Homiletics in the Sierra Foothills: January 2021

Friday, January 29, 2021

Genesis 27

Homiletics Study – Genesis 2020-2021

Lesson 17 Passage: Genesis 27

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Isaac’s Request and plot in Response (Genesis 27:1-17)

a. Isaac’s request to Esau (1-4)

b. Rebekah overhears request (5)

c. Rebekah tells Jacob of Isaac’s request and plots to trick Isaac (6-11)

d. Jacob questions plot with Rebekah accepting responsibility (12-13)

e. Jacob buys into plot and disguises self as Esau (14-17)

Jacob’s deception and Isaac’s blessing (Genesis 27:18-29)

a. Jacob lies to father saying he is Esau (18-20)

b. Isaac tries to verify it is truly Esau (21-24)

c. Isaac calls Jacob for food and blessing (25-27)

d. Isaac blessing Jacob (28-29)

Isaac approached by Esau, deception exposed and family impact (Genesis 27:30-46)

a. Esau comes in from hunting and prepares requested food for Isaac (30-31)

b. Isaac questions and responding violently to being tricked (32-33)

c. Esau states Jacob was deceitful in taking blessing (34-35)

d. Isaac tells Esau the result of blessing (36-37)

e. Esau weeps asking for blessing (38)

f. Isaac gives a negative blessing to Esau (39-40)

g. Esau holds grudge against Jacob (41)

h. Rebekah sends Jacob to Laban in Harran for safety (42-46)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Isaac’s Request and plot in Response	Genesis 27:1-17)
Jacob’s deception and Isaac’s blessing	Genesis 27:18-29
Isaac approached by Esau, deception exposed and family impact	Genesis 27:30-46

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Isaac deceived giving Jacob blessing through Rebekah’s plot disunity results.

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATLT our sin has impact in human lives; God can use us even in our flaws for His purpose

Specific Application Questions

1	Who do you listen to for advice and counsel? How do you test the wisdom of this advice?
2	What things have you done that deceives? How have you responded to this reality?
3	How have bad decisions impacted you? What has God’s response given you courage to live more in faith?

Principles to Remember

1	Wise counsel comes from God and His word
2	Deception breaks relationships
3	There is an impact to our decisions

Characteristic of God

God is our life resource

Theme

Our motives have an impact on our family relationships.

God’s Word - What’s happening?

God’s Heart – What does God care about?

Today’s World – How does this connect to what is happening in my world today

Friday, January 22, 2021

Genesis 25-26

Homiletics Study – Genesis 2020-2021

Lesson 16 Passage: Genesis 25-26

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Abraham breaths last as an inheritance given to Isaac with the description of descendant nations (Genesis 25:1-19)

a. Abraham remarries Keturah and has more descendants (1-4)

b. Abraham leaves everything to Isaac and gives gifts to others sending them away (5-6)

c. Abraham breaths last and is buried by Isaac and Ishmael with Sarah (7-11)

d. Ishmael’s family line described (12-19)

Isaac prays and Lord answers with two sons Esau and Jacob (Genesis 25:20-34)

a. Isaac prays for childless Rebekah and she becomes pregnant (20-21)

b. Babies jostled and Rebekah question what’s happening (22)

c. Lord describes two nations in her womb (23)

d. Esau, the first son, is red and hairy and second son, Jacob is hold brother’s heal (24-26)

e. Esau a skillful hunter loved by father Isaac and Jacob loved by Rebekah (27-28)

f. Esau sells Jacob birthright for lentil stew (29-34)

Isaac’s wife deception of Abimelek is questioned; blessings come and peace treaty made (Genesis 26)

a. Famine brings warning to not go to Egypt with obedience blessing through descendants (1-6)

b. Isaac’s deception of telling that Rebekah was his sister (7)

c. Abimelek sees deception and summons Isaac and challenges his deception; providing protective orders (8-11)

d. Isaac move away opening wells of Abraham (12-15)

e. Abimelek asks for Isaac to move away and he does (16)

f. Isaac flourishes bringing quarreling (17-22)

g. Isaac builds altar to Lord with His promise to bless Isaac (23-25)

h. Isaac and forms peace treaty with Abimelek. (26-34)