Here are a few notes on Genesis 21: Notes on Genesis 21 Part I, NOTES on Genesis 21 Part II, NOTES on GENESIS 21 Part III.
These are most of my notes, and I ended up preaching three messages from this chapter (the chapter is divided in 3 sections by most commentators).
I am posting below my notes on Genesis 22. As you can see – they are mostly from Wenham, Ross, Walton, etc.
Here is the WORD file: Notes on Genesis 22.
See also the useful info from Al Mohler.
Notes on Genesis 22
Wenham – p. 99: The account of the sacrifice of Isaac constitutes the aesthetic and theological summit of the whole story of Abraham. It has long been admired for the brilliance of its narrative technique and for the profundity of its theology, which has inspired so much reflection by Jews and Christians…
NOTE the very strong parallels between chs. 21 and 22!!!
p. 100 – the reference to “the place which God had told him” evokes other “places” where A had built altars or met with God (22:3, 4, 9, 14; 12:6; 13:3, 4; 19:27).
See also the allusion to the very first command given to Abraham in 12:1-3! Thus the whole of 22:1-19 reverberates with the echoes of earlier parts of the A cycle, and these need to be borne in mind in discussing its structure, in source analysis, and in exegesis.
Verse:
John 3:16; Jn 3:16; John 3
Keyword:
Salvation, Jesus, Gospel
With Operators:
AND, OR, NOT, “ ”
BOICE on Genesis
- Frederick A. Filby in Creation Revealed – a chemistry professor in England for many years.
It takes many pages of symbols to discuss the nature of a single ATOM of hydrogen. It has been estimated that to give a complete account of the position of the groups and bonds in a single VIRUS of “molecular weight 300 million” would take a 200 page book…If the scientific description of a single Hydrogen ATOM, or of a virus too small to be seen without a microscope TAKES a BOOK – what hope is there of even giving a SCIENTIFIC account of the creation of man and the universe??
YET GENESIS in its original form uses only 76 different root words.
If GENESIS 1 was written in ABSOLUTE SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE to give an account of CREATION there is no man alive, nor ever has been, who could UNDERSTAND it. If it was written in any kind of SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE – only the favored few could comprehend it. It would have to be rewritten every generation to conform to the new views and terms of SCIENCE.
It could NOT be written in the language of the beginning of 21st century. For no earlier generation could have grasped its meaning, and to our children it would be OUT of DATE…The SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION of the HOW of the universe is beyond the understanding of ANY HUMAN BRAIN – but Genesis was written for ALL readers, not for NONE…
What then would be the best method for the CREATOR to use for:
1) Making a beginning to his book
2) Establishing that the God of the Bible is also the God of CREATION – in language simple enough for all men in all time???
THE ANSWER IS GENESIS 1. …The most AMAZING composition in all the world’s literature, using only 76 different word-FORMS fundamental to ALL mankind, arranged in wonderful poetical pattern (it is historical prose) yet free from any highly colored figures of speech.
It provides the PERFECT opening to God’s BOOK and establishes all that men really need to know of the FACTS of CREATION… No man could have invented it…It is sufficient for Hebrew children or Greek thinkers or Latin Christians; for medieval knights, poor fishermen, cottage dwellers, East or West, Ethiopians, young and old, simple and learned…SUFFICIENT for ALL.
Only GOD could WRITE such a chapter…and He did.
Boice : the most fundamental issue is whether or not God has spoken on Scripture as the Bible claims he has…HAS GOD SPOKEN?
Answer YES – and all that follows will become increasingly CLEAR.
Answer NO – and all is CHAOS.
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The intention of this blog is to help anyone who desires to preach and/or to teach from the book of Genesis. The site is especially intended for people who can read English, but do not have access to some of the best resources on Genesis available in English.
I hope that other preachers and teachers will contribute to this site with additional resources: illustrations, notes, etc.
I am building this site as one who has been preaching from Genesis for a few years (I am currently in Genesis 21) and I have accumulated a series of notes in English. These notes will be posted by chapter. I try in my notes to note where they are coming from, but this is not always done consistently.
I rarely have the time to write the introduction and conclusion of my sermons (when I can do this I feel really happy about it), and I almost never write the whole sermon. I usually write the outline (though this does not appear in the notes) on Sunday mornings.
My preaching aims to be Christ-centered and I highly appreciate Sidney Greydanus’ new book: Preaching Christ from Genesis. One problem with this book is that it covers only a few passages from Genesis. (I hope to post a few more resources for Christ-centered preaching. For a very recent book which exemplifies this approach and contains 3 sermons on Genesis, see Heralds of the King).
I usually use (and recommend) the following resources for preaching from Genesis:
Gordon Wenham’s commentary in the Word series.
Allen P. Ross – Creation and Blessing.
The Church fathers as found in the IVP Ancient Christian Commentary on Scriptures.
The notes of Matthew Henry, John Calvin, and Arthur Pink – all available online.
I sometimes use the writings of James Montgomery Boice, Nahum Sarna, Ken Matthews, John Walton, and Bruce Waltke.
The most useful sermons (see www.sermonaudio.com) for me are those of Joel Beeke, and more recently those of Alan Cairns. I sometimes listen to their sermons before my final sermon preparation and notes from their messages may appear in my notes.
Soli Deo Gloria!
