AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Sunday – July 16, 2023, Tamuz 27, 5783
A WELL OF TRUTH
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM – PART SEVENTEEN
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 seventeen 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 (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 we look at how the Blessing of Abraham developed and became ours, this 22nd chapter of Genesis is arguably the most pivotal chapter in the entire Bible. We are now 50 plus years from Genesis chapter twelve. The promised son through whom the Seed must come is miraculously come forth when Abraham is about 100 and Sarah 90 years of age. Now, Abrahams’ faith and love (obedience, selflessness, and Blood Covenant) for God as well as Isaacs’ are tested to the max. The focus of the Scripture here is on Abraham but Isaac is now as much as 33 years old making Abraham 133. Isaac would be well able to overcome the elder patriarch if he was not willing.
Genesis 22:4-8 (KJV)
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.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
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.
As we have reviewed, Abraham and Isaac loved God, and absolutely trusted had faith in God. This account exemplifies that Truth to the max. God has shown Abraham the Messiah to come but Abraham already believed in the raising of Isaac from the dead for he was fully persuaded of the Truth of Gods’ Words (Hebrews 11:17-19). He confidently told the two young men with them that he and Isaac were going to worship and they (both of them) would return. Notice in verse seven that Isaac has a question about the sacrifice, apparently he does not yet know that he is the sacrifice. We don’t have an explicit record of that conversation between him and Abraham but obviously it occurred and he trusted his father and God without question. Notice how Abraham responds. “My son, God will provide himself a lamb” and as we will see He does and the Blood Covenant stands firm between God, Abraham, the Word, and the Eternal Spirit.
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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