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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. Genre This passage is narrative. 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.. Jonah There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and female, as God had commanded Noah. He has destroyed the earth once by water because of sin, and he will the second time destroy it by fire for the selfsame reason. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. When she had but a handful of meal, she made a little cake for Gods prophet first, but then God multiplied her meal and her oil. 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. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 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. 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. Gen 32:20-24. What can Jacob do now that the main bone of his leg is put out of joint? 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. Let it not be so with us; but let us both feed well and yield well. 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. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him: and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Gen 45:4. This was a distinct act of rebellion on the part of both of them. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Everywhere, where the omnipotence of the creator should be emphasised, we read God. Gen 1:3-4. There, you see, was the missionary character of the seed of Abraham, if they had but recognized it. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token for a covenant between me and the earth. 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. Gen 3:12. Everything that is on the earth shall die: We can only wonder what Noah felt when he heard this remarkable announcement from God. 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. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. The fault lies in trying to compress all truth under either of those two heads. Remember how earnestly David prayed about the sins of his youth, and his later transgressions too; and Jacob, in deep humility, must have most vividly remembered his sin against his brother. It was his own sufficiency that was wrestling with the God-man, Christ Jesus. In 275 b.c., Berosus, a Babylonian historian, wrote: But of this ship that grounded in Armenia some part still remains in the mountains and some get pitch from the ship by scraping it off.. and whither goest thou? Gen 15:13. There is not an angel in heaven but God will make him to be a servant to you if you need him; there is not a wind in any quarter of the globe but God will guide it to you if it is necessary; and there are no waves of the sea but shall obey the Lords will concerning you. StudyLght.org. 9. First, let us read the story of Jacob in the Book of Genesis, the thirty-second chapter, at the twenty-second verse: , He had made a quiet oratory for himself by sending everyone else of the company over to the other side of the brook; his own resolve being , When the wrestling Man, the Angel of the covenant, saw , When we come nearest to God, we must have a deep sense of our own personal weakness; it must never be supposed, if our suit prevails with heaven, that there is anything in us, or anything in our prayers, to account for our prevalence. There would be no beauty whatever in a Christian without any good works, and with no graces. Here the old man paused, and refreshed himself by saying, . Job At this point, all Noah knew was that God will judge the earth, and he was supposed to build a big barge. Therefore God drew a distinction between him and the unrighteous, for he always hath a special regard for godly people. After each days work, God looks upon it, and it is well for us every night to review our days work. And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 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. You can see it begin to move until it is afloat. Gen 2:15. They were to have a land in which would be milk for babes and wine for strong men; surely this land is thy land, O Emmanuel! What nourishing milk there is in the gospel, and what exhilarating wine for those who know the love of Christ! This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Bible Study Tools Language Tools Study Library You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. I suppose that, until we get to heaven, there will be both darkness and light in us; and as to Gods providential dealings, we must expect darkness as well as light. Happy fowls, and happy cattle, and happy beasts of the earth to be connected with Noah, and go to come under a covenant of preservation and we, though only worthy to be typified by these creatures which God had preserved in the ark, are thrice happy to be in the same covenant with him who is our Noah, our rest, our sweet savour unto God. Hosea And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Gen 8:12. The Spurgeon Library | Scriptures | Genesis Genesis Christ the Conqueror of Satan September 6, 2019 Christ the Conqueror of Satan "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." Genesis iii. My God will send his angel. Oh! Oh, trust ye in him, for his promise will stand fast for ever! 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? There are some of you, dear brethren, who have minds that are naturally given to inventions, and devices, and plans, and plots, and I believe that, where this is the case, you have more to battle against than those have who are of an ample mind, and who cast themselves more entirely upon the Lord. There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. Another case may seem to be precisely like it: yet the mouth of the former suppliant is shut, and in his heart he does not feel that he can pray as he did before. There was a long interval between Jacob going away, and he coming back again, but his sin came home to him; and if you are a child of God and you do wrong, it is more certain to come home to you, in this life, than if you were one of the ungodly. It becomes evident from two passages in the New Testament that the term "law" or "law of Moses" includes Genesis: 1 Corinthians 14:34 can only refer to the divine order in Genesis 2:18 ff; Genesis 3:16, since the law of Sinai lacks an explicit command for women to be subject, and in Galatians 4:21 ff Paul talks of the story of Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis 16; Genesis 21).In both cases he speaks of the law. 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. The Spurgeon Library | Scriptures | Genesis Genesis 22:1 It is by trial that the character of a Christian is formed. Then he will certainly remember men made in his own image He will remember you, though you think yourself the most worthless one on the face of the earth: God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark.. During World War II two pilots saw and photographed something they believed was the ark on Mount Ararat. My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. Spurgeon's Exposition Genesis Genesis 1 Gen 1:1. I think that I have said to you before that this sparing of Zoar is an instance of the cumulative power of prayer. I fear that the decline of family godliness, which is so sadly remarkable in these days, is the source of a great many of the crying sins of the age; the Church of God at large would have been more separate from the world if the little church in each mans house had been more carefully trained for God. Some of you cannot believe the promise if its fulfillment is delayed for four days; you can hardly keep on praying, if it takes four years; what would you think of a four hundred years promise? Apparently, Adam was not forbidden to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, though, after his fail, he was cast out of Eden, as God said, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. He might freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except one: of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. It was a slight prohibition, yet the test was more than man, even in a state of innocence, was able to endure, and, alas! Gen 12:1. 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. In those darker days we can hardly expect to find so much of the excellences of the spirit as we ought to find now-a-days in those who possess the spirit of God fully.

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