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Look till your heart melts with pity for the many who are going the downward road, and who will eternally ruin themselves unless almighty grace prevent! Jeremiah Gen 12:4. He knew that God had called him and his kindred to inherit the land of Canaan, and, therefore, he was not willing that they should go back to their former dwelling-places. There were to be five more dreary years of utter desolation and want. What must Abrahams meditations have been! The Angel said, Let me go, at the very time when Jacob felt the shrinking of the sinew: He said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took our nature, and died in our stead. John Bunyan wrote, as I have often reminded You, The Christian man is seldom long at ease, When one troubles gone, another doth him seize; and though the rhyme is rather rough, the statement is perfectly true. Zephaniah There are far better ornaments than gold can buy ornaments neat, and raiment comely may we all possess them. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary We should know too much if we knew all that will happen in the future. a. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations: This description of Noah unique to him not only refers to the righteous life of Noah, but also to the fact he was yet uncorrupted by Satans attempt to sow something like a virus among the genetic pool of mankind. And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground. Gen 49:19. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. This is the saving quality in many a life. Stoop, my brothers, if you wish to lead others. It is the strong who can afford to be quiet; as you go across the village green, a goose will hiss at you, while the strong ox lies down calmly, and takes no notice of you: His bow abode in strength, , Not only his hands, but the arms of his hands . The Lord Jesus confirms that Moses is the author in Luke 24:27; Luke 24:44; John 5:46-47.And Paul who often speaks of the law calls it the "law of Moses" (Romans 10:5; 1 Corinthians 9:9; Hebrews 10:28). The two "conversations" of the Lord appear to be addressed within the Godhead. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacobs thigh in the sinew that shrank. Philippians 3. He said to Jacob, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?. ( Genesis 6:5-8) The great wickedness of man in Noah's day. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. He now resolved to have a night of prayer, that he might win deliverance: Jacob was left alone;, We know who that Divine Man was, the God who afterwards actually became man, of whom it might even then be said that His delights were with the sons of men.. The Holy Spirit says, Judas, not Iscariot, so that there should be no mistake about the person intended. Sin must be a very heinous thing, since God, who despiseth not the work of his own hands, will sooner break up the human race, and destroy every thing that liveth rather than that sin should continue to defile the earth. And God spoke unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, Noah must wait till God speaks to him. And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, And the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: This holy man was careful of the purity of his family; he knew what an ill-effect a Canaanitish wife might have upon his son, and also upon his offspring. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him: and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. Surely, he is coming thus to avenge himself for the wrong I did him, long ago. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. In the early part of this century, a Russian aviator named Vladimire Rokovitsky claimed the discovery of Noahs ark. 4. viii. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: That was a happy New Years day for Noah. Gen 7:20-23. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Four hundred men with him! Full often, we are hardly out of one trial before we are into another. Only for this will he be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them, and we must take care that we call his promise to mind, and plead it at the mercy-seat. We think not so; but, certainly, no man knows the nature of God, and understands him, but he to whom the Son shall reveal him. Gen 2:9. He was guilty of unkindness to his wife and of blasphemy against his maker, in seeking to escape from confessing the sin which he had committed. Make yourself: This means this was Noahs project. b. Joshua And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Used by Permission. Yet that ounce turned the scale. Gen 27:16-19. Sometimes, a child of God will find himself cast, through force of circumstances, into very curious companionship. The Lord had said concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Salem Media Group. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. Gen 22:12. Perhaps, before Jesus returns, God will make it even more necessary for people to willfully forget these things. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die. Surely, it would have been the proper order of things if the prayer had preceded the planning; but Jacob planned first, and prayed afterwards. i. He knew that she had found a proper resting-place, and that the earth was clear of the flood. Of the clean creatures which might be offered in sacrifice to God you see that there was a larger proportion than there was of the unclean, that there might be sufficient for sacrifice without the destruction of any species. There is no food like the bread and wine that our blessed Melchizedek brings forth to us, even his own flesh and blood. Gen 45:10. d. You shall make it: And Noah did make it. This narrative always comforts me I think that Zoar was preserved, not so much by the prayer of Lot, as by the greater prayer of Abraham which had gone before; yet the mighty intercession of the friend of God did not prevail until it was supported by the feeble petition of poor Lot. Genesis 12-50 : The history of the Patriarchs, 1. Oh, trust ye in him, for his promise will stand fast for ever! Paul tells us that the woman ought to have her head covered in the assembly because of the angels, that is, because they are there to see that all things are done decently and in order. Dear heart, you have been shut out from the world now for many days, but God has not forgotten you. Gen 45:23-24. We loathe it even while we recognize that it is needful for the time being, but we have not entered it for the sake of personal gain. He have this year had a long and dreary winter; it looked as if spring would never come. Asher was a tribe that was placed in a very fertile region where everything was crowned with delight. This is speaking by an anthropopathy, after the manner of men, because God determined to do, and did something similar to men, when they repent of anything: as a potter, when he has formed a vessel that does not please him, and he repents that he has made it, he takes it and breaks it in pieces; and so God, because of man's wickedness, and to Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth. Compare Joshua 1:7; Joshua 8:31; Judges 3:4; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Chronicles 23:18; Ezra 3:2; Nehemiah 8:1; Daniel 9:11; Malachi 4:4. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Be not afraid; he can open the windows of heaven, and pour down abundant blessings for you, and he can let down the cellar-flaps of the great deep, and stop its flowing fountains. Genesis 6:4. God remembered Noah, and he remembers you. 1 2 3 7 8 9 12 14 15 18 19 22 24 27 32 33 45 49 Continues after advertising Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers 2 Kings And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. Gen 7:2-3. It is a good thing also to know the names of truths, and the names of other things that are right. 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. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Love me, love even my flocks and my herds. Note the humility of Jacobs prayer. Gen 9:11-17. Chapter 11:27: These are the generations of Terah, 7. This man Jacob was always planning, and scheming; he was the great progenitor of the Jews, who are still preeminent in bargaining. Chapter 11:10: These are the generations of Shem, 6. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And his head is bruised, blessed be the name of the Womans promised seed! Around a.d. 75, Josephus said the locals collected relics from the ark and showed them off to this very day. He was commanded to go and we read, So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him.. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. Proud member And every one of our sins is essentially of the same nature, and has in it, substantially, the same mischief. Pray as well as plan, and if your plans be numerous, let your prayers be all the more fervent, lest the natural tendency of your constitution should degenerate into reliance upon the arm of flesh, and dependence upon your own wisdom, instead of absolute reliance upon God. ii. As the Holy Ghost repeats the words we have here, you and I may often tell out the story of our salvation, and dwell upon the minute particulars of it, for every item of it is full of instruction. 1 Chronicles Gen 32:17-19. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Look, look, I pray you, upon that place of darkness and woe where every impenitent and unbelieving spirit must be banished for ever from the presence of the Lord! Gen 22:19. On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal lifespan, but that He may not do it in any other way? (Barnhouse). How greatly, how much more than we do, ought we to thank God for the prolongation of our sight, and it has been well remarked by one of our greatest men of science that we seldom hear Christian men thank God as they should for the use of spectacles in these modern times. A philosopher has written a long paper concerning the blessings which he found in old age from this invention, and we, enabled still to read the Word when our sight decays, should be exceedingly grateful for it. Gen 1:3-4. 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on . It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but it was not self-existent; it was created by God, it sprang from the will and the word of the all-wise Creator. Better still is it for the Christian to remember the word of Christ, Swear not at all, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath. Doubtless the doctrine of the Saviour is that all oaths of every sort are lawful to the Christian, but if they ever be taken, it should be with deep circumspection and with earnest prayerfulness, that there be no mistake about the matter. Man acts just as freely and just as guiltily as if there were no predestination whatever; and God ordains, arranges, supervises, and over-rules, just as accurately as if there were no free will in the universe. On the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. He prayed to God for help, but he also used such means as he could, the means that ought always to be used when any of us realize that we have done an injury to others. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. I may liken Abrahams mighty pleading to a ton weight of prayer, supplication that had a wonderful force and power. How often do you and I have our great Substitute very near to us, yet we do not see him because we do not lift up our eyes and look. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. When we have received the power of God, and have dominion over ourselves, and over all earthly things, in the power of Gods eternal Spirit, then are we where and what God intends us to be. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. Well fed, and then yielding correspondingly. And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. Bibliographical Information Spurgeon, Charle Haddon. Hebrews He himself was to address her first, and then she must be ready, with all cheerfulness, to do far more than he asks. I would that those who fear God were less careful about the adornments of their persons. May we trust to his death to bring us life, and thereby be saved from the consequences of the fall! It becomes evident from two passages in the New Testament that the term "law" or "law of Moses" includes Genesis: 1 Corinthians 14:34 can only refer to the divine order in Genesis 2:18 ff; Genesis 3:16, since the law of Sinai lacks an explicit command for women to be subject, and in Galatians 4:21 ff Paul talks of the story of Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis 16; Genesis 21).In both cases he speaks of the law. What we do ourselves, we do not always expect others to do. Chapter 3:1-4:7 The fall and its consequences (Romans 5:12), Chapter 3 Temptation, fall, judgment and grace, Chapter 4:1-7 Cain and Abel: The first sacrifice, the first murder, and the first city, c. Chapter 4:8-5:32Cain and Seth: Two descendants of Adam (1 Corinthians 15:46), Chapter 6 The building of the ark (Matthew 24:38-39; 2 Peter 3:3-10), Chapter 7 The flood: Judgment and salvation, b. Only a few days ago, the chestnuts were just beginning to turn green, and then there came the little spikes, and now you can see them in full flower. Gen 3:8. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that, which grew upon the ground. God had been very gracious to him, and all his fears were gone, so he met Esau as a brother, not as an enemy, and the four hundred men were willing to become his protectors. Blessed be God for thus thinking of us when providing raiment for our first parents! This is the counterpart of what will follow the preaching of the gospel those who are in Christ shall live, shall rise, and reign with him for ever but none of those who are outside of Christ shall so live. John Bunyan truly says, , When one troubles gone another doth him seize., Certainly it was so with Jacob; for, after he had escaped from Laban, he knew that he had to meet his brother Esau, whom he had so greatly wronged so many years before. It does not say that he wrestled with the man, but there wrestled a man with him. We call him wrestling Jacob, and so he was; but we must not forget the wrestling man,or, rather, the wrestling Christ,the wrestling Angel of the covenant, who had come to wrestle out of him much of his own strength and wisdom, which, though it was commendable in a measure, and we have commended it, was an evil because it kept him from relying on the strength and wisdom of God. 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. Sermon Bible Commentary. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. He gave it a name to commemorate Gods having sent the angels, and called it two camps or two hosts., The angels of God are always round about his people. Until the waters were dried up from of the earth. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. b. Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth: Noahs three sons will figure into the account in a significant way. Proverbs Gen 27:1-4. 2 Peter And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him; and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

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