Test: Genesis 38 This is a sad page in the history of the sons of Jacob. This chapter contains a vow made and subsequently broken; and the deceit that followed in the wake of the broken vow. The Background Genesis 38 looks at the story of Judah … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
Only Halfway
Text: Genesis 37:18-36; Proverbs 19:21 A soldier in the US Military who refuses to fight on the front line of the battlefield is called a coward. There is no place on the battlefield for the soldier who is a coward, one who will go “Only … [Read more...]
The Difference
Text: Genesis 37:1-36 The story of Joseph begins with him being a dreamer. However, his dreams – which projected his rulership at some point in the future over his family – became a source of rebuke by his father Jacob, and a source of hatred by … [Read more...]
Wealth is Not the Blessing
“Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” (Hebrews 12:16) “For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of … [Read more...]
Steps of Revival: The Confidence of Jacob
“And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.” (Genesis 35:5) When a saint of God walks in the flesh, he brings shame to himself from the outside enemy, as … [Read more...]
Steps of Revival: The Charge of Jacob to His Family
“Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments” (Genesis 35:2) Jacob had been commanded of God to “Arise, go up to Bethel.” God said: Return, Jacob, to the starting place and revive the beginning of My … [Read more...]
