Genesis 31:42 (KJV) God Will Not Let Us Go Empty

Genesis 31:42 (KJV)
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

Whatever happens in this world’s economy; whether we are cheated, mistreated or robbed, our God is with us. He will not let us go away empty. 

We do not always make wise choices. The very best and the godliest of us are capable of and do in fact make many mistakes in judgment, conduct, and response. But our God is still with us. He will not let us go away empty. 

People we love and associate with will do things we wish they hadn’t. Sometimes those choices of others will affect us in negative ways. Our God is with us, nevertheless. He will not let us go away empty. 

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Genesis 30:31 (KJV) Depend On God

Genesis 30:31 (KJV)
And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

Laban had already proven himself to be a difficult man. He had tricked Jacob in the matter of Rachel  and Leah. Jacob has expected to return home shortly after leaving. He had agreed to stay for seven years in exchange for Rachel and was forced to stay seven more besides. 

Now, when he wished to return home, Laban offers to pay him to stay. Jacob would have none of it. He was willing to work for his own family’s wellbeing. He was willing to trust God to provide, but he was not willing to let Laban believe he gave him anything. Perhaps more importantly, he did not want to depend upon Laban but upon God. 

No man or woman will be their best if they believe that anyone other than God and their own hard work meets their needs and provides success and prosperity. Don’t allow yourself to rest on the gifts of others. Trust God and make your way by Him. 

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Genesis 26:10 (KJV) A Higher Standard

Genesis 26:10 (KJV)
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

I am reminded of Luke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 

The king of Gerar appears to have been more moral than the people of God, certainly more moral than many today. Was there a reason they understood the weight of guiltiness? I do not know; I doubt if they were concerned that their guilt would be judged by Almighty God. What they believed to be the consequences of such guiltiness we are not told. Still, this sense of burden prevented them from crossing their moral boundaries. 

The people of modern culture carry no such sense of guiltiness. And it is no wonder. Christianity today has by in largely abandoned the concepts of righteousness. Christianity has become a bastion of free thinking. Almost anything goes in the churches of our day. There is little sense of the righteousness and judgment of God. 

We have lost our savor. We are little good to this world if we do not hold a higher standard of righteousness, morality, temperance, and fear of God than is present in the world around us.

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Genesis 25:5 (KJV) Give All To God

Genesis 25:5 (KJV)
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

There is no type in the Bible more clearly set forth than that of Isaac. 

• Isaac is a type of promise, or the product of it
• Ishmael is a type of the work of the flesh

So, this passage makes all sorts of spiritual sense. Abraham invested everything in the promise of God. He gave small gifts to the children born of his concubines, but he gave everything he had unto Isaac. 

I wouldn’t argue that it is okay to pay tribute to our flesh, but I know we do it. Even we who are saved live in bodies corrupted by the flesh. The best we ever do, the more Christlike we become, we still wrestle with the work of the flesh. 

• We sin
• We support causes of human concern rather than spiritual
• We enjoy things that have no value outside this world

We give some tribute to the works of the flesh. 

When we reach the end of our life may it be said of us that, while we gave trinkets to the flesh, we gave all that we had unto the promise of God.

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Genesis 24:49 (KJV) Mine, Or My Master’s?

Genesis 24:49 (KJV)
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

This servant had been sent on a mission of incredible, almost indescribable importance. He was to find a bride for his master’s son. He was to bring her back, sight unseen by either his master or his master’s son, so they could be married. What if neither approved?

• He was sent away into another country from which to find her 
• He was sent to a far country and 
• He was sent with much wealth and many provisions

It would not have been difficult to have “claimed ownership” of the mission. In many respects, he would have been justified to have asked Laban to “deal kindly” with him. He did not. He asked him to deal kindly with his master.

It’s a matter of attitude, but it is also a theological truth that impacts the performance of our duties before the Lord. 

• Do we see our work as God’s or our own? 
• Do we see fruit as God’s or our own? 
• Do we view the blessings that we receive as belonging to God or to us?

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Genesis 22:11 (KJV) Abraham, Abraham

Genesis 22:11 (KJV)

And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

How we read a thing matters to the message of the thing. When the angel of the Lord called out of heaven and said “Abraham, Abraham,” those words should be read with: 

• Intensity
• Urgency and 
• Passion 

It’s not panic because God would not panic. Even in the most urgent of circumstances God has things in control. 

The urgency of the text does not reflect upon God, but it does tell us something about Abraham. It tells us that he was serious about the offering. This was no half hearted show. While I am in agreement that Abraham could offer his son because he knew that God would somehow give him back his son, Abraham was not play acting as he went through the motions of the sacrifice. He was fully prepared and committed to complete his mission. He wasn’t 

• Dragging his feet
• Delaying his work
• Looking around for a way out 

He wasn’t wasting time hoping for God to change His mind before the deed was done. Abraham was so committed that the angel of the Lord has to get his attention. He had to be stopped in his tracks. 

How committed are we to that which God has called us?

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Genesis 20:1 (KJV) Abraham’s lapse at Gerar

Genesis 20:1 (KJV)
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

The Bible I currently use for my daily visits with God is a King James Version 400th anniversary edition published by Local Church Publishers. It is essentially a Scofield Reference Bible with the notes removed. It does retain the chapter and division headings of the Scofield Bible. The Scofield heading for Genesis 20 reads, “Abraham’s lapse at Gerar.” A lapse is a fall. 

Abraham was as given to fall as anyone else
He was all human. He had a sin nature. He loved God, worshipped God, lived and served and honored God. But he was capable of falling and did fall from time to time.

Abraham fell in a similar manner as in Egypt 
We may learn from this to be especially aware of those sins that easily beset us. If we can do it once, we could easily do it again. Beware. 

Abraham lapsed into this sin just after receiving a promise from God and just before God answered that promise
It may have been related to his disappointment that despite his prayers, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. It may have been related to his heartbreak over Lot’s sin. Whatever was the catalyst, Abraham lapsed into sin just before God gave him the desired promise. 

Abraham’s sin directly threatened the answer to Gods promise
The promise involved Sarah and it was Sarah he put at risk. 

We sin. We are prone to the same sins again and again. And, when we give into those sins, we risk what God has planned for us. 

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Genesis 18:27-28 (KJV) Answered Prayer

Genesis 18:27-28 (KJV)
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

What a humbling concept that we may undertake to “speak unto the Lord,” we who are indeed but dust and ashes. 

Abraham prayed, and the Lord heard and answered his prayer. 

Three things:
Though he had an answer in the affirmative, his prayer had not been finally answered yet 
I have had many times when God assured me in my soul that my prayer was answered, but it was sometime later when it was “officially” answered. This is an important truth because it is the case with salvation. We have assurance from the Holy Spirit we are saved, in most cases, decades before it is finally answered. 

Though he had an affirmative answer, Sodom was nevertheless destroyed
The assurance of answered prayer is that God will answer in the best way possible, not necessarily the way we believe He should.

Though he had an affirmative answer, he continued to pray 
The Bible teaches us both humility and boldness. We are but dust and ashes. We could never deserve to take upon ourselves to speak unto the Lord. But we have been provided an open door. God through Christ invites us to come boldly, consistently, and ask of Him greater and greater things.

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