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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 Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…

Genesis 17:15-27 The Laughter of Unbelief Two weeks ago we began our studies in the chapter of Genesis 17. Abram, this man whose name meant exalted father, had spent 86 years of life not being a father at all, and then finally had had a child through his wife's maid servant, a concubine, named Hagar. And over that 13-year period, the idea had grown in Abram's mind that the promise that God had made to him to make him a father of many nations was actually going to be fulfilled through this son, Ishmael, who was now, by the time we get to Genesis 17, 13 years old. So here we have Abraham, this man who is now almost a hundred, whose name means exalted father, high father, mighty father. And we talked about how no doubt over the years there had been many jokes made about that name,…

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 Character of the Kingdom, Part 5: God’s…

         If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 20 .  We've been looking at Matthew for a long time now, and we've been in particular thinking about lessons that we learned all the way back in the story of the rich young ruler for two or three weeks now.  In the rich young ruler we learn many things, but one thing that came through very clearly was this: either Christ separates us from the wolves, or the wolves separate us from Christ.…

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

Genesis 11:10-32. The New World Order (Life after the deluge) Part III: The Book of Shem If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 11. This is the third and last in a short series on a brief transitional section in the book of Genesis. Moses himself begins this section in Genesis, chapter 10 which he opens with the words, “The toledoth of the sons of Noah”. The book of the generations of the sons of Noah. The book of the generations of Shem, Ham…

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…

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…

A World of Corruption and God’s Singular Grace

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 6. We have seen God's glorious work of creation in Genesis, chapter 1. We have seen the covenant established with the crown of God's creation in Genesis, chapter 2. We have seen the fall of man in Genesis, chapter 3. We have seen the consequences of the fall in the life of Adam's family, and in the descendants of Cain in Genesis, chapter 4. In Genesis, chapter 5, we have seen the roots of a godly line.…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:1-2The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians. Colossians, chapter 1. We begin with a series of expositions of this great epistle of the Apostle Paul. Hear now the word of God. Colossians 1:1-2 Our Lord and our God, this is Your Word. We ask spiritual insight and we ask for a spiritual posture that we might obediently sit under the word allowing it to search us out, to see if there is any unclean thing in us, allowing the spirit to freely…

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