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The Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…

Genesis 16:1-16 Faith Wavering If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis. And before we move on to Genesis 16, I'd invite you to look back at Genesis 12, to remind you of where we have come from so far. This is the sixth in a series on the life of Abraham. To this point he is, of course, Abram, the patriarch. We said as we began to look at his life in Genesis 12:1-3, that passage from one standpoint could be called the center point of the Biblical story of redemption. Everything that comes before it leads up to it. Everything that comes after it fulfills it. And we learned several lessons from that general passage. In Genesis 12, if you’ll scan your eyes across the verses of 1-9 of Genesis 12, we see the establishment of God's covenant with Abraham…

The Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…

Genesis 15:1-21. The Promises of God (The Life of Abraham)[5] – The Cutting of the Covenant If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 15. One of the great passages in all of the Old Testament. We have so far been walking through the life of Abraham. This is the fifth in a series of the study of this great patriarch which runs from Genesis 12 to 23. We've already said that there's a sense in which Genesis 12, verses 1 through 3, is the very center point of the history of redemption in the Bible. Everything before Genesis 12, 1 through 3, leads up to it. Everything afterwards fulfills it. We've also noted along the way since the Missions Conference is coming up next week that the covenant promises to Abraham actually supply for us the ground for…

The Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…

Genesis 13:1-18 The Promises of God (The Life of Abraham)(3): A Parting of the Ways Lord God we thank You for this deposit of revelation, for in this book You have revealed Yourself, Your will, Your works, Your ways to Your people. And so we ask as we study Your word that we would see You more clearly. We ask as well, O God, we would see the glory of Your covenant grace and learn these principles by which we walk in that covenant t. We ask these things in Jesus' name, Amen. The lifelong quest of faith in which Abram had already embarked receives yet another test in this passage. It receives a test in the challenge of dwelling with Lot and then eventually separating from him. And of course the lure of the cities of the plain, in their fertile fields, but with their wicked inhabitants.…

The Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…

Genesis 12:10-20 The Promises of God (The Life of Abraham) – 2 Famine in the Land Please turn with me to Genesis, chapter 12. We began our study of the life of Abraham last week after a number of weeks looking at Genesis 1 through 11. As we looked at the life of Abram in Genesis 12, verses 1- 9, we said that that section begins a very long section in the book of Genesis, dealing with the life of this patriarch, running from Genesis 12 to about Genesis 23. And then a number of chapters…

The Disciples’ Continuing Unbelief, Part 1: Faith…

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 17.  Today we come to a new section of chapter 17.  In the first thirteen verses we saw a description of the transfiguration of our Lord on the mountain and now, as the Lord Jesus and His three disciples make their way down from the summit, they come to a very, very different scene.  The gospel writers seem to stress the tremendous contrast between the glory above and the shame and the confusion beneath in this…

The Flood (The Life of Noah) Part II: The Ark of…

Genesis 6:9-22 The Ark of Salvation and the Covenant with Noah If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Genesis 6. We have seen God's glorious work of creation recounted in Genesis 1. We have seen his special favor towards man highlighted in Genesis 2. We have come to the saddest moment in human history in Genesis, chapter 3, with the fall. We've seen the consequences of sin in Adam's family in Genesis, chapter 4, and we've seen a scent of hope in the birth of Seth, and in…

Reaping the Whirlwind

Please turn in your Bibles to Genesis 4 as we continue our study in the foundations of the faith. We have seen God's glorious work of creation accounted in Genesis 1. We've seen more specifically the special relationship established between the Lord and Adam in Genesis 2 and the stipulations of the covenant of works in Genesis 3. We have seen that fellowship disrupted, and really from Genesis 3 all the way to about Genesis 6:8, we have a study in sin. The nature of sin. The consequences…

Condemnation of the Enemies of the Kingdom, Part 5: The…

If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 12.  Matthew chapter 11 in each of the events that it records gives us a picture of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Matthew chapter 12 gives us a contrast between the character of Christ and His opponents.  And each of the passages that are recorded in that great chapter, we see a juxtaposition, a contrast, a differentiation between Jesus and those who were the accepted respected spiritual and moral leaders of…

The Golden Image

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Daniel, chapter 3 as we continue our study of this prophet of the exile as he speaks by the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Daniel, chapter 3. Hear the word of God: Daniel 3:1-30 Our Lord God, we thrill to hear this story and we thrill to realize that this is the truth. An account of a glorious event in which your power intersected space and time and was engaged in the lives of normal human beings, faithful servants of the…

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