Today’s Outline: New Theme: Divine Election Operates in the Sphere of Divine Judgment

• Sin Came Into the Word and Death Through Sin — But God Provided Hope to His Children, Adam and Eve, Through A Promise
• The Heavens Declared the Glory of God — But Would the Generations After Eden, Cain and Abel, then Seth and Their Offspring Receive the Witness?
• God’s Response to Sin Was the Noahic Flood — But He Did Deliver Eight Souls!

Today’s Outline:

• Jacob — He Makes a Vow to Almighty God, “If God Will Be With Me” (Gen. 28)
• Jacob — The Lord Changes Jacob’s Name to Israel, A Prince with God (Gen. 32)
• Joseph — He Hopes Against Hope for the Blessed Nation by the Visitation of Almighty God (Gen. 50)
• Israel — He Dies with the Hope of a Future Resurrection in the Land of Promise (Gen. 50)
• Joseph — He Reaffirms Israel’s National Heritage In His Final Words of Testimony (Gen. 50)

• Adam — His Sin Brings the Plan of Redemption to His Fallen Race (Gen. 3 & Rom. 5)
• Abel — God Provides a Path to Fellowship with Sinners though a More Excellent Sacrifice (Gen. 3)
• Noah — He Preaches a Coming Judgment Never Seen Before (Gen. 6-8)
• Abraham — He Is Called to Walk by Faith Where No One Has Walked Before (Gen. 12-15)
• Abraham & Sarah — By Faith Their Weaknesses Are Turned to Strength (see Heb. 11 & Rom. 4)
• Abraham — He Offers up the Son of the Promise Expecting to Receive Him in Resurrection (Gen. 22)
• Isaac — He Blesses His Son Jacob through Weakness of Body but Strength of Spirit (Gen. 28)

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• Jacob — He Makes a Vow to Almighty God, “If God Will Be With Me” (Gen. 28)
• Jacob — The Lord Changes Jacob’s Name to Israel, A Prince with God (Gen. 32)
• Jacob — He Blesses the Sons of Joseph, of Him Who Was “Separate from His Brethren” (Gen. 49)
• Joseph — He Hopes Against Hope for the Blessed Nation by the Visitation of Almighty God (Gen. 50)
• Israel — He Dies with the Hope of a Future Resurrection in the Land of Promise (Gen. 50)
• Joseph — He Reaffirms Israel’s National Heritage In His Final Words of Testimony (Gen. 50)

Today’s Outline:

• Israel Blesses Joseph's Sons and Joseph Himself Prophetically Implying A Future National Heritage
• Israel Dies with the Hope of a Future Resurrection in the Land of Promise
• Israel’s National Heritage Reaffirmed in Joseph’s Final Words of Testimony

Today’s Outline:  The Lord Sovereignly Provides National Blessings for Israel:

• The Most Amazing Story of All is What Leads from Joseph’s Enslavement to His Final Words
• The Lord God Presents Jacob to Joseph and He Founds the Nation of Israel upon a  Resurrection Hope

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