https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24775509 This episode discusses: Abraham and Keturah Abraham’s death and burial the children of Ishmael and Isaac Esau selling his birthright

Abraham sends his servant back to Sarah’s family to find a wife for Isaac. Notice the fidelity of the servant, as well as the providence of God and people’s recognition of it, especially that romance follows fundamentals. https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24755610

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24742062 Sarah dies at age 127 and Abraham buys a field with a cave to bury her.

God provides a model of the saving work of His Son who will take on a fully human nature through a descendant of Abraham. Notice the details: Isaac is Abraham’s son, only son, and beloved (see John 3:16). They go to Mt. Moriah, which is where Solomon’s temple will be built and near the place … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 22:1-24

Isaac is born—here is indisputable, historical reality as evidence that God gives life to the dead.  Also, that we live on through our descendants is a witness to God giving everlasting life.  Hagar and Ishmael are sent away as a practical necessity, but also as another historical parallel to the human condition and God’s saving … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 21:1-34

This passage addresses Abraham and Abimelech, with a second occurrence of Abraham’s fear that a king will kill him in order to take Sarah. A second time, God protected Abraham. Abraham is a model of honesty about dependence, a stranger and sojourner on the earth.  But he still lives in a corrupt human nature subject … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 20:1-18

Lot moves out of the small city of Zoar to the mountains. Lot’s two daughters are so afraid of being childless that incest with their father seems to them the only way. Moab is born to the older daughter and Ben-Ammi to the younger. The Moabites and Ammonites will be trouble for Israel in the … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 19:30-38

Two angels arrive in Sodom.  Lot presses them to stay in his house; all the wicked Sodomites press against Lot’s door in order to abuse them. Lot’s two natures are evident and expose our own. God shows patience and the difficulty of Him saving us from ourselves as the angels must take Lot and his … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 19:1-29

Again, the Son of God visits Abraham, in human form and with two angels. Abraham shows appropriate hospitality. Again, the Lord confirms the promise by telling Abraham that He will return in a year and Abraham will have a son by Sarah. Like so many people in the Old Testament, Abraham will give us insight … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 18:1-33

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24647307 God repeats His promise of a son to Abram; Abram pleads with God on the basis of human limitations and desire for control:  Can’t Ishmael be the one? God adds another form of confirmation for His promise—He changes Abram’s name (“exalted father”) to Abraham (“father of a multitude”). He blesses Sarai and changes her … Continue reading Podcast: Gen. 17:1-27