On his belly does he go, and still is dust his meat. If you would know what perfect reconciliation means, his to the altar where the great Sacrifice was presented. Gen 49:21. There were giants Men so called partly for their high stature, but principally for their great strength and force, whereby they oppressed and tyrannised over others. And he urged him, and he took it. And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. Then it was that the angels of God met him. Go on your way in peace and safety, beloved believer, for Gods hosts are all around you. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, Jacob uses that August name Jehovah the Lord . And when the fouls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. MEN think a great deal of anyone who has power with royalty. He was nearly five hundred years old when he began to preach about the flood, a good old age to take up such a subject. No doubt he was weary, though triumphant; and so, just then, the Lord sent him special refreshment, and, beloved, how sweet it is to us when the greater Melchizedek meets us! The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. We must do everything that is included in the bounds of the divine command, and do it all with scrupulous exactness and care. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. Oh, trust ye in him, for his promise will stand fast for ever! Not even one servant had he with him when he fled away across the river, he was alone and unattended, and now he was coming back at the head of a great family, with troops of servants, and an abundance of cattle, and sheep, and all things that men think worth having. They were all there, yet he could remember the time when he had said, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. Ah! How greatly God had increased him, and blessed him! If you would hear the voice of a divine promise, go to the atoning blood of Jesus. Abraham recognized the priest of God as his spiritual superior, and he gave him tithes of all., It must have been peculiarly refreshing to Abraham to be met by a man of kindred spirit, and one whom he recognized as his superior. You know the story of Hagar; of her being sent out from Abrahams tent with her son Ishmael. Gen 22:12. So, after God has given men light, and blessed them in various ways, their spiritual life begins to develop to the glory of God. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; Winds and waves are wholly under Gods control. There was a considerable number of them altogether, more than enough, I expect most of you would think if you had them; but Jacob did not speak of them disparagingly, but he described them as the children which God hath graciously given thy servant.. Gen 8:3-5. 1 Corinthians God is not unfeeling in the face of human sin and rebellion. 1 Timothy And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last day. Here good old Jacob, worn out by what he had already said, exhausted by the ecstasy into which as a prophet he had been cast, paused awhile, and panted. So the Lord bore his servant through this great trial, and blessed him more than he had ever blessed him before. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. There is a remarkable , 5001 North Oak Trafficway And they went both of them together. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. We think not so; but, certainly, no man knows the nature of God, and understands him, but he to whom the Son shall reveal him. Gen 32:32. Bravely said, O Jacob! Gen 24:2. The breath of life ( Genesis 2:7; Psalms 104:29-30) remains his to give and to recall." [Note: Brueggemann, Genesis, p. 3 John And, brethren, this is the true rule in the Church of God. I may liken Abrahams mighty pleading to a ton weight of prayer, supplication that had a wonderful force and power. Gen 32:30. It was true then, and it is true today: But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more (Romans 5:20). And he blessed him,, In the name of God, Melchizedek blessed Abraham. Why is all this recorded in the Bible? And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And he stayed yet other seven days; I wonder whether Noah sent out these creatures on the Sabbath mornings. Gen 3:19. Chapter 26:34-37 Jacob-Israel, or the education of the Spirit, Chapter 27 Jacob deceitfully gets the blessing, b. Jonah Gen 3:9-11. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. It is a good thing also to know the names of truths, and the names of other things that are right. Sin must be a very heinous thing, since God, who despiseth not the work of his own hands, will sooner break up the human race, and destroy every thing that liveth rather than that sin should continue to defile the earth. Colossians It was Noahs confidence in a bleeding sacrifice that gave him acceptance with the Lord. We should even be willing to humiliate ourselves in order to make peace. It is true that they were divided and scattered, like handfuls of salt, throughout the whole of Israel, for they were attendants upon the Lords priests, and they had cities appointed to them so that, while they did dwell here, and there, and everywhere, it was in order that they might reach the whole of the people, and prove a blessing to them. Used by Permission. And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? No! Wherefore, submit yourselves to him: Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.. She should not have been beguiled by the serpent. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. Gen 22:11. v. In 1876 a distinguished British statesman and author, Viscount James Bryce, climbed Ararat and reported finding a four-foot long piece of hand-tooled timber at an altitude of more than 13,000 feet (4,300 meters). Gen 14:19-20. And the Canaanite was then in the land. All rights reserved. Gen 3:6. Chapter 3:1-4:7 The fall and its consequences (Romans 5:12), Chapter 3 Temptation, fall, judgment and grace, Chapter 4:1-7 Cain and Abel: The first sacrifice, the first murder, and the first city, c. Chapter 4:8-5:32Cain and Seth: Two descendants of Adam (1 Corinthians 15:46), Chapter 6 The building of the ark (Matthew 24:38-39; 2 Peter 3:3-10), Chapter 7 The flood: Judgment and salvation, b. Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New Testament. So, dear brethren, in like manner, let us bring forth fruit unto God, and bring it forth abundantly, for herein is our heavenly Father glorified, that we bear much fruit. Do I blame the men of God? We must not go where vain curiosity would lead us, else will he have to say to us, as he did to Jacob, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?. Jacob knows this, so he lets Esaus anger have an opportunity to cool down while he watches drove following drove. They were opened, indeed; and Adam and Eve did know good and evil. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal , Power With God And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. Gen 7:1. So he tied his own hands: he could not revoke his blessing, or, had he done so, he would have brought the curse upon himself. Thus, you see, Abraham began his separated life with a blessing from the Lord his God. So it is not strange that this is mentioned as an heroic act of faith. (Poole), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. But in the middle of the night, he was in such deep anxiety concerning his meeting with his brother, and probably still more concerning his position towards his God, that he felt that he must get away alone to pray. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. Now let us read what the Lord says, through the prophet Isaiah, concerning this covenant. Jacobs eyes were dim, but he could see a very long way; he could see to the coming of Christ, the Shiloh, the Pacificator, the Peace-maker; he could see that day when the Jews would cry, We have no king but Caesar, for the Shiloh would have come, and the scepter would have departed from Judahs tribe. Happy is that man who, though he begins with a dark shadow resting upon him, so lives as to turn even that shadow into bright sunlight. What simple faith! Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. Gen 32:14-16. He who gives most light is the truest ruler, and the man who aspires to leadership in the Church of God, if he knows what he is at, aspires to be the servant of all by laying himself out for the good of all, even as our Saviour said to his disciples, Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. The sun and moon are the servants of all mankind, and therefore do they rule by day and by night. It was an olive leaf, that is all. Love is impatient to have the object of its affection brought near. The Lord took away from Adam and Eve the withered fig-leaves; but put on them the skins of animals, to show, in symbol, that we are covered with the sacrifice of Christ. Now you see Gods commissariat. Titus And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? Compare Joshua 1:7; Joshua 8:31; Judges 3:4; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Chronicles 23:18; Ezra 3:2; Nehemiah 8:1; Daniel 9:11; Malachi 4:4. They stood next according to the order of birth: Simeon and Levi . How truly will he keep his covenant with every believing sinner! Pray as well as plan, and if your plans be numerous, let your prayers be all the more fervent, lest the natural tendency of your constitution should degenerate into reliance upon the arm of flesh, and dependence upon your own wisdom, instead of absolute reliance upon God. This is speaking by an anthropopathy, after the manner of men, because God determined to do, and did something similar to men, when they repent of anything: as a potter, when he has formed a vessel that does not please him, and he repents that he has made it, he takes it and breaks it in pieces; and so God, because of man's wickedness, and to Thus did Jacob the wrestler overcome his God. After each days work, God looks upon it, and it is well for us every night to review our days work. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. He was not to simply contract it out to someone else. This was the first act of God in preparing this planet to be the abode of man, and the first act of grace in the soul is for the Spirit of God to move within it. Whose branches run over the wall: He does more than he is expected to do; nothing seems to content him, his branches run over the wall., Gen 49:23-24. If Moses had meant to describe a partial deluge upon only a small part of the earth, he used very misleading language; but if he meant to teach was that the deluge was universal, he used the very word which we might have expected that he would use. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? Genesis 12-50 : The history of the Patriarchs, 1. And the evening and the morning were the first day. God always lets his people know what is practically for their good. They are all gone out of the way.. It is very proper, when we have offended other people, and especially if we feel that we have done them wrong, as Jacob had done to Esau, that we should use the humblest terms concerning ourselves, and the best terms we can about those whom we have offended. Chapter 2:4: These are the histories of the heavens and the earth. Genesis 22:1 It is by trial that the character of a Christian is formed. This holy man, Jacob, in dying, did not express himself according to the rules of natural affection but he yielded himself up to the Spirit of God; hence he had to say very much that must have been very bitter for a father to say, and he said it in all faithfulness being taught of the Spirit concerning things to come. Gen 22:9. When that beginning was, we cannot tell. Now the patriarch changes his tone, for he has come to that tribe which would take the birthright, out of which the Christ would come: Judah . d. You shall make it: And Noah did make it. It shows us that . Happy are those who, when they are near to God, use the opportunity in pleading for others, ay, even for the most wicked and abandoned of men. Gen 22:1. The LORD was sorry that He had made man He was grieved in His heart: Gods sorrow at man, and the grief in His heart are striking. Spurgeon once said of the commentary, "It contains so great a variety of information that if a man had no other exposition he would find himself at no great loss if he possessed and used it diligently." Commentary on Genesis 1. At this point, all Noah knew was that God will judge the earth, and he was supposed to build a big barge. So, it may be that there is some mighty man of God who is near to prevailing with God, but he cannot quite obtain his request; but you, poor feeble pleader that you are, shall add your feathers weight to his great intercession, and then the scale will turn. Gen 27:19-20. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.". Noah might have thought it was dry enough before; but God did not think so, there was enough mud to breed a pestilence, so Noah must wait until God had made the earth ready for him. It was well for Jacob to be reminded of that fact, for he was about to pass into another trouble. Judah is a lions whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. Gen 15:12. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Hence we do not read of the tribe of Simeon in the blessing of Moses at the end of Deuteronomy; but the Levites had this curse turned into a blessing, for, though they were scattered, yet they were scattered as priests and instructors to the other tribes. Not, Cursed art thou, as the Lord said to the serpent; but, Cursed is the ground for thy sake.. b. c. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD: While God commanded all the earth to be cleansed of this pollution, He found one man with whom to begin again: Noah, who found grace in the eyes of the LORD. For the sake of Lot, Abraham had to go and fight the enemies of the king of Sodom, and sometimes, in fighting for religious liberty, we have had to be associated with persons from whom we differ as much as Abraham differed from the king of Sodom but right must be fought for under all circumstances. May many be gathered to Christ! It is only God who can look upon any one days work, and say of it, as a whole, and in every part, that it is good. As for us, our best things need sprinkling with the blood of Christ, which we need not only on the lintels and side posts of our house, but even on the altar and the mercy-seat at which we worship God. Depend upon it, our sins will come home to us sooner or later. The highly developed hieroglyphic writing existed already in Egypt, as its origins can be traced back to 3000 BC.The Sumerian pictograms and the Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform also date back that far. As far as Exodus to Deuteronomy is concerned, Moses was an eyewitness and partly even main character. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy childrens children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: Our common saying, Love me, love my dog, is very true. Genesis 6. You will find that it is true of all his promises that, whatever he has said, shall be fulfilled to you, and you shall one day say of it all, and it was so. It is equally certain concerning all his threatenings that what he has spoken shall certainly be fulfilled, and the ungodly will have to say and it was so. These words are often repeated in this chapter. By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 1, 2012 in Current Issues, Features. All the details are mentioned, for true obedience is very careful of detail. If Abrahams seed was to be like the stars of heaven for multitude, there must be time for the increase to come. iv. Issachar crouched down between the burdens instead of taking them up and bearing them; God grant that none of us may be of that lazy tribe! Esther The old serpents head is bruised with a fatal bruising, while the wounded heel of our Saviour is the joy and delight of our hearts. Gen 45:4-5, And they came near. There was always a trial for Abrahams faith, but even his trials were blessed, for God blessed Abraham in all things.. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 2 Kings For even with a dislocated hip Jacob would not give up wrestling; he meant to hold this wondrous Man until he got a blessing from him. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. It was not Christ alone who willingly died, or the Father alone who gave his Son, but they went both of them together, even as Abraham and Isaac did here. 49. But, dear friends, angels often come to meet us, though we know it not. Gen 24:15. These waters above were divided from the waters below. JOHN MACARTHUR DISCUSSES GENESIS 6 & THE NEPHILIM. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; Until then, the earth had been obnoxious to Jehovah. You did very wrong, but I say nothing about that, for I want you to notice how God has over-ruled your action, how your sin has been made to be the means of your preservation and the preservation of many besides: God did send me before you to preserve life.. Gen 27:16-19. When that "beginning" was, we cannot tell. Noah was not told when he should be released, and the Lord does not tell you when your trouble will come to an end. Now the jewels are all in, and therefore the casket is closed. Now therefore be not grieved, not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on . b. Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth: Noah's three sons will figure into the account in a significant way. Of fowls also of the air by sevens the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. Site by Mere. The final result is God's judgment. Gen 49:20. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. Gen 1:3-4. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. Did Noah live a perfect life? Jacob was about to enter upon a great trial, and therefore he received a great comfort in preparation for it. Their opponents are the seed of the serpent, crafty, cunning, wise, full of deceit; and there is enmity between these two seeds. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. I think that I know some who are; they could do a great deal, but they see that rest is good, and the land is pleasant, so they idle away their days. Jeremiah Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. O brethren, if you can remind God of his own promise, you must win the day, for promised mercies are sure mercies. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. He writes for the warning of believers now, and these things are examples unto us that we may avoid the blots and flaws in good men, and may thereby ourselves become more what we should be. I have a right to this, says he, but I will not take it; what are mere earthly rights to me? And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Gen 1:14-19. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. And he rose up that night, and took his two womenservants, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. We may request cookies to be set on your device. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt-. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. There would be no beauty whatever in a Christian without any good works, and with no graces. Genesis describes the creation of the world, the fall of the first men into sin and its consequences, but not only the curse but also the first clear pointer to the redeemer.We see God's righteousness in the judgment of the great flood, but also election of grace and the life of faith in Abraham.In the story of Isaac we see the beloved son of the Abraham here spoke like a prophet; in fact, throughout this whole incident, he never opened his mouth without a prophetic utterance; and I believe that, when men walk with God, and live near to God, they will possibly even without being aware of it, speak very weighty words which will have much more in them than they themselves apprehend. He will have everything ready against the time when it will be needed. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? Gen 8:15-16. we also shall have in our later days to chide ourselves for our foolish unbelief. These men were verily guilty for selling their brother, yet God was verily wise in permitting him to be sold. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. Gen 45:1-2. Gen 49:22. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen 45:4. Chapter 12:1-21:34 Abraham, the father of all believers (Romans 4), a. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. Not only in Genesis, but in the whole Old Testament occur mainly two names of God: God (Hebrew: Elohim) and Jehovah (Hebrew JHWH: The Eternal One, probably to be pronounced Yahweh). Moreover, nothing in the context of Genesis 6 indicates that the "sons of God" should be understood as angels (this makes this passage unlike Job 1-2, for example, where the context of a heavenly council makes it clear to the reader that angels are being referred to). Gods gracious interposition had delivered him out of the hand of the angry Laban, Laban the churl, who cared for Jacob only for what he could get out of him. Gen 33:6-10. There is no sign of true confession here. There are some proud people who, when they know that they have done wrong, yet will not own it, and it is very hard to end a quarrel when one will not yield, and the other feels that he will not either. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Gen 45:28. Genesis i. God remembered Noah, and he remembers you. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: The patriarch is greater than the king. This life of ours is to be a life of faith, and it will be well rewarded in the end. Gen 22:4. See how quickly the patriarch changes from Jacob into Israel; when his spirit if revived, he becomes Israel. Gen 12:2-3. Adam had been an unfallen creature a few hours before, but, now, he had broken the commandment of the Lord, and you can see how completely death was brought into his moral nature; for if it had not been so, he would have said My God, I have sinned, canst thou and wilt thou forgive me? But instead of doing so, he laid the blame for his sin upon his wife, which was an utterly mean action: The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. He almost seemed to lay the blame upon God because he had given him the woman to be with him. Acts The marginal reading is Two hosts, or, camps. The angels of the Lord were encamping round about the man who feared him, though shore had been much in his character and conduct which the Lord could not approve. Gen 12:5-6. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the arkyou, your sons, your wife, and your sons wives with you. And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. In order that there might be time for his brother to look at the present in detail, and see it piece by piece, and so be the more struck with the size of it. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. Are the waters very deep with you, dear friend? Could he believe it? He is the greatest who is nothing at all unto himself, but all for others. 2 Peter The way up is downward. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. Deuteronomy How often we throw the blame of our sin on the devil, who certainly has enough to bear without the added guilt of our iniquity! b. Whatever power we have, must come from Gods grace alone; and hence, usually, when we pray so as to prevail with the Lord there is at the same time a shrinking of the sinew, a consciousness of weakness, a sense of pain; yet it is just then that we are prevailing, and therefore we may rest assured that our prayer will be answered.
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