John's study this week:
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(In your own words, summarize passages into
sentences. Goal of 12 – 15 sentences)
Genesis 25
1. Genesis 25:19 – 28 Isaac prays on
behalf of Rebekah, who is childless, who then God blesses with twins whom the
Lord declares will become two great nations, one stronger, and the elder will
serve the younger; the elder is Esau and Jacob the younger.
2. Genesis 25:29 – 34 Once, Jacob was
cooking when Esau came in from the fields and pleaded with Jacob to give him
some, to which Jacob replied “First sell me your birthright.” And Esau
swore to sell Jacob his birthright as first born; so Esau despised his
birthright.
Genesis 26
3. Genesis 26:1 – 6 When a famine
comes to the land of Isaac, he turned to Abimelek, king of the Philistines, but the Lord appeared
to Isaac saying, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to
live, and I will be with you and will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and
did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my
instructions.” So Isaac stayed put.
4. Genesis 26:7 – 7 Making the
same mistake as his Dad, when men approached Isaac about his wife, he lied and
said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He
thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because
she is beautiful.”
5. Genesis 26:8 – 11 Sometime
later Abimelek, sees Isaac with Rebekah and confronts Isaac saying “She’s your
wife, isn’t she?” What if some man had slept with her bringing shame and ruin
on Abimelek’s kingdom so he declares that no one should harm Isaac and Rebekah.
6. Genesis 26:12 – 16 That same
year, Isaac plants and reaps a hundredfold because the Lord blessed him, so he
became very wealthy with so many flocks, herds and servants that the
Philistines envied him and to ‘punish Isaac filled many wells with earth; even
Abimelek saying Move from us because you are far too powerful.
7. Genesis 26:17 – 22 Isaac moved
with his household to the Valley of Gerar, reopened the wells, and his servants
dug wells of fresh water there causing the herders of Gerar to quarrel with
Isaac and he gave the wells to them, moved on and dug more until no one disputed
with him that the wells were his and he named them Rehoboth saying: “Now the Lord has given us room and we will
flourish in the land.”
8. Genesis 26:23 – 25 Then they
went to Beersheba where the Lord appeared to Isaac saying, “I am the God of
your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and
will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant
Abraham.” And Isaac built an alter there and called on the name of the Lord,
and, dug a well.
9. Genesis 26:26 – 33 Abimelek
traveled to see Isaac declaring that he saw that God blessed Isaac, and
proposes a treaty to which all swear to, Isaac gives a feast then send them
away in peace and that day his servants told Isaac about a well they had dug
which he named it Shibah.
10. Genesis 26:34- 35 When Esau
was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also
Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite and they were a source of grief to Isaac
and Rebekah.
Genesis 27
11. Genesis 27:1 – 10 When Isaac
was old he called on Esau to hunt game and prepare it the way Isaac likes it,
and Rebekah, overhearing the conversation, begins to scheme on getting Isaac’s
blessing for Jacob, so encourages Jacob to go to the family flock and bring her
young goats to cook for Isaac the Isaac will give his blessing to Jacob and not
Esau.
12. Genesis 27:11 – 13 Jacob
questions the tactic of fooling Isaac because he and his brother feel
different, and their father would know the difference, and, Jacob does not want
to receive a curse for the deception, to which Rebekah says don’t worry, let
the curse fall on me… do what I say.”
13. Genesis 27:14 – 24 So the
deceit went down as designed with Jacob wearing his brother’s clothes, and
masking his smooth skin covering hands and neck with goatskin, took the food to
Isaac, lied to him, even let his father touch him, and Isaac even commented on
Jacob’s voice not being Esau’s, and lied again when asked directly if Jacob was
Esau.
14. Genesis 27:25 – 29 Isaac asked
Esau (Jacob) for the food, and to kiss him, smelled Esau’s clothes and believed
and blessed Esau (Jacob).
15. Genesis 27:30 – 34 The actual
Esau then returned from hunting, prepared the food and presented it to Isaac,
his father, who questioned who it was then realized that it was Jacob who had
deceived him to which Esau cried out, “Bless me too, my father!”
16. Genesis 27:35 – 41 Isaac said
that Jacob had been deceitful and taken Esau’s blessing which Esau now
recognized that Jacob had taken both his birthright and now his blessing to
which Isaac replied that he had made Jacob lord over Esau and the household to
which Esau now held a grudge to the point of stating that as soon as Isaac was
dead, he (Esau) would kill Jacob.
17. Genesis 27:42 – 46 Rebekah
then sent Jacob, in obedience to Isaac, to her brother Laban home for protection,
covering her tracks with Isaac by saying that Jacob should not marry a
Canaanite / Hittite woman.
Genesis 28
18. Genesis 28:1 - 7 So Isaac
called for Jacob, blessed him, and sent him to Paddan Aram, to Laban’s home to
find a wife from among Laban’s family, and so he went.
19. Genesis 28:8 – 9 When Esau
learned of all this and how the Canaanite women displeased his dad Isaac, he
went to uncle Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter
of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
Divisions
(Summarize
main groupings of thoughts. Goal of 2, 3 or 4 divisions. ID passages covered)
1. Genesis 25:19 – 34 Isaac and Rebekah have
two sons, Esau and Jacob, with Esau selling his birthright to Jacob.
Application:
Are you trusting God with your birthright or are you taking matters into your
own hands?
2. Genesis 26:1 – 33 Isaac sins like Abraham,
repeating Abraham’s mistakes, yet gains great wealth under favor from God.
Application:
How are you learning from past mistakes that you’ve observed? Are you helping
your kids with learning from your past mistakes?
3. Genesis 26:34 – 27:46 Rebekah and Jacob
scheme to gain the blessing of Isaac for Jacob and not Esau.
Application:
How do you see God’s plans unfolding in your life despite our efforts to help
God?
4. Genesis 28:1 – 9 Jacob flees to Laban’s
family in search of a wife and Esau takes another wife.
Application:
Are you prepared to flee in order to further the cause of Christ?
Subject
Sentence
(Summarizing
the Divisions into one sentence – ten words or less):
Isaac sins, Rebekah schemes, Jacob follows,
Esau loses. What the?
Aim
(A
main teaching point for the overall study of the passages):
TCTATS: To cause the audience to see that many have acted wrong under the idea of
being useful in promoting the cause of Christ, but we must not think we need to act
wrongly to further the plans of God for our lives.
