AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Sunday – June 11, 2023, Sivan 22, 5783
A WELL OF TRUTH
THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM – PART TWELVE
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 twelve 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. Also, remember to be reading out loud, yes, 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. This water is the living Word of God giving us life and cleansing us of the ways of the world. 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.
Today we will be continuing to examine Genesis chapter seventeen (seventeen is the number of victory). Every last bit of this account is crucial but this chapter and chapter twenty-two of Genesis are as critical as it gets.
Genesis 17:10-14 (KJV)
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
We are told in verse eleven that the circumcision is a token of the Blood Covenant unfolding between Abraham and God, now through Christ Jesus available to all. This is not unlike married couples (birth male with a birth female) today who wear rings as a token or symbol of Covenant. God had no blood to shed at this time and therefore we saw the surrogate blood of animals in Genesis fifteen. This circumcision was symbolic of the removal of sinful flesh (carnal, fallen nature) of man.
Colossians 2:11 (ESV)
11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
The Holy Spirit leads us into all the Truth and teaches us to put off, to kill, the old man, and put on the new man in righteousness. Just as the Old Testament man who claimed Jehovah as their God bore the symbol, the seal (mark) if you will so do we as New Testament men (and woman).
2 Corinthians 1:22 (KJV)
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Not only is the Holy Spirit residing within us but He has set His seal (mark) upon us. We can be clearly seen by evil spirits and by mankind that we are His.
Lord willing, I will be moving forward 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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