The gospel (part 17)
So Isaac is the promised seed. And then, all of a sudden with Isaac, there are twins to come which leaves us with another dilemma... Which one will be the promised seed?
Is it the first born? No! It's the second because God saw ahead and choose the second.
Esau has muscle and stature physically while Jacob has muscle and stature mentally.
With this information, I hope you know the one you will go for. As for me , I went for both because I can do everything through Christ.
Jacob became the promised seed because He knew the value of a firstborn and had to deceive Esau to get it.
Moral lesson here is that you should chase knowledge and prioritize it more than anything physical because what you know is who you are and who you are through your knowledge is what God wants to work with.
And now, in Jacob, there are 12 sons. Which one of these sons is the promised seed?
Well we don't know but every reader got attracted and focused on Joseph.
So you might think... It's Joseph who is the promise seed but He's not.
Joseph is just there to preserve the promise seed. One of the reasons they hated Joseph was because Joseph was the son of the wife whom their father Jacob loved.
That's what made him the favorite son and because of that, they envied his dream.
During the final test, Joseph gave to his brothers... When He ordered his servant to put his silver cup into Benjamin's sack.
His servant went after them by his orders and brought Benjamin to jail while they all leave.
Benjamin is about to be kept behind and Judah the promised seed, says to Joseph, it will kill my father.
So in essence, Judah, the promised seed offers himself as a substitute in the place of the one whom his father loves which is exactly what the promised seed would do.
The moral lesson here is that, to be a partaker of the inheritance of Christ, one of the attributive character you must have is that you should always be willing to sacrifice yourself for others to be first while you become last.
From the lineage of Judah, came David the man after God's heart.
David identifies himself as the promise seed when one day in the valley, there was a giant called Goliath challenged Israel and He said:
Send me a man, let's do a battle of champions. I will represent my people, and then you send me someone who will represent your people.
And so, David goes down into the valley to face Israel's enemy --- Goliath, as Israel's covenant representative.
And while David was in the valley, He defeats Israel's enemy on behalf of all of Israel which means that Israel is victorious because all of Israel is in him when He won the victory as the champion Goliath demanded.
And then, there's a greater David who identifies himself as the promise seed, to which all the other seeds point and He does what Judah and what David did in one fell swoop.
He also offers himself as a substitutionary atoning sacrifice for the sons whom his father loves.
And then, through dying a death that we the sons of God deserved goes into that great valley but his own valley is called Hell.
He goes into the great valley called hell and defeats the enemy on behalf of all of those who are in him by faith.
You see, Joseph didn't go to Egypt so that we could tell our children... Be faithful and you will be rich and famous.
Joseph went to Egypt so that Judah, the promised seed, wouldn't starve. So that David, the promised seed could be born. So that Jesus the promised who is also God could save his people, sons, daughters and servants.
This is the point of the gospel. This is the heart of the gospel. The gospel is the way of sacrifice and the providence of God.
When we look at God's providence and see that God uses a famine like in the time of Joseph, slavery, prison, all of these kind of things that would make us start complaining.
And we'll all be like: "God, you have forgotten me, you've forsaken me and providence says:
Don't you dare. You don't see the end of the picture. You're in the pit so that I can save you.
You're going to be a slave to Potiphar so that I can save you. Same with the prison, same with going to Egypt because providentially, every last bit of this is necessary so that I can deliver you from the land of affliction and hence, killing many birds with one stone.
To be continued.
So Isaac is the promised seed. And then, all of a sudden with Isaac, there are twins to come which leaves us with another dilemma... Which one will be the promised seed?
Is it the first born? No! It's the second because God saw ahead and choose the second.
Esau has muscle and stature physically while Jacob has muscle and stature mentally.
With this information, I hope you know the one you will go for. As for me , I went for both because I can do everything through Christ.
Jacob became the promised seed because He knew the value of a firstborn and had to deceive Esau to get it.
Moral lesson here is that you should chase knowledge and prioritize it more than anything physical because what you know is who you are and who you are through your knowledge is what God wants to work with.
And now, in Jacob, there are 12 sons. Which one of these sons is the promised seed?
Well we don't know but every reader got attracted and focused on Joseph.
So you might think... It's Joseph who is the promise seed but He's not.
Joseph is just there to preserve the promise seed. One of the reasons they hated Joseph was because Joseph was the son of the wife whom their father Jacob loved.
That's what made him the favorite son and because of that, they envied his dream.
During the final test, Joseph gave to his brothers... When He ordered his servant to put his silver cup into Benjamin's sack.
His servant went after them by his orders and brought Benjamin to jail while they all leave.
Benjamin is about to be kept behind and Judah the promised seed, says to Joseph, it will kill my father.
So in essence, Judah, the promised seed offers himself as a substitute in the place of the one whom his father loves which is exactly what the promised seed would do.
The moral lesson here is that, to be a partaker of the inheritance of Christ, one of the attributive character you must have is that you should always be willing to sacrifice yourself for others to be first while you become last.
From the lineage of Judah, came David the man after God's heart.
David identifies himself as the promise seed when one day in the valley, there was a giant called Goliath challenged Israel and He said:
Send me a man, let's do a battle of champions. I will represent my people, and then you send me someone who will represent your people.
And so, David goes down into the valley to face Israel's enemy --- Goliath, as Israel's covenant representative.
And while David was in the valley, He defeats Israel's enemy on behalf of all of Israel which means that Israel is victorious because all of Israel is in him when He won the victory as the champion Goliath demanded.
And then, there's a greater David who identifies himself as the promise seed, to which all the other seeds point and He does what Judah and what David did in one fell swoop.
He also offers himself as a substitutionary atoning sacrifice for the sons whom his father loves.
And then, through dying a death that we the sons of God deserved goes into that great valley but his own valley is called Hell.
He goes into the great valley called hell and defeats the enemy on behalf of all of those who are in him by faith.
You see, Joseph didn't go to Egypt so that we could tell our children... Be faithful and you will be rich and famous.
Joseph went to Egypt so that Judah, the promised seed, wouldn't starve. So that David, the promised seed could be born. So that Jesus the promised who is also God could save his people, sons, daughters and servants.
This is the point of the gospel. This is the heart of the gospel. The gospel is the way of sacrifice and the providence of God.
When we look at God's providence and see that God uses a famine like in the time of Joseph, slavery, prison, all of these kind of things that would make us start complaining.
And we'll all be like: "God, you have forgotten me, you've forsaken me and providence says:
Don't you dare. You don't see the end of the picture. You're in the pit so that I can save you.
You're going to be a slave to Potiphar so that I can save you. Same with the prison, same with going to Egypt because providentially, every last bit of this is necessary so that I can deliver you from the land of affliction and hence, killing many birds with one stone.
To be continued.
The gospel (part 17)
So Isaac is the promised seed. And then, all of a sudden with Isaac, there are twins to come which leaves us with another dilemma... Which one will be the promised seed?
Is it the first born? No! It's the second because God saw ahead and choose the second.
Esau has muscle and stature physically while Jacob has muscle and stature mentally.
With this information, I hope you know the one you will go for. As for me , I went for both because I can do everything through Christ.
Jacob became the promised seed because He knew the value of a firstborn and had to deceive Esau to get it.
Moral lesson here is that you should chase knowledge and prioritize it more than anything physical because what you know is who you are and who you are through your knowledge is what God wants to work with.
And now, in Jacob, there are 12 sons. Which one of these sons is the promised seed?
Well we don't know but every reader got attracted and focused on Joseph.
So you might think... It's Joseph who is the promise seed but He's not.
Joseph is just there to preserve the promise seed. One of the reasons they hated Joseph was because Joseph was the son of the wife whom their father Jacob loved.
That's what made him the favorite son and because of that, they envied his dream.
During the final test, Joseph gave to his brothers... When He ordered his servant to put his silver cup into Benjamin's sack.
His servant went after them by his orders and brought Benjamin to jail while they all leave.
Benjamin is about to be kept behind and Judah the promised seed, says to Joseph, it will kill my father.
So in essence, Judah, the promised seed offers himself as a substitute in the place of the one whom his father loves which is exactly what the promised seed would do.
The moral lesson here is that, to be a partaker of the inheritance of Christ, one of the attributive character you must have is that you should always be willing to sacrifice yourself for others to be first while you become last.
From the lineage of Judah, came David the man after God's heart.
David identifies himself as the promise seed when one day in the valley, there was a giant called Goliath challenged Israel and He said:
Send me a man, let's do a battle of champions. I will represent my people, and then you send me someone who will represent your people.
And so, David goes down into the valley to face Israel's enemy --- Goliath, as Israel's covenant representative.
And while David was in the valley, He defeats Israel's enemy on behalf of all of Israel which means that Israel is victorious because all of Israel is in him when He won the victory as the champion Goliath demanded.
And then, there's a greater David who identifies himself as the promise seed, to which all the other seeds point and He does what Judah and what David did in one fell swoop.
He also offers himself as a substitutionary atoning sacrifice for the sons whom his father loves.
And then, through dying a death that we the sons of God deserved goes into that great valley but his own valley is called Hell.
He goes into the great valley called hell and defeats the enemy on behalf of all of those who are in him by faith.
You see, Joseph didn't go to Egypt so that we could tell our children... Be faithful and you will be rich and famous.
Joseph went to Egypt so that Judah, the promised seed, wouldn't starve. So that David, the promised seed could be born. So that Jesus the promised who is also God could save his people, sons, daughters and servants.
This is the point of the gospel. This is the heart of the gospel. The gospel is the way of sacrifice and the providence of God.
When we look at God's providence and see that God uses a famine like in the time of Joseph, slavery, prison, all of these kind of things that would make us start complaining.
And we'll all be like: "God, you have forgotten me, you've forsaken me and providence says:
Don't you dare. You don't see the end of the picture. You're in the pit so that I can save you.
You're going to be a slave to Potiphar so that I can save you. Same with the prison, same with going to Egypt because providentially, every last bit of this is necessary so that I can deliver you from the land of affliction and hence, killing many birds with one stone.
To be continued.
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