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Last week we saw God reiterate the promise of the covenant that He made with Abraham back in chapter 15, and in doing so He changed Abraham and Sarah’s names. He also instituted the sign of the covenant, circumcision, which Abraham and his descendants would do as a reminder of the covenant. 1 Now the…

This Torah Portion: Genesis 18:1-22:24 Introduction 10 Steps I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bring the one -third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on…

Lord, teach us to pray. “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples” ( Luke 11:1 ). Each rabbi had a particular way of petitioning God, and Jesus’ disciples are aware that John had taught his disciples how to make petition to God. What has become so familiar to us is actually remarkable: “So…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 13:1-15:41 So far, we have discussed how God longed to show Himself to Israel. If they had come up to mount Sinai the complete restoration back to God would have been accomplished as the Lord would have tabernacled in them. They could not do it. We have…

How many of us have ever questioned God? In Genesis 18 , this is exactly what Abraham did. After hearing God was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, he questioned God. He tried to bargain with God. He was trying to negotiate a pardon for Sodom. God played along. For a while. Then, He accomplished what…

What do we know about God? God is ++Omnipotent _All Powerful_ ++Omniscient _All Knowing_ ++Omnipresent _Everywhere Present_ Can we do anything to stop or hinder God’s purposes? 1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet…

Hebrews 11:8-16 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land , dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow…

Gen 18.1 - 22.24 , 2 Kings 4:1-37 , Luke 17:28-37 Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. That word ‘appeared’ carries with it a sense of purpose – God does not appear without purpose or expectations. He appears so that…

The God of the Possible Genesis 18:1-4 , 9-18 Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: Some messages we are going to try to hit a heavy subject about enduring, some days we are going to…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

Building a People of God With Unusual Characters: Abram-Abraham Abraham is the second unusual character I am teaching about from the Biblical records of who God uses to build his people. I began with Noah, for he is the connection in the Bible from the line of Seth before the Flood to the line of Shem…

As we embark into chapter 18 one might ask… “ What is there for me to learn today in this chapter? ” I would encourage you to approach this chapter as you should any chapter of the Bible. Remember this is God’s Word given to us in order that we may know Him better and how He interacts with us His creation.…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

The Unmistakable Deity of Christ Introduction Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. We assuredly need to believe that Jesus Christ is fully man as well in order to understand the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins. God cannot die. So if Christ is not fully man, then there is no sacrifice for our sins.…

ME: There’s a cultural phenomenon going on in our world today called “cancel culture”. What it says is that if you express views that are contrary to those acceptable by a particular group - whether that be a group of friends, a business, a media channel, a government official, you can be locked out…

We are back in our study of the book of Genesis today. In our series THE PROMISE, we come to Genesis chapter 19 today. If you have read the text or are familiar with the story, you can probably understand why I’m always tempted to focus on the sin of the outsiders in texts like this. They are so obvious…

That may Some things to notice: The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Most of us read this verse and we probably don’t think much about what we read. But if you were a Jew, the word LORD would spark all sorts…

The waiting game What about me? There is a danger in reading a text like we have today. Abram and Sarai were pagan’s. Spent years going against God’s will. Yet God blesses them The temptation when we look at someone like Abram is “What about me? ” I come to church, I try to do the right things… i”m not…

Pentateuch The story of how God restored mankind, lovingly and graciously redeeming them out of sin’s slavery and raising up a people though whom He would touch the whole world. Pentateuch is crucial to the rest of the Old Testament and the whole Bible Pentateuch means “5 Books”. It is the Book of the…

Michelle and I have been watching a series on Amazon Prime called Poldark… it’s based on a series of books written back in the 1940’s about a family in London around the late 1700s. Every episode is full of conflict but back then they handled conflict very differently than we do today. It’s hard to tell…

After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great. But Abram said, “Lord God , what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” Abram continued, “Look, you have given…

“For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” Why Dads? Does God have a reason for dads? Does God have a purpose for Dad? What…

“And the Lord appeared to him…” The bible describes it as God in verse 1 (Yahweh) Abraham understood it was God “Lord teach us how to pray” Approach seems to be a desire to teach Abraham a valuable leadership lesson. “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do…” Intercessory Prayer Driven from COMPASSION…

When Jesus was Born 1 Now when Jesus was born in Beth-lehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 When Herod the king had…

We are called to Separate and Celebrate God’s Justice. God will Judge Civilization’s Corrupt Market Place, and Leave it Desolate. The final product of man’s best enough at civilization is so corrupt that God judges it and destroy it, so that no one will no longer be tempted to inhabit it. Babylon represents…