Sermons on Genesis (Page 2)
Laying Hold of God’s Promised Land (Genesis 23:1-20)
Genesis 12:1-3, 13:15 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will…
Fully Surrendered Faith (Genesis 22:1-24)
“God demands faith fully surrendered, willing to forfeit everything to trust and obey.” Dr. Jordan Neil Rogers (preaching on Genesis 22) Genesis chapter 22, a chapter of which you are all generally familiar, challenges our notions regarding faith, as God asks Abraham to offer up his very own son Isaac, as a sacrifice. Faith is often short-changed, not given its full due.…
Bringing God to Work (Genesis 21:22-34)
God is with his people, those who confess the name of Jesus. According to Matthew, Jesus bears the designation of “Emmanuel,” or “God with us.” One of Paul’s favorite phrases is “is Christ.” Consider what “in Christ” means for “God with us.” God with us doesn’t merely mean God is associated with you, like your friend at the restaurant. God with us doesn’t merely mean God…
The Blessing of the Birthright (Genesis 21:8-21)
So though they remained children of illegitimate birth, had they understood how God’s promises come to those of legitimate birth, they could have humbled themselves under the covenant promises, and laid hold of them by faith. Just as Ruth believed by faith a Moabite could find a home in Israel and…
The God Who Protects His Promises (Genesis 20:1-18)
Abraham pursued a course of action that seemed wise to him and yet endangered the promise of God (from a human perspective). And yet God took the exertions of man and forged them into something different, something unexpected, something accomplished by God’s sovereign design. Paul assesses this…
Attracted to Sin (Genesis 19:23-38)
If we need to come to God for his righteous in order to escape judgment, then we ought to be wary of the hurdles that might seek to trip us up and prevent us from coming to God for salvation. And the fleeting passions and pleasures of this life have the power to do just that. Lot, his wife, and his two daughters had been sent out of Sodom to avoid the judgment, which here…
Righteous Reception of Messengers of God’s Judgment (Genesis 19:1-22)
The righteous willingly receive God’s messengers of judgment and respond wisely to the message they carry.
The Righteous Response of Intercession (Genesis 18:16-33)
1 Timothy 2:1-6 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is…
Receiving the Lord in Generous Hospitality (Genesis 18:1-15)
What we see in this section is that: Divine hospitality yields divine reassurance of God’s promises. The Lord graciously reaffirms his promises to the righteous until he brings them to completion and hospitality is a means by which we place ourselves in relational proximity to converse with God and…
Marked by God through Baptism (Genesis 17:1-27)
Baptism then becomes a sign to us of God’s covenant into which we have entered. So the value of the mark of baptism for the church is that in our strayings, our doubts, our ignorance, we look upon the mark to be reminded of the covenant in which we live, and be encouraged to persevere in freedom…
