Sermons & Devotionals by Ron Bailey
Ron Bailey
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wait I say on the Lord Our previous devotional found Abraham ‘waiting upon’ his visitors. His waiting upon God was not ‘in order that’… There was no secret ambition in his service; it was simply the instinct of his life. He was not trying to gain God’s attention to spring some long hidden request, b... Read More
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by faith Sarah… Our devotionals have been focussed on Abraham, but perhaps just for a moment we can consider Sarah. Abraham is waiting on his guests and as he waits confirmation comes. I say confirmation, rather than revelation as only details of this word are new to Abraham; in particular, the timi... Read More
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Shall I hide from Abraham… We come now to the passage which was in my mind when we first began this journey, almost a year ago. It seems that the primary purpose of the visit to Abraham’s tent was Sarah’s annunciation; the specific promise and date of the birth of Isaac. However, as Abraham continue... Read More
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God loved Sodom We know this passage so well, perhaps too well. It is an amazing record of Abraham’s relationship with the God who referred to him as Abraham, My Friend. I want to challenge some assumptions about these verses. There are some who see these verses as a blueprint for answered prayer an... Read More
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Beware the Bildads I’m going give a little time to meditation on this issue of God’s Justice. For generations atheists have said it is not possible for God to be all loving, all knowing and all powerful at the same time. Two out of three they say are possible but not three out of three. Pause a mome... Read More
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Righteous Lot? Today we will meditate on the walk of Abraham by contrasting him with his nephew. In writing the above title I was reminded of the story of a funeral. The deceased was a notorious character but the eulogies were flowing tributes to the sterling qualities of the dead man. “Go and take ... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_47 Righteous Abimelech? The Bible tells a highly selective story. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be writt... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_48 a prophet? “Abraham” says God “is a prophet.” At this point there is no explanation of the title or role. It was obviously something which Abimelech would have understood, a familiar term in his day but what about ours? Perhaps it is too familiar now... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_49 So Abraham prayed… and God healed… It is all so wonderfully matter-of-fact. Abraham prayed and God healed. In his dream to Abimelech God had spoken of Abraham in similar matter-of-fact words. He is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shal... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_50 I will… and Sarah shall… At this point in our meditations on the life of Abraham, the Friend of God, we come to a new aspect of Abraham’s life. We saw his first steps of faith and he turned his back on all he had known and went out not knowing whithe... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_51 Father and Son In our previous meditation I made the statement that from this point in our meditations on the life of Abraham, the Friend of God, we come to a new aspect of Abraham’s life. We shall begin to see Abraham and Isaac as types of the Fathe... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_52 The Heir In our previous thoughts we concentrated on the type of Father and Son in the account of Abraham and Isaac. Today I want to consider the picture of Christ we find here under the type of the Heir. Back in Genesis 15 Abraham had been anxious a... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_53 No Compromise From time to time in our recounting of Abraham’s pilgrimage we have touched on a passage of scripture which has had a far-reaching consequence, and we have then followed the stream to its broader sweeps. The famous phrase; And he believ... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_54 The Child of Promise The typology of Isaac does not only relate to the true Son but also to all true sons. Paul, the apostle, refers to Isaac as a ‘child of promise’; Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. (Gal 4:28 KJV) This ve... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_55 Beersheba, and the Everlasting God It’s time for us to rejoin the story line. Isaac is a toddler, and Ishmael is being removed from the scene. The events of the latter part of Genesis 21 all centre around Beersheba. Beersheba became the symbolic edge... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_56 Moriah, both of them together Abraham sojourned in the Abimelech’s territory for many days; this almost certainly means several years. The next dateable event will be the death of Sarah when we know Isaac must have been around 37 years of age. So how... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_57 God is able In the National Gallery of the Heroes of Faith there is just one portrait that appears twice; Abraham’s. Hebrews 11 twice focuses on this extraordinary man as a God-given illustration of faith. First the writer tells us that it was ‘by fa... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_59 a bride for the son So we arrive at Genesis 24. It is a long chapter, more than twice the length of most others we have read together. If we were justified in asking why the Bible gave a whole chapter to a burial perhaps we should ask the same questi... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_60 a nose jewel and two bracelets We are watching the unfolding of events pertaining to the father’s son; Isaac. If we continue with our analogy of The Father, Son and Holy Executive we see interesting patterns in this account. We see that this whole ch... Read More
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Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man_61 will you go with this man It is wonderful how clearly characters are captured in just a few words in the this story. We see the mercenary streak in Rebekah’s brother Laban; And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the... Read More
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Ron Bailey is the full-time curator of Bible Base. The first Christians were people who loved and respected the Jewish scriptures as their highest legacy, but were later willing to add a further 27 books to that legacy. We usually call the older scriptures ‘the Old Testament’ while we call this 27 book addition to the Jewish scriptures ‘the New Testament’. It is not the most accurate description but it shows how early Christians saw the contrast between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’.It has been my main life-work to read, and study and think about these ancient writings, and then to attempt to share my discoveries with others. I am never more content than when I have a quiet moment and an open Bible on my lap. For much of my life too I have been engaged in preaching and teaching the living truths of this book. This has given me a wide circle of friends in the UK and throughout the world. This website is really dedicated to them. They have encouraged and challenged and sometimes disagreed but I delight in this fellowship of Christ-honouring Bible lovers.