
Genesis 26:17 – 27:10 Bible Teaching
Isaac reopens wells, faces disputes, finds peace, symbolizing perseverance and faith. Rebekah and Jacob's deception for blessing shows God's plans use human flaws.
Isaac reopens wells, faces disputes, finds peace, symbolizing perseverance and faith. Rebekah and Jacob's deception for blessing shows God's plans use human flaws.
Jacob trades Esau's birthright for stew, highlighting cultural traditions and spiritual lessons. Isaac's faith and obedience lead to blessings amid adversity, contrasting material and spiritual growth.
God's plan involves chosen individuals to fulfill His purpose, emphasizing free will, love, and redemption. Critiques Calvinist predestination, highlights faith in Jesus.
Shawn's teaching covers Genesis 24:62-25:6, focusing on Isaac's meditation, Rebekah's modesty, Abraham's genealogy, inheritance distribution, and Jesus' unique sacrifice.
Abraham's servant finds Rebekah for Isaac, guided by prayer and signs. Emphasizes faith, divine guidance, and reliance on Scripture over seeking signs. Rebekah's choice and blessings highlight familial and spiritual themes.
Genesis 22-24 highlights Abraham's lineage, Rebekah's role, Sarah's significance, and the cultural context of concubinage. It underscores women's roles, marriage's biblical theme, and Abraham's faith in securing Canaan land and a wife for Isaac, ensuring lineage continuity.
Shawn's teaching highlights Abraham's faith, obedience, and God's provision, emphasizing faith's role in love and liberty, using biblical narratives and the Abrahamic covenant.
Shawn's teaching interprets "tempt" in Genesis 22 as "test," showing God's trials as faith tests, not enticements. Abraham's story exemplifies faith, trust, and prioritizing God.
Genesis 21 highlights Isaac's birth, Sarah and Hagar's tension, Ishmael's future, and Abraham's faith. Themes include spiritual growth, God's guidance, and covenant at Beersheba.
Abraham's deception, God's intervention with Abimelech, emphasizes divine guidance, integrity, and spiritual growth, highlighting patience, truth, and agape love.
Shawn's teaching focuses on the true spirit of Christmas, emphasizing Jesus' birth as reconciliation between God and humanity, challenging traditional Trinitarian views.
Shawn's teaching covers Genesis 19:15-38, focusing on God's mercy and urgency in Lot's escape, Lot's daughters' actions, divine intervention, and the importance of obedience.
Abraham intercedes for Sodom; Lot shows hospitality to angels. Shawn's teaching emphasizes hospitality, condemns homosexuality, and stresses faith and reconciliation through Christ.
Shawn's teaching covers Genesis 18-19, focusing on Sodom and Gomorrah, divine promises, and moral judgments. He challenges Trinitarian views, emphasizing angels as God's representatives.
Shawn's teaching examines Genesis 18-19, focusing on Sodom and Gomorrah, Sarah's laughter, Lot's actions, and divine messengers as God's representatives, not preincarnate Jesus.
Circumcision and baptism symbolize dedication but require heart transformation. True faith, love, and spiritual growth are essential, transcending rituals. Abraham's faith exemplifies joy and commitment.
Covenant with God and Abraham; spiritual growth is divine, not human-driven. Emphasizes humility, faith over law, spiritual over physical transformation, and heart's circumcision.
Paul's allegory in Galatians 4 contrasts Hagar's bondage with Sarah's freedom, symbolizing liberation through faith in Christ and the heavenly Jerusalem, not the Law.
Believers are adopted as God's heirs through faith, not merit, moving from servitude to freedom in Christ. Spiritual maturity involves embracing God's guidance over human efforts.
Hagar's divine encounter highlights faith over law, paralleling Paul's teachings. Shawn emphasizes spiritual maturity, adoption as God's children, and freedom in Christ.