THE BLESSING OF PROGRESSION
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GENESIS 28:3
3 May God Almighty bless you and make you
fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community
of peoples.
GENESIS 27:46 (NIV)
46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with
living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes
a wife from among the women of this land, from
Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
GENESIS 28:1-2 (NIV)
1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him:
"Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
GENESIS 28:1-2 (NIV)
2 Go at once to PaddanAram, to the house of your
mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the
daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
GENESIS 28:4 (NIV)
4 May He give you and your descendants the
blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take
possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land God gave
to Abraham.”
GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)
1 The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your
country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will
show you.
GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will
bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a
blessing.
GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)
4 So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and
Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old
when he set out from Haran.
GALATIANS 3:13-14 (NIV)
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for
us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who
is hung on a tree."
GALATIANS 3:13-14 (NIV)
14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing
given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles
through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might
receive the promise of the Spirit.
In Genesis 12:2,
God said “I will make you into a great nation” and
not “I will give...”
PSALM 16:5 (NIV)
5 “Lord, You have assigned me my portion
and my cup; You have made my lot secure.”
“We must not only know the promise of God but
we must know the God of the promise!”
BIG STATEMENT:
GENESIS 22:2
2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac,
whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah.
Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell
you about."
GENESIS 22:5
5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the
donkey while I and the boy go over there. We
will worship and then we will come back to you."
“We must not only know the promise of God but
we must know the God of the promise!”
BIG STATEMENT:
ECCLESIASTES 3:1
1 There is a time for everything, and a season
for every activity
under heaven.
HEBREWS 10:23 (NIV)
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the
hope we profess, for He who promised is
faithful.