Genesis 12:1 , ETC. I. In the call of Abram we see an outline of the great providential system under which we live. II. Great lives are trained by great promises. The promise to Abram (1) throws light on the compensations of life; (2) it shows the oneness of God with His people; (3) it shows the i... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:1 _(with Genesis 9:1)_ No one has ever doubted that the words in Genesis 9:1 are a Divine blessing upon the human race. I. There is something especially appropriate in this language to the inhabitants of a restored earth. Compare it with the simple records of the garden life of Adam, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:1 I. At some time in our lives a call from God sends its trumpet tone through each of our souls, as it did when Abraham heard it, and he went forth with the future stretching broad and far before him. II. God's call to Abraham was: (1) a call to closer communion with Himself; (2) a call... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12, etc. I. Notice first the call of Abraham. (1) The call was addressed to him suddenly; (2) it required him to forsake his country and his kindred, while giving him no hope of return; (3) it sent him on a long and difficult journey, to a country lying more than three hundred miles away. Y... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:2 When God called Abraham, and, in Abraham, the Jewish nation, He cradled them in blessings. This is the way in which He always begins with a man. If ever, to man or nation, He speaks otherwise, it is because they have made Him do so. I. Many of us account religion rather as a possessio... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:3 I. A double stream of narrative runs through the first four books of the Pentateuch. One of these may be called the Priestly narrative the other, the Prophetical narrative. The text sets before us one of the characteristic features of the Prophetical narrative that consciousness of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:4 _(with Acts 16:10)_ I. Taken together, these texts may be paraphrased geographically, by saying that they contain a direction to the Law and the Gospel to move westwards, like the sun. The forefather of the Jews was ordered to quit his home for a land that looked westwards; the Apostle... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:6 This is one of the most comforting verses in the Bible. It is so simple and yet so sure. It tells us that the end is certain if the beginning is right. I. The text is written from heaven's side of the question. It is the history put in short of all the saints who ever went to glory. T... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 12:10 Went down from one civilisation to another, went down from one society to another, went down from one religion to another. Man is a traveller not in one sense, but in all senses; and he is always travelling. We have to go out into the world; the question is, How are we going? I. A wi... [ Continue Reading ]