Isaac and Rebekah were God’s special saints chosen for each other with a divine destiny awaiting them, their children, and their children’s children. But trouble-free? No way.

If God has designed a plan for us, why does He throw in such difficulties?

If God has chosen us, why do we suffer such pain?

We can find much comfort in the story from Genesis.

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God has a far deeper significance for marriage than its physical and earthly implications.

Marriage is designed to be a portrait of the relationship of Christ and His church.

In this lesson we will look at those implications as well as some important principles of marriage itself.

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What if you had to give up your only son?

God asked Abraham to do just that. He tested Abraham’s commitment to Him by asking him to give up the very son God had promised to him.

This lesson is very applicable to all parents as God calls us to yield our children to Him and have complete faith in Him.

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One of the hardest things for us to comprehend is that God can even use our stupid mistakes, our deliberate wrong choices, and our acts of impulse to bring about a testimony of His grace.

As we look at the life of Ishmael, we will see that God never makes a mistake. Even our bad choices can become putty in the hands of Sovereignty.

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As we end our look at Lot’s life, let’s look once again at the message God wants to give us through Lot.

It is the simple message that God wants total commitment and total surrender. He wants us to quit playing around in two worlds and make a decision to follow Him no matter what the cost.

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Where are you living spiritually?

Have you built your home in Sodom amidst the glamour of the world?

Are you beginning to accept the world’s standards of morality, of holiness, of marriage, of integrity or spirituality?

Learning from Lot, we cannot afford to live in Sodom anymore.

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That was God’s plan for Lot, but Lot forgot.

We are a lot like Lot.

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Lot’s life was a series of choices. These choices led up to inevitable disaster.

Our lives are also a series of choices, and it is the little choices that are the essence of man.

Lot identified with the pleasures of this world. He thought it would have no damaging effect on his life and his walk with God, but it reduced his life to ashes.

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Man’s problem and our problem is not finding the will of God, it is doing the will of God.

If everyone of us purposed to obey without hesitation or compromise, we would begin to see lives that have direction, peace, strength and fellowship.

God said to Noah, “Do this.” Noah heard Him, because he was available.

Being available, Noah obeyed.

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The Bible has only one message: Jesus.

The Old Testament stories act out on the stage of life the story of Jesus.

In this lesson, we will learn six truths about Jesus from Noah, and in learning these truths we will also begin to learn what our response should be in the midst of the storm.

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