Plenty of people have saving faith and are not faithful people. Pastor Adam separates the two in Genesis 24, follows a servant who lost everything and kept steadfast love anyway, and draws a boundary line between the land behind you and the one ahead.

God had spoken to Abraham at least nine times and never used his name. The first time he says “Abraham!” is the moment of the test. Pastor Adam reads that as a graduation, and asks whether anyone actually wants God to speak the way they say they do.

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