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From Jacob to Israel

Genesis 35:1-9From Jacob to Israel If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 35. Tonight we come to a portion of the life of Jacob in which we are drawing towards the close of Moses’ focus on him as one of the patriarchs. It's interesting, for most of his adult life Isaac, his father, has continued to live, and in some senses to be the lead patriarch in the family which God is building. And as we have said many times in our studies from Genesis 30 on, God has been endeavoring to prepare Jacob to trust in Him and to acknowledge Him alone. But when last we were studying Jacob, we studied a very disturbing passage, Genesis 34 where the violation of Dinah is recorded, and where the vengeance of the sons of Jacob, the immoral and illegal vengeance of…

The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Promises of…

Genesis 20:1-18 Sarah Protected Well, for the last two weeks we have dwelt in the abyss of sin and judgment in Genesis 19 and tonight we climb out. But the view that greets us in Genesis 20 is hard. The father of the faithful when last we saw him was fervently interceding for those who were under judgment and condemnation and then was silently watching in the aftermath of God's judgment against Sodom. But here we find him stumbling again. By way of qualification we should point out that a man of weak faith would not have made it as far as Abraham had made it at this point. A man of lesser trust in the Lord after God's waiting so long, His prolonging of the fulfillment of His promises, may well have abandoned His pledge of the covenant. So tonight we turn to Genesis 20, and we see…

The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Promises of…

Genesis 19:30-38 The Disgrace of Lot Two weeks ago as we looked at Genesis 18, we saw the Lord reveal to Abraham His plan to bring judgment against Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the plain, because of the wickedness, because of the outcries that had come up to the Lord through the wickedness of those places. And we watched Abraham intercede faithfully for those who were lost, pleading with the Lord as a covenant mediator for Him to spare for the sake of even ten righteous men those cities. And then we saw as we looked at Genesis 19, verses 1 through 29 last week, God's visitation of judgment on the wickedness of Sodom. Not ten righteous souls could be found, and God brought down His judgment on those places. We saw the wickedness of Sodom displayed in graphic terms and portrayal.…

The New World Order (Life after the deluge) (1): The…

Genesis 10:1-32. The New World Order (Life after the deluge)(l): The Line of the Sons of Noah If you have your Bibles with you please turn with me to Genesis, chapter 10. Tonight we enter into a new section of the book of Genesis. Moses himself partitions this particular chapter and gives it the heading “the Toledoth of the sons of Noah,” that is, the book of the generations of Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah. And this passage is an expansion of those passing comments that we…

Daniel in the Lion’s Den

If you have your Bibles I would invite you to turn with me to Daniel, chapter 6, as we continue our study in this great book of the Old Testament. Daniel, chapter 6. Let us hear God's holy and inspired and inerrant word. Daniel 6 We have noted all along the theme of God's sovereignty in the first half of the book of Daniel. Daniel 1 through 6 constitutes the first half of the book. Daniel 7 through 12 turns its focus elsewhere. Not unlike the book of Revelation, we find a focus on the…

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