Today’s Outline: The Lord God Provided A Testimony for Jacob

• The Lord Provides Jacob a Testimony—But Only Through Hard Times
• And the Lord Allows Joseph to Be Sold into Slavery — But with the Blessing of Protection from His Own Brethren!

Our Outline Today: How Jacob is Transformed By the Power of Almighty God, One Small Step at a Time:

• The Lord God Provides Isaac a Seed — Rebekah Delivers Twins
• The Lord God Preserves Jacob from Death — He is Delivered from Esau
• The Lord God Provides Jacob a Seed — Twelve Sons are Given to Him
• The Lord God Preserves Jacob Through Trial — He Renames Him Israel

Our Outline Today: God Sovereignly Blesses Isaac, the Son of Promise — Through Sand, Stars and Many Wells, Even, Wells of Living Water!

• The Gift of a Son, Projected — What about the Sand and the Stars?
• The Well of Hagar and Ishmael, Beerlahairoi — Blessing through Great Trial
• The Second Well of Hagar and Ishmael, BeerSheba — Blessings Multiplied

The Gift of a Son — Challenged, Provided, and Preserved:

• The Gift of a Son, Challenged — The Challenge of Ishmael and Hagar Continues
• The Gift of a Son, Provided — The Son of the Promise is Given in Due Time
• The Gift of a Son, Preserved — Isaac’s Sacrifice is Abraham’s Great Test

Our Outline Today: The Sovereignty of God in Genesis: What Hath God Wrought?

• What Hath God Wrought? Abram and Sarai Fail Regarding the Promise
• What Hath God Wrought? The Promise Renewed and a New Name Is Given
• What Hath God Wrought? the Challenge of Ishmael and Hagar Continues

The Promise of a Son to Abraham, and the Fulfillment of that Promise, Assures All Believers of God’s Absolute and Final Sovereignty Over His Work 

• The Gift of a Son, Prophesied — Can Satan or Sin Destroy the Plan of God?
• The Gift of a Son, Promised — And There are Many Challenges

• Sin is Revealed as a Foundational Theme of Our Faith in Genesis
• The Sin Offering is Fundamental in Understanding God’s Redemptive Plan
• The Conscience of Sin Is Universal, Whether for Believers or Unbelievers
• Sin in a More General Sense is Also Common in the Old Testament

“The Book of Genesis, The Foundations of Our Faith Revealed, Theme by Theme: Genesis and It’s Inspiration According to the Others, James, Jude, and John — Enduring to the End through many Challenges”

• The Testimony of James, the Lord’s Brother — Abraham’s Example of “Faith Plus Works” Reveals True Salvation
• The Testimony of John, the Apostle — As the Overcomer’s Example, The Shed Blood of the Redeemer Continues Testifying
• The Testimony of Jude, the Lord’s —  For Kingdom Saints, Cain’s Example of Evil Endures

The Testimony of Peter: Obedience to the Lord God Should Be Our Priority, and Genesis is the witness of that.

• The Lord God Demonstrated His Willingness to Judge Mankind in Genesis
• But the Lord Was Willing to Save Some, Proving That in the Genesis Flood
• The Flood of Noah Was Worldwide and Therefore a Perfect Example of the Judgment to Come
• The Lord God Demonstrated His Judgments Also in Sodom and Gomorrha
• Wives are to Honor their Husbands, as Sarah Did Abraham

Paul’s View of Genesis — The Doctrine of the Letter to the Hebrews is Founded on the Genesis Account

• God’s Rest after the Creation is the Model for the Believer’s Rest
• The Promise of God Through Abraham’s Seed Is Foundational Truth
• That Faith, the Substance of Our Hope, Was Established in the Beginning