October 25, 2022 • 39 mins
Blessings to all,
Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers:
GOD REAFFIRMS HIS PROMISE part 1
Until you get to the New Testament, you may wonder why the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Genesis are included in the Bible. They seem rather detached from the story of Abraham. They deal with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Chapter 18 is a rather lengthy chapter in which God tells Abraham about the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham intercedes on behalf of the cities of the plain.
This is an illustration, I think, of the blessed Christian life, of life in fellowship with God. But in chapter 19, down in Sodom and Gomorrah with Lot, we will see what I would call the blasted life—all because of a decision that was made. Unfortunately, we have both kinds among Christians today—those living a blessed life and those living a blasted life.
There are those who have really made a shipwreck of their lives; they have gotten entirely out of the will of God. I would not suggest even for a moment that they have lost their salvation, but they sure have lost everything else. As Paul says, they are saved, “. . . yet so as by fire” (l Cor. 3:15).
The events of Genesis 18 take place not long after God's visit with Abraham in chapter 17.
This visit from the Lord is quite different, however. It's not clear, at first, if Abraham even recognizes the three men who appear outside of his tent as the Lord and two angels in human form. In either case, Abraham runs to show them deep respect and hospitality. He tells Sarah to bake them bread and has a young calf slaughtered for them to eat as they rest in the heat of the day.
Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers:
GOD REAFFIRMS HIS PROMISE part 1
Until you get to the New Testament, you may wonder why the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Genesis are included in the Bible. They seem rather detached from the story of Abraham. They deal with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Chapter 18 is a rather lengthy chapter in which God tells Abraham about the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham intercedes on behalf of the cities of the plain.
This is an illustration, I think, of the blessed Christian life, of life in fellowship with God. But in chapter 19, down in Sodom and Gomorrah with Lot, we will see what I would call the blasted life—all because of a decision that was made. Unfortunately, we have both kinds among Christians today—those living a blessed life and those living a blasted life.
There are those who have really made a shipwreck of their lives; they have gotten entirely out of the will of God. I would not suggest even for a moment that they have lost their salvation, but they sure have lost everything else. As Paul says, they are saved, “. . . yet so as by fire” (l Cor. 3:15).
The events of Genesis 18 take place not long after God's visit with Abraham in chapter 17.
This visit from the Lord is quite different, however. It's not clear, at first, if Abraham even recognizes the three men who appear outside of his tent as the Lord and two angels in human form. In either case, Abraham runs to show them deep respect and hospitality. He tells Sarah to bake them bread and has a young calf slaughtered for them to eat as they rest in the heat of the day.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What is the Bible? What is it worth?
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Basic constructions before leaving Earth. Life is full of struggles
and it is hard, but we are made in the
image of God. Lord, I have to appraise you to
the moon and back. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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It's mean you health, it's.
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Me you care, it's mean you move, It's me you group,
it's me you touch.
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I love you so much. Oh my Lord, I have
to say thank you. Open your eyes. What did you see?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Have you inventor with your life lately?
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Oh?
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place them into your mercyful hands, trusting in your perfect
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graces and mercies. We pray these things and the precious
name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Alright, alright, let's say we're
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gonna go ahead and get into our next section. Her
time for today's giggle box. A blonde and a red
head have a wrench. They have just lost their bull.
The woman or the women rather need to buy another
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another bull, that is, but they only have five hundred dollars.
The red head tells the blonde, I will go to
the market and see if I can find one for
under that amount. If I can, I will send you
a telegram. She goes to the market and finds one
for four hundred ninety nine dollars. Having only one dollar left,
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she goes to the telegraph office and finds out that
it costs one dollar per word. She is stumped on
how to tell the blonde to bring the truck and
the trailer with one word. Finally, she tells the telegraph
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operator to send the word comfortable skeptical. Skeptical, The operator
asks how would she know to come with the trailer
from just that word. Then the redhead replies, she's a blonde.
She reads slow, come for to bull. Huh do you
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know what time he tells? Do you know what time
he tell you? I is it is time for Oh? No,
say all right. According to Union University Church dot org,
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Dad is Union University Church dot org, the story of
Abraham and Seal's visitation by angels begins or begins with
this sentence. God appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamary.
God appeared at the oaks of Mamary. Not God appeared
at the crab apples of Monroe. Or God appeared at
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the buck thorns of Mamrae, or at the honeysuckles or
the weeping willows, or the populars or the spiny hardthorns
of Momray. But God appeared to Abraham at the oaks
of Mamrae or mamra however you want to say it.
When those first listeners of this story here that Abraham
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was sitting in the shade of an oak tree, their
mind was primed for the possibility that something important was
about to happen, because this was not an ordinary setting.
Abraham was in the presence of oaks. Throughout human history,
oak trees have been prized and revered by ancient people.
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There are about six hundred species of oak trees around
the world, all members of the genus Quercus, a name
that comes from the Celtic word for fine tree. The
Druids considered oak trees to have medicinal and spiritual qualities,
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and the word druid itself may mean one who knows oaks.
In Greek mythology, the oak was a symbol of Zeus.
In Norse mythology, it was a symbol of Thor. King
Arthur's round table was said to have been fashioned from
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a massive slab of oak. First, the Slavic people used
the oak tree to depict the very structure of the universe,
roots of the earth and branches of heaven. So too,
in ancient Israel, the oak was a spiritually important tree,
revered partly for practical reasons. Oak trees produce copious amounts
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of acorns, which were an important food source for a
nomadic people, and it wood is hard and sturdy enough
to resist the teeth of grazing animals that reduced their
plants to stubble. All right. Now Moreover, unlike in western
New York, where it's hard to see the oak trees
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for the forest. In the barren, rugged landscape of Canaan,
oaks stood out against the sky and could be seen
for miles, beckoning the weary traveler to rest in the shade.
God's choice to appear to Abram or Abraham, that is,
at the oaks of Momray made sense to the first
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listeners of this important episode in Israel's history because the rest,
the shelter and the provision symbolized by oak trees was
symbolic of the covenant of God. It was symbolic of
the covenant God was to forge on that day in
the shade of their branches. There beneath the oaks of
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Mamree or Mamra, God made a promise to Abraham and
Sarah that they would give birth to a nation and
their descendants would become a light to the world. Though
Abraham and Sarah doubted and even laughed at the thought
of such an impossible thing, later generations knew that God's
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promise had come true because they were living proof of
that promise, and so they when they saw the oaks
of Mamra, they were reminded that God can do extraordinary
things in the lives of God's people. For generations, people
would point to those oaks and say, something sacred happened there.
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If you were to plant an oak in or oak
tree somewhere in the landscape of your life that said,
here is a place where God did an extraordinary thing,
where would you plant it? When was there a time
when you realized that God had been at work in
your world, making the impossible possible? When did you experience
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holy healing because of the presence of God, A moment
of unexpected grace, a strength that you knew was not
your own, A hope that pushed through your doubts and
gave you the courage to face the next day because
you trusted in God's promises to lead you through the wilderness.
Those are the places in the landscape of our memories
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where we would plant oak trees, memorials to the promise
that God has made to us, that God can bring
life out of our baringness and joy out of our sorrow,
planting oak in your memory to remind you of something
that was sacred and that it has happened here. Where
are the oak trees standing in your memory? Times of
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unexpected grace, strength that you knew was not your own,
hope that pushed through your doubts and gave you the
courage to face the next day. HM, where can you
look back and think God was at work in this place?
Something sacred happen here all right now? The oaks of
Mamray reminded us of God's pre promises forged with Abraham
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and Sarah and then carried in the people of Israel
down to us today, their descendants in faith God's promises
that God is at work in our lives and would
make possible what we believed to be impossible. God would
take Abraham and Sarah, who were old and barn and
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make them the parents of a great race of people.
God would choose Moses, a man who could barely string
two words together without stuttering, to to to to help
to defeat uh a a f a Fairoah. All right now,
through the women Deborah and j Well, God would lead
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an army to victory over the evil general Cicero. Right now,
with God at his side, David, the pipsqueak, youngest son
of the least of the tribes of Israel, would fight
giants and unite Israel as a nation. Now, the prophet
Isaiah says, the Lord has anointed me to bring the
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good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken heart,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners.
They meaning the oppressed, the broken hearted, the captives. They
would be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the
Lord to display his glory. So planning oak tree here,
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Isaiah says, to remind you that God is at work
even through these most unlikely people. All right now. The
Bible is the story of men and women who show
little promises and had more sin about them than saintliness,
people like you and I, through whom God brought to
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birth remarkable things in the words of Jesus. For mortals,
salvation is impossible. But for God all things are possible.
All right now, the oaks of Mamray marked the place
in the memory of the faithful, not of where Abraham
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and Sarah strode forth in greatness to save the world,
but where God brought salvation to us in spite of
their weakness and barrenness. Where are the old trees standing
in your memory in times of grace, strength that you
knew was not your own hope that pushed through your
doubts and gave you the carriage to face the next day.
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Where can you look back and remember God was at
work in this place? And so in looking back to remember,
find the faith to trust that God would be with
you today and tomorrow, continuing to bring life out of
your baroness, enjoy out of your sorrow. That is the
promise that God made to us in the shade of
the oaks of Marmara. All right, blessings to all, Welcome again,
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I am Jerry. This portion of our study covers God
reaffirms his promise Part one. All right now, until you
get to the New Testament. You may wonder why the
eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Genesis are included in the Bible.
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They seem rather detached from the story of Abraham. They
deal with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrow. Chapter eighteen
is a rather lengthy chapter in which God tells Abraham
about the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham intercedes
on behalf of the cities of the plain. All right now,
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this is an illustration I think of the blessed Christian
life of life in fellowship with God. But in chapter nineteen,
down in Sodom and Gomorrah with Lot, we will see
what I would call the blasted life or because of
a decision that was made. Unfortunately, we have both kinds
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among Christians today, those living a blessed life and those
living a blasted life. There are those who have really
made a shipwreck of their lives. They have gotten entirely
out of the will of God. And I would not
suggest even for a moment that they have lost their salvation,
but they sure have lost everything else. All right, as
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Paul says, they are saved yet so as by fire,
according to a First Corinthians, chapter three, verse fifteen. Now,
the events of Genesis chapter eighteen take place not long
after God's visit it with Abraham in chapter seventeen. This
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visit from the Lord is quite different. However, it's not
clear at first if Abraham even recognizes the three men
who will peer outside of his tent as the Lord
and two angels in humor from In either case, Abraham
runs to show them deep respect and hospitality. He tells
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cel several I stink corrected to bake them bread and
has a young caf slaughter for them. You know, to
eat as they rest in the heat of the day.
All right, it is now time to open our hearts, minds,
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and souls to the word of God. And we will
be reading our scriptures from chapter Genesis chapter eighteen, verses
one through eight. King James version. That is, Genesis chapter eighteen,
verses one through eight. King James version. All right, let ree,
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al right.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Something eight Genesis chapter eighteen. And the Lord appeared unto
him in the plains of memory. And he sat on
the tent door in the heat of the day. And
he lift up his eyes and looked, and lo, three
men stood by him. And when he saw them, he
ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed
himself toward the ground, and said, my Lord, if now
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I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away.
I pray thee from thy servant let a little water.
I pray you be fetched and wash your feet, and.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Rest yourselves under the tree, and I will fetch a
morsel of bread.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And comfort ye your heart. After that ye shall pass on.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Four.
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Therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said,
so do as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into
the tent unto Sarah, and said, make ready quickly three
measures of fine meal, need it, and make.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran under the herd
and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it
unto a young man, and he hasted to dress it.
And he took butter and milk and the calf which
he had dressed, and set it before them, and he
stood by them under the tree, and they did.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
All right. Now we'll go ahead and get into our
verse breakdown, and we're gonna start that with Genesis chapter.
We're going started with Genesis chapter eighteen, verse one. I'll
get it together here shortly. But with that being said,
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Genesis chapter eighteen, verse one, and the Lord appeared unto
him in the planes of Mamray, and he sat in
the tent door in the heat of the day. All right,
Abraham is living down there in Mamray, and he's an
old man, by the way, and I get unexpected encounter
between Abraham and the Lord. Begins with this verse. All right.
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It is very different from God's appearance to Abraham in
the previous chapter. Now this time Abraham may not be aware,
at least at first, that one of the three men
standing near his tent. Is the Lord in human form.
When the Lord takes human form to interact with people
on earth, Bible scholars call it a theophony. All right,
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It's spelled t e O p h A n Y theophany.
All right. Now, that is the Lord taking human form. Okay. Now,
given the second revelation about the birth of Isaac, the
Lord will give. This appearance cannot have come long after
the one in Genesis chapter seventeen. Now Abram Abraham is
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living there. He brawn by the oaks of Marmaray, the
area first mentioned in Genesis chapter thirteen. Now, the heat
of the day is the middle of the afternoon, and
that would have been a time of rest for most
people living in the desert region, because that's probably the
hottest part of the day. So Abraham was sitting at
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the door of his tent, likely waiting for the sun
to grow less intense before continuing his day. All right,
Now we'll move on to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse two.
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo
three men stood by him. And when he saw them,
he ran to meet them from the tent door, and
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bowed himself toward the ground. Notice the hospitality that Abramham extends.
All right now, The point is that this man, Abraham,
is a very gracious, hospitable man. Abraham sitting at the
entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
He looks up and suddenly notices three men standing nearby.
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He seems startled to see them. Can you see that picture?
You know, get this picture in your mind. Given who
these three men are, It's possible they appeared on thin air,
or more simply, they were simply not noticed until they
had gotten fairly close. In any case, Abraham had not
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noticed them before. This passage indicates that these three men,
or that these men are God in the temporary human form,
as well as two angels. According to Genesis, chapter eighteen,
verse one. It's not clear whether Abraham immediately understood one
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of these three men to be the Lord or simply
saw them as strangers. He hurried toward them and bow low,
a sign of great respect, especially coming from a wealthy
and important man such as Abraham. Whomever he thought these
men to be, Abraham saw it at as his responsibility
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to greet them warmly and offer them hospitality. All right, now,
we'll move on to uh. Genesis chapter eighteen, verse three.
That is, Genesis chapter eighteen, verse three. UH and said,
my Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight,
passed not away, I prayed thee from thy servant. Abraham
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is really entertaining these men royally. Abraham, seeing three unexpected
strangers standing near his tent in the heat of today
russis toward them, bows low before them, and earnestly asked
them not to pass by. He practically begs the leader
of the group to stop and spend time with him.
According to earlier versus, these three men are actually God
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in a physical form, and a pair of angels. It
remains unclear still, if Abraham understands that the leader of
these three years indeed the Lord, his language would certainly
be appropriate for addressing God. He calls him Lord, asking
him to stop. If abrahamham has found favor in his eyes. However,
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Abraham's respectful language may also represent appropriate or the appropriate
and Grecio's standard for welcoming strangers. In this part of
the ancient world, the culture placed in an enormous value
on social graces, including respect. Now, this style of modest
speech would have been the norm when dealing with strangers,
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unlike today while the well, let's move it along to
Genesis chapter eighteen, verse four. Let a little water, I
pray you be fetched, and wash your feet and rest
yourselves under the tree. All right. It seems very strange
to us to tell that visit a stranger to wash
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his feet and come in. But then again, do we
live in the desert. We wouldn't quite say that today.
But this is probably the oldest custom that is known. Remember,
in the upper room, our Lord washed the disciples feet,
and there is a tremendous spiritual message there. That's right,
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the Lord washed the disciples feet in the upper room. Yep.
Here Abraham says, wash your feet. All right. Now, this
was a token of real hospitality when someone came into
a home to have him take off his shoes and
wash his feet. In that day, they did not take
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off their hat, but they did their shoes, which were
mostly sounders. All right, Today we have reversed it. When
you come to visit somebody, you leave your shoes and
you take off your hat. Well, you leave your shoes on. Rather,
you don't leave them somewhere, You leave them on. I misspoke,
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you leave your shoes on, and you take off your
hat all right now. Abraham, sitting in the door of
his tent in the heat of the day, he is
startled to see these three men standing not far from him.
And like I said before, one of the men were
the Lord in human form, an event referred to as
a theophany, and the other two are angels and proud verses.
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Abraham ran out to greet them about low with great
respect and ask the Lord not to pass by it.
Now Here in this verse, Abraham urges them to rest
under the shade of the tree and have some water
and have their feet washed. Foot washing was not only
a sign of politeness and respect, but also of hospitality.
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Now when it comes to this, this was important because
if you walking out in the desert with sandals or
maybe nothing at all, you know, but they probably had
sandals on, more than likely because they said take off
your shoes, so they probably, you know, had sundals and
all that dust and stuff get on your feet, so
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there was I would imagine it would be quite refreshing
to get your feet washed, all right now. Depending on
who did the actual washing, usually a servant, and they
could also carry a sense of submission and Abraham's eager
hospitality may have been representative of the common attitude towards
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strangers in this culture, but he was also sure and
appropriate hospitality to the low who had given him the
covenant promises and commands of the previous chapter, which was
Genesis chapter seventeen. All right, now, let's move it along
to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse five. And I will fetch
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a mussel of bread and comfort ye your hearts. After
that ye shall pass on. For therefore are ye come
to your servant? And they said, so do as thou
hast said. Now, isn't this a marvelous way of entertaining?
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Abraham continues to plead with the three men who appeared
near his tent not to leave so quickly. He's telling
them to please stay, please, please stay, all right now.
One of the men is the Lord in human form,
and the other two are angels, okay, disguised as humans.
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All right now. After asking them to receive rest and
water and the washing of their feet in the previous verse,
Abraham now includes the offer of a mussel of bread
before they pass on. It's a pretty gracious guest, and
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as the following verse will reveal, Abraham is vastly under
understating the meal he plans to provide. Abraham, a wealthy
and powerful man with many servants, refers to himself as
a servant of these men. Indeed, he acts as if
he were a servant eager to please his master. This
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might have been Abraham's way of expressing his culture's typical
approach to hospitality, or his extravagant response may have been
because he knew immediately with whom he was speaking. Finally,
the strangers agree to wait while Abraham provides for their refreshment.
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All right, now, let's move it along to a Genesis
chapter eighteen, verse six. And Abraham hastened into the tent
until several and said, make ready quickly three measures of
fine meal needed, and make cakes upon the hearth. So
Abraham has prepared a sumptuous meal. When God assumes a
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temporary human form, it is referred to again as of
what theophany. See how I keeps saying that, so we
can get it burned into our memory, Theophany, that is,
God assuming their human form. Now, this incident is an
example of God appearing as a man, and he has
a rived with two angels who also appeared to be human,
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you know, near Abraham's tent. Now, Abraham responded, buying himself
before them, urging them to stay while he provides them
with water and the mousse of bread for their refreshment.
Abraham's behavior might be the usual ancient Eastern approach to hospitality,
or possibly the quickly realized or he quickly realized that
the men he was speaking to were not ordinary men
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all right. Now, he runs back into the tent, tell
Sarah to quickly make cakes, meaning loads of bread for
the three visitors. However, he tells her to use with
three seas of fine flour. Now, in modern measurements, this
would have been approximately twenty one quartz or leaders. That's
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twenty one quartz or leaders, all right, now, that would
make an extravagant amount of bread for just three men.
I mean, they'd be eating bread galore. But the cakes,
the loads are just the beginning. Abraham is engineering a
royal feast. So let's move on to Gens. Chapter eighteen,
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verse seven. And Abraham ran into the herd and fetched
a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a
young man, and he hasted to dress it. Now, he
took a little calf and a servant killed and prepared it,
and the chef probably barbecued that bad boy. And uh
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they had veal steaks or a veal roast, I imagine,
and all the trimmings that went with it, M scrumptures
and uh. The text here makes it clear that Abraham
is herrying, so he's rushing to get this all done alright.
And having convinced the three unexpected visitors, including God in
human form, to stay and allow uh him to provide
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them with water a bit of bread, Abraham now rushies
to provide them with a royal feast. Okay, Now, in
the previous verse, Abraham told quickly make cakes of bread
for them, all right, meaning bread bread, you know what
I mean. Filling up bread and make it good good,
And he specified that she should use more than five
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gallons some maybe twenty one leaders or fine flour. Now,
like I said, this would have been a very large
banquet of bread. But hey, that's what's what is Scripture said,
that's what happened. So now the wealthy and power for
Abraham hurries to his herd of cattle and grabs a
tender care to give to a young male servant and
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who to quickly prepare for the meal. Abraham is both
eager to serve the Lord and eager for them not
to leave, so he's trying to get this done so
they can stay. And you know, I don't have to
wait so long to eat, you know. But Abraham behaves
as the Lord's servant here, exhibiting both the warm hospitality
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of you know, the good of a good host, and
an attitude of submission. So his passion is revealed in
the terms used in this passage. Abraham went quickly. According
to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse six, he ran, and the
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young man prepared the meat quickly. All right, now, let's
move it along to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse eight. And
he took butter and milk and the calf which he
had dressed, and said it before them. And he stood
by them under the tree, and they did eat, all
right now. And he took butter and milk. My it
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was a real feast, butter and milk, Oh Lord. Finally
the meal is ready for Abraham's three visits, one of
whom which is the Lord in human form in the
previous verses him resh to prepare for royal feast. All right, now,
this included any normalous amount of bread made from fine
flour according to Gensus chapter eighteen, verse six, and a
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young cap quickly slaughtered and prepared according to the Genus
chapter eighteen, verse seven. Now Abraham presents the food along
with some curves of milk, likely a kind of yogurt,
all right. Acts of general hospitality, along with the contexts
contents of the meal would have been standard among the
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beding people of that time. It would have also been
normal for the host to stand back and allow his
guests to eat in peace without him, all right. Now.
For this reason, some scholars suggests Abraham may not have
known yet that this stranger was actually the Lord. According
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to this view, Abraham was merely exhibiting the qu the
over generous and kind hearted host, alright. At the same time,
Abraham's hospitality here is extravagant, alright. And in either case,
Abraham would clearly come to understand who his guest is.
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In the following verses, do you have the complexion for
the protection? It is now time for our life reflection,
all right. In Genesis chapter eighteen, verses two through five,
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Abraham was eager to show hospitality to these three visitors
as was lot in chapter nineteen, verse two. We hadn't
got there yet, but we'd get there. Lord willm good,
Lord willim. All right now. In Abraham's day, people's reputations
were largely connected to their hospitality and the sharing of
home and food. Even strangers were to be treated as
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highly honored guests. Meeting another's need for food and shelter
was and still is one of the most immediate and
practical ways to obey God. It is also a time
on the relationship builder. All right now. Hebrews Chapter thirteen,
verse two suggests that we, like Abraham, might actually entertain angels.
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This thought should be on our minds the next time
we have the opportunity to meet a stranger's need. All right,
But for now, this is what God reaffirms his promise.
Part one is all about. All right now. With that
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Holy Spirit, thank you for blessing us with another building
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and your peace as those who are strangers to us
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and others around us for what you need of us
to help them, what you need yeah of us to
help them. And we thank you Lord for all you do,
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and our Redeemer. We continue to pray these things by believing, trusting,
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time for today's giggle box. A blonde and a red
head have a wrench. They have just lost their bull.
The woman or the women rather need to buy another
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another bull, that is, but they only have five hundred dollars.
The red head tells the blonde, I will go to
the market and see if I can find one for
under that amount. If I can, I will send you
a telegram. She goes to the market and finds one
for four hundred ninety nine dollars. Having only one dollar left,
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she goes to the telegraph office and finds out that
it costs one dollar per word. She is stumped on
how to tell the blonde to bring the truck and
the trailer with one word. Finally, she tells the telegraph
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operator to send the word comfortable skeptical. Skeptical, The operator
asks how would she know to come with the trailer
from just that word. Then the redhead replies, she's a blonde.
She reads slow, come for to bull. Huh do you
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know what time he tells? Do you know what time
he tell you? I is it is time for Oh? No,
say all right. According to Union University Church dot org,
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Dad is Union University Church dot org, the story of
Abraham and Seal's visitation by angels begins or begins with
this sentence. God appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamary.
God appeared at the oaks of Mamary. Not God appeared
at the crab apples of Monroe. Or God appeared at
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the buck thorns of Mamrae, or at the honeysuckles or
the weeping willows, or the populars or the spiny hardthorns
of Momray. But God appeared to Abraham at the oaks
of Mamrae or mamra however you want to say it.
When those first listeners of this story here that Abraham
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was sitting in the shade of an oak tree, their
mind was primed for the possibility that something important was
about to happen, because this was not an ordinary setting.
Abraham was in the presence of oaks. Throughout human history,
oak trees have been prized and revered by ancient people.
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There are about six hundred species of oak trees around
the world, all members of the genus Quercus, a name
that comes from the Celtic word for fine tree. The
Druids considered oak trees to have medicinal and spiritual qualities,
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and the word druid itself may mean one who knows oaks.
In Greek mythology, the oak was a symbol of Zeus.
In Norse mythology, it was a symbol of Thor. King
Arthur's round table was said to have been fashioned from
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a massive slab of oak. First, the Slavic people used
the oak tree to depict the very structure of the universe,
roots of the earth and branches of heaven. So too,
in ancient Israel, the oak was a spiritually important tree,
revered partly for practical reasons. Oak trees produce copious amounts
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of acorns, which were an important food source for a
nomadic people, and it wood is hard and sturdy enough
to resist the teeth of grazing animals that reduced their
plants to stubble. All right. Now Moreover, unlike in western
New York, where it's hard to see the oak trees
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for the forest. In the barren, rugged landscape of Canaan,
oaks stood out against the sky and could be seen
for miles, beckoning the weary traveler to rest in the shade.
God's choice to appear to Abram or Abraham, that is,
at the oaks of Momray made sense to the first
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listeners of this important episode in Israel's history because the rest,
the shelter and the provision symbolized by oak trees was
symbolic of the covenant of God. It was symbolic of
the covenant God was to forge on that day in
the shade of their branches. There beneath the oaks of
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Mamree or Mamra, God made a promise to Abraham and
Sarah that they would give birth to a nation and
their descendants would become a light to the world. Though
Abraham and Sarah doubted and even laughed at the thought
of such an impossible thing, later generations knew that God's
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promise had come true because they were living proof of
that promise, and so they when they saw the oaks
of Mamra, they were reminded that God can do extraordinary
things in the lives of God's people. For generations, people
would point to those oaks and say, something sacred happened there.
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If you were to plant an oak in or oak
tree somewhere in the landscape of your life that said,
here is a place where God did an extraordinary thing,
where would you plant it? When was there a time
when you realized that God had been at work in
your world, making the impossible possible? When did you experience
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holy healing because of the presence of God, A moment
of unexpected grace, a strength that you knew was not
your own, A hope that pushed through your doubts and
gave you the courage to face the next day because
you trusted in God's promises to lead you through the wilderness.
Those are the places in the landscape of our memories
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where we would plant oak trees, memorials to the promise
that God has made to us, that God can bring
life out of our baringness and joy out of our sorrow,
planting oak in your memory to remind you of something
that was sacred and that it has happened here. Where
are the oak trees standing in your memory? Times of
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unexpected grace, strength that you knew was not your own,
hope that pushed through your doubts and gave you the
courage to face the next day. HM, where can you
look back and think God was at work in this place?
Something sacred happen here all right now? The oaks of
Mamray reminded us of God's pre promises forged with Abraham
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and Sarah and then carried in the people of Israel
down to us today, their descendants in faith God's promises
that God is at work in our lives and would
make possible what we believed to be impossible. God would
take Abraham and Sarah, who were old and barn and
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make them the parents of a great race of people.
God would choose Moses, a man who could barely string
two words together without stuttering, to to to to help
to defeat uh a a f a Fairoah. All right now,
through the women Deborah and j Well, God would lead
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an army to victory over the evil general Cicero. Right now,
with God at his side, David, the pipsqueak, youngest son
of the least of the tribes of Israel, would fight
giants and unite Israel as a nation. Now, the prophet
Isaiah says, the Lord has anointed me to bring the
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good news to the oppressed, to bind up the broken heart,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners.
They meaning the oppressed, the broken hearted, the captives. They
would be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the
Lord to display his glory. So planning oak tree here,
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Isaiah says, to remind you that God is at work
even through these most unlikely people. All right now. The
Bible is the story of men and women who show
little promises and had more sin about them than saintliness,
people like you and I, through whom God brought to
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birth remarkable things in the words of Jesus. For mortals,
salvation is impossible. But for God all things are possible.
All right now, the oaks of Mamray marked the place
in the memory of the faithful, not of where Abraham
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and Sarah strode forth in greatness to save the world,
but where God brought salvation to us in spite of
their weakness and barrenness. Where are the old trees standing
in your memory in times of grace, strength that you
knew was not your own hope that pushed through your
doubts and gave you the carriage to face the next day.
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Where can you look back and remember God was at
work in this place? And so in looking back to remember,
find the faith to trust that God would be with
you today and tomorrow, continuing to bring life out of
your baroness, enjoy out of your sorrow. That is the
promise that God made to us in the shade of
the oaks of Marmara. All right, blessings to all, Welcome again,
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I am Jerry. This portion of our study covers God
reaffirms his promise Part one. All right now, until you
get to the New Testament. You may wonder why the
eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Genesis are included in the Bible.
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They seem rather detached from the story of Abraham. They
deal with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrow. Chapter eighteen
is a rather lengthy chapter in which God tells Abraham
about the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham intercedes
on behalf of the cities of the plain. All right now,
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this is an illustration I think of the blessed Christian
life of life in fellowship with God. But in chapter nineteen,
down in Sodom and Gomorrah with Lot, we will see
what I would call the blasted life or because of
a decision that was made. Unfortunately, we have both kinds
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among Christians today, those living a blessed life and those
living a blasted life. There are those who have really
made a shipwreck of their lives. They have gotten entirely
out of the will of God. And I would not
suggest even for a moment that they have lost their salvation,
but they sure have lost everything else. All right, as
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Paul says, they are saved yet so as by fire,
according to a First Corinthians, chapter three, verse fifteen. Now,
the events of Genesis chapter eighteen take place not long
after God's visit it with Abraham in chapter seventeen. This
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visit from the Lord is quite different. However, it's not
clear at first if Abraham even recognizes the three men
who will peer outside of his tent as the Lord
and two angels in humor from In either case, Abraham
runs to show them deep respect and hospitality. He tells
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cel several I stink corrected to bake them bread and
has a young caf slaughter for them. You know, to
eat as they rest in the heat of the day.
All right, it is now time to open our hearts, minds,
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and souls to the word of God. And we will
be reading our scriptures from chapter Genesis chapter eighteen, verses
one through eight. King James version. That is, Genesis chapter eighteen,
verses one through eight. King James version. All right, let ree,
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al right.
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Something eight Genesis chapter eighteen. And the Lord appeared unto
him in the plains of memory. And he sat on
the tent door in the heat of the day. And
he lift up his eyes and looked, and lo, three
men stood by him. And when he saw them, he
ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed
himself toward the ground, and said, my Lord, if now
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I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away.
I pray thee from thy servant let a little water.
I pray you be fetched and wash your feet, and.
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Rest yourselves under the tree, and I will fetch a
morsel of bread.
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And comfort ye your heart. After that ye shall pass on.
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Four.
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Therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said,
so do as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into
the tent unto Sarah, and said, make ready quickly three
measures of fine meal, need it, and make.
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Cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran under the herd
and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it
unto a young man, and he hasted to dress it.
And he took butter and milk and the calf which
he had dressed, and set it before them, and he
stood by them under the tree, and they did.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
All right. Now we'll go ahead and get into our
verse breakdown, and we're gonna start that with Genesis chapter.
We're going started with Genesis chapter eighteen, verse one. I'll
get it together here shortly. But with that being said,
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Genesis chapter eighteen, verse one, and the Lord appeared unto
him in the planes of Mamray, and he sat in
the tent door in the heat of the day. All right,
Abraham is living down there in Mamray, and he's an
old man, by the way, and I get unexpected encounter
between Abraham and the Lord. Begins with this verse. All right.
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It is very different from God's appearance to Abraham in
the previous chapter. Now this time Abraham may not be aware,
at least at first, that one of the three men
standing near his tent. Is the Lord in human form.
When the Lord takes human form to interact with people
on earth, Bible scholars call it a theophony. All right,
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It's spelled t e O p h A n Y theophany.
All right. Now, that is the Lord taking human form. Okay. Now,
given the second revelation about the birth of Isaac, the
Lord will give. This appearance cannot have come long after
the one in Genesis chapter seventeen. Now Abram Abraham is
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living there. He brawn by the oaks of Marmaray, the
area first mentioned in Genesis chapter thirteen. Now, the heat
of the day is the middle of the afternoon, and
that would have been a time of rest for most
people living in the desert region, because that's probably the
hottest part of the day. So Abraham was sitting at
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the door of his tent, likely waiting for the sun
to grow less intense before continuing his day. All right,
Now we'll move on to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse two.
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo
three men stood by him. And when he saw them,
he ran to meet them from the tent door, and
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bowed himself toward the ground. Notice the hospitality that Abramham extends.
All right now, The point is that this man, Abraham,
is a very gracious, hospitable man. Abraham sitting at the
entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
He looks up and suddenly notices three men standing nearby.
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He seems startled to see them. Can you see that picture?
You know, get this picture in your mind. Given who
these three men are, It's possible they appeared on thin air,
or more simply, they were simply not noticed until they
had gotten fairly close. In any case, Abraham had not
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noticed them before. This passage indicates that these three men,
or that these men are God in the temporary human form,
as well as two angels. According to Genesis, chapter eighteen,
verse one. It's not clear whether Abraham immediately understood one
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of these three men to be the Lord or simply
saw them as strangers. He hurried toward them and bow low,
a sign of great respect, especially coming from a wealthy
and important man such as Abraham. Whomever he thought these
men to be, Abraham saw it at as his responsibility
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to greet them warmly and offer them hospitality. All right, now,
we'll move on to uh. Genesis chapter eighteen, verse three.
That is, Genesis chapter eighteen, verse three. UH and said,
my Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight,
passed not away, I prayed thee from thy servant. Abraham
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is really entertaining these men royally. Abraham, seeing three unexpected
strangers standing near his tent in the heat of today
russis toward them, bows low before them, and earnestly asked
them not to pass by. He practically begs the leader
of the group to stop and spend time with him.
According to earlier versus, these three men are actually God
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in a physical form, and a pair of angels. It
remains unclear still, if Abraham understands that the leader of
these three years indeed the Lord, his language would certainly
be appropriate for addressing God. He calls him Lord, asking
him to stop. If abrahamham has found favor in his eyes. However,
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Abraham's respectful language may also represent appropriate or the appropriate
and Grecio's standard for welcoming strangers. In this part of
the ancient world, the culture placed in an enormous value
on social graces, including respect. Now, this style of modest
speech would have been the norm when dealing with strangers,
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unlike today while the well, let's move it along to
Genesis chapter eighteen, verse four. Let a little water, I
pray you be fetched, and wash your feet and rest
yourselves under the tree. All right. It seems very strange
to us to tell that visit a stranger to wash
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his feet and come in. But then again, do we
live in the desert. We wouldn't quite say that today.
But this is probably the oldest custom that is known. Remember,
in the upper room, our Lord washed the disciples feet,
and there is a tremendous spiritual message there. That's right,
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the Lord washed the disciples feet in the upper room. Yep.
Here Abraham says, wash your feet. All right. Now, this
was a token of real hospitality when someone came into
a home to have him take off his shoes and
wash his feet. In that day, they did not take
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off their hat, but they did their shoes, which were
mostly sounders. All right, Today we have reversed it. When
you come to visit somebody, you leave your shoes and
you take off your hat. Well, you leave your shoes on. Rather,
you don't leave them somewhere, You leave them on. I misspoke,
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you leave your shoes on, and you take off your
hat all right now. Abraham, sitting in the door of
his tent in the heat of the day, he is
startled to see these three men standing not far from him.
And like I said before, one of the men were
the Lord in human form, an event referred to as
a theophany, and the other two are angels and proud verses.
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Abraham ran out to greet them about low with great
respect and ask the Lord not to pass by it.
Now Here in this verse, Abraham urges them to rest
under the shade of the tree and have some water
and have their feet washed. Foot washing was not only
a sign of politeness and respect, but also of hospitality.
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Now when it comes to this, this was important because
if you walking out in the desert with sandals or
maybe nothing at all, you know, but they probably had
sandals on, more than likely because they said take off
your shoes, so they probably, you know, had sundals and
all that dust and stuff get on your feet, so
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there was I would imagine it would be quite refreshing
to get your feet washed, all right now. Depending on
who did the actual washing, usually a servant, and they
could also carry a sense of submission and Abraham's eager
hospitality may have been representative of the common attitude towards
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strangers in this culture, but he was also sure and
appropriate hospitality to the low who had given him the
covenant promises and commands of the previous chapter, which was
Genesis chapter seventeen. All right, now, let's move it along
to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse five. And I will fetch
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a mussel of bread and comfort ye your hearts. After
that ye shall pass on. For therefore are ye come
to your servant? And they said, so do as thou
hast said. Now, isn't this a marvelous way of entertaining?
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Abraham continues to plead with the three men who appeared
near his tent not to leave so quickly. He's telling
them to please stay, please, please stay, all right now.
One of the men is the Lord in human form,
and the other two are angels, okay, disguised as humans.
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All right now. After asking them to receive rest and
water and the washing of their feet in the previous verse,
Abraham now includes the offer of a mussel of bread
before they pass on. It's a pretty gracious guest, and
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as the following verse will reveal, Abraham is vastly under
understating the meal he plans to provide. Abraham, a wealthy
and powerful man with many servants, refers to himself as
a servant of these men. Indeed, he acts as if
he were a servant eager to please his master. This
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might have been Abraham's way of expressing his culture's typical
approach to hospitality, or his extravagant response may have been
because he knew immediately with whom he was speaking. Finally,
the strangers agree to wait while Abraham provides for their refreshment.
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All right, now, let's move it along to a Genesis
chapter eighteen, verse six. And Abraham hastened into the tent
until several and said, make ready quickly three measures of
fine meal needed, and make cakes upon the hearth. So
Abraham has prepared a sumptuous meal. When God assumes a
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temporary human form, it is referred to again as of
what theophany. See how I keeps saying that, so we
can get it burned into our memory, Theophany, that is,
God assuming their human form. Now, this incident is an
example of God appearing as a man, and he has
a rived with two angels who also appeared to be human,
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you know, near Abraham's tent. Now, Abraham responded, buying himself
before them, urging them to stay while he provides them
with water and the mousse of bread for their refreshment.
Abraham's behavior might be the usual ancient Eastern approach to hospitality,
or possibly the quickly realized or he quickly realized that
the men he was speaking to were not ordinary men
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all right. Now, he runs back into the tent, tell
Sarah to quickly make cakes, meaning loads of bread for
the three visitors. However, he tells her to use with
three seas of fine flour. Now, in modern measurements, this
would have been approximately twenty one quartz or leaders. That's
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twenty one quartz or leaders, all right, now, that would
make an extravagant amount of bread for just three men.
I mean, they'd be eating bread galore. But the cakes,
the loads are just the beginning. Abraham is engineering a
royal feast. So let's move on to Gens. Chapter eighteen,
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verse seven. And Abraham ran into the herd and fetched
a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a
young man, and he hasted to dress it. Now, he
took a little calf and a servant killed and prepared it,
and the chef probably barbecued that bad boy. And uh
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they had veal steaks or a veal roast, I imagine,
and all the trimmings that went with it, M scrumptures
and uh. The text here makes it clear that Abraham
is herrying, so he's rushing to get this all done alright.
And having convinced the three unexpected visitors, including God in
human form, to stay and allow uh him to provide
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them with water a bit of bread, Abraham now rushies
to provide them with a royal feast. Okay, Now, in
the previous verse, Abraham told quickly make cakes of bread
for them, all right, meaning bread bread, you know what
I mean. Filling up bread and make it good good,
And he specified that she should use more than five
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gallons some maybe twenty one leaders or fine flour. Now,
like I said, this would have been a very large
banquet of bread. But hey, that's what's what is Scripture said,
that's what happened. So now the wealthy and power for
Abraham hurries to his herd of cattle and grabs a
tender care to give to a young male servant and
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who to quickly prepare for the meal. Abraham is both
eager to serve the Lord and eager for them not
to leave, so he's trying to get this done so
they can stay. And you know, I don't have to
wait so long to eat, you know. But Abraham behaves
as the Lord's servant here, exhibiting both the warm hospitality
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of you know, the good of a good host, and
an attitude of submission. So his passion is revealed in
the terms used in this passage. Abraham went quickly. According
to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse six, he ran, and the
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young man prepared the meat quickly. All right, now, let's
move it along to Genesis chapter eighteen, verse eight. And
he took butter and milk and the calf which he
had dressed, and said it before them. And he stood
by them under the tree, and they did eat, all
right now. And he took butter and milk. My it
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was a real feast, butter and milk, Oh Lord. Finally
the meal is ready for Abraham's three visits, one of
whom which is the Lord in human form in the
previous verses him resh to prepare for royal feast. All right, now,
this included any normalous amount of bread made from fine
flour according to Gensus chapter eighteen, verse six, and a
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young cap quickly slaughtered and prepared according to the Genus
chapter eighteen, verse seven. Now Abraham presents the food along
with some curves of milk, likely a kind of yogurt,
all right. Acts of general hospitality, along with the contexts
contents of the meal would have been standard among the
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beding people of that time. It would have also been
normal for the host to stand back and allow his
guests to eat in peace without him, all right. Now.
For this reason, some scholars suggests Abraham may not have
known yet that this stranger was actually the Lord. According
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to this view, Abraham was merely exhibiting the qu the
over generous and kind hearted host, alright. At the same time,
Abraham's hospitality here is extravagant, alright. And in either case,
Abraham would clearly come to understand who his guest is.
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In the following verses, do you have the complexion for
the protection? It is now time for our life reflection,
all right. In Genesis chapter eighteen, verses two through five,
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Abraham was eager to show hospitality to these three visitors
as was lot in chapter nineteen, verse two. We hadn't
got there yet, but we'd get there. Lord willm good,
Lord willim. All right now. In Abraham's day, people's reputations
were largely connected to their hospitality and the sharing of
home and food. Even strangers were to be treated as
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highly honored guests. Meeting another's need for food and shelter
was and still is one of the most immediate and
practical ways to obey God. It is also a time
on the relationship builder. All right now. Hebrews Chapter thirteen,
verse two suggests that we, like Abraham, might actually entertain angels.
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This thought should be on our minds the next time
we have the opportunity to meet a stranger's need. All right,
But for now, this is what God reaffirms his promise.
Part one is all about. All right now. With that
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being said, we will close out with prayer. Heavenly Father, Son,
Holy Spirit, thank you for blessing us with another building
blood from this holy Bible study session. Please offer strength, carriage,
and your peace as those who are strangers to us
navigate this uncertain time. God, we thank you for offering
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us your love, and we ask that you show us
and others around us for what you need of us
to help them, what you need yeah of us to
help them. And we thank you Lord for all you do,
for your continued graces and mercy, O Lord, our strength
and our Redeemer. We continue to pray these things by believing, trusting,
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and loving you, Oh Holy eternal Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
It is always in the precious name of Jesus the Christ,
the mess say you, We pray. Amen. All right, thank
you for tuning in, and please stay tuned for the
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