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We return to Genesis
It’s been about a year since we’ve been in Genesis, and today we return to Genesis.
We will remain in Genesis until the end of November.
Just a heads up, we will be tackling larger passages of Scripture as we return to Genesis.
It won’t be 1 or 2 verses, but sometimes entire chapters of Scripture.
Genesis was written probably around 3,500 years ago.
An incredible amount of time.
Think of all the changes that have happened since then.
Technology has progressed.
Governments have grown.
And yet, the basic experience is the same.
The human experience remains unchanged.
We are born.
We age.
We grow old.
We die.
We have dreams
We have goals.
We have ambitions.
What I love about Scripture, even though we have all this time between when it was written and us today, it’s still written to normal people.
We share the same things in common.
It’s not written to a special class of people.
It’s written about ordinary people.
And it’s written to ordinary people.
It’s written about ordinary things.
So for you who come and you feel ordinary.
This is for you.
Scripture applies to you.
You don’t have to be a president, king, ruler, or some global leader.
It’s for ordinary people.
And it’s useful for you.
-17 says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
Today’s text is useful, profitable, and it’s something that you need.
So, please open your Bibles to .
I’m not going to read the passage, but I will walk us through it today.
What we will see is an ordinary man, growing old, and having ordinary desires.
We will answer the question, what is the ordinary Christian supposed to look like?
The first thing we see is that The Ordinary Christian Trusts in God.
If you would, look at verses 1-9.
Abraham by now is an old man.
He’s officially old.
When we first met him, God had promised that he would become the father of a great nation.
But if you remember, he and his wife Sarah, were childless.
But, miraculously, in their old age, they became parents.
Abraham became a dad at around 100.
Now he’s somewhere between 120 and 140 years old, but according to this passage he’s now old.
He wasn’t old before, but now he is.
Which mean
That promise of becoming the father of a great nation is still ringing in his ears.
Yet, there is a problem
… his son, the son that the promise is to go to, Isaac, is not married.
Meaning he doesn’t have any children of his own.
Abraham is experiencing something ordinary.
He’s nearing the end, he’s nearing his death, and what does he care about the most?
His family.
His son.
Will his son be taken care of.
I was with a lady as she was dying.
And there she was nearing death.
Cancer throughout her body.
And the only thing she was cared about was her family.
Who would care for her daughter?
Who would care for her granddaughters?
Would they be okay?
This is normal.
This is ordinary.
And yet, in this ordinary situation, how does Abraham respond?
He responds by trusting in God’s promises.
Back in , God had made a promise to Abraham.
Then in , God had reaffirmed that promise.
God swore by Himself that He would fulfill what He had promised.
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So in , Abraham says, “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ ...”
The reality of God’s promises is so real to Abraham, that he sends his oldest and most trusted servant to find a wife for his son.
Probably a man named Eliezer, we met him in .
He sends Eliezer back to his homeland, to find a wife for his son.
And before he sends his servant away, he does something not ordinary, he makes his servant swear that he will obey.
Eliezer, takes his hand, puts it under Abraham’s thigh, and makes an oath, that he will return to Abraham’s homeland and find a wife for Isaac.
Those are the events, but now we pull out of it a truth.
Though God hasn’t promised you that you will become the father of a great nation,
There are truths that the ordinary Christian, that’s you and I, are to hold onto.
The ordinary Christian’s response is to trust in the Lord.
What does it mean to trust in the Lord?
Sometimes we throw that phrase around like how Obi Wan Kenobi tells Luke to Use the Force.
To trust in the Lord means to rest in the sovereignty of God.
It means to know that God is on His throne, and everything that happens is for a reason.
It means to know that God is on His thrown, and everything that happens is for a reason.
By now, you’re all to aware that 12 of us spent almost two weeks in the Czech Republic.
We were able to see the church active and alive in a very dark corner of the world.
We watched as Lojza pastored his church.
On Sunday mornings, not only does Lojza preach, but he also leads the music.
He sits at a little upright piano, that is badly out of tune.
He leads the congregation in songs.
One of the days, we were talking to Lojza and commented on how well he does at piano and his many talents.
He then said this, and it really struck me.
He reflected the complimented and instead praised God, and he said, that’s the sovereignty of God.
He said when he was a kid he learned how to play the piano.
But not because he was ever going to lead the church.
He did it just because he was a kid learning the piano.
He also reflected upon learning English.
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