What is the meaning of Acts 7:3? Leave your country “Leave your country…” (Acts 7:3) • God’s first word to Abram (Genesis 12:1) confronts security and familiarity. • He calls us, like Abram, to step out of cultural comfort. “Come out from among them and be separate” (2 Corinthians 6:17). • Hebrews 11:8 notes Abram “obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going,” underscoring that faith begins with a decisive break from the old life. • Jesus echoes the same cost in Luke 14:33: “Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.” And your kindred “…and your kindred…” (Acts 7:3) • Family ties, treasured as they are, can bind us to unbelief. Jesus places allegiance to Him above relatives (Matthew 10:37). • Abram took Lot, yet later separation became necessary (Genesis 13:8-11), illustrating that partial obedience still brings conflict. • Luke 14:26 stresses the priority: love for Christ must dwarf every other attachment. Go to the land I will show you “…and go to the land I will show you.” (Acts 7:3) • The promise is open-ended. God gives direction step by step, not an entire roadmap (Psalm 119:105). • Joshua 24:2-3 recounts how God “led him throughout Canaan,” confirming the journey was guided at every stage. • Faith rests on God’s character, not on visible certainty. Abram “was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God” (Hebrews 11:10). • Christ’s promise, “I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2-3), mirrors this pattern: leave, trust, and inherit. summary Acts 7:3 recalls God’s call to Abram as a timeless pattern: break from worldly security, surrender even family loyalties, and follow God into the unseen future. True faith obeys immediately, trusts completely, and receives abundantly. |
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