Genesis 12:1-7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-4

Genesis 12:1-4 I. At some time in our lives a call from God sends its trumpet tone through each of our souls, as it did when Abraham heard it, and he went forth with the future stretching broad and far before him. II. God's call to Abraham was: (1) a call to closer communion with Himself; (2) a call which led him to break with his past; (3) a call into loneliness. III. The reason why so many of us, who are good and honourable men, never become men of great use and example and higher thought and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-20

Genesis 12:0 , etc. I. Notice first the call of Abraham. (1) The call was addressed to him suddenly; (2) it required him to forsake his country and his kindred, while giving him no hope of return; (3) it sent him on a long and difficult journey, to a country lying more than three hundred miles away. Yet Abraham obeyed in willing submission to the command of God. II. Notice Abraham's conquest over the kings. This is the first battle recorded in the word of God. It was after his rescue of Lot... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:2

Genesis 12:2 When God called Abraham, and, in Abraham, the Jewish nation, He cradled them in blessings. This is the way in which He always begins with a man. If ever, to man or nation, He speaks otherwise, it is because they have made Him do so. I. Many of us account religion rather as a possession to be held, or a privilege to be enjoyed, than as a life which we are to spread, a kingdom we are bound to extend. Consequently our religion has grown too passive. It would be healthier and happier... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:3

Genesis 12:3 I. A double stream of narrative runs through the first four books of the Pentateuch. One of these may be called the Priestly narrative the other, the Prophetical narrative. The text sets before us one of the characteristic features of the Prophetical narrative that consciousness of the ideal destiny of Israel which developed afterwards into the definite hope commonly called Messianic. Unfettered by the political and material limitations of his age, the narrator discerns in dim... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:4-5

Genesis 12:4-5 (with Acts 16:10 ) I. Taken together, these texts may be paraphrased geographically, by saying that they contain a direction to the Law and the Gospel to move westwards, like the sun. The forefather of the Jews was ordered to quit his home for a land that looked westwards; the Apostle of the Gentiles was ordered to commence travelling westwards, turning his back on the east. One text limited the earlier dispensation to a single branch of the Semitic race; the other threw open... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:6

Genesis 12:6 This is one of the most comforting verses in the Bible. It is so simple and yet so sure. It tells us that the end is certain if the beginning is right. I. The text is written from heaven's side of the question. It is the history put in short of all the saints who ever went to glory. They took a long journey, and at last they got safely home. The rest how it was, why it was, all that makes up the interval is the grace of God. II. There were difficulties by the way: why are we not... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 12:1

Now the Lord The Fourth Dispensation: Promise. For Abraham, and his descendants it is evident that the Abrahamic Covenant (See Scofield " :-") made a great change. They became distinctively the heirs of promise. That covenant is wholly gracious and unconditional. The descendants of Abraham had but to abide in their own land to inherit every blessing. In Egypt they lost their blessings, but not their covenant. The Dispensation of Promise ended when Israel rashly accepted the law Exodus 19:8.... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 12:2

And For analysis and summary of the Abrahamic Covenant, (See Scofield " :-") . read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 12:7

appeared The theophanies. Genesis 17:1; Genesis 12:7; Revelation 1:10. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-20

Chapter 12Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy family ( Genesis 12:1 ),So Abraham really wasn't totally obedient at this point. And this to me is interesting, because Abraham is always held as the model of faith in the New Testament, the model of a man who believed and trusted God. He's the prime example of the man who believes. And so many times when we read about faith and the exploits of faith, we think, "But I'm so weak and I've blown it so many times,... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-4

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:3

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:4-5

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:6

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 12:1

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 12:2

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 12:7

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 12:1-20

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