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Welcome to
  • BIBLE 2202 / 2302
  • THE PENTATEUCH
  • Lecture Five, Mon., May 21.
  • NO PLATE LUNCHES IN CLASS
  • DRINK, SMALL TIDBIT o.k.

2
Lecture 5 5-21
3
At the Close of 6 Days God Rested.
  • 1. Creation was perfect. very good.
  • 2. Elohim, a the perfect righteous One. had given
    life.
  • 3. He alone has the knowledge of eternal life and
    lives by it
  • 4. This knowledge is that eternal life is the
    gift of God through His WORD and is sustained by
    obedience to it.
  • 5. To prevent Mans self destruction (death), He
    must impart the knowledge of eternal life to him.

4
GOD IS THE WAY OF LIFE, THEREFORE HIS HOLINESS
(IMPECCABLE CHARACTER) IS THE LAW OF LIFE
  • GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE HE ABIDES BY THE LAW
    OF HIMSELF WHICH MUST NEVER BE BROKEN.
  • GOD DESIRED MAN TO ENJOY ETERNAL LIFE THEREFORE
    BY GRACE HE REVEALS THE RUDIMENTARY LAW OF LIFE
    TO THEM TRUST HIS WORD, NEVER DISOBEY IT .
  • THIS IS NOT FOR HIS DIVINE EGO, IT IS FOR MANS
    GOOD LIKE WE DO WITH CHILDREN (Hot Coffee Pot)

5
ELOHIM REVEALS THE ELEMENTARY LAW OF LIFE AND
DEATH TO MAN.
RIGHTEOUSNESS
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
DT. 3019. I call heaven and earth to record
this day against you, that I have set before you
life and death, blessing and cursing therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live
OBEDIENCE, THE FRUIT OF LIFE
DISOBEDIENCE, THE FRUIT OF DEATH
THIS IS REPRESENTED BY CHOOSING THE FRUIT OF TWO
TREES. THE ONE DESIGNATED AS BEARING THE FRUIT
OF LIFE AND T HE OTHER THE FRUIT OF DEATHWHICH
MEANS ONLY ---LOVE GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS
TO LIVE, ---OR CHOOSE OTHERWISE AND SUFFER AND
DIE. God gave the law of life in extreme
simplicity . Man may not understand, but he can
obey. Same with children and electricity.
6
Eating of the Tree of Life is to Partake of Its
Fruit
RIGHTEOUSNESS
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20. Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, 21. Envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like
of the which I tell you before, as I have also
told you in time past, that they which do such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gal. 522. But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
    joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
    faith,
  • 23. Meekness, temperance against such there is
    no law.

7
The Transplanting of the Tree of Life
  • 1. And he shewed me a pure river of water of
    life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the
    throne of God and of the Lamb.
  • 2. In the midst of the street of it, and on
    either side of the river, was there the tree of
    life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and
    yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of
    the tree were for the healing of the nations.
  • 3. And there shall be no more curse but the
    throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and
    his servants shall serve him
  • 4. And they shall see his face and his name
    shall be in their foreheads.
  • 5. And there shall be no night there and they
    need no candle, neither light of the sun for the
    Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign
    for ever and ever.

8
After Death, those who lived by the Word will
re-enter the Sabbath Rest of God.
  • 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
    me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the
    Lord from henceforth Yea, saith the Spirit, that
    they may rest from their labours and their works
    do follow them.

9
JESUS DEMONSTRATED THAT THE WAY OF HOLINESS
LOVE IS THE WAY OF LIFE
  • John 11 In the beginning was the Word, and the
    word was God. JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD
  • John 14. In him (the Word) was life and the
    life was the light of men.
  • 15. If ye love me, keep my commandments.
  • ONE IS ONLY FEIGNING LOVE FOR JESUS IF HE
    SECRETLY OPPOSES ANY PART OF HIS WORD OF LIFE

10
WHY DID MAN MAKE SUCH A FOOLISH DECISION? HE WAS
DECEIVED
  • IT NEVER ENTERED MANS HEART TO SIN (DISOBEYMISS
    THE MARK) ON HIS OWN. HE HAD DIABOLICAL HELP.
  • IS THIS WHY MAN RECEIVED GRACE IN HIS FALL, WHILE
    THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS DID NOT IN THEIR
    REBELLION AGAINST DIVINE AUTHORITY?

11
Where did Satan come from? Satan means
adversary. Devil means slanderer or accuser
  • REV. 127. And there was war in heaven Michael
    and his angels fought against the dragon and the
    dragon fought and his angels,
  • 8. And prevailed not neither was their place
    found any more in heaven.
  • 9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old
    serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
    deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into
    the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

12
THE FALL Forearm yourself with this knowledge
  • 1. Temptation comes like a serpent in
    unsuspected forms
  • Subtly, stealing slowly and quietly, waiting for
    your weakest moment, and then bites with pain
    and sorrow.
  • 2. It launches a bridgehead in your heart by
    exciting your curiosity
  • Curiosity killed the Cat
  • Our greatest security against sin lies in our
    being shocked by it. (Jer. 615)
  • 3. Eve was in close proximity to the forbidden.
  • She gazed and reflected when she should have fled

13
THE FALL Forearm yourself with this knowledge
  • 4. There are dangerous cravings in its elements.
  • Instinctively draws toward the mysterious. One
    veiled figure in an assembly will draw more
    attention than the most beautiful present. An
    unaccountable appearance in the heavens will draw
    more attention than the most beautiful sunset.
  • 5. Through A craving to be mature, even at the
    expense of danger, unbelief disobedience finds
    entrance
  • 6. Experience teaches that one taste of evil
    ruined our first parents. One taste alters
    attitudes.
  • Loyalty to to God is loosened, man loses spirit.

14
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FORBIDDEN.
  • 1. AS SHE GAZED AT ITS BEAUTY, , SHE LONGED IN
    HER HEART, SHE WAS WEAKENED BY CRAVING
  • 2, THEN SHE SAW AN INCREDIBLE THING THAT SEEMED
    TO MAKE GOD FALSE. A SERPENT DEVOURED THE
    FORBIDDEN FRUIT WITHOUT ANY HARM.
  • 4. SHE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THISHAD GOD BEEN
    COMPLETELY TRUE?
  • 5. THE DEVIL USES THE MOMENT SPEAKS TO HER
    HEARTS DESIRE.

15
The Serpents Seed is Sown in Eves Heart
  • 31. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God
    said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
    garden?
  • Inferred God has not been fair with you

16
Eves Reply Seems to Show her Resentment and
VulnerabilityShes a sitting duck for Satan, an
accident waiting to happen.
  • Gen. 32. And the woman said unto the serpent,
    We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
    garden
  • 3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the
    midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
    eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

17
THE FIRST LIE IN THE WORLD WAS NOT TOLD BY MAN
  • 4. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye
    shall not surely die
  • GOD HAD SAID 217. 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.

18
JESUS REFERS TO THIS IN -- JOHN 844
  • 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the
    lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
    murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
    truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
    speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own for he is
    a liar, and the father of it.
  • 45. And because I tell you the truth, ye
    believe me not.

19
SATAN STILL PERVERTS WITH THE NOT IN HIS
TALE.
  • JESUS MARK 1616
  • HE THAT BELIEVETH AND IS BAPTIZED SHALL BE SAVED.
  • SATAN HE THAT BELIEVETH AND IS NOT BAPTIZED
    SHALL BE SAVED.

20
OBSERVE ANOTHER NOT IN THE DEVILS TALE TODAY
  • THE BIBLE SAYS
  • I Cor. 1012. Wherefore let him that thinketh he
    standeth take heed lest he fall.
  • SATANS NOT
  • YOU CAN NOT SURELY FALL.

21
THE SERPENTS APPEAL TO PRIDE
  • 5. 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.
  • EXPERIENCING THE AFTERMATH EFFECT OF EVIL WAS THE
    KNOWLEDGE GOD DID NOT WANT THEM TO EVER KNOW.
  • A common feeling of parents today with their
    children.

22
Eve is overpowered by craving and succumbs to the
temptation.
  • 3 6. And when the woman
  • 1) saw that the tree was good for food (she
    walked by sight not by faith and became
    convinced that God had lied) (2 Cor. 57)
  • 2) and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
  • 3) and a tree to be desired to make one wise,

  • 4) She took of the fruit thereof.

23
THE NEW KNOWLEDGE ---WAS by EXPERIENCING THE
EFFECT OF SIN. WHY DIDNT THEY CLAP THEIR HANDS
IN JOY?
  • 1. THE NEW KNOWLEDGE WAS NOT WHAT THE COUPLE
    EXPECTED
  • 2. EXPECTED SUFFICIENCY WITHOUT GOD
  • 3. EXPECTED THE DISCOVERY OF A MYSTERY
  • 4. EXPECTED TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD IN WISDOM

24
THE INNOCENT, HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE NEW
EXPERIENCE OF SIN BRINGS
  • THE SCARS THAT SIN WOULD BRING TO THEM!
  • THEIR INNOCENCE WAS GONE, GONE, GONE
  • THAT THEY HAD A CONSCIENCE THAT WOULD DOG THEM IN
    THE NIGHT FOR THE REST OF LIFE.
  • FEELING DEFILED AND UNCLEAN, AFRAID OF THE
    PRESENCE OF THE HOLINESS OF GOD.
  • THINGS WOULD NEVER, NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.
  • THAT IN THEIR NEW DEFILEMENT THEY WOULD FORFEIT
    THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
  • THEIR LOSS WAS AWESOME TO BEAR. SEPARATION FROM
    THE TREE OF LIFE.

25
The knowledge God did not want them (man) to ever
Have.
  • PHYSICAL PAIN AND SUFFERING
  • A BROKEN FAMILY LIFESEEING THEIR SON MURDER HIS
    BROTHER
  • EMOTIONAL PAIN AND SUFFERING
  • THE EFFECTS OF SIN IN AGING THE BODY AND DEATH
    ARE ALWAYS A THREAT
  • THE FEELING OF A GULF AND DISTANCE FROM GOD.

26
Consequences of the fall.
  • 1. Eyes were opened. ---Gen. 37. And the eyes
    of them both were openedthe new knowledge came
    and brought
  • 2. Knowledge of guilt shame. They knew they
    were naked (loss of innocence) and they sewed
    fig leaves together, and made themselves
    aprons---Even still, criminals cover their faces
    before the camera
  • 3. Neither wanted to accept responsibility for
    their sin.
  • MAN CANNOT COVER HIS SIN WITH FLIMSY EXCUSES
    BEFORE GOD'S ALL SEEING EYE.

27
IN THE WAKE OF SIN. GODS LOVE PROMISES GRACE IN
THE PROTOEVANGELION
  • 315. THE OLDEST GOSPEL
  • 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.
  • HERE WE HAVE
  • 1. HER SEEDVIRGIN BIRTH
  • 2. BRUISE THY HEAD..DEFEAT OF SATAN
  • 3. BRUISE HIS HEEL..SUFFERING SAVIOR.

28
ADEQUATE COVERING FOR THEIR NEW CONSCIENCE OF
NAKEDNESS WAS THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD OF AN
INNOCENT ANIMALTHEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE OF A DEATH
  • 321. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
    Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
  • 1. Self covering was inadequate
  • 2. Blood was shed and death occurred
  • 3. Rom. 323 The wages of sin is death.
  • 4. Sin is awesome in its effects on society.

29
THE EXCOMMUNICATION FROM EDEN AND THE GULF THAT
SIN CREATES BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
  • 322 And now, lest he put forth his hand, and
    take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live
    for ever 23. Therefore the Lord God sent him
    forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
    from whence he was taken.
  • 324. So he drove out the man and he placed at
    the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
    flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the
    way of the tree of life.

30
How Access Is Regained to the Tree of Life
  • Rev. 27. He that hath an ear, let him hear what
    the Spirit saith unto the churches To him that
    overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of
    life, which is in the midst of the paradise of
    God.
  • Rev. 2214. Blessed are they that do his
    commandments, that they may have right to the
    tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
    into the city.

31
TO RETURN TO THE TREE OF LIFE ONE MUST BE SLAIN
BY THE SWORD OF GODS WORD.
  • GEN. 324 He placed at the east of the garden of
    Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
    every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
  • 12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
    and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
    even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
    and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
    of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

32
WHEN ONE BELIEVES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
RAISED FROM THE DEAD IT IS SAID THAT HE IS CUT
TO THE HEART) . i.e. SPIRITUALLY SLAIN (REPENTS
IN SORROW)
  • ACTS 237. Now when they heard this, they were
    pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and
    to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren,
    what shall we do?
  • Matthew 54 Blessed are they that mourn for
    they shall be comforted.
  • Rom. 67. For he that is dead is freed from
    sin.
  • 8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
    that we shall also live with him

33
THE SWORD (GOSPEL) PIERCES THE HEART, SLAYING THE
SINNER, AND THEN HE IS BURIED WITH CHRIST IN
BAPTISM
  • 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
    into death that like as Christ was raised up
    from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
    we also should walk in newness of life.
  • 5. For if we have been planted together in the
    likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
    likeness of his resurrection
  • 6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
    with him, that the body of sin might be
    destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
    sin.
  • 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

34
GODS RAINBOW OF GRACE AT THE PORTALS OF
SOCIAL HISTORY
THE PRECIOUS PROMISE
315. and I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed he
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.
35
From the Beginning of History
  • THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE MOTIF
  • CO-EXIST IN TWO SEEDS

36
TWO SEEDS SHALL CO-EXIST
THE WOMANS SEED
THE SERPENTS SEED
  • THAT WILL BRING THE PROMISED BLESSING OF JESUS
    (SALVATION) TO THE EARTH. THIS SEED AHS THE
    BLESSING OF DIVINE GRACE WHICH OVER-
  • COMES DEATH BY RESURRECTING THE BELIEVER FROM
    THE DEAD..
  • THAT WILL BE DEDICATED TO MOCK GODS PROMISE AND
    PREVENT THE DIVINE PROMISE.. THIS SEED HAS THE
    POWER OF THE CURSE OF DEATH WHICH WILL BRUISE THE
    HEEL OF THE WOMANS SEED

WAR
37
THIS IS A WAR BETWEEN
  • GOOD AND EVIL
  • HONESTY AND DECEIT
  • THE SPIRITUAL AND THE MATERIAL
  • GOD AND SATAN
  • BELIEVER'S IN THE WORD ---SEED OF BLESSING
  • BELIEVER'S IN THE LIE -- SEED OF CURSING

38
THEY HAVE DIFFERENT GOALS
  • The unbelieving seed defines success in terms of
    physical possessionsgod of this world.
  • Luke 1219. And I will say to my soul, Soul,
    thou hast much goods laid up for many years take
    thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.
  • The faith seed defines success in terms of God,
    spiritual possessions, eternal life.
  • Matt. 619-20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures
    upon the earth---but lay up for yourselves
    treasures in heaven,

39
JESUS NO ONE CAN BE ON BOTH SIDES
  • Matthew 24. No man can serve two masters for
    either he will hate the one, and love the other
    or else he will hold to one, and despise the
    other.

40
WHAT IS AT STAKE
  • The saving of Man Big Quest. Is God Able to
    Fulfill His promised
  • Can the curse of sin prevent the blessing?
  • Can Satan, using his power to deceive man with
    his power of sinful lies and murder, mock God?
  • The Pentateuch (and entire Bible) demonstrates
    that flood, famine, earthly governments or
    pestilence can prevent Gods from fulfilling His
    promise. Obstacles will only becomes the divine
    means for protecting the blessing

41
SERPENTS SEED WILL BRUISE THE PROMISED SEEDS
HEEL
  • 315. 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.
  • THE BLESSING WILL BE WITH THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT AT
    THE EXPENSE OF SUFFERING.
  • Matt. 5 11. Blessed are ye, when men shall
    revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all
    manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
    12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad for great is
    your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the
    prophets which were before you.

42
HISTORY BEGINS TO UNFOLD WITH EXAMPLES OF THE
TWO SEEDS
ALL IN ONE OF TWO SEEDS
FROM CAIN ABEL
TO LAST SOULS
  • CAIN (Flesh)
  • Gen. 45. But unto Cain and to his offering he
    had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his
    countenance fell.
  • I John 312. Not as Cain, who was of that
    wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore
    slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and
    his brother's righteous.
  • ABEL (Spirit))
  • Heb. 114. By faith Abel offered unto God a
    more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
    obtained witness that he was righteous, God
    testifying of his gifts

43
Cains Sin Includes All Sin
  • CAIN VIOLATED TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DIVINITY
    AND BROTHERHOOD
  • Dt. 6 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
    with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
    with all thy might.
  • He worshipped as he pleased, and not as it
    pleased God.
  • Lev. 1918 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
    thyself
  • He killed his brother because his worship was
    acceptable and his were not.

44
THE ATTITUDE OF CAIN SHOWS THE DARK MENTALITY OF
THE SERPENTS SEED
  • 49. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel
    thy brother? And he said, I know not am I my
    brother's keeper?
  • To Adam 39 Where art thou?
  • To Cain 49 Where is thy brother?
  • I JNO. 2 10. He that loveth his brother abideth
    in the light, and there is none occasion of
    stumbling in him. 11. But he that hateth his
    brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness,
    and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that
    darkness hath blinded his eyes.

45
THE PENTATEUCH ILLUSTRATES THAT THE WAGES OF SIN
IS DEATH
  • Gen. 4 16. And Cain went out from the presence
    of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the
    east of Eden. In 7 generations from Adam are
    found living by the law of the jungle.
  • Adam-Cain-Enoch-Irad-Mehujael-Methusael-Lamech.
  • Polygamy begins 423-24 And Lamech took unto him
    two wives I have slain a man to my wounding,
    and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be
    avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
    sevenfold.
  • SEVEN GENERATION ENDS THE TOLDOT OF CAIN

46
NOW THE RECORD SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FAITH
SEED IN 7 GENERATION IN THE TOLDOT OF ADAM VIA
SETH
  • And Adam - Seth- Enos - Cainan Mahalaleel-
    Cainan - Jared eight hundred and thirty years,
    and begat sons and daughters - Enoch
  • 1922. And Enoch walked with God and he was
    not for God took him.
  • Heb. 115. By faith Enoch was translated that
    he should not see death and was not found,
    because God had translated him for before his
    translation he had this testimony, that he
    pleased God.

47
THE EVIDENCE OF HISTORY
  • FOR THE SEED THAT CHOOSES TO WALK LIKE CAINS
    TOLDOT (AFTER THE FLESH AND NOT AFTER THE
    PROMISE) THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH--- Rom 623
  • FOR THE SEED THAT CHOOSES TO WALK LIKE SETHS
    TOLDOT (TO WALK BY FAITH IN GODS PROMISE) IS TO
    OVERCOME BY GRACE THE CURSE OF DEATH

48
THUS WE HAVE THE RECORD STATING
  • HABAKKUK 24. Behold, his soul which is lifted
    up is not upright in him but the just shall live
    by his faith.
  • Eph. 2 8. For by grace are ye saved through
    faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift
    of God

49
A HAZARD ENTERS THE SCENEINTERMARRIAGE
  • IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT GOD CAN KEEP HIS
    PROMISE IF THE BAD SEED MURDERS THE GOOD. NOW
    THE QUESTION IS, CAN GOD KEEP HIS PROMISE IF THE
    GOOD SEED MIXES WITH THE BAD.

50
In three Generations Methuselah, Lamech
NoahUniversal Sin
  • The record will now demonstrate that God by His
    grace is able to perpetuate the seed of promise
    regardless of universal sin that demands
    universal destruction.
  • Problem If the divine curse against sin is
    death, how can God save the seed of promise if
    there is universal sin?
  • Solution Grace and faith are superior to sin and
    death. Although a small remnant, God is able to
    know who they are and save them in a righteous
    way. Mt. 713-14

51
Faith Seed Is Corrupted by Intermarriage with the
Serpents Seed1 Cor. 1533
  • 1. And it came to pass, when men began to
    multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters
    were born unto them,
  • 2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of
    men that they were fair and they took them wives
    of all which they chose.
  • 3. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not
    always strive with man, for that he also is
    flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and
    twenty years.
  • 120 yearsGod has patience to extend grace to
    sinners for awhile but it is only for a
    space.judgment will come.
  • 21. And I gave her space to repent of her
    fornication and she repented not.

52
The Result of fleshly Distraction
  • 6 4. There were giants in the earth in those
    days and also after that, when the sons of God
    came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
    children to them, the same became mighty men
    which were of old, men of renown.
  • 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was
    great in the earth, and that every imagination of
    the thoughts of his heart was only evil
    continually.

53
Gods Patience Ends in Judgment
  • Only 8 righteous faithful souls found on the
    earth.
  • 2 TIM 219 Nevertheless the foundation of God
    standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth
    them that are his
  • Satan again loses his bid to destroy the seed of
    the woman and prevent the coming of the promised
    seedthe Messiah, Jesus Christ

54
WHO RECEIVES GRACE FROM GOD?
  • NOAH IS AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL
  • 67. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom
    I have created from the face of the earth both
    man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
    fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have
    made them.
  • 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
    Lord.
  • KEY TO THE GRACE OF GOD. 622. Thus did Noah
    according to all that God commanded him, so did
    he.
  • No other boats built by mans design would have
    saved anyone

55
The Ark is a type of a sinners Salvations
  • 20. Which sometime were disobedient, when once
    the longsuffering of God waited in the days of
    Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few,
    that is, eight souls were saved by water.
  • 21. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth
    also now save us (not the putting away of the
    filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
    conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of
    Jesus Christ

56
The Figure of Noahs Salvation and ours
  • Had to board the
  • ship
  • All in ark saved
  • All outside perished
  • One family of Noahs
  • All had to stay on ship
  • All must be added to church.. Acts 247
  • All in Christ saved
  • All outside lost
  • One family of Christians
  • All must remain faithful

57
GEN 11, POST FLOOD WORLD
58
THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES AND NATIONS
  • 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city
    and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven and
    let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
    abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  • 5. And the Lord came down to see the city and
    the tower, which the children of men builded.
  • 6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is
    one, and they have all one language and this
    they begin to do and now nothing will be
    restrained from them, which they have imagined to
    do.
  • 7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound
    their language, that they may not understand one
    another's speech.
  • 8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from
    thence upon the face of all the earth and they
    left off to build the city.
  • 9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel
  • EPH 28. For by grace are ye saved through
    faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift
    of God 9. Not of works, lest any man should
    boast.

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THE SEED PROMISE IS NARROWED BY DIVINE
SELECTIVITY- A NATION IS TO BE BORN
  • 121. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee
    out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and
    from thy father's house, unto a land that I will
    shew thee
  • 2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and
    I will bless thee, and make thy name great and
    thou shalt be a blessing
  • ABE IS 75

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WHY ABRAM?
  • THE SAME REASON AS WHY NOAH
  • 2218. And in thy seed shall all the nations of
    the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my
    voice.
  • Heb. 11 8. By faith Abraham, when he was called
    to go out into a place which he should after
    receive for an inheritance, obeyed and he went
    out, not knowing whither he went.
  • . 622. Thus did Noah according to all that God
    commanded him, so did he.

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The Principle of Grace and Faith
  • Noah obtained grace through his faith
  • Abraham obtained grace through his faith
  • Paul says Eph, 28. For by grace are ye saved
    through faith and that not of yourselves it is
    the gift of God
  • 9. Not of works, lest any man should boast.
  • No faith, good works are useless.

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To Perfect His Faith, Abram is Subjected To
Several Tests in Life
  • ALTHOUGH HE FAILS ONCE, IN ALL OTHERS HE PASSES.
  • EACH TIME HE PROVES FAITHFUL IN THE TEST, GOD
    GIVES HIM ADDITIONAL REVELATION
  • WE WILL NOW STUDY THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABRAMS
    CHARACTER

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ABE PASSES THE INITIAL CALL TEST
  • TEST 1. THE LOVE OF GOD
  • 121 Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
    kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
    that I will shew thee
  • 124. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken
    unto him and Lot went with him and Abram was
    seventy and five years old when he departed out
    of Haran.

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THE ADDITIONAL REVELATION AFTER PASSING TEST 1
  • 6. And Abram passed through the land unto the
    place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the
    Canaanite was then in the land.
  • 7. 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.

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RECEIVING FURTHER REVELATION ABRAM GROWS IN FAITH
  • 127 and there builded he an altar unto the Lord,
    who appeared unto him.
  • 8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain
    on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
    having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east
    and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and
    called upon the name of the Lord.
  • 9. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward
    the south.

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ABRAM FAILS 2ND TEST 1210-20GOD HAS PROMISED,
YET HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE
  • Caused by a famine driving him into Egypt.
  • Since God had promised..why didnt Abram seek
    Gods counsel before going into a foreign
    country.
  • Regardless of Gods promise , Abram fears that he
    will be killed by those who desire his wife.
  • He fails the test and through fear lies and tells
    his wife to lie.a half lie

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ABRAM LIES
  • 11. And it came to pass, when he was come near
    to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his
    wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair
    woman to look upon
  • 12. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the
    Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say,
    This is his wife and they will kill me, but they
    will save thee alive.
  • 13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister that
    it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul
    shall live because of thee.

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Where Is Satan in all this?
  • Remember, he wants to prevent the promise to
    Abram being fulfilled through Sarai. His worst
    fear is Jesus coming into the world. Thorough
    2,000 more years he will use many sinful
    circumstances to prevent this from happening.
    Here he exploits Abrams weakness. But Abe will
    learn and grow stronger
  • If the marriage takes place to Pharaoh the
    promise to send a seed via Sarai will be broken.

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GOD PROTECTS HIS PROMISED SEED. HE PREVENTS
SARAI FROM CONTAMINATION
  • 17. And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
    with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
  • 18. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is
    this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou
    not tell me that she was thy wife?
  • 19. Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I
    might have taken her to me to wife now therefore
    behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
  • 20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning
    him and they sent him away, and his wife, and
    all that he had.

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IN PENITENT DEEPER FAITH ABRAM RETURNS TO HIS
ORIGINAL ALTAR
  • 133 And he went on his journeys from the south
    even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had
    been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai
  • 4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had
    made there at the first and there Abram called
    on the name of the Lord.
  • One might guess what Abram said to God.

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Character Test 3 Abram Passes A Brotherly
Love Test
  • 7. And there was a strife between the herdmen of
    Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle
    and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
    in the land.
  • 8. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no
    strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and
    between my herdmen and thy herdmen for we be
    brethren.
  • 9. Is not the whole land before thee? separate
    thyself, I pray thee, from me if thou wilt take
    the left hand, then I will go to the right or if
    thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to
    the left.

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  • 10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all
    the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered
    every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and
    Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like
    the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
  • 11. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan
    and Lot journeyed east and they separated
    themselves the one from the other.
  • 12. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and
    Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and
    pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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After Passing the 3rd Character Test, God Gives
Abram Additional Revelation
  • 13 14. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that
    Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine
    eyes, and look from the place where thou art
    northward, and southward, and eastward, and
    westward
  • 15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee
    will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
  • 16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
    earth so that if a man can number the dust of
    the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
  • 17. Arise, walk through the land in the length
    of it and in the breadth of it for I will give
    it unto thee.
  • 18. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and
    dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron,
    and built there an altar unto the Lord.

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Abrams 4th Test. Refuses Money for His Kindness
  • 1421. And the king of Sodom said unto Abram,
    Give me the persons, and take the goods to
    thyself.
  • 22. 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,
  • 23. That I will not take from a thread even to
    a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing
    that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have
    made Abram rich
  • 24. Save only that which the young men have
    eaten, and the portion of the men which went with
    me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre let them take their
    portion.

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ABRAM BELIEVES GODS PROMISE ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS
IMPOSSIBLE
  • 15 6. And he believed in the Lord and he
    counted it to him for righteousness.
  • 1810. And he said, I will certainly return unto
    thee according to the time of life and, lo,
    Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
    it in the tent door, which was behind him.
  • 11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well
    stricken in age and it ceased to be with Sarah
    after the manner of women.
  • Abraham believed God could instill life in the
    dead

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Additional Revelation follows Passing the 4th
Test of Character
  • 1512. And when the sun was going down, a deep
    sleep fell upon Abram. And, lo, a horror of great
    darkness fell upon him.
  • 13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
    that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that
    is not theirs, and shall serve them. And they
    shall afflict them four hundred years.
  • 14. And also that nation, whom they shall
    serve, will I judge. And afterward shall they
    come out with great substance.
  • 15. But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace.
    Thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
  • 16. And in the fourth generation they shall
    come hither again. For the iniquity of the
    Amorite is not yet full.

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THE GENESIS OF THE AR ABS THEIR SOURCE FOR
HATRED FOR THE JEWS
  • 161. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no
    children. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian,
    whose name was Hagar.
  • 2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now,
    Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing. Go in, I
    pray thee, unto my handmaid. It may be that I
    shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened
    to the voice of Sarai.
  • 3. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the
    Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten
    years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to
    Abram her husband to be his wife.

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  • 4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she
    conceived. And when she saw that she had
    conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
  • 5. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon
    thee. I gave my handmaid into thy bosom. And when
    she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in
    her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee
  • 6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid
    is in thy hand. Do to her that which is good in
    thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and
    she fled from her face.

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ABRAM GROWS AND RECEIVES ADDITIONAL REVELATION-
HIS NAME IS CHANGED
  • 17 1. And when Abram was ninety years old and
    nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto
    him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be
    thou perfect.
  • 2. And I will make my covenant between me and
    thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
  • 3. And Abram fell on his face. And God talked
    with him, saying
  • 4. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee,
    and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of
    nations.
  • .

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GOD CHANGES ABRAMS NAME
  • 5. Neither shall thy name any more be called
    Abram, but they name shall be Abraham. For the
    father of a multitude of nations have I made
    thee.
  • 6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and
    I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come
    out of thee.
  • 7. And I will establish my covenant between me
    and thee and thy seed after thee, throughout
    their generations for an everlasting convenant,
    to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee

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SARAH, FEARING THE FAMILY BLESSING COULD GO TO
ISHMAEL, DEMANDS HAGARS AND ISHMAELS EXILE
  • Gen. 2110. Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
    Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son
    of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son,
    even with Isaac.
  • 11. And the thing was very grievous in
    Abraham's sight on account of his son.
  • 12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
    grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
    because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah saith
    unto thee, hearken unto her voice. For in Isaac
    shall thy seed be called.
  • 13. And also of the son of the handmaid will I
    make a nation, because he is thy seed.

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14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,
and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it
unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave
her the child, and sent her away. And she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of
Beer-sheba. 15. And the water in the bottle
was spent, and she cast the child under one of
the shrubs. 16. And she went, and sat her down
over against him a good way off, as it were a
bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the
death of the child. And she sat over against him,
and lifted up her voice, and wept.
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17. And God heard the voice of the lad. And the
angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and
said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not.
For God hath heard the voice of the lad where he
is. 18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him
in thy hand. For I will make him a great nation.
19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water. And she went, and filled the
bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20.
And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he
dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew
up, an archer.
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JESUS ON ABRAHAMS FAITH
  • John 8 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
    my day and he saw it, and was glad.
  • 57. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not
    yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
  • 58. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
    unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (the res.
    life)
  • 59. Then took they up stones to cast at him
    but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the
    temple, going through the midst of them, and so
    passed by

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SUMMARY It has Been Demonstrated That God is
Able and Will Keep His promise Regardless of Any
And All Complications
  • 1. Protection from the flood (Gen. 6-10)
  • 2. From the untied power of the world (11)
  • 3. Weakness of human flesh marriage
    entanglements (12)
  • 4. Frustration of sterility and human wisdom (16)
  • 5. Family rivalry and deceit (24)
  • 6. Sibling jealousy and injustice (37)
  • 7. Refusal to bear children (Er Onan) (38)
  • 8. Adultery and capital punishment (38)
  • 9. Death decree of male seed by Pharaoh (Ex. 1)
  • 10. Slaying the actual seed (N.T.)

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Abrahams Faith is Proved Genesis 221-19 Hebrews
1117,18
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Learn 1. Faith Proving Hurts
  • 1. And it came to pass after these things, that
    God did prove Abraham, and said unto him,
    Abraham. And he said, Here am I. (Cp. Mary)
  • 2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only
    son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee
    into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for
    a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which
    I will tell thee of.

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Being Faithful Hurts
  • Hurt intensifies when we dont understand!
  • The dark and mysterious and we cant see
  • WHY!
  • Why me? Why now? Why Mt. Moriah?

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The Burden of Hurt Brings Sleepless Nights
  • 3. And Abraham rose early in the morning, and
    saddled his ass, and took two of his young men
    with him, and Isaac his son. And he clave the
    wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and
    went unto the place of which God had told him.

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The Trial of Faith is A Lonely Burden
  • and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
    his son.
  • But He didnt share his problem.

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Hurts Hang On
  • 4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
    and saw the place afar off.

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How the Faithful Manage the Pain
  • Faith Sees Gods Healing Beyond the Hurt
  • 5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye
    here with the ass, and I and the lad will go
    yonder and we will worship, and come again to
    you.

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Faith Sees Profit in the Pain
  • 7. It is for chastening that ye endure God
    dealeth with you as with sons for what son is
    there whom his father chasteneth not?
  • 8. But if ye are without chastening, whereof
    all have been made partakers, then are ye
    bastards, and not sons.
  • 9. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh
    to chasten us, and we gave them reverence shall
    we not much rather be in subjection unto the
    Father of spirits, and live?

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  • 10. For they indeed for a few days chastened us
    as seemed good to them but he for our profit,
    that we may be partakers of his holiness.
  • 11. All chastening seemeth for the present to
    be not joyous but grievous yet afterward it
    yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been
    exercised thereby, even the fruit of
    righteousness.
  • 12. Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down,
    and the palsied knees

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The Source for Strength for the Strain of Faith
  • How Can One handle that?
  • When their faith in the after-life is strong
    enough to governs the present life faith is the
    victory
  • Gen. 225 I and the lad will go yonder and we
    will worship, and come again to you.
  • Gen. 227-8 God will provide the sacrifice

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THE DOME OF THE ROCK A MUSLIM MOSQUE STANDS OVER
THE ROCK WHERE ABRAHAM OFFERED ISAAC A SOURCE
OF SHAME HATE
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Mosque of Omar The Mosque of Omar was built in
the late 600s, about 600 years after the Romans
destroyed the temple.  Omar was the
caliph-successor of Muhammad who captured
Jerusalem from the Eastern Roman Empire. (the
last emperor of the western part of the Roman
Empire was deposed in 476 AD. The eastern Roman
Empire continued until 1453 - the year Columbus
was born.                  
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The Mosque of Omar is called the Dome of the
Rock. Its dome stands over the rock where the
sacrificial altar of the temple stood. The rock
contains four deep holes where the blood from the
sacrifices once flowed. In Muslim legends these
are the hoof prints of Al Boraq (meaning "the
lightning") the horse that carries Muhammad to
heaven in a vision. (In actual life Muhammad
never visited Jerusalem. He was only there in a
vision.)
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By 1453 the eastern Roman Empire had long since
lost most of its territory to the Muslims. In
1453 the Turks captured Constantinople (today
Istanbul, Turkey), the capital city of the
eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire).
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What Is God-Approved Faith?
  • 2212 For now I know that thou fearest God
  • 1. When we love God more than life
  • Eccl. 1213 Jn. 1415 Mt. 2237
  • 2. When we believe God will keep His promise
    regardless of death.
  • 2. When we believe God has resurrected His Son
    after death.

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The Writer of Hebrews on Abraham
  • By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
    Isaac and he that had received the promises
    offered up his only begotten son,
  • 18. Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall
    thy seed be called
  • 19. Accounting that God was able to raise him
    up, even from the dead from whence also he
    received him in a figure.

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Seeing Beyond Death Anchored Abrahams/Our Soul
  • Heb. 619. Which hope we have as an anchor of
    the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
    entereth into that within the veil 20. Whither
    the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus,
  • Jn. 856. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
    my day and he saw it, and was glad.

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Faith in the after-life Governed Jesus Life in
this Present World
  • John 519 The Son can do nothing of himself, but
    what he seeth the Father do for what things
    soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
    likewise.

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How Pauls Faith Governed His Life
  • 20. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I
    live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the
    life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
    faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
    himself for me.

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The Church is the body of Christ and Christians
are the Members
  • Faith in the after-death promise of Christ must
    be strong enough to govern the Christians
    present life
  • 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
    into death that like as Christ was raised up
    from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
    we also should walk in newness of life.
  • 5. For if we have been planted together in the
    likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
    likeness of his resurrection

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  • 6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
    with him, that the body of sin might be
    destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
    sin.
  • 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
  • 8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
    that we shall also live with him
  • 9. Knowing that Christ being raised from the
    dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion
    over him.
  • 10. For in that he died, he died unto sin once
    but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
  • 11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
    dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through
    Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  • 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
    body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
    thereof.
  • 13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments
    of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves
    unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,
    and your members as instruments of righteousness
    unto God.
  • 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you
    for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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  • THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE SAVING FAITH WHERE THERE
    IS NO PRACTICE OF THAT FAITH IN THIS LIFE
  • James 217 Even so faith, if it hath not works,
    is dead, being alone.
  • God knew Abraham feared (respected and honored)
    Him when his faith in the after life translated
    into obedience in this life.
  • The same is true for believers in all ages.
  • John 1415 If you love me, keep my
    commandments

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Abrahams Test of Faith and Ours
  • Rm. 121 ---present your bodies a living
    sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
    spiritual service.
  • 2. And be not fashioned according to this
    world but be ye transformed by the renewing of
    your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and
    acceptable and perfect will of God.

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How Is Our Faith Proved to Be Genuine?
  • 23. And he said unto all, If any man would come
    after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
    cross daily, and follow me.
  • 24. For whosoever would save his life shall
    lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my
    sake, the same shall save it.
  • 25. For what is a man profited, if he gain the
    whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
  • 26. For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of
    my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,
    when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of
    the Father, and of the holy angels.

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Our Calling
  • I Cor. 617. Wherefore Come ye out from among
    them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And
    touch no unclean thing And I will receive you,
  • 18. And will be to you a Father, And ye shall
    be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord
    Almighty.

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God is Sovereign When Selecting the Channel for
the Promise
  • No question that Abraham Understood that the
    Calling was in Isaac, not Ishmael, even though
    Isaac was the younger Son
  • 5. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

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Sovereignty is shown Also in Selection of Jacob
over Esau
  • Gen. 25 21. And Isaac intreated the Lord for
    his wife, because she was barren and the Lord
    was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
    conceived.
  • 22. And the children struggled together within
    her and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
    And she went to inquire of the Lord.
  • 23. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are
    in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
    separated from thy bowels and the one people
    shall be stronger than the other people and the
    elder shall serve the younger.

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Sovereignty Prevails Over Family sins
  • 27. And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning
    hunter, a man of the field and Jacob was a plain
    man, dwelling in tents.
  • 28. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of
    his venison but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Problem Parental Favoritism God had revealed
that the elder would serve the younger
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  • 29. And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from
    the field, and he was faint
  • 30. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray
    thee, with that same red pottage for I am faint
    therefore was his name called Edom.
  • 31. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
    birthright.

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  • 32. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to
    die and what profit shall this birthright do to
    me?
  • 33. And Jacob said, Swear to me this day and
    he sware unto him and he sold his birthright
    unto Jacob.
  • 34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of
    lentiles and he did eat and drink, and rose up,
    and went his way thus Esau despised his
    birthright.
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