Genesis

1. Genesis • Chapter 25

2. The Father • Abraham Set the condition for his son’s wife. • Gen 24:3 • you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites • Gen 24:6 • "Beware that you do not take my son back there

3. Elizer, The Servnat • Gen 24:7 • He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there The Sign • Gen 24:14 • 14 Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink' — let her be the one

4. The Bride’s Virtue • Serving, Labor. • Compassionate • Humble. • Love • Patience • Sacrifice. • Wisdom.

5. Prayer’s of Faith • Gen 24:45 • 45 "But before I had finished speaking in my heart, there was Rebekah, coming out with her pitcher on her shoulder.

6. The Holy Spirit is the True Servant. • Gen 24:34-36 • 34 So he said, "I am Abraham's servant. 35 The LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. 36 And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.

7. The True Servant • He spoke about his Master Abraham, Sarah and Isaac. • He Mentioned how rich his Master. • John 16:13-15 • 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

8. The 10 Camels • The Ten Commandments. • Rebecca had served the camels • The Camels had carried her to her bridegroom. • John 14:23-24 • 23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

9. The Groom’s Virtue • How does he look? • Song 5:10-16 • 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. • 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. • 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. • 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. • 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. • 15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. • 16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

10. Where I will live? • Rev 21:9-12 • "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates • 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones:

11. Would he provide for me? • John 6:35 • 35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

12. What if I upset him? • Jer 31:3 • Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; • Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. • Isa 54:8 • 8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; • But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," • Says the LORD, your Redeemer.

13. Ezek 16:10-13 • 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth.

14. Keturah, a wife of Abraham • Qetuwrah (ket-oo-raw'). • Keturah = "incense“; perfumed. • She Gave him 6 childern

15. John 8:35-36 • 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. • Gal 4:6-7 • 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. • NKJV

16. Gal 4:28-31 • 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman." 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

17. John 10:11-16 • 11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. • 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

18. Abraham’s Death • scholar Origen says: [Concerning • Abraham’s death, we may add what came in the Bible of the words of the Lord: “But • concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the • burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the • God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’, He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the • living” (Mark 12: 26, 27);

19. Esau = "hairy“ , “Rough” • Ya` aqob (yah-ak-obe'); Heel-catcher

20. (If that is the way between the twins, what is the need for such pregnancy, • that deprived her life of all taste ? ! ) • Ps 137:7 • 7 Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation!"

21. A portrait of the continuous struggle between evil and good within the (womb) of the Church. • Father Caeserius says: [Good souls wish to overcome evil, but the wicked are always keen on destroying the righteous. Members in the Church, who belong to Esau, are those who tend to possess the earthliest, love and lust for the earth, and put all hope in it. • Likewise, members who wish to minister to the Lord, targeting worldly dignity, or to enjoy material benefit, all belong to Esau, namely to earthly happiness].

22. Esau and Jacob • Gal 5:16-26 • I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

23. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

24. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

25. FIRSTBORN • (a.) authority over the rest of the family • (b.) priesthood; • (c.) a double portion of the inheritance. • Firstborn • The expression "first-born" is not always to be understood literally' it is sometimes taken for the prime, most excellent, most distinguished of things. • Thus "'Jesus Christ" is "the first-born of every creature, the first-begotten, or first--born from the dead;" begotten of the Father before any creature was produced; the first who rose from the dead by his own power

26. St. Augustine comments on the fall of Esau, that what he did was not particularly for the sake of • a plate of stew, but because of his non-caring nature, saying: [It is to teach us that the fault does not lie in the creation of God, but rather in the stubborn rebellion and shameful lust; • The first man did not earn death because of pig meat, but for a fruit (Gen. 3: 6); and it was not because of a meal of birds, but for a plate of stew, that Esau sell his birthright].

27. Heb 12:14-17 • 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; 16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

28. Gen 27:34 • 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me — me also, O my father!" • Gen 27:38 • 38 And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me — me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.