Abraham's testimony influences Isaac and not for the best. Abimelech scolds Isaac as he had to do to his Father and mother.

The worst part? Isaac was not alive when his father did what Isaac is replicating so he must have heard of the stories. Your testimony will last even after you are gone, it is serious business.

Did you know that just 40 days after the blood covenant was sealed the Israelites forsook their God?

We Christians who are under the blood, the Covenant of Christ, do we forsake all He has asked of us? Do we leave our God to do things our way?

All too often we try to meet with God on our terms, forgetting all He has done to make it possible for us to meet with Him, cheapening His Sacrifice, forgetting His Love and making it all about us.

There is a mocker on the Contemporary Christian charts, there is a mocker in a pulpit in Illinois.

Phinehas and Hophni were priest and God, in the Bible, called them sons of Belial. Why? Because they knew not the Lord.

We have people in the pulpit in so called churches today that are sons and daughters of Belial and they do not know the Lord.

Bible believing Christians it is time to take a stand, if we do not make a stand and push back against the perversions in the pulpit we are going to fall.

Worship is when the Spirit of man meets with the Spirit of God and extols His Holiness, His beauty, His Grace, His Love, His Mercy, His Purity and His Sacrifice.

Too often we try to contrive it, or we sleep walk through what we call praise and worship time.

God wants a relationship with us and that, the fact He wants to talk to us, with us, is a praise in and of itself!

We do not sing of the spiritual warfare anymore, we do not speak of the battles the Christian will face. To our detriment we have become a pacifistic church.

Paul says put on the whole armor of God that you may better preach the Gospel. It is not armor to preserve us, nor is it armor for the easy chair.

It is Armor that we might better be able to proclaim the Mystery of the Gospel.

That time where Abraham's testimony causes Abimelech to be wary of Abraham.

That time where abraham is called to sacrifice his son and he gets up early in the morning and gets going.

Peter was eating with the Gentiles, until the Jews came along and peer pressure set in. Peter took people with him into sin and Paul called him out.

We are justified by faith not of works, not of the Law. Faith in Christ.

The Israelites travelled for 1 year, now next to the Promised land they lack the faith or belief to walk forward and claim the Promise of God.

We in today's world also lack the faith and belief to claim the Promise of God. The Promise that His Word will not return void, His Word can change the world.

Instead we see the wickedness of this world, we hear the unbelief and atheism and we resign ourselves to defeat.

Our God is Able, are we?

Fascinating, the examples we are given in the Bible. For where else will you see such imperfect flawed people called Holy and Righteous? Abraham ,flawed though he is, is used by the Perfect God to accomplish His Perfect Will.

How this encourages and inspires me.

It is amazing that a man as revered as Abraham lied to Pharaoh, lied to Abimelech, took Hagar to wife at his wife's "urging". Yet he is the Friend of God. Interesting.