Season 4 Episode 10 – Genesis 21: WeHadABabyItsABoy!!

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Intro! - 1:05

Meet Misan! - 2:48

A’ight So Boom! - 5:22

Read Genesis 21 1-7 - 9:30

• Birth of Isaac

• The LORD

• visited Sarah - just as promised

• Conception

• Bore Abraham a son in his old age

• Just as was spoken to him

• Abraham

• Called his name, Isaac (his son, born to him, Sarah bore him)

• Circumcised his son at 8 days old (a Command of God, a sign of the covenant the LORD made with Abraham)

• Abraham was 100 years old

• Sarah Said

• God has made laughter for me

• Everyone who hears will laugh over me

• I nurse children

• I have borne Abraham a son

Read Genesis 21 8-11 - 18:33

• It’s Weaning Day!!!! - What’s the significance?

• The Child grew

• The child was weaned

• Abraham made a great feast on the day

• Someone’s not happy

• But (as opposed to the happy feast)

• My man was just laughing

• This time a demand to Abraham

• Cast out this slave woman, with her son

• Worried about him being an heir with Isaac

• Now Abraham’s not happy (this is still his son)

Read Genesis 21 12-14 - 26:21

• The LORD speaks to Abraham (wonder if Abraham solicited the LORD)

• Don’t be upset for the boy or the slave woman

• Do what Sarah says

• Isaac is the chosen son, your offspring will go through him

• And I will make a nation of your son Ishmael

• Because he is your offspring (Abraham’s offspring)

• Abraham acts

• Rose early in the morning (Abimelech?)

• Gave bread and water to Hagar

• Sent her with the child, away

• She departed in the wilderness of Beersheba

Read Genesis 21 15-21 - 33:44

• The water has run out

• She put Ishmeal in on place (in the shade)

• She went somewhere else to sit (a bowshot)

• Do not want to see the death of my child

• She wept

• The LORD intervenes for Hagar again

• Heard the voice of the boy (Ishmael in travail also)

• No dialogue - questions asked but no answer

• What troubles you Hagar

• Commands given

• Up!

• Lift up the boy

• Hold him fast with your hand

• Promise retold (I will make him a great nation) - Told to Abraham and Hagar

• The LORD provides

• Opens her eyes to a well of water (in too much despair to see?)

• She filled the skin

• Gave the boy a drink

• Ishamel lives on

• Future narrative - God was with the boy (Joseph like?)

• He lived in the wilderness

• Became and expert with the bow

• He lived in the wilderness or Paran (not in Paran)

• Was married to a wife from Egypt

Read Genesis 21 22-24 - 44:04

• Treaty

• Abimelech and Phicol (Command of Abimelech’s army)

• Recognized that ‘God is with you in all that you do.’

• Wants Abraham to swear - worried about Abraham?

• Swear to me by God (your God)

• You will be straight up with me, my descendants, my posterity (progeny)

• Why - Cause, I was really nice to you

• Abraham agreed

Read Genesis 21 25-31 - 55:31

• Abraham reproved (brought an argument to) Abimelech

• About a well of water

• Abimelech’s servants seized it

• Abimelech did not know about this (going to give him the benefit of the doubt)

• Abraham again takes the initiative to address the issue

• Took sheep and oxen (did they just exchange animals) gave them to Abimelech

• The two made a covenant (agreement)

• Abraham’s not done

• Set apart 7 ewe lambs

• Gives them to Abimelech as a witness that he dug this well 

• Place called Beersheba - because there both of them swore an oath

Read Genesis 21 32-34 - 1:06:44

• Covenant made between Abimelech and Abraham

• Abimilech and Phicol left to Philistine

• Abraham planned a Taramisk tree

• Abraham called upon the name of the LORD

• The Everlasting God (Covenant made with the families and their posterity)

• Abraham sojourned (an alien in the land) many days in the land 

Season 4 Episode 9 – Genesis 20: Give Her Back!

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Intro! - 1:38

Jasmine’s Tea! - 4:17

A’ight So Boom! - 7:19

Read Genesis 20 1-2 - 12:49

• Abraham on the move

• Journeyed - moved from where he was

• Toward the Negev (South?)

• Sojourned in Gerar (Sojourned)

• Not again 

• Apparently in another king’s land (thus sojourning)

• Abraham calls Sarah his sister

• Abimelech takes Sarah

Read Genesis 20 3-7 - 22:43

• God came to Abimelech (what does abimelech mean)

• In a dream by night

• Made a statement (you are a dead man)

• Tells him why (Sarah)

• Abimelech had not approached her

• Abimelech is scared and responds

• Appealing to the Lord (Adonai) Justice (innocent)

• He himself told me their relation (sister not wife)

• She herself told me their relation (brother not husband)

• I acted on the truth that I knew

• Integrity of my heart

• Innocence of my hands

• God responds to Abimelech in a dream (continuation)

• What the LORD knows (of course he knows, event the motive of the heart)

• In the integrity of your heart (good or bad)

• The LORD kept Abimelech from acting (I kept you)

• This would have been a sin

• This sin would have been against the God

• I did not let you touch her 

• God tells Abimelech what to do

• Return the man’s wife (Abraham’s)

• Abraham is a prophet (First Mention of Prophet)

• So that he will pray for you

• If this happens you will not die

• Don’t do it you will die

• All who are yours will die

Read Genesis 20 8-10 - 39:45

• The Morning

• Early in the morning (must have hit him hard)

• Called his servants told them about the dream and they were afraid (right response)

• Tells them the truth 

• Call’s Abraham and questions him (all in the context of adultery)

• What have you done to us? (not just the king but everyone)

• How have I sinned against you?

• What did you see? - What prompted you to do this thing?

• Abimelech is blaming Abraham for 

• Bringing a great sin on his kingdom

• Doing things to Abimelech that should not be done

Read Genesis 20 11-13 - 56:46

• Abraham’s response

• There is no fear of God  ‘AT ALL’ in this place - so I had to ( Says who?)

• Because of that they will kill me because of my wife

• I really did not  lie

• She is my sister, like really, but she is kinda my wife also (Later condemned - Lev 18:9, 11; 20:17; Deut 27:22; Ezek 22:11)

• Bringing God into this (catching strays?) - If he left me there?

• God caused me to wander from my father’s house (really tho?)

• Bringing Sarah into this (A plan from the jump)

• This is a kindness you must do to me (a command?)

• Every place we go you say “He is my brother”

Read Genesis 20 14-16 - 1:12:20

• Pharaoh did the same thing (sort of)?

• Pharaoh gave to Abram prior to knowing who Sarah really was (to win favor)

• Abimelech took (like Sarah?) sheep and oxen, male and female servants

• Gave them to Abraham

• Returned Sarah

• Opened his land to Abraham, dwell where you want

• Pharoah did not do this (as far as we know)

• 1000 pieces of silver to “Sarah’s Brother” (Abraham)

• Attests to Sarah’s

• Innocence in the eyes for all who are with you

• Vindicated before everyone

Read Genesis 20 17-18 - 1:24:15

• Abraham Prays

• Abraham prayed to God

• God answered Abraham’s prayers

• God healed his wife (so they were already sick)

• Female servants so they bore children (hints at the LORD’s ability to open and close wombs)

• Role reversal

• Abraham is the upstanding one interceding for Abimelech

• Abimelech is under judgment of the LORD

Season 4 Episode 8 – Genesis 19: It’s Raining Sulfur and Fire!!

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Intro!! - 1:22

Jasmine’s Tea!! - 3:45

Aight So Boom!! - 13:50

Read Genesis 19 1-3 - 18:42

• Two angels arrive at Sodom in the evening (aliens to the city of Sodom)

• Lot was sitting at the gate

• Rose to meet them

• Bowed himself to them (face to the earth)

• Asked that the angels come to his house

• The angels refused the hospitality (really seems like something else)

• Lot urges them and they stay

• Lot made a feast

• Baked Unleavened Bread

• They ate

Read Genesis 19 4-11 - 29:59

• Before they could get to sleep

• Men of the city of Sodom Come to Lot’s house

• All of them (Young and Old)

• All the people to the last man

• Surrounded the house

• They know that there are “me” at Lot’s house

• Where are they

• Demand they be brought out to them

• That they may “know them” - what in the blazes, do they do this to all guests

• Lot tries to get them to move on (not good enough compared to Abraham, in better standing than the men of Sodom)

• Implores them not to act wickedly (pointing back to their sin and the outcry against them

• Calls them brothers (interesting choice of words) - Did Lot try to turn everyone away?

• Offers his virgin daughters - Wait what!!!

• They are under my roof, so I am responsible for them

• Crowd turns on Lot

• Stand Back

• You are not even from here, now you want to judge us (wicked comment?)

• We are going to mess you up more

• The Angels save Lot

• Pull him back in the house

• Struck blindness on all those at the entrance

• They wore themselves out groping for the door

Read Genesis 19 12-14 - 1:00:06

• The Angels speak to Lot about anyone else here he has (these are angels who are not all knowing)

• Goes through family members

• Goes through anyone else in the city

• Daughters were to marry some men there - told them to leave but they thought he was being funny (like people did Noah?)

• We are about to destroy this place

• The outcry is great

• The LORD has sent us to destroy it

Read Genesis 19 15-22 - 1:15:08

• Morning comes along

• Angels urges Lot to leave with his wife and daughters

• If they don’t then they will be swept away with the city

• Lot lingers (Why tho?)

• They seized them (like by force)

• Brought him out 

• Set him outside the city

• Men (Angels) warn them as they leave

• Escape for your life

• Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley

• Lot just go!

• No not to the hills

• You have shown me favor

• You have shown me a great kindness

• Going to the hills the disaster will overtake me

• Let me go to this little city

• Permission granted

• Will not overthrow the city you are talking about

• Get there quickly can’t do anything until you arrive

• The little city is Zoar

Read Genesis 19 23-29 - 1:21:35

• Lot and his family got to Zoar the next day

• The LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah

• Sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven

• He overthrew

• The cities

• The Valley

• All the inhabitants of the cities

• What grew on the ground

• Lot’s wife (when did he get married

• She was behind him

• She looked back

• She became a pillar of salt

• Abraham went to check it out

• Back to the discussion place with the LORD

• Looked down on to where Sodom and Gomorrah was

• Smoke like a furnace

• The recap

• God destroyed the cities

• God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out

Read Genesis 19 30-38 - 1:34:53

• Lot went and lived in the hills (where the men were pointing them initially)

• Was afraid to live in Zoar

• Lived in a cave with his daughters (marriageable daughters)

• The daughters hatched a plan

• Get dad drunk

• Lay with him 

• Have his children (Comparable to Tamar?)

• The children became the Moabites and the Ammonites

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Season 4 Episode 7 – Genesis 18: Three is the Magic Number!!!

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Intro! - 1:20

Aight So Boom! - 3:55

Read Genesis 18 1-5 - 8:01

• Three Men

• We are told the Lord visits Abraham - consistent with where we last got an address in Ch 13

• Abraham sees three men

• Lifts his eyes - He lifted up his eyes and looked

• Behold (surprise?)

• In front of him

• Abraham greets the 3 men

• Runs to meet them (excited much)

• Bows to the ground

• Addresses one of them as Lord (Adon)

• Ask them to stay with a qualifier (favor in your sight)

• Shows hospitality

• Wash your feet

• Rest under the tree (oak of Mamre)

• I’ll get you some bread

• They decide to stay

Read Genesis 18 6-8 - 19:46

• Abraham is not messing around

• Everything is done quickly

• Sarah to make cakes, quickly

• Abraham ran to pick a calf

• Young man prepared it quickly

• Everything is quality

• Three Seahs of fine flour for cakes

• Calf is tender and good

• Curds and Milk (are these delicacies)

• Abraham humbled before these three

• See this from the time of meeting them

• Abraham runs to them

• Abraham asks if it is OK that they stay

• Abraham just stands by while they eat (is he literally standing?)

Read Genesis 18 9-15 - 31:04

• At some point they asked about Sarah

• The LORD States the happening to Sarah

• Next Year

• I will return

• Sarah will have a son

• Sarah hears this and responds (eavesdropping?)

• Laughs - Like Abraham

• Makes a snarky(?) remark

• After I am worn out

• My Lord (Adon) is old

• Now shall I have pleasure

• She wasn’t as quiet as she thought (really the LORD knows all)

• Asks Abraham about her laughing

• Asks her questions

• Why did she laugh and say?

• Is Anything to hard for the LORD

• The LORD restates the plan

• Next Year (the appointed time - interesting, so not just waiting to wait, this time was appointed by the only one who can do that)

• I will return

• Sarah will have a son

• The last back and Forth (I did not, Yes you did)

Read Genesis 18 16-21 - 53:15

• They get ready to leave and Abraham see them out

• Discussion (with who) - Asking a Question

• Shall I hide from Abraham

• What I am about to do

• Identifies why He should not

• Seeing that (interesting, future focus) Abraham shall surely become

• What the LORD is doing with Abraham

• Making him a mighty and great nation

• All nations of the earth shall be blessed in him

• I have chosen him

• That he may … The expected result … Command

• His children

• His household after him

• Commanding them to keep the way of the LORD

• Doing righteousness

• Doing justice

• So that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him

• The decision is made to tell Abraham what is going on

• Gives the reason for any following action first

• Outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great (horizontal)

• Their sin very grave (vertical)

• Will verify first hand

• I (the LORD) will go down to see how true it is

• I will know, if they are not carrying what the the outcry is about

Read Genesis 18 22-33 - 1:08:36

• Two of the men (angels) leave for Sodom

• The LORD and Abraham remain behind

• Abraham stood before the LORD (a picture of his humility before the trio)

• Abraham drew near to the LORD for their conversation

• What is Abraham’s motivation?

• Abraham starts with a questions then begins the countdown

• Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked (treatment of your people with those who are not your people?)

• Countdown starts at 50 (50 righteous men)

• Appeals to the LORD’s character

• Will You (LORD) sweep away the place if there are 50 righteous there

• You would not do such a thing so that the righteous suffer the same fate as the wicked, would you

• You are the judge of the earth, the expectation is that you do what is just

• Abraham approaches with such respect, humility, 

• “I who am but dust and ashes.”

• “Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak.”

• The LORD responds in agreement with Abraham

• The LORD went His way

• Abraham returned to his place

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Season 4 Episode 6 – Genesis 17: Cut Me Mick!

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Intro! - 1:12

Jasmine’s Tea! - 3:58

Aight So Boom! - 10:53

Unlike the covenant in chap. 15, which had no requirements, chap. 17 includes two demands: (1) to live uprightly before the Lord (v. 2) and (2) to practice circumcision faithfully (vv. 9–11). K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 195.

Read Genesis 17 1-2 - 14:08

•  Abram is now 99 years old

• The LORD appeared to him

• The LORD proclaims his own name

• God Almighty (El Shaddai) - The God of (who has/is)  Majesty(ic) and Power(ful)

• Command - walk blameless before me (who is this to Abram or Everyone)

• So that I can

• Make a covenant between Me and you

• May multiply you greatly

Read Genesis 17 3-8 - 26:48

• Abram fell on his face

• God spoke to Abram

• My covenant is (present tense) with you

• The previously made covenant

• Father of a multitude of nations

• Because of that you get a name change

• For I have made you a father of the multitude of nations (past tense)

• I will make you exceedingly fruitful

• I will make you into nations

• Kings shall come from you

• Another Covenant

• I Will establish my covenant between Me, you and your offspring

• This is an everlasting covenant, this is forever

• Covenant to be God to you and your offspring (personal)

• I will give the land of your sojourning

• This is an everlasting possession

• I will be their God

Read Genesis 17 9-14 - 39:44

• God spoke to Abraham again

• You (Abraham) shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring

• The covenant of circumcision

• Every male in your household (note only to males)

• This is the sign e covenant between me and you

• Happens at eight days old

• Throughout generations

• Born or brought (your family or foreigner)

• Covenant in your flesh

• If you don’t do it you have broken my covenant

He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ro 4:11.

Read Genesis 17 15-16 - 1:00:05

• Now onto Sarai

• Name change also. Sarai to Sarah

• I will bless her (the LORD’s doing)

• I will give her a son (the Lord’s doing)

• She shall become nations

• Kings of people shall come from her

Read Genesis 17 17-21 - 1:03:02

• Abram fell on his face again

• Has some more stuff to say

• Laughed

• Said to himself - Born to a 100 year old

• Said to himself - Birthed by a 90 year old

• Says to the LORD - Can it be Ishmael

• God’s response is:

• Isaac

• No, Sarah is going to be the mother

• Name shall be Isaac

• I will establish my everlasting covenant with him and his offspring

• Ishmael

• Ishmael has been blessed

• Multiply him greatly

• He will father 12 princes

• Make him a great nation

• Isaac will be born next year

Read Genesis 17 22-26 - 1:12:13

• Abram did it 

• God went up from Abraham

• Abraham got busy

• Starts with Ishmael

• All those born in his house

• All those brought with his money

• Abraham was 99

• Ishmael was 13

• Repeated

Season 4 Episode 5 – Genesis 16: Somebody’s Watching Me!

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Intro - 1:11

Jasmine’s Tea! - 4:08

A’ight So Boom! -  8:14

Read Genesis 16 1-2 - 12:13

• Sarai’s Circumstance

• Because she had no children

• She had a female servant Abram falls asleep

• Presents the plan to Abram

• The LORD has prevented me (back to Eve)

• My servant is available

• I shall obtain children by her

• Abram Listened to the voice of Sarai

Read Genesis 16 3-6 - 31:24

• Ten years have passed with him living in Canaan (from the Covenant)

That barrenness was grounds for a divorce after a ten-year period is a rabbinic explanation for Sarai’s actions (Gen. Rab. 45.3). K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 185.

• Sarai took and gave her servant

• To Abram her husband as a wife

• She conceived

• Hagar looked with contempt on her mistress

• Sarai felt a way

• Blamed Abram

• She looked on me with contempt

• May the LORD judge between you and me

• Abram wipes his hands of Hagar

• She is your servant (Abram’s wife)

• She is in your power

• Do to you as you please

• She dealt harshly with hagar

• Hagar Fled from her (Sarai)

Read Genesis 16 7-10 - 43:20

• Angel of the LORD ‘finds’ Hagar

• She is by a spring

• She is in the wilderness

• On the way to Shur

• The Angel of the LORD speaks to Hagar

• Note how the author identifies her

• Asks questions He know the answer to

• She tells the LORD what is going on

• The Angel of the LORD replies

• Go Back?!

• I will multiply your offspring

• Your are pregnant

• Your child will be a son

• You will name him Ishmael (and tells her why)

• What he will be

• A wild donkey of a man

• His hand against everyone (does not play well with others)

• Dwell over against all his kinsmen

Read Genesis 16 11-12 - 59:29

• The Angel of the LORD (Christophony)

• Speaks to Hagar

• About herself

• You are pregnant

• You will Bear a son 

• About her son’s name

• What the child’s name is

• Why the child is to be named that

• Her son’s relationship

• Wild Donkey of a man

• Hand against everyone

•  Everyone’s hand against him

• Dwell over and above his kinsmen

Read Genesis 16 13-16 - 1:03:26

• Hagar worships the LORD

• The LORD sees her 

• She has seen the Angel of the LORD 

• Names the well Beer-lahai-roi

The site became known as Beer Lahai Roi, “the well of the Living (One) who sees me” K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 192.

• Hagar births Abram’s Son

• Abram is 86 years old (Not too old for children)

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Season 4 Episode 4 – Genesis 15: How Will I Know!

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Intro - 1:26

A’ight So Boom! - 3:25

Read Genesis 15 1-3 - 8:29

• The Word of the LORD comes in a vision (Christophony)

• Why a vision this time

• Told not to fear

• The LORD is his shield

• Your reward shall be very great

• The LORD encouraging Abram

• The LORD is encouraging Abram by who He is

• The LORD is encouraging him, by noting his reward

• Abram’s response (But …)

• Has some concerns

• An heir who is not of Abram

Read Genesis 15 4-6 - 24:12

• Now the Word of the LORD comes to him (vision vs. word)

• Setting the path straight

• Not a member of your household

• Your own son

• Illustration

• Brought Him Outside (hmm!)

• Count the stars and that is the number of your offspring

• Abram considered righteous

• Righteous because of belief (faith)

Read Genesis 15 7-11 - 41:30

• Next the Land

• The LORD brought Abram Out

• To give the land

• How Will I know

• You need something

• Do this bring the following:

• Heifer 3 years old

• Female Goat 3 years old

• Ram 3 years old

• Turtledobe

• Young Pigeon

• Abram brought them and received instructions

• Cut them in half

• Laid each half over against the other

• Not the birds

• Drove away the buzzards

• He waited

Read Genesis 15 12-16 - 50:27

• Abram falls asleep

• Sun was going down

• Dreadful and Great darkness fell upon Abram

• The LORD Tells Abram everything about his offspring

• They will be sojourners

• Will be servants

• Afflicted for 400 years

• The LORD will bring judgment on the nation

• They will come out with great possessions

• The LORD tells Abram about himself

• Go to your fathers in peace (Terah and those before him)

• Live a long time (still buried tho)

• The LORD’s timing

• Abram’s offspring back on the fourth generation

• The iniquity (sin) of the Amorites is not complete

Read Genesis 15 17-21 - 1:07:30

• The Smoking Pot

• The LORD made a covenant

• I give this land to your offspring

• The boundaries

• The current inhabitants

• Kenites

• Kenizzites

• Kadmonites

• Hittites

• Perizzites

• Rephaim

• Amorites

• Canaanites

• Girgashites

• Jebusites

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Season 4 Episode 3 – Genesis 14: Cotton-Eyed Joe!!

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Intro - 0:53

Jasmine’s Tea! - 3:32

A’ight So Boom! - 8:10

Read Genesis 14 1-3  - 12:02

• Setting the Chess Board

• Black Pieces

• Amraphel king of Shinar

• Arioch king of Ellasar

• Cherdorlaomer king of Elam

• Tidal king of Goiim

• White Pieces

• Bera king of Sodom

• Birsha king of Gomorrah

• Shinab king of Admah

• Shemeber king of Zeboiim

• King of Bela (Zoar)

• Where it’s going down

• Joined Forces

• Valley of Siddim (the Salt Sea)

Read Genesis 14 4-7 - 16:29

• They were all under Chedorlaomer

• Year by year breakdown

• Years 1-12 serving Chedorlaomer

• Year 13 there were some who rebelled

• Year 14 Chedorlaomer had some victories over stand-alone kings

• Rephaim in Ashteroth-kirithaim

• Horites in the hill country of Seir to El-paran border of the wilderness

• En-misphat (Kadesh) defeated the Amalakites

• Hazazon-tamar the Amorites

Read Genesis 14 8-12 - 24:37

• Wait 4 (black pieces) against 5 (white pieces)

• There were Bitumen Pits (What are these)

• The Kings on the side of Sodom and Gomorrah were getting beat

• They Fled

• Some fell into the pits

• The rest fled into the Hill Country

• Took the Spoil

• All the Possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah

• All their provisions

• They Left

• And Then Some

• They took Lot

• They took Lot’s possessions

• They Left

Read Genesis 14 13-16 - 31:50

• Word gets back to Abram (the Hebrew)

• Abram moves when he hears his kinsman had been taken captive

• Abram had trained men tho?

• 318 of them

• Pursued as far of Dan (giving a location, not a place during that time?)

• Trained to fight by night

• Brought back all the stuff

Read Genesis 14 17-20 - 48:29

• Er’ybody was defeated (Chedorlaomer and the kings with him)

• Met the king of Sodom in the Valley of Shevah

• Melchizedek comes on the scene (Where did he come from?)

• This is the King of Salem

• Brought out Bred and Wine

• Priest of the Most High God

• Pronounced a Blessing on Abram

• Blessed God

• Abram gave him a tenth of everything (huh?)

• Questions about Melchizedek

• Where did he come from?

• Why did Abram give him a tenth?

• What does it mean that he gave a blessing to Abram?

Read Genesis 14 21-24 - 1:14:45

• On offer was made (king of Sodom)

• But - opposed to the kings offer

• Lifted my hand to the LORD

• LORD, described as God Most High

• LORD, identified as Possessor of heaven and earth

• Would take nothing

• So you can’t say you made me rich

• Will take the following:

• What the men have eaten

• The men who went with me

• Give some to Aner, Eschol and Mamre (Bless those who Bless you)

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Season 4 Episode 2 – Genesis 13: Now, Walk it Out!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 0:58

Jasmine’s Tea! - 3:34

A’ight So Boom! - 6:55

Read Genesis 13 1 - 10:20

• Heading Right Back to Where they Came From (The Negeb)

• Is the Famine Even Over (Does it Matter)?

• Oh Yeah, Lot was with him

Read Genesis 13 2-7 - 15:40

• Is this a walk of shame

• Abraham got the Bag

• Had some stuff going into Egypt

• Has even more coming out of Egypt

• Continue to Backtrack back to AI

• Already had an altar there

• Again Called Upon the Name of the LORD

• Oh Yeah, Lot was with him

• Lot got a mini bag too

• Not as big as Abram’s

• Flocks, Herds and Tents

• Nothing about silver or gold

• Bethel and AI We have a problem

• Strife between the herdsman

• Where is all the livestock going to eat

• Oh Yeah, the Canaanites and Perrizites were there

• Why you fighting amongst yourselves

• The outsiders are looking in shaking their heads

• Starting to see why Lot should have stayed?

Read Genesis 13 8-9 - 23:47

• We need to stop this

• Notice how this is personal between the heads of the houses

• Lot is the head of a house (Abram was told to leave all of this)

• They are family, why are they ‘beefing’

• The Solution is to split up

• We have a bunch of land before us

• You pick what you want to do

Read Genesis 13 10-13 - 31:07

• Lot Lifted Up His Eyes

• Jordan Valley - Well watered like the Garden of the LORD

• Jordan Valley - Like the Land of Egypt

• Some foreshadowing

• Lot chose what looked good (was there another choice)

• They separated

• We see where they settled

• Abram in Canaan (his original destination)

• Lot went EAST, near Sodom

• We get some information on the men of Sodom

• Wicked, this can’t end well

• Great Sinners against the LORD

Read Genesis 13 14-18 - 49:10

• The LORD speaks to Abram after the split (Bars)

• Lift up your eyes and look in all directions

• All that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever

• There is going to be alot of you (counting dust)

• Now Walk it Out

• Walk over all that I have promised you

• Abram Settled and built an altar to the LORD

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Season 4 Episode 1 – Genesis 12: Keep on Pushing!!

Coming Up 0:00

Intro 1:16

Read Genesis 12 1-3 - 3:09

• The Call of Abram

• Called by the LORD

• Called FROM Stuff (Country, Kindred, Father House)

• Called To a Land (to be shown in the future)

• The Impact on Abram

• Note all Future Tense

• Note the Blessing

• Great Nation

• Great Name

• With a Purpose - To be a blessing

• The Impact of Abram 

• Associated with the Purpose

• Bless those who Bless you

• Curse those who dishonor you

Read Genesis 12 4-6 - 28:36

• Abram heard and listened - where was the call first given - Ur(?)

• He was already heading to Canaan

• Resumed the journey

• Lot will feature prominently based on the number and location of his mention

• Lists who went with him and his age 

• Abram was 75 years old

• Took his wife Sarai (we know about her)

• Took his nephew Lot

• Their possessions

• People they ‘acquired’ in Haran

• Reached Canaan

• Shechem - Future importance

• Oak or Moreh - Future importance

• This land was inhabited by the Canaanites - Those who were cursed by Noah

Read Genesis 12 7-9 - 46:47

• The LORD tells Abram this is the land I will give your offspring

• Built and Altar at the Oak or Moreh (?)

• Moved further in the land between Bethel (West) and Ai (East)

• PItched a Tent there

• Built and Altar there

• Called on the Name of the LORD

• Journeyed on toward the Negeb

Read Genesis 12 10-16 - 52:58

• Famine causes a move to Egypt

• Makes a deal with Sarai

• Seemed Afraid

• Do the Egyptians have a reputation

• Sarai a baddie

• Leave out that you are my wife/Leave in that you are my sister

• Everything went as Abram thought

• They dealt well with Abram because of Sarai

• Amassed stuff

Read Genesis 12 17-20 - 1:09:52

• The LORD steps into the situation

• Afflicted the houses with great plagues (foreshadowing or Exodus)

• Pharaoh responds

• Somehow knows why this is happening

• Calls Abram to the carpet

• Sent Abram away with his wife and all that he had

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