Is it not written, concerning the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord, “his leaf also shall not wither”? 24. That which is foul, material, carnal, he delights in. Whilst they have some of the greatest divines in modern history, they have here one of the best of men — one of the patriarchs whose eyes were dim so that he could not see. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be eating nor harvest. This is very respectful language, and rather obsequious, too; but when a man knows that he has done wrong to another, he ought to be prepared to humble himself to the injured individual; and, though it happened long ago, yet Jacob really had injured his brother Esau, and it was but right that, in meeting him again, he should put himself into a humble position before him. Gen 22:17-18. They convey to us the great lesson that the word of God is sure to be followed by the deed of God. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And he rose up that night, and took his two womenservants, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. This was a very significant gospel action. He shall bless thy going out and thy coming in if thou wilt go forth and come in when he bids thee. It was well for Jacob to be reminded of that fact, for he was about to pass into another trouble. Gen 22:12. Noah knew that he would come out of the ark one day, for was he not preserved there to be a seed-to keep the race alive? And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Gen 33:5. It is God who sends the winds; they seem most volatile and irregular, but God sends them to do his bidding. How does our interpretation of the creation story in Genesis 1 change when we consider its ancient historical and cultural context? Resources » NIV Application Commentary » Genesis 1:1. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Do everything as if God were not about to help you, and then trust in God as if you had done nothing at all. 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. There must be a saddling of the ass, a calling of the two young men as well as Isaac, and a cleaving of the wood for the burnt offering. Gen 32:7-8. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that, which grew upon the ground. Happy are those who, when they are near to God, use the opportunity in pleading for others, ay, even for the most wicked and abandoned of men. And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. Gen 14:21. This man Jacob was always planning, and scheming; he was the great progenitor of the Jews, who are still preeminent in bargaining. And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. Many things may seem to be left to chance, but they are not, the hand of God still guides and controls. It was according to the rule of war that, if persons who had made an invasion were afterwards themselves captured, then if the new captor gave up the persons, he was fully entitled to take the goods to himself. Look, look, I pray you, upon that place of darkness and woe where every impenitent and unbelieving spirit must be banished for ever from the presence of the Lord! There were to be five more dreary years of utter desolation and want. Gen 24:15-16. “Though I am willing to give up my share of the spoil, that is no reason why these men should do the same.” Christian men ought not to expect worldlings to do what they cheerfully and willingly do themselves; and, indeed, it is not much use to expect it, for they are not likely to do it. He had not reached the highest point of faith, though he had gone in the right direction a great deal further than many Christians. Shall we personally gain anything by this association? Gen 49:3. “Go up to my father, and say unto him, ‘Come down unto me.’ “See how great love turns pleader again; he who said to his brethren, “Come near to me,” sends to his father the message, “Come down unto me.”. Oh, dear friends, sometimes people send out a raven on the Lord’s day morning, and it never brings them anything. Which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred and I will deal well with thee; I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. Oh, to have our inheritance where we feed upon the bread of heaven, and where the deep truths of God become to us royal dainties! When he left the promised land, he had a vision of angels, ascending and descending upon the ladder, as if to bid him farewell. Joseph: Beloved, Hated, Exalted. And the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. Sermons that are part of our on-line collection are hotlinked to the index pages. Yet, if you do feel that it is right to make such plans as Jacob made, take care that you do what Jacob also did. He is always going about with serpentine wriggling, Seeking to do more mischief. The layout of the Word Biblical Commentary series is not the most reader friendly, but in the case of Gordon Wenham’s commentary on Genesis, it is certainly worth the trouble. “The old man is in his dotage,” said they; “he always was peculiar, he never acted like the rest of the citizens; he came in here as a stranger, and he has always been strange in his behavior.”. Gen 33:1-2. There are some proud people who, when they know that they have done wrong, yet will not own it, and it is very hard to end a quarrel when one will not yield, and the other feels that he will not either. Gen 1:2. Our Lord Jesus was blessing his disciples when he was taken from them; and since we do not know when we shall be taken sway from our relatives, let us be always blessing them. This book is part one of the four volume set of Charles H. Spurgeon’s sermon notes. Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Now let us read a few verses from Jeremiah’s prophecy. Here is a promise that was to take four hundred years to ripen! It is evident that, as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other “Man” with a kind of death-grip, and would not let him go. And the fourth river is Euphrates. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. I think that I have said to you before that this sparing of Zoar is an instance of the cumulative power of prayer. Having attended to the air, God further exercised his power by setting the earth in order. 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. Depend upon it, our sins will come home to us sooner or later. Gen 1:1. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. Read Genesis 1 commentary using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible. And in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. It is so with us spiritually; first darkness, then light. There are far better ornaments than gold can buy —ornaments neat, and raiment comely — may we all possess them. It is a good thing to have the right names for things. It was an olive leaf, that is all. Spurgeon's Commentary On The Bible: Spurgeon's Bible Commentaries eBook: Spurgeon, Charles H.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store ... My Sermon Notes: Complete - Genesis to Revelation. The elder brother, according to all Eastern customs, was the lord of the family, and Jacob had so grossly injured Esau that it well became him to walk very humbly and to abound in courtesy towards him. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. True emblems of the Church of God with her smoke and her light, her trying affliction, yet the grace by which she still keeps burning and shining in the world. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. He was glad to find himself at rest once more, though not yet at liberty. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thine own bowels shall be their heir. Gen 49:22. People would ask, “How came the halting gait of that princely man? So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen 49:25-28. Let us learn from Abraham how to obey. Then it was that “the angels of God met him.” Go on your way in peace and safety, beloved believer, for God’s hosts are all around you. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 8. This was a poor character for Issachar to possess; it was a tame-spirited tribe, that loved rest and ease, and therefore did not fight with the common foe. It was his blood which yielded the juice of those rare clusters of the choice vine; and now, with garments dyed with his own blood, he comes from Edom, for he has trodden down his foes, and he cries, “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me.”. Blessed be God for thus thinking of us when providing raiment for our first parents! Why cannot people keep to the words of Scripture? In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; These eight persons are very carefully mentioned. It is a blessed thing to be such a fool that you do not know anyone to trust in except your God. That was a very anxious night for Jacob; he was to have another night of sterner work still, but in doing as he did he acted wisely and rightly. (1) God fulfills His promise to Abraham and Sarah. And he said, Take now thy son, “But, Lord, I have two sons, Ishmael and Isaac.”, “But, Lord, both Ishmael and Isaac are my sons, and each of them is the only son of his mother.”, See how definitely God points out to Abraham the son who is to be the means of the great trial of his father’s faith: “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou loves”,”-. Gen 3:12. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Better still is it for the Christian to remember the word of Christ, “Swear not at all, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath.” Doubtless the doctrine of the Saviour is that all oaths of every sort are lawful to the Christian, but if they ever be taken, it should be with deep circumspection and with earnest prayerfulness, that there be no mistake about the matter. Gen 45:25-28. Noah might have thought it was dry enough before; but God did not think so, there was enough mud to breed a pestilence, so Noah must wait until God had made the earth ready for him. Dear heart, you have been shut out from the world now for many days, but God has not forgotten you. Gen 8:7-10. Does God care for the cattle, and will he not feed his own children? Gen 7:17. Noah was not told when he should be released, and the Lord does not tell you when your trouble will come to an end. This is the very Jacob who had, in his earlier days, been full of crafty policy, and tricks and schemes; but he has done with all that now, and he is able truthfully to say, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.”. Send out a dove rather than a raven; come to the house of God with quiet, gentle, holy expectation, and your dove will come back to you. This holy man, Jacob, in dying, did not express himself according to the rules of natural affection but he yielded himself up to the Spirit of God; hence he had to say very much that must have been very bitter for a father to say, and he said it in all faithfulness being taught of the Spirit concerning things to come. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. Here is no human passion, but divine dignity: “And he said,” —. Gen 32:27. As for them, they are often left to be punished in another world; but if you are a child of God, you will be chastened here for your iniquity. Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain.” Brethren, let us be of good heart and of good courage in all matters, for doubtless the angel of God will go before us. Gen 1:14-19. God Himself will be the light (Revelation 22:5). Gen 3:9-11. And he blessed him there. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Hence we do not read of the tribe of Simeon in the blessing of Moses at the end of Deuteronomy; but the Levites had this curse turned into a blessing, for, though they were scattered, yet they were scattered as priests and instructors to the other tribes. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; He had been accustomed to eat of the fruit of the many trees of paradise now he must come down, and eat “the herb of the field.” He is lowered from royal dainties to commoner fare. This Bible app will help you reading, studying and understanding the Holy book. Gen 2:15. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: And well he might be, for an angry brother, with four hundred fierce followers, must mean mischief. And they went both of them together. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. That is, a supplanter, as poor Esau well knew. Give Jehovah his due.” I have often admired that widow of Sarepta. When she had but a handful of meal, she made a little cake for God’s prophet first, but then God multiplied her meal and her oil. So he tied his own hands: he could not revoke his blessing, or, had he done so, he would have brought the curse upon himself. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1987. He had put it away from him as a foul thing, drowned beneath the flood; but after the offering of Noah’s sacrifice, the Lord smelled “a savour of rest.”. It sounds so simple, yet behind it lurk many of the ultimate questions of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics. Look through Paul’s list of the heroes of faith; some of them are exceedingly imperfect characters’ some we should hardly have thought of mentioning, but they had faith; and although men, in their faulty judgment, think faith to be an inferior virtue, and often scarcely look upon it as a virtue at all, yet, in the judgment of God, faith is the supremest virtue. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. Gen 22:6. Gen 3:23-24. There are some of you, dear brethren, who have minds that are naturally given to inventions, and devices, and plans, and plots, and I believe that, where this is the case, you have more to battle against than those have who are of an ample mind, and who cast themselves more entirely upon the Lord. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now was his faith tried indeed, he had no child, he was himself old, and his wife also was old, yet the Lord’s promise was, “So shall thy seed be” as the stars of heaven. “That must mean mischief to me, and my company. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. Gen 22:1-2. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15. Gen 22:9-10. Now I think I may freely say that this looks something like what we call “a wild-goose chase.” He was to go and find a wife for a young man left at home; he knew nothing of the people among whom he was to sojourn, but he believed that the angel of God would guide him aright. Surely, he is coming thus to avenge himself for the wrong I did him, long ago. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; Noah’s faith was pleasing to God. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? When one trouble’s gone, another doth him seize.”. Gen 1:5. This shows us that light is more than a physical substance; it also has a supernatural aspect. In the infinite sovereignty of his grace, he chose Abraham,—passing by all the rest of mankind,—and elected him to be the depository of the heavenly light, that through him it might be preserved in the world until the days when it should be more widely scattered. He knew that God had called him and his kindred to inherit the land of Canaan, and, therefore, he was not willing that they should go back to their former dwelling-places. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. Eyes Opened “And God opened her eyes.”— Genesis xxi. For because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Gen 7:14. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. It only shows how low the moral sense may be in some who, nevertheless, have a desire towards God and have a faith in him. 18. He himself was to address her first, and then she must be ready, with all cheerfulness, to do far more than he asks. and my soul shall live. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. Gen 24:4-5. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. A complete set of Spurgeon's sermons is available in e-text format from Ages Software. We must never judge anything before it is complete. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. By her action, and her husband’s, the flood-gates had been pulled up, and the flood of sin had been let loose upon the world. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. Their spirit and temper constantly change; their pursuits are sometimes in one direction, and sometimes in another; they are “everything by starts, and nothing long;” and to each of them it may be said, “Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.”: It is a very remarkable circumstance, well worthy of notice, that this curse was turned into a real blessing, especially in the case of the tribe of Levi. So the blessing of God extends to all that his chosen people have; not only to their children, but to all that they possess. Now the lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: It was God’s intention to keep his truth and his pure worship alive in the world by committing it to the charge of … The selling of Joseph was only one indication of this, and even here, the brothers were not of one mind about it. (16-19) The first clothing of mankind. January 1, 1970. But, on the other hand, Jacob spied his opportunity, and, sending the angel wrestling with him, he in his turn began to wrestle with the angel. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3. That river in Eden also reminds us of the “pure river of water of life clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,” of which we read almost at the end of the Revelation that was given to John in Patmos. 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