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All About the Master’s Business
Genesis 24:1-67
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Prove your faith and watch the LORD’s will be done
Introduc)on:
How would you define a successful life?
What are the metrics that first pop into your mind?
Maybe your ideas have come from Hollywood and the media establishment.
They certainly push a
picture of success that sells movie Nckets, that gains views, and capNvates us!
The world’s definiNon of
success is usually some play on gaining riches, celebraNng beauty, sex outside of the covenant of
marriage, adventures, endless intrigue, mystery, and freedom from commitment.
What is this really?
A
celebraNon of the ability to go and do as one pleases.
Does that sound at all like what God has been
revealing in our study of Genesis?
Not at all! Rather, I would say steadfast love and faithfulness conNnue to stand out from the pages of
Scripture as validaNon of a successful life in the eyes of the LORD.
Since he is the judge of all the earth it
would be well worth our Nme considering how these character traits of God (Ex 34:6) work their way out
in those of us who are called to be followers of the One True God.
I believe when we take in the background of where we are today in Genesis, we are provided with a
wonderful place to explore this.
Bear in mind Abraham has just lost his beloved Sarah.
He is a sojourner
in a land – the only piece of which he owns is a burial plot, and his Ntle, “the father of a mulNtude of
naNons” (Gen 17:5) has resulted in Isaac as his one legiNmate heir.
Do these sound-like setbacks to you?
We all face setbacks and hardships – the circumstances of life that don’t fit what you think should be
ideal.
When this happens do you give up on trusNng in the promises of God?
That is most certainly the
temptaNon we are each faced with.
When the pain of life cuts deep, we, as fickle people can struggle to
maintain our faith in God, his promises, and his plan.
In the Scripture reading – the story captured in Gen 24 – what you likely tuned into was the stellar
manner in which everyone conducted themselves.
In light of the setbacks that faced Abraham, and that
we are all too familiar with, setbacks that face us, I want you to hear the Scriptural truth, the take away
from Genesis 24 is that you are to:
Prove your faith and watch the LORD’s will be done.
Before we get into our primary text turn to Proverbs 3:1-6.
These verses succinctly summarize what we
witness in the narraNve of Abraham, his faithful servant, Rebekah, and Isaac.
READ Proverbs 3:1–6
Focused on the Promise (vv1-9)
1.
As we look at the first 9 verses of this chapter, I want you to think about all the promises that God
has made to Abraham.
Calling him from the land of his kinsmen (Gen 12:1) and promising to make
him a great naNon (Gen 12:2) and to bless all the families of the earth through him (Gen 12:3).
Through these what we have witnessed is a steady progression of Abraham’s focus upon the
promises of God.
Not a perfect obedience, but steady progression.
God is faithful and Abraham
grows in his response to God’s steadfast love and faithfulness.
The Scriptures claim it is counted to
him as righteousness (Gen 15:6, James 2:23, Rom 4:3).
2
a. vv1-4 Even though Abraham is old, advanced in years, seemingly close to his end (at least it
is on his mind as he just recently buried Sarah) he is in no way wanNng to rush along the
marriage of his son Isaac to facilitate children – children whom God promised through Isaac
(Gen 21:12).
i.
He commissions his servant, his servant who is unnamed here.
1.
This is, I believe, is on purpose to draw adenNon to the ideal conduct and to
the faithfulness of the servant.
2. We will spend a great deal of Nme on him in the next point.
ii.
Here, Abraham commissions his servant to find a wife suitable for Isaac from his
father’s household.
Not wanNng his son to be married to one of the Canaanite
women.
1.
In many ways this foreshadows the law given to Israel that they should not
give their sons or daughters in marriage to the inhabitants of the land when
they return in the conquest (Ex 34:16, Josh 23:13, Deut 7:3-4).
2. We will be looking at applicaNons for marriage specifically a lidle bit later
when Rebekah and Isaac consummate their marriage in the last point.
b.
Abraham is preeminently focused upon the promises of God.
Now as the text says he is
advanced in years he has a singular aim before him – the promises of God.
He is a covenant
partner with God and is seeking a proper wife for Isaac and wants to keep and direct his
family according to God’s calling on his life.
ApplicaNon heads of house, husbands and
fathers.
i.
He is adamant that Isaac is not to go back to the land from which Abraham came.
It
comes out in the dialog with the servant.
The servant is to go back to Abraham’s
country and to take a wife from there for Isaac – but Isaac is not to go back.
Abraham is very explicit v6, “See to it that you do not take my son back there” and
again in v8 “only you must not take my son back there…”
1.
Why is this such a big deal?
READ Hebrews 11:13-16
ii.
Abraham and his descendants were seeking a beder land and it was formaNve on
their acNons.
Do you have this same tenacious ahtude believer?
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