In this passage, we see a battle and a blessing that point us to Jesus. We see that Jesus is the true and better King who executes judgment and plunders His enemies, and that Jesus is the true and better Priest who mediates a new covenant between the people and the Lord. May we find comfort in the fact that God always keeps His promises.
In this passage, we see a different Abram than we saw in Genesis 12. In light of Abram’s failure to trust in God, we see him here walk by faith once again in God’s promises, which is good news for all of us who, like Abram, wrestle with trusting and distrusting God and His promises.
In this passage, we see Abram's obedience to the call of God to go to the Promised Land, but then we also see Abram's failure to trust God to fulfill His promises. Yet we can have confidence that nothing and no one can derail God's promises, not even God's people.
This is a stand-alone sermon by Jeremy Sherwood (NCEM).
Though Abram seems like an unlikely candidate to re-establish God's kingdom on the earth, God will nonetheless be faithful to bring the nations back to Himself. And we have been invited into this unfolding drama. Jesus is inviting His disciples to reclaim the world for the kingdom of God and has empowered us by His Spirit to do it.
At the tower of Babel, we see man's attempt to ascend to God, and we see God's gracious condescension to man. God's scattering of defiant and self-reliant humanity looks forward to Pentecost where people from every nation would hear the good news about Jesus Christ in their own language.
This is a stand-alone sermon by Gordon Balfour, Executive Director of Mission Eurasia Canada.
The God who created all people has a plan to redeem all people. And by God’s grace, we have a part to play in God’s redemption of the nations.
In this passage, we see that sin is alive and well in the new world. But we also see the hope of Jesus Christ. Though we are all by nature like Noah and Ham, by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, God regards us as righteous.
God promises to sovereignly preserve the earth and to never again destroy the world with a flood. But what does God require of His creatures in return? In this sermon, we look at God's unconditional and universal and everlasting covenant, and how it points us to a new and better covenant through Jesus Christ.