AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Sunday – July 23, 2023, Av 5, 5783
A WELL OF TRUTH
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM – PART EIGHTEEN
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and welcome back to The Three Minute Word, drawing from A Well of Truth. Today we will continue with part eighteen of looking at the Blessing of Abraham. Abraham is so important to the gospel account, the redemption of mankind, that he is called the father of us all (Romans 4:16). This is not to undermine the importance of Jesus, God forbid, but without Abraham there is no Jesus in the earth. This is contrary to what many believe, but sorry to say, no matter how sincere or how hard they pound the table, they believe wrong. God will not, due to the absolute authority He gave man, show up and do contrary to the laws He established. We know this is true on its face (read the Bible). If it were true, He would have redeemed mankind on day one! He did not, why not? He could not! Not that He didn’t have the raw Power or perhaps He could have just changed man to automatically love (obey) Him. Love, real love (agapē) of God, cannot exist without a choice. Subsequently, due to laws God put in place, it took some 4000 years working with and through mankind to bring Jesus into the earth (the Word made flesh). It was the same then as now, we, the people in the earth, children of His or not, are the ones who pull the levers of our lives.
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. The featured picture is a well with lots of water and bucket full of water about to be drawn from that well. This water is the living Word of God giving us life and cleansing us of the ways of the world. This is vital to the circumcision of our hearts. 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. Remember to continue reading out loud, yes, out loud. You know why, please don’t be rebellious.
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.
As you can see, I am spending a lot of time delineating how the “blessing of Abraham” and us as “Abraham’s seed” came about and how vital it is for us. I think that many times we treat these things way too casually. God needed legal access into the earth. We have now come to the absolute crucial point with the testing of this Blood Covenant. If Abraham and Isaac pass this test, and we know they do, then God the Father, and God the Son (the Word made flesh) must come, no if, ands, or buts and the Eternal Spirit will assist Jesus as every turn (just as He does us). Now, lets read (out loud) our Genesis text.
Genesis 22:7-10 (KJV)
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Isaac is not yet fully aware of why they are there but will be very soon and is submitted to his father Abraham and to God. Notice the verses leading up to verse nine have no hint of questioning or resistance of any kind. This is no different than what we see with Jesus and His way to the Cross. Abraham was fully committed to obey God and so was Isaac a willing sacrifice. Do you and I have this kind of faith, trust in God? Selah. Let’s go a little further with our Genesis text.
Genesis 22:11-14 (KJV)
11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
Lord willing, I will pick up right here next Sunday as this, perhaps second only to the Cross and all that followed, crucial account unfolds.
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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