Ephesians- for this week read Ephesians chapter 4 Walk before the Lord, like Abraham did.

Read Matthew chapters 5-8 We can only live God's way because He put it in our hearts to live His way.

Acts 2:42 God expects us as believers to practice some exercises – excercises that happen to train believers. We have communion to remember what God has done for us. Why read the Bible? To know God. If you are going to help someone at work, if you make friends, are married you need to get to know them. Don't do what Man wants, do what God wants. Reading Bible is not to gain knowledge about God, but to know God - relationship. Abraham was a friend of God. This is what we want to be. Learn about God and learn about fellowship. Fellowship- get to know each other's heart. The things that tick you off and the things that don't. Breaking of Bread - to remember what God has done for us. Prayer - (like the walkie talkie). How you live your life and how you talk with God. Everything you say goes up to God. He hears it all. What is this verse describing? The Church .

Galatians 4:21-31 The difference between believers who rested in Christ only, and those who trusted in the law, is explained by the lives of Isaac and Ishmael. These things are an example and the Spirit of God points out something further. Hagar and Sarah are examples of the new and old covenant. The heavenly Jerusalem, the true church from above, represented by Sarah, is in a state of freedom, and is the mother of all believers, who are born of the Holy Spirit.  They were by regeneration and true faith, made a part of the true seed of Abraham, according to the promise made to him.  Hagar is of the earth, always fighting for survival receiving their reward while on earth and never taking it into eternal life. A life of torment – never being good enough. So then, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. We would not have found out this example in the history of Sarah and Hagar, if it had not been shown to us, and this is what was intended by the Holy Spirit

Romans 4:1-16; Gal 3:19; Deuteronomy 32:20 It is vitally important that every Christian study the life of Abraham, because one of Paul’s greatest revelations was that he was the ideal pattern for mankind’s justification with God. Paul came to understand that righteousness, and from that full justification could only come by God’s grace, through faith, apart from any of mankind’s human efforts. For Paul, Abraham was the proof of this. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all…Romans 4:16. Not only was Abraham, the Patriarch of the Jews, declared righteous by God specifically because of his belief apart from keeping a list of commandments (Genesis 15:6), but that declaration of his righteousness and right standing with God came centuries before the Law had been given through Moses. While there were many