Psalms 119:133 Order my steps in Your Word; and do not let any iniquity rule over me.
Bible Reading for January 6 (ONPP)
Genesis 15 – 17, Psalms 5
Genesis 15:3 – Abram is concerned that his servant will inherit everything. Yet later on he tries to convince God that a servant’s child should have the inheritance.
Genesis 15:4 – God is saying that the heir will come from Abram not a servant. In the beginning God designed marriage to bring the man and woman together as one flesh. This is what God is referring to here that the heir will come from Abram and his wife Sarai.
Genesis 15:8 – Abraham was still waiting for God’s promise of descendants and wanted a confirmation or down payment on the promise. If you are saved you also have a promise of God and the confirmation was the resurrection of Jesus, and the down payment was the Holy Spirit delivered into your life. The trust in God’s provision for the redemption of sin (Jesus’s death on the cross) as was shown to Adam and Eve in the sacrifice of the animal that God gave them the skin of for a covering.
Genesis 15:9 – God said give me the best of what you have and I will make a covenant (contract) with you.
Genesis 15:11 – Abraham protected the sacrifice till God came to confirm (sign) the contract.
Genesis 15:13 – At the end of the day (prophetic and ironic?) Abraham fell asleep and God described to him what was to happen with his descendants and God passed through the split sacrifice as a smoking furnace (God?) and a burning lamp (Jesus or the Holy Spirit?) signifying that it was not a covenant that Abraham was responsible to keep but that God Himself will fulfill the covenant. The research that I have done and many of the scholars that I have read agree that the 400 years begins when Isaac was weaned and is mocked by Ishmael. In fact when Sarah dies Abraham must buy a place to bury her showing that the land is not yet his. Other scholars that I have read disagree and say that the 400 years began when Israel went with his sons to avoid the famine. These scholars though do not agree with four generations that are also named in the genealogies of Jesus (Mat 1) and Aaron (Exo 6:16+).
https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/how-long-were-the-israelites-in-egypt/
Genesis 15:16 – Evidently some of the Amorites still worshiped God and God was merciful to the generations that did. The BIG If. In Chapter 20 and 21 it is shown that Abimelech was one that feared God.
Genesis 16 – God created the family as one man and one woman to produce children together. This idea of Sarah’s was not what God wanted of them but that did not stop God from fulfilling His plan as related in chapter 21.
Genesis 16:6 – The slave is still a slave no matter what.
Genesis 17 – God begins to set His people apart from the rest of the world with a physical symbol. Some people nowadays tattoo and pierce themselves to identify with something. God made this physical distinction a private sign that may not be noticed by a stranger but let the wearer know of his heritage and who he is to be associated with.
Genesis 17:18 – When Ishmael was just born Abraham did not have great love for him as shown in Genesis. 16:6.
Genesis 17:21 – God holds fast to His blessing of one man and one woman for marriage. The promise of a fruitful nation of descendants and redemption traced from Abraham who without an heir took Hagar a slave woman to bear a child of his own works not of God’s grace. The child Ishmael is of works, was born of a slave and thus into slavery of the law. God’s plan was for Sara to have a child, Isaac, born by His grace, born of the free woman and is free from the law to live by faith. Galatians 4:30 – But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave-woman and her son; for in no way shall the son of the slave-woman inherit with the son of the free woman.”
Psalms 5:2 – We pray to God. We do not pray to anyone else. Jesus tells us to pray to the Father not the Son, not the Holy Spirit.
Psalms 5:5 – Those that ignore God are witnesses to their own condemnation.
Psalms 5:11 – Again to trust (believe) God is the gift that God gives to righteousness.
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