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The Establishment of a Covenant People: The Promises of…

Genesis 23:1-20 Abraham, the Stranger If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 23. The last two weeks we have reviewed the climatic demonstration of Abraham's faith, his love to God in the offering of Isaac, his son, his only son whom he loved, and we have seen God's gracious oath given to Abraham in response, an oath of commitment to Abraham in which He swore by Himself to fulfill His promises. And this week we come to the very last of our studies in the life of Abraham. Oh, Abraham will be around for a few chapters to come, but after Genesis 23, Moses emphasis is on Isaac and his family. And so as we come to Genesis 23, I think you’ll agree with me there is a bitter sweetness, a poignancy about this chapter. Let's hear then God's holy word…

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 21:1-21 The Son of Promise If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 21. A great suspense has been building ever since we heard the announcement in Genesis 12 that the Lord was going to fulfill His promises to Abraham by making Him a father. The father of many nations. And our hopes were momentarily gotten up when the birth of Ishmael came, but it was quickly apparent that this was not God's plan for the extension of His covenant family, and so we have been waiting patiently for almost ten chapters and for a quarter of a century. And perhaps it feels like it as we move slowly through these chapters of Genesis. Perhaps you've gotten a taste of the suspense even in the time that we have slowly moved through these passages. But tonight we…

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…

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…

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