The Jesse Tree Advent devotional starts tomorrow! In today's episode, we'll discuss how to lead your family on this journey and highlight some of the key resources. Visit fbmaryville.org/jessetree to download the Jesse Tree booklet and ornaments. Please also click the button that says "We Are Participating." This will automatically add you to the Jesse Tree email list.

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Through the prophet Isaiah, hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus, we find that God had a plan to work through the family line of a man named Jesse. Join us today in Isaiah 11 as we watch His plan unfold.

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When we look at creation it's important to understand that what we read in Scripture, from beginning to end, is absolutely true. There are definitely areas of Scripture that our minds may not fully comprehend, and that is okay! That's where faith and trust come in. So when it becomes difficult to accept that God simply spoke and the most complex things came to be, or to imagine that all these things could have happened in just 6 days, or to comprehend that man started from the dust of the ground and women from the rib of the man, remember that God is God and we are not. He has revealed these things to us so that we can see His power, give Him glory, and humbly embrace His Truths with a child-like faith.

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Today we are going to read about God's first people, Adam and Eve, and how they disobeyed God, bringing sin into God's perfect world, and changing the history of all mankind.

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Sin is anything we think, say, or do that goes against God's rules. Sin has consequences that ultimately lead to death and separation from God. There came a time in our history when there was so much sin in the world that God decided to destroy mankind. There was only one man who was righteous in God's eyes, and that man was Noah.

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After the account of the flood, we read about Noah's three sons in Genesis 9 through 11. In chapter 11, we follow the family line of Noah's son Shem, and end up with a man named Abram. Here we see that God had a high calling for Abram, which would eventually lead to him being called the "father of many nations".

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If you remember from yesterday, we talked about Abram. Abram had faith to trust God even when he couldn't see all the plans God had for him. Today we are going to see more details into God's plans for him, which includes his wife, Sarai.

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God made a promise to Abram that he would have a family as numerous as the stars. The problem. Abram and Sarai had no children and were well past the age of having a child. But we are going to see today that even when something seems impossible, God always keeps His promises.

Something to note about today's devotional is the name changes. Abram is now Abraham and Sarai is now Sarah. God himself changed the names of Abram and Sarai in Genesis 17 as a way of confirming His everlasting covenant with them. Abraham is to be the "father of many nations" and Sarah is to be the "mother of nations."

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