Before self-sufficient people can enter the Kingdom of God, they must wrestle with God, confront their identity as sinners, repent, believe, and become a new creature in Christ who is transformed by God’s grace.

God sovereignly orchestrates the details of life for the kind and gracious purpose of disciplining those whom He loves so that sinners might be saved and saints might yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

God can use the greatest of human deception to accomplish His great blessing of redemption. This is seen most clearly in Christ's betrayal and crucifixion so that we might receive the glorious blessing of salvation.

Despite our unbelief and instinctive desire to trust our own efforts in the midst of trials, God not only protects us from the consequences of sin, He graciously provides His glorious presence and abundant blessing.

There is not a single person in all the world throughout all time who deserves God's grace; and yet before the foundation of the world, God chose a number that no man can count to believe in Jesus and be saved.

God has always had one plan of redemption for His people, that they would be justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for God's eternal glory alone. May we too have faith like Abraham!

All of Scripture, the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets, teach us about Jesus, His person and His work. They instruct us about His death, burial, and resurrection and the salvation that is ours in Him. Therefore, our whole lives should be about Jesus.

The impossible mission of securing a bride for Isaac points us to the unbelievable lengths that God has gone to secure a bride, the church, for His beloved Son, who willingly purchased her with His own dear blood.

Abraham owning property in the Promise Land demonstrates his confidence that God will make good on His promises and provide; not only physical land, but a new heavens and new earth in which righteousness reigns.