The Holy Book of Genesis

1. The Holy Book of Genesis Chapter 19-24

2. Hospitality Versus Homosexuality (19:1-11) • The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot, who was sitting at the city gate, identified them as mortal men and as strangers, but not as messengers of destruction. • Lot’s hospitality offered for the two strangers is the evidence of his righteousness. • Lot’s persistence is motivated as much by fear for the safety of the strangers as by his generosity.

3. Hospitality Versus Homosexuality (19:1-11) • In a short time the entire city had gathered about Lot’s house, young and old seeking to lie down with the two strangers. Surely judgment was due. • Lot stepped outside, closing the door behind him, hoping to defuse the situation. He pleaded with them not to act wickedly. • Lot, who supposed it was his duty to save the strangers, is rescued by them. By the words they spoke, their identity and their task were revealed to Lot. • Their sight either removed completely or dazzled and distorted, the men of the city groped for the door, but wore themselves out trying to find it.

4. Lot’s Last Stand (19:12-22) • Then the men said to Lot, ‘Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place; for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it’ (Genesis 19:12,13). • When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up, take your wife and your two daughters, who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.’ But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hands of his daughters, for the compassion of the Lord was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city (Genesis 19:15-16).

5. Fire and Brimstone (19:23-26) • The Lord rained down fire and brimstone from heaven upon the cities of the valley. • While Lot hastened on, his wife looked back to the city, it is the love of the world. Her heart, like Lot’s, was in Sodom. She looked back for only a moment, and the destruction meant for Sodom struck her as well, and only steps from safety and those she loved. Regardless of her motive, she directly disobeyed a clear command of the angelic messenger (19:17). • While Lot was in a drunken stupor the first daughter, and then the second, went in to him and became pregnant. • Two nations were born of this relationship, Moab and Ammon, they were a continual hindrance to the godly conduct of the Israelites.

6. Fire and Brimstone (19:23-26) • Eventually, they suffer the judgment of God as did Sodom and Gomorrah: • Therefore, as I live,’ declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Surely Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—a place possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the remainder of My nation will inherit them’ (Zephaniah 2:9).

7. Abimelech Is Restrained (20:1-7) • Abraham introduced his wife Sarah as his sister, which resulted in her being taken into the harem of Abimelech, king of Gerar. The same story happened before between Abraham and Pharaoh in Genesis 12. • But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married” (Genesis 20:3).

8. Abimelech Is Restrained (20:1-7) • “And God said to him in the dream, ‘Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. Now therefore restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet and he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours” (Genesis 20:6,7) • So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children. For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife (Genesis 20:17-18)”.

9. Abraham Is Rebuked (20:8-18) • Abimelechasked Abraham. “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done. (Genesis 20:9) • Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; and they will kill me because of my wife. Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife; and it came about, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is the kindness which you will show to me: everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother”” (Genesis 20:11-13).

10. Abraham Is Rebuked (20:8-18) • When Abraham prayed, the wombs of Abimelech’s household were opened so that they once again bore children. • So Sarah’s womb was to be opened as well. • The promised son was soon to be born.

11. The Birth of The Promised Son • Verses 1 and 2 • Verses 3 to 5 • Verses 6 and 7

12. Ishmael and Hagar

13. Isaac’s Sacrifice “And He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you” (Genesis 22:2)” • God’s command • Abraham’s obedience • God’s Provision • God’s Promise

14. God’s Command Abraham’s willingness to give up his only son humanly illustrated the love of God for man, which caused Him to give His only begotten Son. The agony of heart experienced by Abraham reflected the heart of the Father at the suffering of His Son

15. Abraham’s Obedience “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” “So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him (Genesis 22:3)” “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son”

16. Abraham’s Obedience 1)Sacrifice had to be without blemish. • 2)Abraham had shown his obedience and faith by willing to sacrifice his son.

17. God’s Provision

18. God’s Promise

19. How To Find A Godly Wife Not a Canaanite 2)Isaac must not return to Mesopotamia

20. How To Find A Godly Wife Rebecca

21. How To Find A Godly Wife