The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Promises of God (The Life of Abraham) (17) The Covenant Assured

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The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Promises of…

Genesis 22:15-24 The Covenant Assured Last week we concentrated on the first half of this chapter, verses 1 through 14, and we said that Abraham's surrender of his son Isaac was a mirror of God's still greater love, and Abraham's exercise of faith in God's promises. Hebrews tells us he believed that the Lord would raise Isaac again from the dead if necessary to fulfill His promises. Abraham's exercise of faith in God's promises leads him to a glimpse of the resurrection hope. And Isaac's own resignation and potential suffering, too, gives us a preview of the Son who would be sacrificed for the sins of the world. And tonight we look to the sequel of that grand substitution on Moriah in Genesis 22, verses 15 through 24. But let's go back and begin from the…

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 Flood (The Life of Noah) Part IV: Re-establishing…

Genesis 8:1-22 Re-establishing the World If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 8. So far, we've seen God's glorious work of creation in Genesis, chapter 1. We've seen His special favor towards man highlighted in Genesis, chapter 2. We've seen the status of day in human history in Genesis, chapter 3, and the fall of our first parents. We've seen, in Genesis 4, the consequences of that fall in the human family worked out in the descendants of Adam and Eve. And we've seen that story continued in Genesis, chapter 5, though Moses does highlight the godly line of Seth in part in Genesis, chapter 5. And then in Genesis, chapters 6 through 9, we see the life of Noah and specifically the account of the flood itself. So we learn, if…

More of Jesus’ Kingdom Miracles and Teaching,…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Matthew 15. We're in Matthew 15, and I'd like to direct your attention to verse 21. Verse 21 begins a new segment in Jesus' ministry. The great Galilean ministry is done. It ends in verse 20 of chapter 15. And now Jesus enters into a distinctively Gentile territory. He is now in the region of Tyre and Sidon. The central chapters of Matthew's gospel 15, 16, and 17, record for us a turning point in…

The Justice of the Kingdom, Part 3: Ask God

Would you please turn with me in you Bibles, to Matthew chapter 7. We come to another passage concerning prayer in verses 7-11, and this passage may seem to have little direct connection with the verses that we have just studied, but in fact, their relationship is obvious if you give it a little reflection. Christ has just been instructing His disciples on how they are to relate to others. How they are to not judge and how they are to judge. In verses 1-5, He has been telling them that…

True Religion, Part 6: Anxiety’s Antidote

Our songs have been songs of hope and trust in the living god, and we come to Matthew 6, and the Lord Jesus’ discussion of anxiety and its antidote. We’ll begin in verse 25, but you’ll notice that the first word, or therefore, points you back to the immediately preceding verses, and so these passages are tied together in thought. Matthew 6, beginning at verse 25, hear God’s word: (Matthew 6:25-34) Our Lord and our God, we know the difficulty with which we struggle with the sin of worry,…

The Ambassadors of the Kingdom, Part 4: An…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 10. From Matthew 10:24, to the end of this chapter, the Lord Jesus Christ is continuing this message in which He commissioned His disciples on their first journey to spread the word of God abroad in the villages and towns of the surrounding countryside. We said that in this commissioning, some of the things He told them were specifically related to that first mission, although there were points and applications…

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