Genesis 12:13 – “Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” Thus far we have seen God call and bless Adam, Noah, and Abram. And, after their call from God, we have seen each man sin against God. … Read more
Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17 – “You shall not murder.” In two different books following the book of Genesis, God gives Moses the 10 Commandments at Mount Sinai. These are so important … Read more
Genesis 9:13 – I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. In Genesis 9, God puts the rainbow in the sky to signify His covenant with His people. In that time, the main weapon of war was the bow and, when … Read more
Genesis 9:20-21 – Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. In Genesis 9:18-28, Noah responded to God’s kindness by getting drunk and passing out naked in his tent like a hillbilly redneck on vacation. … Read more
Genesis 8:20-21a – Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, … Read more
Genesis 6:5-6 – The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. This week, I was working on … Read more
Genesis 6:5,8 – The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. In our final devo answering four tough questions from Genesis 6, at the end of the … Read more
Genesis 6:3 – Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” Today, we continue answering some of the most difficult questions in the entire book of Genesis, stemming from Genesis 6, and the second question is the significance of 120 years … Read more
Hebrews 11:4 – By faith Abel offered…a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts…through his faith. Has there ever been a time that you feel like you were doing all the right things but there was a person who just opposes, despises, and hates you? … Read more
Hebrews 12:22-24 – …you have come to…Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. As I was researching and studying for the sermon in Genesis 4 on the story of Cain and Abel, it occurred to me that there are … Read more
Genesis 4:26b – “At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.” Today, we continue looking at the story of Cain and Abel and how we can avoid being like Cain in our own lives today. Cain yielded to his anger, which God had warned him to control, and murdered his … Read more
Genesis 4:26b – “At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.” The Bible is the most honest book ever written, and only a few pages in, it gives us the honest account of how sin makes family relationships so painful. Not long after God said that everything was “very good” … Read more