Gen 32:25. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. Gen 45:4-5, And they came near. Genesis i. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. It is in Christ that all the nations of the earth are to be blessed. 9. Gen 32:29. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? Gen 33:3-4. Chapter 22:1-26:33 Isaac, the son of the promise, a. 1 2 3 7 8 9 12 14 15 18 19 22 24 27 32 33 45 49 Continues after advertising Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers 2 Kings He began with a question. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I wilt not overthrow this city, for thou hast spoken. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark, but they have been hindered by politics and surrounded by controversy. He received what he sought for his necessity, but not what he merely asked out of curiosity. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, , What a wonderful expression that is! And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? God had been very gracious to him, and all his fears were gone, so he met Esau as a brother, not as an enemy, and the four hundred men were willing to become his protectors. And he said, Jacob. The hand of justice was held back until Gods servant was safe. 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. God, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Happy man that can say that, who has a blessing everywhere! Presented here is a verse by verse exposition of the New . What a quiet answer this was to his former unbelief! Gen 19:12. Oh, that the day might soon come when there would be more of clean men and women than of unclean, when there would be fewer sinners than godly people in the world, though even then there would be the ungodly by two like the unclean beasts. This is very respectful language, and rather obsequious, too; but when a man knows that he has done wrong to another, he ought to be prepared to humble himself to the injured individual; and, though it happened long ago, yet Jacob really had injured his brother Esau, and it was but right that, in meeting him again, he should put himself into a humble position before him. Chapter 6. Gen 1:2. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; Just as it had been foretold, for Gods providence always tallies with his promises or with his threats. Gen 3:2-3. How often God takes the will for the deed with his people! 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. I like to see this glorious independence of the believing man. As the Holy Ghost repeats the words we have here, you and I may often tell out the story of our salvation, and dwell upon the minute particulars of it, for every item of it is full of instruction. And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground. Holy desires will be realized, and believing prayers will be answered, but mere curiosity will not be gratified. This fear and distress were sad proofs of want of faith on Jacobs part; for where there is strong faith, there may be a measure of human fear, but it will not go to the length of being greatly afraid and distressed, as he was. I should think that no person, merely by reading this chapter, would arrive at the conclusion that has been reached by some of our very learned men, too learned to hold the simple truth. At this point, all Noah knew was that God will judge the earth, and he was supposed to build a big barge. "Commentary on Genesis 6". Issachars was a poor case; he was so idle, so fond of rest, that he was willing to become a servant unto tribute. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. If we are allowed the high honour of carrying the untold treasure of the gospel, we must be reminded that we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. Yet who would not be content to limp for life if he might but win such a victory as Jacob won on that memorable night by the brook Jabbok? He did not give him what he asked for, but he gave him something better, and, in like manner, if the Lord does not open up a dark doctrine to you, but gives you a bright privilege, that will be better for you. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Does God Really Work All Things Together for Good? Gen 49:9. And so on; I need not read the rest of the story, because we now find that, through earnest prayer, the good servant has been rightly led. In this case, it certainly was Jacobs duty to make some reparation to his brother, whether Esau accepted it or not. In the six hundredth year of Noahs life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. He has a right to all his spoil; but he will not touch it, lest the glory of his God should thereby be stained. He now resolved to have a night of prayer, that he might win deliverance: Jacob was left alone;, We know who that Divine Man was, the God who afterwards actually became man, of whom it might even then be said that His delights were with the sons of men.. On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal lifespan, but that He may not do it in any other way? (Barnhouse). The Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; . As soon as ever the earth appeared, then came the herb, and the tree, and the grass. James Gen 27:1-4. Let us always look upon the list of our difficulties as only a catalogue of our triumphs. Genesis 22:1 It is by trial that the character of a Christian is formed. i. The firmament an expanse of air in which floated the waters which afterwards condensed, and fell upon the earth in refreshing showers. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Look through Pauls list of the heroes of faith; some of them are exceedingly imperfect characters some we should hardly have thought of mentioning, but they had faith; and although men, in their faulty judgment, think faith to be an inferior virtue, and often scarcely look upon it as a virtue at all, yet, in the judgment of God, faith is the supremest virtue. And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. So, when my eye of faith is dim, and I cannot see the covenant sign, I will remember that there is an eye which never can be dim, which always sees the covenant token; and so I shall still be secure notwithstanding the dimness of my spiritual vision. 3. Spurgeon did not entirely agree with six days of creation and dives into subjects that are beyond the AiG focus (e.g., Calvinism vs. Arminianism, modes of baptism, and so on). Let us learn from Abraham how to obey. Poor creatures, how the serpent laughed as his words were fulfilled, your eyes shall be opened! A little of the spirit of doubt had crept into Eves mind, so she answered, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.. And he said unto him, What is thy name? Now we are going to read in the Gospel according to John, the fifth chapter, beginning at the twenty-fourth verse. It is similar to that remarkable declaration of Jehovah, recorded in Ex 12:13. Gen 7:1. And he (Jacob) said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. John Bunyan truly says, , When one troubles gone another doth him seize., Certainly it was so with Jacob; for, after he had escaped from Laban, he knew that he had to meet his brother Esau, whom he had so greatly wronged so many years before. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark: Despite the dramatic judgment coming, God will make a covenant with Noah, and he and his family will be saved. He also said all the ancient historians he knew of wrote about the ark. The servant was very careful. 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. No good comes of prying into unrevealed truth. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but it was not self-existent; it was created by God, it sprang from the will and the word of the all-wise Creator. In this respect he falls short of his grandfather Abraham; yet, nevertheless, he acts wisely, first with common prudence, and next with uncommon prayerfulness. This is almost a full year later, and in the second month of his six hundred and first year Noah left the ark. 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. It is just like Joseph to speak thus kindly, and to put the invitation so attractively to his father: Thou shalt be near unto me. That would be the greatest joy of all to old Jacob; and this is the greatest joy to a sinner when he comes to Christ, our great Joseph, Thou shalt be near unto me. It is not merely that he gives us the land of Goshen to dwell in, but he promises that we shall be near unto him, and that is best of all. And said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Gen 7:14. Gen 22:16-18. Chapter 26:34-37 Jacob-Israel, or the education of the Spirit, Chapter 27 Jacob deceitfully gets the blessing, b. But he soon resumed his prophecy: go Ge 49:19, What a happy breathing-space is this! And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwicke Knight hiked across Ararat and discovered interlocking hand-tooled timbers at a height of 14,000 feet (4,600 meters). b. 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. I would that those who fear God were less careful about the adornments of their persons. The face of the ground was dry in the first month; the earth was dried, the second month. When that "beginning" was, we cannot tell. Everything was ready for mans use, every fruit-bearing tree for his nourishment, every creature to do his bidding, for it was the will of God that he should have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. God did not place the man formed in his image, after his likeness, in an unfurnished house or an empty world, and leave him to provide for himself all that he required but he prepared everything that man could possibly need, and completed the whole plan by planting a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.. Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noahs Ark. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. THERE are critical times in most families: times when much decision of character will be needed on the part of the father to guide things aright. Gen 8:20. I have a right to this, says he, but I will not take it; what are mere earthly rights to me? 3010A Sermon Published On Thursday, October 18th, 1906,Delivered By C.H. Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. The First Day of Creation. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Chapter 12:1-21:34 Abraham, the father of all believers (Romans 4), a. And he urged him, and he took it. Sometimes alighting on the ark; then flying away again. Blessed be the name of Jehovah-jireh! Gen 49:1-2. Noah could read something from that leaf that the dove brought to him, but he learned more when she did not return to him. Gen 49:14-15. And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. This was the very glory of Abrahams faith; it was so simple, so childlike. Genesis 6 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 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. Everywhere, where the omnipotence of the creator should be emphasised, we read God. Oh, dear friends, sometimes people send out a raven on the Lords day morning, and it never brings them anything. He may have wondered if it meant that one born in his house, though not his son, was to be his heir; and that, through him, the blessing would come. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. He had put it away from him as a foul thing, drowned beneath the flood; but after the offering of Noahs sacrifice, the Lord smelled a savour of rest.. And unto him, to this very day, the people gather, and more and more shall gather in the latter days. It is a good thing to have the right names for things. The old man is in his dotage, said they; he always was peculiar, he never acted like the rest of the citizens; he came in here as a stranger, and he has always been strange in his behavior.. a. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations: This description of Noah unique to him not only refers to the righteous life of Noah, but also to the fact he was yet uncorrupted by Satans attempt to sow something like a virus among the genetic pool of mankind. And God spoke unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, Noah must wait till God speaks to him. This is characteristic of Jacob. This blessing is very suggestive Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships. If God puts you by the mind that you are a haven for ships, the Lord, in his providence, fixes your position. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. God told Noah when to go into the ark, but he did not tell him when he should come out again. When the land was divided by lot, the lot was disposed by God to the complete fulfillment of Jacobs prophecy. There were giants in the earth in those days. Gen 3:19. Judges And Jacob was left alone; This was a very anxious time for him, the heaviest trial of his life seemed impending. That has often been the request of Gods people, they have wanted to know Gods wondrous name. Now the jewels are all in, and therefore the casket is closed. faith is often marred by a measure of unbelief; or, if not quite unbelief, yet there is a desire to have some token, some sign, beyond the bare promise of God. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. Taken in its completeness, and all put together, God saw that it was very good. Gen 14:24. Well, you see, he had gone in by the door, and he meant to come out by the door, and he that opened the door for him, and shut him in, must now open the door for him, and let him out. C.H. You can also change some of your preferences. The breath of life ( Genesis 2:7; Psalms 104:29-30) remains his to give and to recall." [Note: Brueggemann, Genesis, p. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Lesson 14: Sin's Full Course (Genesis 6:1-8) | Bible.org And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. 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. Assuredly not; the Lord dealeth wisely with his servants, and he tells them, by gentle hints, which they quickly understand, when and where to stop in their supplications. He was, therefore, particularly careful here. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. Gen 45:10. Gen 8:2. Whatever evolution or any other folly or evil of man may have done, everything had to begin again over. Gen 22:15-16. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. 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. 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. THIS is the first gospel sermon that was ever delivered upon the surface of this earth. According to all that God commanded him, so he did: The Bible presents Noah as a great hero of God. And they went both of them together. We cannot blame him, under the circumstances, yet how much grander is the quiet, noble demeanour of Abraham, who trusts in God, and leaves matters more in his hands! He felt that nothing he could do would be effectual without Gods blessing. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. It may seem a small thing; but it meant a great deal. The Lord knoweth them that are his, and they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up or, shut up my jewels, as he was about to do in the case. And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto His servants, Pass over before me, and put a apace betwixt drove and drove. Genesis 6:4. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. Gen 32:7-8. THERE w a s a well of water close to Hagar all the while though she saw it not. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: He does not appear to have raised any objection to what she proposed on moral grounds, but only on the ground of the difficulty of it and the likelihood of being discovered. Observe the remarkable fact that, no sooner had God made the dry land appear, than it seemed as if he could not bear the sight of it in its nakedness. And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? vi. The elder brother, according to all Eastern customs, was the lord of the family, and Jacob had so grossly injured Esau that it well became him to walk very humbly and to abound in courtesy towards him. My God will send his angel. Oh! 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. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. Only for this will he be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them, and we must take care that we call his promise to mind, and plead it at the mercy-seat. Still, I think that Noah must have been very pleased when he felt the ark grating at last on the mountains of Ararat. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: and I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. 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. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Look till the tears are in your eyes as you thank God that you are rescued from so terrible a doom! Changes will take effect once you reload the page. God did not bless them for themselves alone, but for all nations: In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden;of Eden to dress it and to keep it. The fig leaves were to hide their nakedness, and now the trees themselves were to hide them from God. Gen 3:23-24. It seemed essential to this end that Abraham should come right out from his fellow-countrymen, and be separate unto Jehovah, so the Lord said to him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will shew thee.. Gen 9:11-17. Drive them away; God give you grace to drive them away by the power of his gracious Spirit! Genesis 6:8. Unstable as water, thou shall not excel; because thou wentest up to thy fathers bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. Gen 15:14-17. As in the old classic story, the poor man said, This is a plain hut, but God has been here, so we may say of every Christians cottage, Though it be poor, an angel has come here, for David says, The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. As the angels of God met Jacob, I trust that, if you have come here after some stern battle, and trial, and difficulty, you may find the angels of God meeting you here. Better take time in order to save time. Gen 3:4-5. He prayed to God for help, but he also used such means as he could, the means that ought always to be used when any of us realize that we have done an injury to others. Gen 32:3. Often, the very symbols on his table have been refreshing to us, but their inner meaning has been far more sustaining and comforting to our spirit. Out of the small stock he had, Noah took of the clean beasts, and of the clean fowls, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. The Lord will preserve his own. A certain structure of Genesis can be seen in the fact that eleven times the Hebrew word "toledoth" (generations, histories) is mentioned as conclusion - or introduction - of a report. 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. The Spurgeon Library | Scriptures | Genesis The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he at once pronounced sentence upon him: . And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. Their spirit and temper constantly change; their pursuits are sometimes in one direction, and sometimes in another; they are everything by starts, and nothing long; and to each of them it may be said, Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.: It is a very remarkable circumstance, well worthy of notice, that this curse was turned into a real blessing, especially in the case of the tribe of Levi. Zephaniah Gen 45:6. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Joseph, having made himself known to his brethren, bids them return to their father, and bring him down to Egypt to see his long-lost son. c. You shall make it: God had not yet told Noah why he must build an ark. Gen 15:7-8. Four hundred men with him! And God saw that it was good. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. 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. Gen 8:13. "And God saw the light that it was good.". Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. Gen 22:2. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. The blood was not to be sprinkled inside the house where the Israelites might be comforted by a sight of it, but outside the house, where only God could see it. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.. Oh, if we would but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all things should be added unto us! After all, an ark is a chest, not a ship; this refers to the shoebox shape of the vessel. Gen 14:19-20. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. Six Turkish soldiers claimed to see the ark in 1916. vii. Amos Benjamin was his full brother, so he loved him best, and gave him most. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. I may liken Abrahams mighty pleading to a ton weight of prayer, supplication that had a wonderful force and power. God will also use Noah to save a remnant of each animal so the earth could be populated with people and animals after the flood. Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: They praised God for him, they praised God by him, they praised God in him; he is the type of Jesus, of whom we can say all this with great emphasis. 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.. Chapters Available - Genesis - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Gen 32:3-5. Philemon These sermons from Charles Spurgeon are a series that is for reference and not necessarily a position of Answers in Genesis.
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