AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Sunday – June 25, 2023, Tamuz 6, 5783
A WELL OF TRUTH
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM – PART FOURTEEN
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 fourteen 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 as He wants. We know this is true on its face (reading 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 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).
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.
We will pick up our delineation of the Blessing of Abraham which has come upon us, the Gentiles, in Genesis chapter twenty-one.
Genesis 21:1-5 (KJV)
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
The son of promise is now come, the Seed, the Son of promise is still 2000 years away but, on the way, but there is one vital step remaining to assure the coming of Messiah. Let’s move to arguably the most pivotal chapter of the whole Bible.
Genesis 22:1-5 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, 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.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
This son of promise has been 25 years in the coming and is now likely in his twenties, perhaps as old as 33 (age of Jesus at His crucifixion). Suddenly, God is asking Abraham to sacrifice his son, his only son, which he loveth. See the Messianic language? As this plays out not only must Abraham be willing to sacrifice his son but the son (Isaac) must be willing to be sacrificed. This is the exact picture that God has known from before the day of Sin and Death in the Garden of Eden (Revelation 13:8). What we see in play here is the Law of Reciprocity, a vital part of the Blood Covenant. Revelation is the 27th Book of the New Testament which is the number for preaching the Gospel, thirteen is the number of rebellion and depravity, and eight is the number of new beginnings. Now let’s put this together. A rebellious and depraved people through the preaching of the gospel will have a new beginning. Isn’t the Word of God just wonderful?
Lord willing, I will pick up right here 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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