https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24635118 Sarai is impatient and takes control of gaining a child by giving Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to Abram as a wife. Abram suffers from the corruption of Adam by collapsing to her will instead of bearing responsibility for supporting her with the promises and assurances (and ways) of God. What trouble follows and who … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 16:1-16

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24610263 God reminds Abram that He is Abram’s shield and exceedingly great reward; if we are with God, all that is God’s is ours. Abram complains that God has not provided him with an heir, leaving Abram to assume that when he dies, his life is over. Not so. God consistently waits until our ego … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 15:1-21

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24601506 Lot is taken captive and Abram rescues him. Melchizedek (see Hebrews 7) blessed Abram and received a tithe from Abram as early indicator of the contrast between the unilateral covenant that God made (a Seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head) and the bilateral covenant that God made through Moses with Israel … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 14:1-24

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24588309 Abram goes to Egypt because of a famine in Canaan; this prefigures the Israelites in Egypt.  But even more, it illustrates the sojourn of a regenerate soul in this world of famine and desert because of its rejection of God’s revelation in natural and special revelation. Abram is the father of those honest about … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 12:10–13:18

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24574584 Abram’s life is parabolic. God calls Abram out of his country, family, and house to live in a tent in a foreign land, yet God is thus blessing Abram (“bless” = to become what God intends) by enveloping him in promises of life infinite. Abram and Sarai are childless, yet God will make a … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 12:1-9

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24561501 The Tower of Babel: One language, that is to say, one manner of speaking, plus a human response to some notion of the threat of being scattered. God’s creation invites us to be creative in His image, to seek to recover His name (“name” has to do with God’s nature) as our own rather … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 11:1-32

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24539454 The Bible pauses at certain places to give overviews or reviews. Before moving on with Shem’s history, the book of Genesis gives a summary of Noah’s other two sons and their descendants. Egypt is “Mizraim” in Hebrew and also referred to as the land of Ham. The other names of the descendants of Ham … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 10:1-32

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24525654 After the flood, God blesses Noah and his sons. The blessing to be fruitful and multiply, as God did with Adam and Eve, confirms God’s power and will that His creation should support life. God instructs that animals as well as plants are for food; perhaps because in our fallen state we need that … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 9:1-29

https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=24510477 Verse one of this passage says that God remembered Noah.  He had never forgotten him.  Rather, when God remembers it means that His Word, will, and promises are going to take effect (consider Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper: “… do this in remembrance of Me.”) Noah tests the receding of the water but … Continue reading Podcast: Genesis 8:1-22