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THE BOOK OF GENESIS
By J. W. SMITH
The Word of Encouragement.
Chapter 15.
All true courage comes from
jn God. The man who believes
strong; the man who doubts is
btrong faith precedes great
Faith, in order to be strong must
nourished by the word of God.
Elijah experienced a season of
ural depression and reaction
the great victory won on Mount
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brave and noble deed, described in
preceding chapter, was followed
a time of spiritual reaction, so
hr needed the special word of
ragement, which came to him at
critical moment. We read:
these things the word of the
nmr • unto Abram.” Vs. 1. The
that is nourished by daily
j meditation, and the humble
| of the Holy Scriptures will
the life, enlighten the mind,
| the intellect, encourage the
1 and multiply good works.
I The Vision. V»». 1-6.
it' The word of the Lord came to
ram in a vision.” The phrase so
: found in the Bible, “the word
I en
U^e Lord came,” occur; here for
first time. The revelation was not
dream, hut a real message from
Lord; for we read in verse five
God “brought him forth abroad”
commanded him to look toward
ven.
This vision brought -
I. Encouragement. V*. I.
11 , natural , , for . Abram to , ,
was
lieve that the defeated armies of tin
East, which he attacked by
would return in overpowering force
and without mercy fall upon his
clan. In addition to this he was
appointed that Lot whom he
followed him not, but went back
the wicked people of Sodom. We
readily see tha* he was east do'.vr
• when the word of
. came to him: “Fear not, Abram: I
| am thy shield, and thy exceedin
great reward,” Abram whose
was weak, was not to he afraid of
his fierce enemies; for God would
take care of him and be his shield. As
the shield is between the body and
danger, so God is between His
ple and all harm. Nothing can
the saint but through God; for
life is hid with Christ in God.
shield is illustrative of (1)
protection. 15: 1; I’.s. 33: 20. (2)
j salvation. God’s favor. Ps. 1’.-. 5: 12 . (3)
IK: 35. (4)
f truth. Ps. 01: 4. (5) The
faith. Kph. 6: 16.
God was Abram’s reward ulso.
rum honored God by refusing the
offers of the king of Sodom;
God rewards His servant. The reward
was God Himself. In God he had all
the gifts and blessings of heaven. The
man who has God has everything he
! needs for this: life and the life to
come.
' 2. Assurance. Vs*. 2-6.
God had blessed Abram with rich¬
es and honor, but what would they
all amount to? If he died childless
Id; inheritance would be lost. He
was at the point of concluding that
Eliezer, his attached houseborn slave,
would be his heir. There was no sign
of the fulfillment of the promise con
cermng , his . seed , though , he had been
years in Canaan. The promise
included the coming Messiah, and
1 he wanted assurance of his relation
iship to Him. Being encouraged by
the word of the Lord, he asked:
“What wilt Thou give me, seeing I
childless?” God assured him that
the heir would be his own son, an<f
led him forth to a place where he was
taught the most glorious lesson in
astronomy ever learned by any man.
As he beheld the millions of “silvery
eyes (we believe that Divine power
strengthened his sight so that he saw
not merely the five or six thousand
stars seen with the naked eye, hut
the 100,000,000 that can he seen
through the telescope), parkling in
the heavens, he was told: “So shall
thy seed be.” The stars had been a
familiar l ight, hut from that moment
they constituted a sign, testifying to
the faithfulness of God. Every time
Abram looked at the stars he could
see God’s covenant promise written
across the skv.
3. Righteou.no. V.. 6.
“Ami he believed in the Lord and
he counted it unto him for righteous
ness.” This is the first time ,, the word ,
believed , ,,, occurs . the ., ,, Holy , Fcrip- ...
tn
ture. It is a translation of the He
, brew word , araan, ,, - from which , . , we
get ,, “amen, ,, . „ “so it is,” . ,,
our meaning
“it shall , ,, , he ,, .... it must , , be. ,, Under , the .,
sky , God ... , to Ah- .,
nzure gave a promise
ram which included the person and ,
work , of , ,,, Christ. . , Though the fulfill
ment of . tne . promise was impossible , ,
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from „ , human standpoint, , . yet Abram
a
said. “Amen, and . a'l „ was settled ,,, ,
end I this instance . , of - faith - ...
sure. was
that , was chosen , , hv the ,, ,. Holy , Spirit.
as the model for believing unto justi
fication of life. Rom. 4.
The word “counted” means “to
think” and then ‘to impute,” i.
to put to one’s account. The
implies that Abram had no
ness of his own and that he did
merit a. How can a man be
as righteous the moment he
God? Because faith lays bold on
object. God Who is perfection
To believe God is to lay hold on
perfection. When this is done
believe) is regarded as righteous
the sight of God, as if he had
sinned. Godet says, “To impute
the believer righteousness which
does not possess, is at the same
not to impute to him sins of which
he is guilty.” Every believer is
fied the same way as the father of the
faithful was. Abram was fully
suaded that, what God had promised,
He was able to perform. "And
fore it was imputed to him for right
e usness. Now it was not written fo"
his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him; but for us also, to whom it
shall be imputed, if we believe on
Him that raised up Jesus our Lord
from the dead: Who was delivered
for our offences and raised again
for our justification.” Rom. 4: 21-25
In chapter 15, Abram is justified be¬
fore God; in chapter 22. he is justt
f'ed before men. In the former we
have faith, jn the latter we have
works. Raul quotes from chapter 15;
James, from chapter 22.
il The Covenant. Vss. 7-21.
When righteousness was imputed
to Abram, God entered into a solemn
covenant with him, by which the pa¬
triarch’s faith was strengthened and
confirmed. God reminded him of
jformer mercii and favors which were
j u pledge of a glorious future. V s. 7.
| The covenant included a—
1. Sign. V... 8-12, 17.
| Abram said, “Lord shall God, inherit whereby it?
shall I know that l
1 was not distrust in God’- wort! that
|eausod him to ask for a sign, but a
'^ire to have his faith confirmed,
The sign God gave him was a typ
of Christ in His perfection, strength
;lni1 sacrifice. The three animals were
divided, and according to custom, a
P ~‘‘ was form ‘‘ d - hetwepn th °
at ' h( ° PP ° S,t, “ •* tre metle8
of h,ch thc covenanting parties , en
v ’
tered, and , meeting in the middle
took the solemn oath. , . In this , • case
God adne parsed between the , sacri
f;oe. ’ showing that it was a covenant
of The _ smoking , , furnace rep
grace. ”
resented God in His justice and holi
while the flaming torch symbo- ,
ness,
lized , ... Him ... His and .
in mercy grace,
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The sacrifice, ... from another , stand- , ,
point, ’ was typical ' of the oneness that ,
, existed , , between the , contracting par
ties. . Kurtz says. “Ihe division .. . . oi ... the
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sacrifices into . portions represent;
... the two parties , , to ,, the covenant. A- .
I these portions constitute in reality
muma), the two parties to the
covenant are joined into one.”
2. Ihe Frophecy. Vss. 13-16.
In these four verses we have 400
-years of israelitish history written in
advance. God revealed to Abram that
Ins seed would he in exile, in bondage,
and in affliction 400 years, after
which the nation, holding them in
slavery would be judged, and the chil
dren of the covenant delivered, and
enriched. The first fourteen chapter
of Exodus show how completely this
I prophecy was fulfilled.
I Abram was told that he would go
to his fathers in peace and be buried
in a good old age. Going to his fathers
means going to the abode of the de¬
parted spirits, and not his burial in
the grave; for his fathers were not
i buried in Carman. His happy ana
peaceful end is recorded in chapter
25: 7, S. Every good man dies ii
)tace. “Mark the perfect man, and
behold the upright: for the end of
rhat man is peace.” Ps. 37: 37.
3. Confirmation. Vs. 18
I “In the same day God made a eot
enant with Abram, saying “Unto thy
seed have 1 given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river,
the river Euphrates.” In chapter 12:
7 the promise given Abram concern¬
ing the land is, "L T rito thy reed will 1
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give this land.” In this passage the
promise is confirmed, “Unto thy seed
have I given this land.” Some schol¬
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bed Land have never been realized,
and that this promise made to Ab¬
ram awaits its perfect fulfillment.
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thinking Jew realizes that the Jew:;
still have a land whieh is theirs, theirs
j by right of Divine promise and his
i’orica! tradition. But, above all, they
rely on the promise itself. They be
lieve that tht covenant between God
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ish nation of a land even before it
v,a> born, will never be broken. For
the mountains may depart, and the
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rr ss >hall not depart from thee, j
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the land of their fathers, where their
own Messiah, Whom they now reject,
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