Thus, you see, Abraham began his separated life with a blessing from the Lord his God. So it is not strange that this is mentioned as an heroic act of faith. (Poole), 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. This largest and most complete menagerie that was ever gathered together was not collected by human skill; divine power alone could have accomplished such a task as that. Hosea And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; So that he was made painfully to realize his own weakness while he was putting forth all his strength. No good comes of prying into unrevealed truth. Benjamin was his full brother, so he loved him best, and gave him most. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. we are always making difficulties and suggesting hardships; but if our faith were in lively exercise, we should do Gods will far more readily. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. THERE are critical times in most families: times when much decision of character will be needed on the part of the father to guide things aright. Observe that God did not create man until he had provided for him neither will he ever put one work of his providence or of his grace out of its proper place, but that which goes before shall be preparatory to that which follows after. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. Chapter 37:2-50:26 Joseph, type of the rejected and glorified Christ, a. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He wins, he conquers, when his weakness becomes supreme, and he is conscious of it. He speaks, and it is done. Am I my brothers keeper? Genesis iv. They do not seek it, but it comes to them; and, for a time, they seem to be overcome, yet let them clutch at the promise given by God. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. Here he draws Gods name into this lie, And this is worse still. Gen 6:6-7. Genesis Spurgeon's Bible Commentary Genesis Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) .was born in Essex, England. 15. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; Thou shalt get thy life out of the ground till thou thyself shalt go into the ground.. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen, Then I, and you, and all of us fell down; while sin triumphed over us; yet even the fall by Adams sin was not without the promise of a gracious recovery through the last Adam, the Lord from heaven. For our comfort, we must see it; but for our safety, blessed be God, it is only needful that he should see it. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: That would have been a horrible thing, for man to be incapable of death, and so to continue for ever in a sinful world. Our Lord overcame his enemies even in the thicket of this world; and all power is given unto him now that he has gone up again into his glory. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; , Where he can suck up abundant nutriment,. See the result of one mans grand act of obedience, and note how God can make that man to be the channel of blessing to all coming ages. Sometimes, a child of God will find himself cast, through force of circumstances, into very curious companionship. And said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? So Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked out, but he did not go out till God commanded him to do so. Strange to say, while God pronounces a curse upon the enemy of mankind, he is uttering a blessing upon the whole of those who belong to Christ, for HE is that seed of the woman, and all that belong to him are a simple-minded, child-like people, children of the woman. And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 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. And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. Chapter 6 begins with the context that accentuates his faithfulness. It might be many miles to Padanaram, but it does not matter to faith. Gen 24:7. e. Cover it inside and outside with pitch: The pitch worked to waterproof the wood. and whither goest thou? Oh, to have our inheritance where we feed upon the bread of heaven, and where the deep truths of God become to us royal dainties! And they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. 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. When writing Genesis, apart from direct revelations of God (for example the report on the creation of the world in Genesis 1; Genesis 2), he could possibly have referred to documents from the time of the patriarchs (for example the genealogies of Genesis 5:10-11 ,36).Under the direction of the Holy Spirit of God Moses wrote everything down.As he was a prophet, the words of 2 Peter 1:21 apply to him as well:"Holy men of God spake under the power of the Holy Spirit.". Gen 24:15. Chapter 26:34-37 Jacob-Israel, or the education of the Spirit, Chapter 27 Jacob deceitfully gets the blessing, b. Luke That the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Are the waters very deep with you, dear friend? There would be no beauty whatever in a Christian without any good works, and with no graces. It is by passing through death that we come out into the realm of perfectness. Hath he said, and shall he not do it?. And he blessed him there. The giving up of a life yielded a better covering than the growth of nature; and so today the death of Christ yields us a better covering than we could ever find in anything that grew of our poor fallen nature. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. Abraham did not deceive the young men, he believed that he and Isaac would come to them again. There are far better ornaments than gold can buy ornaments neat, and raiment comely may we all possess them. He was glad to find himself at rest once more, though not yet at liberty. The Lord knoweth them that are his, and they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up or, shut up my jewels, as he was about to do in the case. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Oh, that it might be so today! Chapter 10:1: These are the generations of the sons of Noah, 5. Make yourself: This means this was Noahs project. Gen 8:6-7. O thou who art striving against sin, or seeking to win souls for Christ, after many disappointments may you be able to clutch this sweet assurance, He shall overcome at the last.. And unto him, to this very day, the people gather, and more and more shall gather in the latter days. Yet I must say that I do not like these terms that Jacob uses; they do not seem to me to be the right sort of language for a man of faith: My lord Esau, Thy servant Jacob saith thus. What business had Gods favored one to speak thus to such a profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright? Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noahs Ark. This was a poor character for Issachar to possess; it was a tame-spirited tribe, that loved rest and ease, and therefore did not fight with the common foe. Spurgeon,At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.On Lords-Day Evening, June 16th, 1867. And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. I think that, when Christians differ from one another, there should be a holy emulation between them as to which shall be the first to give way, and which will give way the more to the other. Spurgeon once said of the commentary, "It contains so great a variety of information that if a man had no other exposition he would find himself at no great loss if he possessed and used it diligently." Commentary on Genesis 1. Genesis 12-50 : The history of the Patriarchs, 1. For out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. A sad misfortune to lose the sight of the eyes! A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Gen 32:4-5. Until the waters were dried up from of the earth. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his brother shall be unto Zidon. Thou hast loosed my bonds.. And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. Yet so it was. Gen 32:2. Drive them away; God give you grace to drive them away by the power of his gracious Spirit! Used by Permission. Uncontrolled passions may make him very little who otherwise might have been great. even he tried plotting and scheming more than once, but failed every time he did so. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. The greater our troubles, the louder our song at the last. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Gen 15:13. And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. Gen 22:2. There is no food like the bread and wine that our blessed Melchizedek brings forth to us, even his own flesh and blood. And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. He said to Jacob, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?. Gen 3:7. The words, so he did cover an awful lot of material and years; yet Noah did not shrink from what God told him to do. There must be suitable food to feed upon, and the sun and moon to cheer and comfort ere a single bird shall chirp in the thicket or a solitary trout shall leap in the stream. But there is good hope of things going right when Jacob, who is the better of the two brothers, is also the humbler of the two. Oh, how foolish are they who harbour it in their own bosoms, for it will bring destruction to them if they keep it there! But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. So that he fell, or began to fall; but still he gripped the Angel, and would not let him go. We know that the angels went down to Sodom, where they were received by Lot, and despitefully used by the Sodomites. I would that those who fear God were less careful about the adornments of their persons. c. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD: While God commanded all the earth to be cleansed of this pollution, He found one man with whom to begin again: Noah, who found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Gen 8:15-16. Hebrews The fault lies in trying to compress all truth under either of those two heads. Gen 18:31-32. Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy fathers children shall bow down before thee. They are important for the divisions of this book. We should even be willing to humiliate ourselves in order to make peace. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. Gen 32:24. These two names do not however, as many critics think, point to different authors or reports, which would have been compiled by later "editors", but are a proof for the divine inspiration of Scripture. They had struck a match, and set the world on fire with sin. Here is no human passion, but divine dignity: And he said, . And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. Thus the beginning and the end of the Bible call our attention to the tree of life and the river of life in the paradise below and the better paradise above. Yet notice also how Jacob reminds God of his promise, Thou saidst, I will surely do thee good. That is the very pith and marrow of prayer when we can quote the Lords promise, and say to him, Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. You have a strong plea to urge with God when you can say to him, Thou saidst, for he is a God who cannot lie. They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. Not even one servant had he with him when he fled away across the river, he was alone and unattended, and now he was coming back at the head of a great family, with troops of servants, and an abundance of cattle, and sheep, and all things that men think worth having. 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. Oh, how often have we been lifted up above the earth by the very force that threatened to drench and drown us! Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Lamentations Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: And well he might be, for an angry brother, with four hundred fierce followers, must mean mischief. Gen 1:20-23. Gen 3:6. These men were verily guilty for selling their brother, yet God was verily wise in permitting him to be sold. And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. Gen 3:19. I believe that much of the theology which is tinged with free will is true, and I know that the teaching which fully proclaims electing love and sovereign grace is also true; and you may find much of both these truths in the Scriptures. The title "law" does not only refer to the commandments that Moses received at Sinai from God. Joel And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. This is how you shall make it: The ark was as long as a 30-story building is high (about 450 feet or 150 meters), and it was about 75 feet (25 meters) wide and 45 feet (15 meters) high. They are all gone out of the way.. Judah is a lions whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? Gen 24:1. And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: And Esau, altogether a man of the world, one very like the sons of other families around about, took care to adorn himself in goodly raiment. We must do everything that is included in the bounds of the divine command, and do it all with scrupulous exactness and care. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. We must never judge anything before it is complete. the Holy Spirit does not write for the credit of man: he writes for the glory of Gods grace. How there was light before there was any sun, for the sun was not created until the fourth day of the week it is not for us to say. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Sier, the country of Edom. ii. Gen 14:19-20. Lots petition is only like an ounce of prayer. Now let us read what the Lord says, through the prophet Isaiah, concerning this covenant. and my soul shall live. iii. But in the middle of the night, he was in such deep anxiety concerning his meeting with his brother, and probably still more concerning his position towards his God, that he felt that he must get away alone to pray. 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. Job Kansas City, Missouri 64118, 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Now therefore be not grieved, not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. Genesis 6 describes a desperate attempt on the part of Satan to attack the godly remnant that is named in chapter 5. There must have been flaws in it; and, certainly, after this time, there was one great sad flaw, of which it is not necessary now to speak more particularly, still, God regarded him as righteous. (Spurgeon). Noah was not told when he should be released, and the Lord does not tell you when your trouble will come to an end. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. God told Noah to cover it with pitch inside and outside, which makes it possible that the ark was preserved for a long time. It was a memorable discourse , A Family Sermon When did the dominion depart from Judah till the Lord Jesus came as the Seat One? i. During World War II two pilots saw and photographed something they believed was the ark on Mount Ararat. Spurgeon's Exposition Genesis Genesis 1 Gen 1:1. What Eve said was true; but it was not a sufficient reason for her sin. 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. Go up to my father, and say unto him, Come down unto me. See how great love turns pleader again; he who said to his brethren, Come near to me, sends to his father the message, Come down unto me.. In the infinite sovereignty of his grace, he chose Abraham,passing by all the rest of mankind,and elected him to be the depository of the heavenly light, that through him it might be preserved in the world until the days when it should be more widely scattered. Further on in his history he received a still larger blessing when he returned from his victory over the kings. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. What can Jacob do now that the main bone of his leg is put out of joint? Yet, if you do feel that it is right to make such plans as Jacob made, take care that you do what Jacob also did. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? Gen 1:24-25. The old man is in his dotage, said they; he always was peculiar, he never acted like the rest of the citizens; he came in here as a stranger, and he has always been strange in his behavior.. Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him, and so proved that he was righteous before God. Now we are going to read in the Gospel according to John, the fifth chapter, beginning at the twenty-fourth verse. We will read two or three passages in the Book of Genesis concerning God blessing his servant Abraham. And the evening and the morning were the third day. James d. You shall make it: And Noah did make it. An error is often half killed when you know the real name of it; its power lies in its being indescribable; but as soon as you can call it darkness, you know how to act towards it. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. This holy man, Jacob, in dying, did not express himself according to the rules of natural affection but he yielded himself up to the Spirit of God; hence he had to say very much that must have been very bitter for a father to say, and he said it in all faithfulness being taught of the Spirit concerning things to come. Now was his faith tried indeed, he had no child, he was himself old, and his wife also was old, yet the Lords promise was, So shall thy seed be as the stars of heaven. The Lord told Noah when to go in, for it was necessary for him to know that; but he did not tell him when he should come out, for it was unnecessary that he should know that. Gen 45:10. Ruth Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. THERE w a s a well of water close to Hagar all the while though she saw it not. Gen 22:17-18. c. Take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself: God also commanded Noah to take all the food he could. Gen 32:27. They who would serve God aright must serve him faithfully in little things as well as in great ones. Gen 9:16. Gen 32:25. Why is all this recorded in the Bible? And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? No. Noah walked with God. Issachar crouched down between the burdens instead of taking them up and bearing them; God grant that none of us may be of that lazy tribe! 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.
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