The Spoken Word

Looking at Abram’s life and his walk with God and how God is establishing him as the father of those who live by faith there are lessons to be learned, doctrines that is established and examples we, as heirs of the same promises, that we can be partakers of if we will follow faithful Abram. Can changed his name and his character, which points to how He will change us and our nature to make us prof...

As Christians we are called to follow those who by faith have laid hold to the promises. Abram believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. We can look at his walk, how he grows as he continues to follow God's righteous commands and we can learn how to deal with conflict resolution, generosity, faith and the consequences of our choices.

Abram is called by God and God initiates His covenant with Abram. With the call God desires Abram to come out from among his idolatrous people and go to a place. As Abram journeys he encounters difficulty and flees to Egypt, in this decision he is leaning to his own understanding rather than trusting God and he is taught a crucial lesson about the God of the covenant.

How far are you willing to go for God? Make your calling and election sure, then purpose in your heart to go all the way. Relationships are important, especially covenant relationships but they must be prioritized in rank. Our number one priority in life is to the kingdom and the King of that kingdom. In fact, Scripture says “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these t...

We see in this chapter lessons about faith, obedience, and God’s promises. God does not expect perfection from us but He looks for obedience. Abram trusted God’s call and willingly leaves his homeland and family. God promises to bless him, He assures him of divine protection, and promises that his obedience will have a far-reaching impact and the simple act of Abram’s moving forward marks the begi...

God is moving through Genesis toward our redemption. He is setting the stage of choosing a man through whom He can bring forth a seed that will be a blessing to all of humanity. In Genesis 11 we see the genealogy of Shem leading to that of Terah from who will come Abram the friend of God through whom we, if we are Christ's then we are his seed and heir of the same promises God made to him.

Just as God had humanity in mind while He created all that He created; He also has our good in mind when He gives us His commandments. All God’s commandments are for our good because He has a good plan for us; He wants us to lay hold to an inheritance and a hope that will ultimately be consummated in Christ Jesus. But we have a propensity to resist God’s good plan for plans we ourselves conceive,...

Before departing back to heaven Jesus prayed for His disciples, what He prayed is what the Father has always desired for humanity; He says that He had manifested God's name to them given to Him out of the world. He said they have kept Your word; they have believed that the Father sent Him. He asked the Father to sanctify them by His truth, and He prayed that they would be one. The Father wants...

What is the source of human diversity, history and the true origin of the nations? The Bible tells us and outlines it for us tracing it back to the genealogy of Noah’s descendants after the flood. Luke tells us in Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the tines before appointed, and bounds of their habitation.” Gene...

Touching lives in the hope of changing the world by leading men to Jesus.

God orders Noah to build and ark for saving of the souls of him and his house, because Noah is righteous in all of his generations. God has a way of rescuing those who will harken to His commands and be diligent to do all He commands. As a result of Noah’s obedience and patience God covenants with him and all of creation. Noah shows us that the proper response to God’s salvation is worship out of...

How do we impact lives for eternity? Through the teaching of sound doctrine according to God's Word. The entrance of God's word brings light and gives understanding, it establishes a new beginning, a new hope based on God's great and precious promises. But in order to lay hold to this "New Hope" set before us we must be willing (to obey) and obedient (to walk in the light as...

In all ages all of humanity receive salvation by one means, it is the gift of God by grace through faith. God makes available to us a righteousness which is of faith. God has declared that the "wages of sin is death" (Rom 6:23), He has committed to judge, and His judgement is not only irresistible, but it is also irrevocable and all of mankind is accountable to Him because He is in absol...

The flood of Noah was an actual event; there are many scientific facts that attest to it and many legends and stories in just about every nation and culture that testifies of it. The was the result of judgement against the wickedness of humanity and the corruption of the earth. Jesus warns us of another impending judgement that will come upon the earth as a result of the same wickedness of man, in...

Trusting in God and being found blameless, even in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation that God is going to judge, can lead to God's favor and His salvation. Therefore, trust in the Lord and do good, commit your way to Him and He will see you through.

The Bible says in Matthew 24:37-39, “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the day that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be also the coming of the Son of man be.” These are the last day...

Knowing the name of something, especially the true name, gives you the ability to influence, command or control it. For example knowing the name can enable one to banish spirits and demons. Also, the name of something represents the fundamental nature of a thing and can give us deep insight into its character, history and vulnerabilities. The power to name someone allows us to prophecy their desti...

Sin came into the world by one man and death came through sin. The soul that sin dies because the wage of sin is death. What was due us (humanity) was death, but God is His mercy didn’t discard us, instead He extends mercy to us and grace. In faithfulness to His compassionate nature, He preserved humanity so that He could get out of us what He originally purposed for us. By walking close to God an...

Sin came into the world by one man, Adam, it progressed through his generations, wreaking havoc, leading to unacceptable worship of God, anger, jealousy and murder. The result being alienation from God, the ground and a life of wandering. Still, God in His mercy demonstrates lovingkindness and grace toward man and seeks to restore him to His original intentions for him.

The Bible tells us to guard our hearts with all diligence because out of it flows the issues of life. The way a man thinks (in his heart) reveals who and what the man actually is, it’s not the things that go into his mouth that defiles but what comes out of the heart. Man’s heart, apart from the influence of the Divine, is desperately wicked, depraved, that’s why God gives us a new heart. That dep...

Where do wars and fighting come from among us? James says they come desires for pleasure that war in our own members. He says that we lust and do not have, we murder and covet and cannot obtain. We become jealous and envious of what others have, are doing, and their success. The Bible says that a man cannot lawfully or legally take anything to himself as his own except that which is given him by G...

The wages of sin is death, it separates us from God, Who is the source of life. It denies us the privilege of coming into the presence of God and the life of God, but God in His mercy, His great love for us, His wisdom and grace has made provision to remedy the sin problem. We can gain access into His presence, the throne room to obtain mercy and grace to help, through the new and living way, whic...

Rather than flee the tempter Eve has a full conversation with him leading to her deception. She then offers Adam that which God had forbidden to them, and He takes it willfully disobeying God and bringing sin into the world and with sin comes death. God visits them and deals with them, not according to their sin but according to His love, mercy, and grace; but even still He has to be just.

Adam’s willful disobedience of God’s commandment marks the turning point in the creation story. At this point man’s relationship with God will lead to his expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the entrance of sin in the world and death. Just as the serpent craftily deceived Eve to start this process he is still deceiving the world, the whole world was altered and so was humanity’s place in it, but Go...

God puts Adam in a place of ample provision, sets borders and boundaries for him, gives him stewardship over it and provides one like him that corresponds to him to surround him with aid and assistance.