June 23rd Genesis 18 16-33

Notes

The sins of Sodom

God does not take pleasure in destroying Sodom

comparing the outcry of Sodom to the outcry of Abel’s blood

Ezekiel 16:49-50

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 16

49 Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and ⌊prosperous ease⌋ was to her and to her daughters, and ⌊she did not sustain the needy and the poor⌋. 50 And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing ⌊before me⌋, and I removed them ⌊because⌋ I saw it.

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 18

17 Then Yahweh said, “Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do?

alludes to psalm 25:14 14 Intimate fellowship with Yahweh is for those who fear him,

and he makes known his covenant to them.

preaching point- The fear of the Lord

This was the first time that God repeated the promise and then gave a reason why he chose Abraham.

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 18

19 For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him.”

I believe that God chose to give Abraham revelation about Sodom to help him learn about leading a nation. To teach them the fear of the Lord

cross reference to Amos 3:7

Amos 3:7 LEB

Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.

This places Abraham in the position of a prophet.

Very interesting that God chose to reiterate the promise to Abraham during this passage, The heart of the Father,

Christ- like foreshadow for Abraham to intercede on behalf of even one righteous person, It wasn’t about a number.

Genesis 18:18 —> Galatians 3:8

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 3

16 Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, “and to descendants,” as concerning many, but as concerning one, “and to your descendant,” who is Christ.

preaching point - Christology in the passage

gospel of John, speaking on judgment

John 5:19–30 LEB

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished. For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes. For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, in order that all people will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. “Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming—and now is here—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man. “Do not be astonished at this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice and they will come out—those who have done good things to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil things to a resurrection of judgment. I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Close with John 17:20-26

John 17:20–26 LEB

“And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we are one—I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me. “Father, those whom you have given to me—I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these men have come to know that you sent me. And I made known to them your name, and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I may be in them.”