Christ PCA Temecula

In this week's sermon, we see how God tested Abraham's obedience and faithfulness by commanding him to take Isaac to the land of Moriah, build an altar, and bind and sacrifice him as a burnt offering. Abraham obeys. At the last moment, an angel of the Lord stops him from killing Isaac. When Abraham proves his faithfulness, the Lord spares Isaac and provides a substitute sacrifice. The Lord then confirms the covenant He had previously made with Abraham.

In Genesis 21, the long-awaited birth of Isaac, Abraham and Sarah’s son arrives. Jealous for her son, Sarah wants Hagar and Abraham’s son sent away. Abraham sends them off, assured of God’s provision for them. He then makes a covenant with Abimelech and sojourned in the land of the Philistines.

Abraham and Sarah sojourn to Gerar. Abraham again claims Sarah is merely his sister and the king, Abimelech takes her. When God intercedes in a dream, warning the king that Sarah is another man’s wife, Abimelech confronts Abraham for his lie which brought condemnation upon Abimelech and his house. When the king returns Sarah to her husband, Abraham prays and God heals Abimelech and his household.

Angels come to Sodom to rescue Lot and his family. So wicked are the men of Sodom that they seek to abuse the angels. Lot and his family escape, with reluctance. His wife turns into salt for looking back as the cities are destroyed. His two daughters, over time, fear their family line will cease unless they take matters into their own hands.

This week, God tells Abraham what he expects of him and what he should command his children to keep the ways of the Lord. God tells Abraham that he will destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham pleads for the lives of the righteous inhabitants of Sodom.

This week, Abraham is hospitable and God tells Abraham that Sarah will have a son within the year.

In this week’s passage, God changes Abram’s name to Abraham and makes His covenant with Abraham.

In this week’s sermon through Genesis 16, we will look at the events surrounding Sarai and her maidservant Hagar.

In this week’s sermon through Genesis 15:7-21, we will look at the covenant God made with Abram.

After Abram witnessed God’s hand of protection in battle, the Lord comes to Abram in a vision to reassure him of promises made. Abram, having faith in God, feels some distress: He believes in God’s promises, and yet the circumstances before him ran antithetical to what God had said would take place. God provides Abram a sign of assurance, and Abram continues in his pilgrim faith. And it is this very faith in the promise-making God Who would bless all nations through his Offspring, namely Jesus, that is reckoned as righteousness to Abram.