Sermons on Genesis-Robert Mogan. Gen 45:25-28. It is not to the credit of these men. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden;of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Gen 27:19-20. And the Canaanite was then in the land. Now turn to the thirty-second chapter of the Book of Exodus, where we find a description of the sin of idolatry into which the Israelites fell while Moses was absent in communion with God upon the mountain. How he must have trembled to think that he had the daring perhaps his fears made him call it the presumption actually to wrestle with God himself, for he was conscious now that it was no mere angel, but “the Angel of the covenant,” the Lord himself, with whom he had wrestled. Gen 14:22-23. May the Lord, who has blessed us, make us a blessing to others! He placed them in the order of his affection for them, the best-beloved in the rear. (9-13) The serpent cursed, The promised Seed. The Holy Spirit says, “Judas, not Iscariot,” so that there should be no mistake about the person intended. We will now turn to another passage where we shall have another instance of a difficult case, where another person put his case before the Lord, and sought guidance and found it. Here is a lesson for us. Gen 24:12-14. An error is often half killed when you know the real name of it; its power lies in its being indescribable; but as soon as you can call it “darkness,” you know how to act towards it. Gen 7:12-13. He takes the opportunity of making an enquiry, that he may know how to act. And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Now let us read what the Lord says, through the prophet Isaiah, concerning this covenant. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. Gen 7:4. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt-. And saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Devotionals on Genesis - W H Griffith-Thomas (excellent devotional commentary) Spurgeon's Exposition Genesis. There are some proud people who, when they know that they have done wrong, yet will not own it, and it is very hard to end a quarrel when one will not yield, and the other feels that he will not either. But in the middle of the night, he was in such deep anxiety concerning his meeting with his brother, and probably still more concerning his position towards his God, that he felt that he must get away alone to pray. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. So Abraham did, and now the Lord says to him, “Take Isaac, and offer him for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”, Gen 22:3. He gave it a name to commemorate God’s having sent the angels, and called it “two camps” or “two hosts.”, The angels of God are always round about his people. If you deny his truth, trample on the doctrine of atonement, and reject his love, you will rouse him up. He was glad to find himself at rest once more, though not yet at liberty. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF C. H. SPURGEON Within this set you can access other study helps [ bible, theology, commentary, sermons, and more ]. Gen 7:6. Abraham here spoke like a prophet; in fact, throughout this whole incident, he never opened his mouth without a prophetic utterance; and I believe that, when men walk with God, and live near to God, they will possibly even without being aware of it, speak very weighty words which will have much more in them than they themselves apprehend. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. And the rain was upon the earth forty day and forty nights. This was the first act of God in preparing this planet to be the abode of man, and the first act of grace in the soul is for the Spirit of God to move within it. This was a distinct act of rebellion on the part of both of them. I may liken Abraham’s mighty pleading to a ton weight of prayer, supplication that had a wonderful force and power. 17. Gen 49:3. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. He received what he sought for his necessity, but not what he merely asked out of curiosity. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Uncontrolled passions may make him very little who otherwise might have been great. The marginal reading is “Two hosts, or, camps.” The angels of the Lord were encamping round about the man who feared him, though shore had been much in his character and conduct which the Lord could not approve. 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. It may seem a small thing; but it meant a great deal. Let us learn from Abraham how to obey. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. “Go up to my father, and say unto him, ‘Come down unto me.’ “See how great love turns pleader again; he who said to his brethren, “Come near to me,” sends to his father the message, “Come down unto me.”. Paul writes to the Galatians, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. Gen 22:4. This was the very glory of Abraham’s faith; it was so simple, so childlike. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? The memorial of his weakness was to be with him as long as he lived. THERE w a s a well of water close to Hagar all the while though she saw it not. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: and Israel said. Gen 27:1-4. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 6. Gen 1:6-8. Whatever power we have, must come from God’s 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. The hand of justice was held back until God’s servant was safe. Sin must be a very heinous thing, since God, who despiseth not the work of his own hands, will sooner break up the human race, and destroy every thing that liveth rather than that sin should continue to defile the earth. Dear heart, you have been shut out from the world now for many days, but God has not forgotten you. If you would know what perfect reconciliation means, his to the altar where the great Sacrifice was presented. I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. When you and I also are near our journey’s end, may we be able to say, as Jacob did, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.” He could not have said that once. 4.6 out of 5 stars 196. Scholars generally agree that the creation story in Genesis is divided into two accounts from two sources. 24. What a wise and prudent Lord is ours! They who would serve God aright must serve him faithfully in little things as well as in great ones. It was usually the way, in God’s commands to Abraham, to make him sail under sealed orders. We recommend Pilgrim Publications, where the Ages disk may be purchased at a discount. The mention of seven days, and the resting in between seems to look like it. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Wenham, Gordon J. Genesis 1--15. Animals created. But the first one saw that the sun was going down, so he turned to seek his friend, that he might say to him, “Friend so-and-so, I was wrong in being angry today.” Half-way between their two houses, they met, and each of them said, “I was just coming to say that I was wrong.” There is no need of any arbitrator when each of the disputants is willing to say, “I was wrong,” and the trouble is soon over when that point is reached. Commentary on Genesis 2:1-3 (Read Genesis 2:1-3) After six days, God ceased from all works of creation. 7. 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. Blow it east, or blow it west, the wind comes from God; and whether the waters increase or are assuaged, it is God’s doing. Taken in its completeness, and all put together, God saw that it was very good. Yet so it was. There is a deal of wisdom in this sign, however. “I have a right to this,” says he, “but I will not take it; what are mere earthly rights to me? It was the man Christ Jesus putting on the form of manhood before the time when he would actually be incarnate, and the wrestling seems to have been more on his side than on Jacob’s, for it is not said that Jacob wrestled, but that “there wrestled a man with him.” There was something that needed to be taken out of Jacob, — his strength and his craftiness; and this angel came to get it out of him. Get the best Study Bible free! Perhaps you have some of these unclean birds coming down upon your sacrifice just now. And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. Commentary on Genesis 1:29,30 (Read Genesis 1:29,30) Herbs and fruits must be man's food, including corn, and all the products of the earth. Commentary on Genesis 1:29,30 (Read Genesis 1:29,30) Herbs and fruits must be man's food, including corn, and all the products of the earth. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. Sermons on Genesis-Pt2-Lowell Johnson. A prayer most humble, most direct in its petitions, and also full of faith. Now we are going to read in the Gospel according to John, the fifth chapter, beginning at the twenty-fourth verse. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them 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. �29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, sayings, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. He felt that nothing he could do would be effectual without God’s blessing. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Gen 45:2-3. This largest and most complete menagerie that was ever gathered together was not collected by human skill; divine power alone could have accomplished such a task as that. How obliquely fell the curse! And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. Gen 22:19. He is the true center, and we gather unto him. Therefore God drew a distinction between him and the unrighteous, for he always hath a special regard for godly people. He speaks, and it is done. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. On his belly does he go, and still is dust his meat. Besides, I hope we shall never imagine that the highest faith is inconsistent with the greatest prudence, and that we shall never forget that there is such a book in the Bible as the Book of Proverbs, which contains counsels of wisdom for daily life. It will be your default mobile Bible, use it for devotions every day from your phone or tablet. And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. Oh, to have our inheritance where we feed upon the bread of heaven, and where the deep truths of God become to us royal dainties! And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. Fierce and powerful nations possessed the country; it did not seem a very likely place to be the heritage of a peace-loving man like Abraham. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Gen 3:19. and whose are these before thee? His language therefore may be thus explained. A man who is very familiar with God will, by-and-by, venture to say that which, at the first, he would not have dared to utter. £0.99 Complete Bible Commentary: (Fully Formatted For E-Readers) John Wesley. It is the strong who can afford to be quiet; as you go across the village green, a goose will hiss at you, while the strong ox lies down calmly, and takes no notice of you: “His bow abode in strength,” —, Not only his hands, but the arms of his hands —. Indifferent obedience to God’s command is practically disobedience, careless obedience is dead obedience, the heart is gone out of it. O thou who art striving against sin, or seeking to win souls for Christ, after many disappointments may you be able to clutch this sweet assurance, “He shall overcome at the last.”. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; —, Where he can suck up abundant nutriment,—. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? Gen 19:22-28. Abraham had endured the supreme test of his faith, and had, in full intent, offered up his son Isaac at the command of God, his hand being withheld from the actual sacrifice only by an angelic voice. 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. 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. It is a sweet thing to be so weaned from your wisdom that you fall into the arms of God. May many be gathered to Christ! Gen 2:16-17. Gen 32:27. 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. And he said unto him, What is thy name? Gen 8:21. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Happy is that man who, though he begins with a dark shadow resting upon him, so lives as to turn even that shadow into bright sunlight. Gen 15:4-5. Miscellaneous. By her action, and her husband’s, the flood-gates had been pulled up, and the flood of sin had been let loose upon the world. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Sier, the country of Edom. Bravely said, O Jacob! Noah knew that he would come out of the ark one day, for was he not preserved there to be a seed-to keep the race alive? What should be the meditations of every godly man as he looks towards Sodom, and sees the smoke of its destruction? But he soon resumed his prophecy: — go Ge 49:19, What a happy breathing-space is this! “Go forth,” says the Lord, “Go forth of the ark.”. I would that those who fear God were less careful about the adornments of their persons. Gen 22:6-8. Our Lord Jesus was blessing his disciples when he was taken from them; and since we do not know when we shall be taken sway from our relatives, let us be always blessing them. 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 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. 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. 3 And God said, cLet there be light, and there was light. Gen 1:1. 29. After each day’s work, God looks upon it, and it is well for us every night to review our day’s work. God would not make a creature to be unhappy. Genesis 18:1 Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament When sitting, about mid-day, in the grove of Mamre, in front of his tent, Abraham looked up and unexpectedly saw three men standing at some distance from him (עליו above him, looking down upon him as he sat), viz., Jehovah ( Genesis 18:13 ) and two angels ( Genesis 19:1 ); all three in human form. It was his blood which yielded the juice of those rare clusters of the choice vine; and now, with garments dyed with his own blood, he comes from Edom, for he has trodden down his foes, and he cries, “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me.”. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. He who gives most light is the truest ruler, and the man who aspires to leadership in the Church of God, if he knows what he is at, aspires to be the servant of all by laying himself out for the good of all, even as our Saviour said to his disciples, “Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.” The sun and moon are the servants of all mankind, and therefore do they rule by day and by night. It is for our sake that the rainbow is set in the cloud, and we can see it there; yet infinite mercy represents it as being there as a refreshment to the memory of God: “The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,”-. God, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Look till your heart melts with pity for the many who are going the downward road, and who will eternally ruin themselves unless almighty grace prevent! When God began to arrange this world in order, it was shrouded in darkness, and it had been reduced to what we call, for want of a better name, “chaos.” This is just the condition of every soul of man when God begins to deal with him in his grace; it is formless, and empty of all good things. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? It was well for Jacob to be reminded of that fact, for he was about to pass into another trouble. Unbelief would have left the knife at home, but genuine faith takes it. There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and female, as God had commanded Noah. Gen 15:18-21. Man created in the image of God. Look through Paul’s 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. He who provided the ram for a burnt offering in the place of Isaac will provide everything else that is required; and you may depend upon it that he who, in the greatest emergency that could ever happen, provided his only-begotten and well-beloved Son to die us the Substitute for sinners, will have foreseen every other emergency that can occur, and will have fore-provided all that is needful to meet it. There was light: Genesis tells us that light, day, and night each existed before the sun and the moon were created on the fourth day (Genesis 1:14-19). Gen 45:6. Gen 1:9-13. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saying my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) This is a work of remarkable erudition. We know that the angels went down to Sodom, where they were received by Lot, and despitefully used by the Sodomites. Gen 1:31. 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. Gen 8:13. Gen 12:7. Yet that ounce turned the scale. “Every bird of every sort,” that is, every kind of bird; they are all mentioned over again. 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Slow is sometimes faster than fast. And ye sons of Jacob, learn to say the same. It was an olive leaf, that is all. When the land was divided by lot, the lot was disposed by God to the complete fulfillment of Jacob’s prophecy. Joseph is a type of him who is both the Shepherd and the Stone to us, the Shepherd who defends us, provides for us, and dies for us, and the foundation on which we build for time and eternity. son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: Let me bid every Christian man to look about him, among all his kith and kin, to see which of them yet remain unconverted. The sale of Joseph was only the “beginning of woes” for his father Israel. 4.6 out of 5 stars 196. This is the counterpart of what will follow the preaching of the gospel those who are in Christ shall live, shall rise, and reign with him for ever but none of those who are outside of Christ shall so live. It sounds so simple, yet behind it lurk many of the ultimate questions of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics. Benjamin was his full brother, so he loved him best, and gave him most. Thus, you see, Abraham began his separated life with a blessing from the Lord his God. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. Some creature had to die in order to provide them with garments, and you know who it is that died in order that we might be robed in his spotless righteousness. 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. January 1, 1970. Oh, that at any time when we have sinned, God would ask each one of us the question, “What is it that thou hast done?”, Still, you see, there is no confession of guilt, but only the attempt to push the blame off upon somebody else. Gen 18:23-25. It will come to an end; therefore wait, and be patient, and do not want to know the time of your deliverance. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Wenham, Gordon J. Genesis 1--15. Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. Their opponents are the seed of the serpent, crafty, cunning, wise, full of deceit; and there is enmity between these two seeds. Gen 33:3-4. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. “Though I am willing to give up my share of the spoil, that is no reason why these men should do the same.” Christian men ought not to expect worldlings to do what they cheerfully and willingly do themselves; and, indeed, it is not much use to expect it, for they are not likely to do it. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Gen 1:1. Gen 49:10. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. His wisdom and insight into God’s Word and world have helped others discover the richness of Scripture. Those who read the Scriptures with a view simply to find out novelties that may tickle their fancy, read in vain. The well was there already, but for all practical purposes it … And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In the beginning. 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. The Lord will have it from his own lips that he has offended; he summons no other witness. While he was so strong, he won not the blessing; but when he became utter weakness, then did he conquer.