_HEREDITARY BLESSING_ ‘I will bless thee … because that Abraham obeyed My voice.’ Genesis 26:3; Genesis 26:5 The child is blessed for the father’s sake. I. IF I HAVE A GODLY ANCESTRY, THEN THE COVENANT OF THE LORD IS MADE WITH ME. His love was not exhausted with the life and death of my parents... [ Continue Reading ]
_HEREDITARY BLESSING_ ‘I will bless thee … because that Abraham obeyed My voice.’ Genesis 26:3; Genesis 26:5 The child is blessed for the father’s sake. I. IF I HAVE A GODLY ANCESTRY, THEN THE COVENANT OF THE LORD IS MADE WITH ME. His love was not exhausted with the life and death of my parents... [ Continue Reading ]
_ISAAC THE PEACEABLE_ ‘And Isaac removed.’ Genesis 26:22 Religion is in every age the peacemaking principle in the world. The Fall brought in the possibility of divergence and conflict between man and man. In the very beginnings of human history appears cruel Cain who was of that Evil One and sle... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MAN OF PEACE_ ‘They departed from him in peace.’ Genesis 26:31 The lives of Abraham and Jacob are as attractive as the life of Isaac is apparently unattractive. Isaac’s character had few salient features. It had no great faults, no striking virtues; it is the quietest, smoothest, most silent... [ Continue Reading ]