water which spiritually signifies death and resurrection.\u00a0 So in summary, Abraham’s crossing the river indicates our need to go through death and resurrection in Christ signified by baptism in order to be transferred out of the realm of old creation into the realm of God’s new creation…<\/p>\n

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Genesis (Program #49) – The Progress in Answering God’s Calling Our life study today is dealing with progress in answering God’s calling.\u00a0 A central item in God’s call to Abraham was the necessity for him to cross a river.\u00a0\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 The explanation should take into account both literal and the spiritual significance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[10,92,27,25,26,7808,29,7806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11078,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/11078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}