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Welcome to

• BIBLE 2202 / 2302
• THE PENTATEUCH
• Lecture Six, Tues, May 22
• NO PLATE LUNCHES IN CLASS
• DRINK, SMALL TIDBIT o.k.

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Lecture 6 5-22
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The knowledge God did not want them (man) to ever
Have.

• PHYSICAL PAIN AND SUFFERING
• A BROKEN FAMILY LIFESEEING THEIR SON MURDER HIS
  BROTHER
• EMOTIONAL PAIN AND SUFFERING
• THE EFFECTS OF SIN IN AGING THE BODY AND DEATH
  ARE ALWAYS A THREAT
• THE FEELING OF A GULF AND DISTANCE FROM GOD.

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Consequences of the fall.

• 1. Eyes were opened. ---Gen. 37. And the eyes
  of them both were openedthe new knowledge came
  and brought
• 2. Knowledge of guilt shame. They knew they
  were naked (loss of innocence) and they sewed
  fig leaves together, and made themselves
  aprons---Even still, criminals cover their faces
  before the camera
• 3. Neither wanted to accept responsibility for
  their sin.
• MAN CANNOT COVER HIS SIN WITH FLIMSY EXCUSES
  BEFORE GOD'S ALL SEEING EYE.

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IN THE WAKE OF SIN. GODS LOVE PROMISES GRACE IN
THE PROTOEVANGELION

• 315. THE OLDEST GOSPEL
• And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
  and between thy seed and her seed it shall
  bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• HERE WE HAVE
• 1. HER SEEDVIRGIN BIRTH
• 2. BRUISE THY HEAD..DEFEAT OF SATAN
• 3. BRUISE HIS HEEL..SUFFERING SAVIOR.

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ADEQUATE COVERING FOR THEIR NEW CONSCIENCE OF
NAKEDNESS WAS THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD OF AN
INNOCENT ANIMALTHEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE OF A DEATH

• 321. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
  Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
• 1. Self covering was inadequate
• 2. Blood was shed and death occurred
• 3. Rom. 323 The wages of sin is death.
• 4. Sin is awesome in its effects on society.

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THE EXCOMMUNICATION FROM EDEN AND THE GULF THAT
SIN CREATES BETWEEN GOD AND MAN

• 322 And now, lest he put forth his hand, and
  take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live
  for ever 23. Therefore the Lord God sent him
  forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
  from whence he was taken.
• 324. 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.

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How Access Is Regained to the Tree of Life

• Rev. 27. He that hath an ear, let him hear what
  the Spirit saith unto the churches To him that
  overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of
  life, which is in the midst of the paradise of
  God.
• Rev. 2214. Blessed are they that do his
  commandments, that they may have right to the
  tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
  into the city.

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TO RETURN TO THE TREE OF LIFE ONE MUST BE SLAIN
BY THE SWORD OF GODS WORD.

• GEN. 324 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.
• 12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
  and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
  even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
  and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
  of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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WHEN ONE BELIEVES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD
RAISED FROM THE DEAD IT IS SAID THAT HE IS CUT
TO THE HEART) . i.e. SPIRITUALLY SLAIN (REPENTS
IN SORROW)

• ACTS 237. Now when they heard this, they were
  pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and
  to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren,
  what shall we do?
• Matthew 54 Blessed are they that mourn for
  they shall be comforted.
• Rom. 67. For he that is dead is freed from
  sin.
• 8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
  that we shall also live with him

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THE SWORD (GOSPEL) PIERCES THE HEART, SLAYING THE
SINNER, AND THEN HE IS BURIED WITH CHRIST IN
BAPTISM

• 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
  into death that like as Christ was raised up
  from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
  we also should walk in newness of life.
• 5. For if we have been planted together in the
  likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
  likeness of his resurrection
• 6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
  with him, that the body of sin might be
  destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
  sin.
• 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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GODS RAINBOW OF GRACE AT THE PORTALS OF
SOCIAL HISTORY
THE PRECIOUS PROMISE The Protoevangelion
315. and I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed he
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.
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From the Beginning of History

• THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE MOTIF
• CO-EXIST IN TWO SEEDS

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TWO SEEDS SHALL CO-EXIST
THE WOMANS SEED
THE SERPENTS SEED

• THAT WILL BRING THE PROMISED BLESSING OF JESUS
  (SALVATION) TO THE EARTH. THIS SEED AHS THE
  BLESSING OF DIVINE GRACE WHICH OVER-
• COMES DEATH BY RESURRECTING THE BELIEVER FROM
  THE DEAD..

• THAT WILL BE DEDICATED TO MOCK GODS PROMISE AND
  PREVENT THE DIVINE PROMISE.. THIS SEED HAS THE
  POWER OF THE CURSE OF DEATH WHICH WILL BRUISE THE
  HEEL OF THE WOMANS SEED

WAR
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THIS IS A WAR BETWEEN

• GOOD AND EVIL
• HONESTY AND DECEIT
• THE SPIRITUAL AND THE MATERIAL
• GOD AND SATAN
• BELIEVER'S IN THE WORD ---SEED OF BLESSING
• BELIEVER'S IN THE LIE -- SEED OF CURSING

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THEY HAVE DIFFERENT GOALS

• The unbelieving seed defines success in terms of
  physical possessionsgod of this world.
• Luke 1219. And I will say to my soul, Soul,
  thou hast much goods laid up for many years take
  thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

• The faith seed defines success in terms of God,
  spiritual possessions, eternal life.
• Matt. 619-20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures
  upon the earth---but lay up for yourselves
  treasures in heaven,

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JESUS NO ONE CAN BE ON BOTH SIDES

• Matthew 24. No man can serve two masters for
  either he will hate the one, and love the other
  or else he will hold to one, and despise the
  other.

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WHAT IS AT STAKE

• The saving of Man Big Quest. Is God Able to
  Fulfill His promised?
• Can the curse of sin prevent the blessing from
  happening?
• Can Satan, using his power to deceive man with
  his power of sinful lies and murder, mock God?
• The Pentateuch (and entire Bible) demonstrates
  that flood, famine, earthly governments or
  pestilence can prevent Gods from fulfilling His
  promise. Obstacles will only becomes the divine
  means for protecting the blessing

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SERPENTS SEED WILL BRUISE THE PROMISED SEEDS
HEEL

• 315. And I will put enmity between thee and the
  woman, and between thy seed and her seed it
  shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
  heel.
• THE BLESSING WILL BE WITH THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT AT
  THE EXPENSE OF SUFFERING.
• Matt. 5 11. Blessed are ye, when men shall
  revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all
  manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad for great is
  your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the
  prophets which were before you.

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HISTORY BEGINS TO UNFOLD WITH EXAMPLES OF THE
TWO SEEDS
WE ARE IN ONE OF TWO SEEDS
FROM CAIN ABEL
TO LAST SOULS

• CAIN (Flesh seed)
• Gen. 45. But unto Cain and to his offering he
  had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his
  countenance fell.
• I John 312. Not as Cain, who was of that
  wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore
  slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and
  his brother's righteous.

• ABEL (Faith seed ))
• Heb. 114. By faith Abel offered unto God a
  more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
  obtained witness that he was righteous, God
  testifying of his gifts

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Cains Sin Includes All Sin

• CAIN VIOLATED TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DIVINITY
  AND BROTHERHOOD
• Dt. 6 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
  with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
  with all thy might.
• He worshipped as he pleased, and not as it
  pleased God.
• Lev. 1918 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
  thyself
• He killed his brother because his worship was
  acceptable and his were not.

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THE ATTITUDE OF CAIN SHOWS THE DARK MENTALITY OF
THE SERPENTS SEED

• 49. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel
  thy brother? And he said, I know not am I my
  brother's keeper?
• To Adam 39 Where art thou?
• To Cain 49 Where is thy brother?
• I JNO. 2 10. He that loveth his brother abideth
  in the light, and there is none occasion of
  stumbling in him. 11. But he that hateth his
  brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness,
  and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that
  darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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THE PENTATEUCH ILLUSTRATES THAT THE WAGES OF SIN
IS DEATH

• Gen. 4 16. And Cain went out from the presence
  of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the
  east of Eden. In 7 generations from Adam are
  found living by the law of the jungle.
• Adam-Cain-Enoch-Irad-Mehujael-Methusael-Lamech.
• Polygamy begins 423-24 And Lamech took unto him
  two wives I have slain a man to my wounding,
  and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be
  avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
  sevenfold.
• SEVEN GENERATIONS ENDS THE TOLDOT OF CAIN

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NOW THE RECORD SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FAITH
SEED IN 7 GENERATION IN THE TOLDOT OF ADAM VIA
SETH

• And Adam - Seth- Enos - Cainan Mahalaleel-
  Cainan - Jared eight hundred and thirty years,
  and begat sons and daughters - Enoch
• 1922. And Enoch walked with God and he was
  not for God took him.
• Heb. 115. By faith Enoch was translated that
  he should not see death and was not found,
  because God had translated him for before his
  translation he had this testimony, that he
  pleased God.

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THE EVIDENCE OF HISTORY

• FOR THE SEED THAT CHOOSES TO WALK LIKE CAINS
  TOLDOT (AFTER THE FLESH AND NOT AFTER THE
  PROMISE) THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH--- Rom 623
• FOR THE SEED THAT CHOOSES TO WALK LIKE SETHS
  TOLDOT (TO WALK BY FAITH IN GODS PROMISE) IS TO
  OVERCOME BY GRACE THE CURSE OF DEATH

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THUS WE HAVE THE RECORD STATING

• HABAKKUK 24. Behold, his soul which is lifted
  up is not upright in him but the just shall live
  by his faith.
• Eph. 2 8. For by grace are ye saved through
  faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift
  of God

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A HAZARD ENTERS THE SCENEINTERMARRIAGE

• IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT GOD CAN KEEP HIS
  PROMISE IF THE BAD SEED MURDERS THE GOOD. NOW
  THE QUESTION IS, CAN GOD KEEP HIS PROMISE IF THE
  GOOD SEED MIXES WITH THE BAD.

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In three Generations Methuselah, Lamech
NoahUniversal Sin

• The record will now demonstrate that God by His
  grace is able to perpetuate the seed of promise
  regardless of universal sin that demands
  universal destruction.
• Problem If the divine curse against sin is
  death, how can God save the seed of promise if
  there is universal sin?
• Solution Grace and faith are superior to sin and
  death. Although a small remnant, God is able to
  know who they are and save them in a righteous
  way. Mt. 713-14

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Faith Seed Is Corrupted by Intermarriage with the
Serpents Seed1 Cor. 1533

• 1. And it came to pass, when men began to
  multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters
  were born unto them,
• 2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of
  men that they were fair and they took them wives
  of all which they chose.
• 3. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not
  always strive with man, for that he also is
  flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and
  twenty years.
• 120 yearsGod has patience to extend grace to
  sinners for awhile but it is only for a
  space.judgment will come.
• 21. And I gave her space to repent of her
  fornication and she repented not.

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The Result of fleshly Distraction

• 6 4. There were giants in the earth in those
  days and also after that, when the sons of God
  came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
  children to them, the same became mighty men
  which were of old, men of renown.
• 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was
  great in the earth, and that every imagination of
  the thoughts of his heart was only evil
  continually.

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Gods Patience Ends in Judgment

• Only 8 righteous faithful souls found on the
  earth.
• 2 TIM 219 Nevertheless the foundation of God
  standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth
  them that are his
• Satan again loses his bid to destroy the seed of
  the woman and prevent the coming of the promised
  seedthe Messiah, Jesus Christ

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WHO RECEIVES GRACE FROM GOD?

• NOAH IS AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL
• 67. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom
  I have created from the face of the earth both
  man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
  fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have
  made them.
• 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
  Lord.
• KEY TO THE GRACE OF GOD. 622. Thus did Noah
  according to all that God commanded him, so did
  he.
• No other boats built by mans design would have
  saved anyone

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The Ark is a type of a sinners Salvations

• 20. Which sometime were disobedient, when once
  the longsuffering of God waited in the days of
  Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few,
  that is, eight souls were saved by water.
• 21. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth
  also now save us (not the putting away of the
  filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
  conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of
  Jesus Christ

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The Figure of Noahs Salvation and ours

• Had to board the
• ship
• All in ark saved
• All outside perished
• One family of Noahs
• All had to stay on ship

• All must be added to church.. Acts 247
• All in Christ saved
• All outside lost
• One family of Christians
• All must remain faithful

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GEN 11, POST FLOOD WORLD
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THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES AND NATIONS

• 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city
  and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven and
  let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
  abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
• 5. And the Lord came down to see the city and
  the tower, which the children of men builded.
• 6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is
  one, and they have all one language and this
  they begin to do and now nothing will be
  restrained from them, which they have imagined to
  do.
• 7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound
  their language, that they may not understand one
  another's speech.
• 8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from
  thence upon the face of all the earth and they
  left off to build the city.
• 9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel
• EPH 28. For by grace are ye saved through
  faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift
  of God 9. Not of works, lest any man should
  boast.

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THE SEED PROMISE IS NARROWED BY DIVINE
SELECTIVITY- A NATION IS TO BE BORN

• 121. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee
  out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and
  from thy father's house, unto a land that I will
  shew thee
• 2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and
  I will bless thee, and make thy name great and
  thou shalt be a blessing
• ABE IS 75

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WHY ABRAM?

• THE SAME REASON AS WHY NOAH
• 2218. And in thy seed shall all the nations of
  the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my
  voice.
• Heb. 11 8. By faith Abraham, when he was called
  to go out into a place which he should after
  receive for an inheritance, obeyed and he went
  out, not knowing whither he went.
• . 622. Thus did Noah according to all that God
  commanded him, so did he.

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The Principle of Grace and Faith

• Noah obtained grace through his faith
• Abraham obtained grace through his faith
• Paul says Eph, 28. For by grace are ye saved
  through faith and that not of yourselves it is
  the gift of God
• 9. Not of works, lest any man should boast.
• No faith, good works are useless.

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To Perfect His Faith, Abram is Subjected To
Several Tests in Life

• ALTHOUGH HE FAILS ONCE, IN ALL OTHERS HE PASSES.
• EACH TIME HE PROVES FAITHFUL IN THE TEST, GOD
  GIVES HIM ADDITIONAL REVELATION
• WE WILL NOW STUDY THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABRAMS
  CHARACTER

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ABE PASSES THE INITIAL CALL TEST

• TEST 1. THE LOVE OF GOD
• 121 Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
  kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
  that I will shew thee
• 124. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken
  unto him and Lot went with him and Abram was
  seventy and five years old when he departed out
  of Haran.

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THE ADDITIONAL REVELATION AFTER PASSING TEST 1

• 6. And Abram passed through the land unto the
  place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the
  Canaanite was then in the land.
• 7. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said,
  Unto thy seed will I give this land and there
  builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared
  unto him.

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RECEIVING FURTHER REVELATION ABRAM GROWS IN FAITH

• 127 and there builded he an altar unto the Lord,
  who appeared unto him.
• 8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain
  on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
  having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east
  and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and
  called upon the name of the Lord.
• 9. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward
  the south.

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ABRAM FAILS 2ND TEST 1210-20GOD HAS PROMISED,
YET HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE

• Caused by a famine driving him into Egypt.
• Since God had promised..why didnt Abram seek
  Gods counsel before going into a foreign
  country.
• Regardless of Gods promise , Abram fears that he
  will be killed by those who desire his wife.
• He fails the test and through fear lies and tells
  his wife to lie.a half lie

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ABRAM LIES

• 11. And it came to pass, when he was come near
  to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his
  wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair
  woman to look upon
• 12. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the
  Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say,
  This is his wife and they will kill me, but they
  will save thee alive.
• 13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister that
  it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul
  shall live because of thee.

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Where Is Satan in all this?

• Remember, he wants to prevent the promise to
  Abram being fulfilled through Sarai. His worst
  fear is Jesus coming into the world. Thorough
  2,000 more years he will use many sinful
  circumstances to prevent this from happening.
  Here he exploits Abrams weakness. But Abe will
  learn and grow stronger
• If the marriage takes place to Pharaoh the
  promise to send a seed via Sarai will be broken.

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GOD PROTECTS HIS PROMISED SEED. HE PREVENTS
SARAI FROM CONTAMINATION

• 17. And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
  with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
• 18. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is
  this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou
  not tell me that she was thy wife?
• 19. Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I
  might have taken her to me to wife now therefore
  behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
• 20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning
  him and they sent him away, and his wife, and
  all that he had.

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IN PENITENT DEEPER FAITH ABRAM RETURNS TO HIS
ORIGINAL ALTAR

• 133 And he went on his journeys from the south
  even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had
  been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai
• 4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had
  made there at the first and there Abram called
  on the name of the Lord.
• One might guess what Abram said to God.

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Character Test 3 Abram Passes A Brotherly
Love Test

• 7. And there was a strife between the herdmen of
  Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle
  and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
  in the land.
• 8. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no
  strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and
  between my herdmen and thy herdmen for we be
  brethren.
• 9. Is not the whole land before thee? separate
  thyself, I pray thee, from me if thou wilt take
  the left hand, then I will go to the right or if
  thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to
  the left.

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• 10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all
  the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered
  every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and
  Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like
  the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• 11. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan
  and Lot journeyed east and they separated
  themselves the one from the other.
• 12. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and
  Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and
  pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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After Passing the 3rd Character Test, God Gives
Abram Additional Revelation

• 13 14. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that
  Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine
  eyes, and look from the place where thou art
  northward, and southward, and eastward, and
  westward
• 15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee
  will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
• 16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
  earth so that if a man can number the dust of
  the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
• 17. Arise, walk through the land in the length
  of it and in the breadth of it for I will give
  it unto thee.
• 18. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and
  dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron,
  and built there an altar unto the Lord.

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Abrams 4th Test. Refuses Money for His Kindness

• 1421. And the king of Sodom said unto Abram,
  Give me the persons, and take the goods to
  thyself.
• 22. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have
  lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high
  God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
• 23. That I will not take from a thread even to
  a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing
  that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have
  made Abram rich
• 24. Save only that which the young men have
  eaten, and the portion of the men which went with
  me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre let them take their
  portion.

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ABRAM BELIEVES GODS PROMISE ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS
IMPOSSIBLE

• 15 6. And he believed in the Lord and he
  counted it to him for righteousness.
• 1810. And he said, I will certainly return unto
  thee according to the time of life and, lo,
  Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
  it in the tent door, which was behind him.
• 11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well
  stricken in age and it ceased to be with Sarah
  after the manner of women.
• Abraham believed God could instill life in the
  dead

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Additional Revelation follows Passing the 4th
Test of Character

• 1512. And when the sun was going down, a deep
  sleep fell upon Abram. And, lo, a horror of great
  darkness fell upon him.
• 13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
  that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that
  is not theirs, and shall serve them. And they
  shall afflict them four hundred years.
• 14. And also that nation, whom they shall
  serve, will I judge. And afterward shall they
  come out with great substance.
• 15. But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace.
  Thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
• 16. And in the fourth generation they shall
  come hither again. For the iniquity of the
  Amorite is not yet full.

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THE GENESIS OF THE AR ABS THEIR SOURCE FOR
HATRED FOR THE JEWS

• 161. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no
  children. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian,
  whose name was Hagar.
• 2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now,
  Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing. Go in, I
  pray thee, unto my handmaid. It may be that I
  shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened
  to the voice of Sarai.
• 3. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the
  Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten
  years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to
  Abram her husband to be his wife.

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• 4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she
  conceived. And when she saw that she had
  conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
  
• 5. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon
  thee. I gave my handmaid into thy bosom. And when
  she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in
  her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee
• 6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid
  is in thy hand. Do to her that which is good in
  thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and
  she fled from her face.

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ABRAM GROWS AND RECEIVES ADDITIONAL REVELATION-
HIS NAME IS CHANGED

• 17 1. And when Abram was ninety years old and
  nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto
  him, I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be
  thou perfect.
• 2. And I will make my covenant between me and
  thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
• 3. And Abram fell on his face. And God talked
  with him, saying
• 4. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee,
  and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of
  nations.
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GOD CHANGES ABRAMS NAME

• 5. Neither shall thy name any more be called
  Abram, but they name shall be Abraham. For the
  father of a multitude of nations have I made
  thee.
• 6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and
  I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come
  out of thee.
• 7. And I will establish my covenant between me
  and thee and thy seed after thee, throughout
  their generations for an everlasting convenant,
  to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee

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SARAH, FEARING THE FAMILY BLESSING COULD GO TO
ISHMAEL, DEMANDS HAGARS AND ISHMAELS EXILE

• Gen. 2110. Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
  Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son
  of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son,
  even with Isaac.
• 11. And the thing was very grievous in
  Abraham's sight on account of his son.
• 12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
  grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and
  because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah saith
  unto thee, hearken unto her voice. For in Isaac
  shall thy seed be called.
• 13. And also of the son of the handmaid will I
  make a nation, because he is thy seed.

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14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,
and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it
unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave
her the child, and sent her away. And she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of
Beer-sheba. 15. And the water in the bottle
was spent, and she cast the child under one of
the shrubs. 16. And she went, and sat her down
over against him a good way off, as it were a
bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the
death of the child. And she sat over against him,
and lifted up her voice, and wept.
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17. And God heard the voice of the lad. And the
angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and
said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not.
For God hath heard the voice of the lad where he
is. 18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him
in thy hand. For I will make him a great nation.
19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a
well of water. And she went, and filled the
bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20.
And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he
dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew
up, an archer.
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JESUS ON ABRAHAMS FAITH

• John 8 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
  my day and he saw it, and was glad.
• 57. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not
  yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
• 58. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
  unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (the res.
  life)
• 59. Then took they up stones to cast at him
  but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the
  temple, going through the midst of them, and so
  passed by

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SUMMARY It has Been Demonstrated That God is
Able and Will Keep His promise Regardless of Any
And All Complications

• 1. Protection from the flood (Gen. 6-10)
• 2. From the untied power of the world (11)
• 3. Weakness of human flesh marriage
  entanglements (12)
• 4. Frustration of sterility and human wisdom (16)
• 5. Family rivalry and deceit (24)
• 6. Sibling jealousy and injustice (37)
• 7. Refusal to bear children (Er Onan) (38)
• 8. Adultery and capital punishment (38)
• 9. Death decree of male seed by Pharaoh (Ex. 1)
• 10. Slaying the actual seed (N.T.)

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Abrahams Faith is Proved Genesis 221-19 Hebrews
1117,18
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Learn 1. Faith Proving Hurts

• 1. And it came to pass after these things, that
  God did prove Abraham, and said unto him,
  Abraham. And he said, Here am I. (Cp. Mary)
• 2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only
  son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee
  into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for
  a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which
  I will tell thee of.

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Being Faithful Hurts

• Hurt intensifies when we dont understand!
• The dark and mysterious and we cant see
• WHY!
• Why me? Why now? Why Mt. Moriah?

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The Burden of Hurt Brings Sleepless Nights

• 3. And Abraham rose early in the morning, and
  saddled his ass, and took two of his young men
  with him, and Isaac his son. And he clave the
  wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and
  went unto the place of which God had told him.

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The Trial of Faith is A Lonely Burden

• and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
  his son.
• But He didnt share his problem.

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Hurts Hang On

• 4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
  and saw the place afar off.

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How the Faithful Manage the Pain

• Faith Sees Gods Healing Beyond the Hurt
• 5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye
  here with the ass, and I and the lad will go
  yonder and we will worship, and come again to
  you.

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Faith Sees Profit in the Pain

• 7. It is for chastening that ye endure God
  dealeth with you as with sons for what son is
  there whom his father chasteneth not?
• 8. But if ye are without chastening, whereof
  all have been made partakers, then are ye
  bastards, and not sons.
• 9. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh
  to chasten us, and we gave them reverence shall
  we not much rather be in subjection unto the
  Father of spirits, and live?

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• 10. For they indeed for a few days chastened us
  as seemed good to them but he for our profit,
  that we may be partakers of his holiness.
• 11. All chastening seemeth for the present to
  be not joyous but grievous yet afterward it
  yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been
  exercised thereby, even the fruit of
  righteousness.
• 12. Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down,
  and the palsied knees

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The Source for Strength for the Strain of Faith

• How Can One handle that?
• When their faith in the after-life is strong
  enough to governs the present life faith is the
  victory

• Gen. 225 I and the lad will go yonder and we
  will worship, and come again to you.
• Gen. 227-8 God will provide the sacrifice

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THE DOME OF THE ROCK A MUSLIM MOSQUE STANDS OVER
THE ROCK WHERE ABRAHAM OFFERED ISAAC A SOURCE
OF SHAME HATE
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Mosque of Omar The Mosque of Omar was built in
the late 600s, about 600 years after the Romans
destroyed the temple.  Omar was the
caliph-successor of Muhammad who captured
Jerusalem from the Eastern Roman Empire. (the
last emperor of the western part of the Roman
Empire was deposed in 476 AD. The eastern Roman
Empire continued until 1453 - the year Columbus
was born.                  
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The Mosque of Omar is called the Dome of the
Rock. Its dome stands over the rock where the
sacrificial altar of the temple stood. The rock
contains four deep holes where the blood from the
sacrifices once flowed. In Muslim legends these
are the hoof prints of Al Boraq (meaning "the
lightning") the horse that carries Muhammad to
heaven in a vision. (In actual life Muhammad
never visited Jerusalem. He was only there in a
vision.)
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By 1453 the eastern Roman Empire had long since
lost most of its territory to the Muslims. In
1453 the Turks captured Constantinople (today
Istanbul, Turkey), the capital city of the
eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire).
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What Is God-Approved Faith?

• 2212 For now I know that thou fearest God
• 1. When we love God more than life
• Eccl. 1213 Jn. 1415 Mt. 2237
• 2. When we believe God will keep His promise
  regardless of death.
• 2. When we believe God has resurrected His Son
  after death.

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The Writer of Hebrews on Abraham

• By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
  Isaac and he that had received the promises
  offered up his only begotten son,
• 18. Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall
  thy seed be called
• 19. Accounting that God was able to raise him
  up, even from the dead from whence also he
  received him in a figure.

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Seeing Beyond Death Anchored Abrahams/Our Soul

• Heb. 619. Which hope we have as an anchor of
  the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
  entereth into that within the veil 20. Whither
  the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus,
• Jn. 856. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
  my day and he saw it, and was glad.

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Faith in the after-life Governed Jesus Life in
this Present World

• John 519 The Son can do nothing of himself, but
  what he seeth the Father do for what things
  soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
  likewise.

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How Pauls Faith Governed His Life

• 20. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I
  live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me and the
  life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
  faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
  himself for me.

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The Church is the body of Christ and Christians
are the Members

• Faith in the after-death promise of Christ must
  be strong enough to govern the Christians
  present life
• 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism
  into death that like as Christ was raised up
  from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
  we also should walk in newness of life.
• 5. For if we have been planted together in the
  likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
  likeness of his resurrection

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• 6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
  with him, that the body of sin might be
  destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve
  sin.
• 7. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
• 8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe
  that we shall also live with him
• 9. Knowing that Christ being raised from the
  dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion
  over him.
• 10. For in that he died, he died unto sin once
  but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
• 11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
  dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through
  Jesus Christ our Lord.

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• 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
  body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
  thereof.
• 13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments
  of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves
  unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,
  and your members as instruments of righteousness
  unto God.
• 14. For sin shall not have dominion over you
  for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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• THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE SAVING FAITH WHERE THERE
  IS NO PRACTICE OF THAT FAITH IN THIS LIFE
• James 217 Even so faith, if it hath not works,
  is dead, being alone.
• God knew Abraham feared (respected and honored)
  Him when his faith in the after life translated
  into obedience in this life.
• The same is true for believers in all ages.
• John 1415 If you love me, keep my
  commandments

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Abrahams Test of Faith and Ours

• Rm. 121 ---present your bodies a living
  sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
  spiritual service.
• 2. And be not fashioned according to this
  world but be ye transformed by the renewing of
  your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and
  acceptable and perfect will of God.

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How Is Our Faith Proved to Be Genuine?

• 23. And he said unto all, If any man would come
  after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
  cross daily, and follow me.
• 24. For whosoever would save his life shall
  lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my
  sake, the same shall save it.
• 25. For what is a man profited, if he gain the
  whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
• 26. For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of
  my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed,
  when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of
  the Father, and of the holy angels.

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Our Calling

• I Cor. 617. Wherefore Come ye out from among
  them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And
  touch no unclean thing And I will receive you,
• 18. And will be to you a Father, And ye shall
  be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord
  Almighty.

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God is Sovereign When Selecting the Channel for
the Promise

• No question that Abraham Understood that the
  Calling was in Isaac, not Ishmael, even though
  Isaac was the younger Son
• 5. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

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Sovereignty is shown Also in Selection of Jacob
over Esau

• Gen. 25 21. And Isaac intreated the Lord for
  his wife, because she was barren and the Lord
  was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
  conceived.
• 22. And the children struggled together within
  her and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
  And she went to inquire of the Lord.
• 23. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are
  in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
  separated from thy bowels and the one people
  shall be stronger than the other people and the
  elder shall serve the younger.

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Sovereignty Prevails Over Family sins

• 27. And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning
  hunter, a man of the field and Jacob was a plain
  man, dwelling in tents.
• 28. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of
  his venison but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Problem Parental Favoritism God had revealed
that the elder would serve the younger
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• 29. And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from
  the field, and he was faint
• 30. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray
  thee, with that same red pottage for I am faint
  therefore was his name called Edom.
• 31. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
  birthright.

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• 32. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to
  die and what profit shall this birthright do to
  me?
• 33. And Jacob said, Swear to me this day and
  he sware unto him and he sold his birthright
  unto Jacob.
• 34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of
  lentiles and he did eat and drink, and rose up,
  and went his way thus Esau despised his
  birthright.