A Bride for Isaac A Bride for Christ

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A Bride for IsaacA Bride for Christ

• Genesis 24

Presented by Bob DeWaay February 20, 2005
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Abraham Commissions His Servant to Find a Wife
For IsaacGenesis 241-9

• Themes Blessing (Verse 1)
• Not from the Canaanites (Verse 3)
• From Abrahams clan (Verse 4)
• Isaac must not go to Haran (Verses 6, 8)
• God will Provide (Verse 7)

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Abrahams Servant Journeys to Find A Wife for
IsaacGenesis 2410-27

• The servant brings gifts to Aram-Naharaim
• The servant prays (verses 12-14)
• The servants test (verse 14)
• Rebekah shows enthusiastic hospitality (verses
  18-20)
• The servant worships (verses 26, 27)

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Abrahams Servant Procures Rebekahs Betrothal
From Her FamilyGenesis 2428-60

• Her brother Laban offers hospitality (vs. 28-33)
• The servant describes Abraham and Isaac, telling
  of their wealth (vs. 34-36)
• The servant recounts how he was lead to Rebekah,
  emphasizing Gods Providence (vs. 37-48)
• Rebekahs family sends her with their blessing
  (vs. 49-60)

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Laban Sees Gods HandGenesis 2450

• Genesis 2450
• Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The
  matter comes from the Lord so we cannot speak to
  you bad or good.
• Genesis 3124
• And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of
  the night, and said to him, Be careful that you
  do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

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Abrahams Servant Procures Rebekahs Betrothal
From Her FamilyGenesis 2428-60

• Her brother Laban offers hospitality (vs. 28-33)
• The servant describes Abraham and Isaac, telling
  of their wealth (vs. 34-36)
• The servant recounts how he was lead to Rebekah,
  emphasizing Gods Providence (vs. 37-48)
• Rebekahs family sends her with their blessing
  (vs. 49-60)

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The Blessing on Rebekah Echoes the Blessing on
Abraham

• Genesis 2217
• Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will
  greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the
  heavens, and as the sand which is on the
  seashore and your seed shall possess the gate of
  their enemies.

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The Servant Returns with Rebekah and She Marries
Isaac Genesis 2461-67

• Abraham disappears from the narrative and Isaac
  becomes the key person (vs. 61-67)
• lifted up his (her) eyes (vs. 63, 64)
• Rebekah enters Sarahs tent, now becoming the key
  woman in the Genesis narrative. (verse 67)

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Theological Implications

• Abrahams offspring cannot marry Canaanites
  (Genesis 281 Deuteronomy 73, 4)
• God is preserving His seed promises by
  providentially preserving the lineage of Abraham.
  (Genesis 2218)
• God is preserving His promised people from the
  iniquity of the Amorites (Genesis 1516)

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ApplicationsWe should follow the example of
Abrahams servant

• We should pray.
• We should trust and obey.
• We should praise and worship.

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Gods Providence We Should Proceed With
Humility, Knowing that God Alone can Truly Bless
our Efforts

• James 413
• Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow, we
  shall go to such and such a city, and spend a
  year there and engage in business and make a
  profit.

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Gods Providence We Should Proceed With
Humility, Knowing that God Alone can Truly Bless
our Efforts

• James 414, 15
• Yet you do not know what your life will be like
  tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a
  little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you
  ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live
  and also do this or that.

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Application We are on a similar mission to
gather a bride for the Lord

• Ephesians 525b-27
• Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up
  for her that He might sanctify her, having
  cleansed her by the washing of water with the
  word, that He might present to Himself the church
  in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or
  any such thing but that she should be holy and
  blameless.

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Application Like the servant, we do not know who
the bride will be

• Acts 239
• For the promise is for you and your children,
  and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord
  our God shall call to Himself.

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Application Like the servant, we know certain
requirements must be met.

• Romans 109
• If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord,
  and believe in your heart that God raised Him
  from the dead, you shall be saved

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Application Like the servant, we know certain
requirements must be met.

• Luke 2446, 47
• and He said to them, Thus it is written, that
  the Christ should suffer and rise again from the
  dead the third day and that repentance for
  forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His
  name to all the nations, beginning from
  Jerusalem.

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Christ Will Have a Bride

• Revelation 197
• Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to
  Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and
  His bride has made herself ready.

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