Tag: Inheritance
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The Blessing Comes Back – Genesis 48:3-6
Genesis 48:3-6And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an…
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What God Gives, No Man Takes – Genesis 35:12-13
Genesis 35:12, 13“And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.” Notice the certainty here. The land was not something Jacob negotiated for, discovered…
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Meek Enough to Keep Moving – Genesis 26:21
Genesis 26:21And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. Again Isaac finds water. Again there is resistance. Again the blessing is followed by a battle. So he names the well Sitnah, a word that carries the idea of hatred. That is very revealing, because it…
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Trading Away What Matters – Genesis 25:31-34
Genesis 25:31-34And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread…
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Everything Given to the Son – Genesis 24:32-36
Genesis 24:32-36 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that were with him.And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told…
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Every Inch of It – Genesis 15:18-21
Genesis 15:18-21 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and…
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What Abram Gave Up Was Never Really Lost – Genesis 13:14-17
Genesis 13:14-17 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And…
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More Than a Mansion – Revelation 21:7
Revelation 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. When most people think about heaven, they think only in terms of rest. No more pain. No more tears. No more death. And that is gloriously true. But Revelation 21 shows us that heaven…
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A Hope That Stays Alive – 1 Peter 1:3-4
1 Peter 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Peter goes straight…
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Don’t Trade the Birthright – Hebrews 12:16
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. The writer now gives a sobering example of what bitterness can eventually produce. Esau. All through this chapter we’ve been warned about the danger of a root of bitterness. Now we see what that root…
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The Covenant Put Into Effect — Hebrews 9:15–17
Hebrews 9:15–17 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of…
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Hebrews 1:2 — The Son Who Inherits Everything
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; After telling us that God has spoken through His Son, the writer of Hebrews adds another breathtaking truth. The Father has appointed the Son heir of all things.…