All this ought to make us long to be under the yet fuller and higher covenant of grace, by which spiritual blessings would he scoured to us, an eternal day to follow this earthly night, and a glorious harvest to follow this time of seed-sowing. He has destroyed the earth once by water because of sin, and he will the second time destroy it by fire for the selfsame reason. There must have been flaws in it; and, certainly, after this time, there was one great sad flaw, of which it is not necessary now to speak more particularly, still, God regarded him as righteous. (Spurgeon). Gen 3:16-18. What a wise and prudent Lord is ours! Gen 2:16-17. You may except that some great blessing is coming nigh to you when a horror of great darkness falls upon you. And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt-. Spurgeon pointed out that we can know that Noah had the righteousness that is of faith because as soon as the floodwaters had dried up and he left the ark, he offered sacrifices ( Genesis 8:20 ). Chapter 2:4: These are the histories of the heavens and the earth. So that, in intent and purpose, he had consummated the sacrifice, and therefore we read in Hebrew 11:17, By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son. He had virtually done so in the esteem of God though no trace of a wound could be found upon Isaac. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. If you want the Lord to confide in you, and to trust you with his secrets, you must see that he is able to say of you what he said of Abraham, he will command his children and his household after him.. Did Noah live a perfect life? And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. There is as much wisdom and care displayed in the creation of the tiniest creeping insect as in the creation of leviathan himself. Let it not be so with us; but let us both feed well and yield well. Let us always look upon the list of our difficulties as only a catalogue of our triumphs. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. Spurgeon,At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.On Lords-Day Evening, June 16th, 1867. There, you see, was the missionary character of the seed of Abraham, if they had but recognized it. James Gen 45:2-3. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. John Bunyan wrote, as I have often reminded You, The Christian man is seldom long at ease, When one troubles gone, another doth him seize; and though the rhyme is rather rough, the statement is perfectly true. Nearly two months Noah waited for the complete drying of the earth. When we have received the power of God, and have dominion over ourselves, and over all earthly things, in the power of Gods eternal Spirit, then are we where and what God intends us to be. Jacob was the prince with the disjointed limb, and that is exactly what a Christian is. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. And his head is bruised, blessed be the name of the Womans promised seed! Gen 8:1. So that you all live under a covenant, a gracious covenant, and, by virtue of it, the day succeeds the night, the summer follows the winter, and the harvest in due course rewards the labour of the seedtime. It does not say that he wrestled with the man, but there wrestled a man with him. We call him wrestling Jacob, and so he was; but we must not forget the wrestling man,or, rather, the wrestling Christ,the wrestling Angel of the covenant, who had come to wrestle out of him much of his own strength and wisdom, which, though it was commendable in a measure, and we have commended it, was an evil because it kept him from relying on the strength and wisdom of God. Perhaps you have some of these unclean birds coming down upon your sacrifice just now. These men were verily guilty for selling their brother, yet God was verily wise in permitting him to be sold. Gen 32:28. Had there been one more, there would have been no hand to lay hold of the fifth person; but these two angels, with their four hands, could just lead these four persons outside the doomed city. They never have ceased. THERE w a s a well of water close to Hagar all the while though she saw it not. How often do you and I have our great Substitute very near to us, yet we do not see him because we do not lift up our eyes and look. Gen 49:20. How obliquely fell the curse! Gen 32:20-24. And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. There were to be five more dreary years of utter desolation and want. Oh, that question! Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Now that he is going back, the angels are there again to speed him on his way home to the land of the covenant, the land which the Lord had promised to give to Abraham and his seed. Gen 24:7. And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Gen 2:15. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. Jacob was about to enter upon a great trial, and therefore he received a great comfort in preparation for it. Gen 27:16-19. Jacob must have bitterly regretted, that night, that he had ever wronged Esau. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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