AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Sunday – April 30, 2023, Iyar 9, 5783
A WELL OF TRUTH
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM – PART SIX
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and welcome back to drawing from A Well of Truth. Today we will continue with part six of looking at the Blessing of Abraham. As we prepare to dive into our teaching, please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible by every means available to you. Thank you for sharing. Also, remember to be reading out loud. You know why, please don’t be rebellious. The featured picture is a well with lots of water and bucket full of water about to be drawn from that well. The water is the Word of God that gives life (zōē Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary, life as God knows life) and cleanses. Receiving life and/or cleansing is not automatic, it is our choice, what have you chosen? Let’s again start our study by going to these familiar Scriptures in the Apostle Pauls’ epistle to the saints at Galatia.
Galatians 3:13-14 (KJV)
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:29 (KJV)
29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Last Sunday I skipped way ahead, let the cat out of the bag so to speak, with the revealing of the ultimate conclusion of the Blessing of Abraham. I don’t think that the average Christian has a clue (not you) to pivotal importance of Abraham to our redemption. Without Abraham we would be reading about another in his place or perhaps we would be one of those civilizations that perished without remedy (no man willing to walk with, covenant with God) before Genesis 1:2. Now let’s continue with the saga of Abram on his way to sealing the deal with Jehovah for the Messiah to enter the earth.
Genesis 14:18-22 (KJV)
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
21 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,
As I mentioned two Sundays ago in the preceding passage we see the first appearance of the Lords’ Supper, the Eucharist, or what is more commonly called the Communion Table. This is prophetic of the sacrifice that must occur by the coming Messiah to redeem mankind. Life (eternal life) is in the Blood.
Leviticus 17:11 (KJV)
11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Of course, this was the blood and broken body of an innocent animal but looking forward to the One who would do the job for mankind once and for all.
Hebrews 9:11-15 (KJV)
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
The High Priests of old had to enter the Most Holy place year after year to merely cover the sins of the people and provide a stopgap until the Messiah could come. But now with the coming of Christ we have obtained eternal redemption with the promise of an eternal inheritance. O my, O my, thank you Father, thank you Jesus, thank you Eternal Spirit.
Lord willing, we will continue this journey next Sunday.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Receive the blessing in Jesus’ name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (MSG)
24 GOD bless you and keep you,
25 GOD smile on you and gift you,
26 GOD look you full in the face and make you prosper.
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