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“By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked
for a city which has foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God.”
Hebrews 11:9, 10.
ABRAHAM’S life, taken literally, is full of instruction, but we shall be wise to take the spirit of it and endeavor to
make it our own. We cannot live just as Abraham did, but we can carry out the great principles which lay at the root of
Abraham’s life and, if the Holy Spirit will work in us a like degree of faith to that of the holy Patriarch, we may glorify
God by our lives, even as he did.
The first point in which we must follow him is that our life must be a life of faith. We cannot be children of believing
Abraham unless we live by believing. If you follow your senses, you go by what you see. Now, by what this poor flesh
would teach you to desire, you will know nothing of the life of Abraham.