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Answer to Prayer (2 of 4)
Series: Genesis
D. Marion Clark
Genesis 24:1-14
Introduction
It is always interesting to hear how married couples met one another. There are childhood sweethearts, blind dates, falling for a friend's date, co-workers, in a bar, even in a church. A growing trend is internet matching services. We had neighbors in Philadelphia who had connected through a classified ad. Few are as peculiar as the story of Isaac and Rebekah.
Sarah has died. Forty-year-old Isaac is still living at home with Dad. It evidently has not occurred to either man that Isaac should be finding a wife. (Makes it like a modern story, doesn't it!) When the idea does occur to Abraham, instead of sending his son, he sends his servant to do the job. Remember the promotion of the sermon series – Genesis: The People…Their Problems…God's Solutions. The People are Abraham and Isaac. Their Problem is finding a wife for Isaac. God's Solution is to enable an old servant to pick her out and haul her back.
Reviewing sermons on Genesis 24, it appears that most preachers see the chapter as a kind of marriage manual – in particular, how to find a good wife or what a good wife should be like. What else to do with the longest chapter in Genesis that seems to serve little purpose other telling a good story of ''How I Married Your Mother''? Let's see what we can find.
Text
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
He should be 140 years old. The point being made is that a transition is taking place in this chapter, from the story of Abraham to the story of Isaac. At the beginning of the chapter, Isaac is referred to but does not actually enter into the story. He comes in at the end of the chapter, where Abraham is not even mentioned.
Of particular significance is how Isaac is referred to. At the beginning and throughout the story, the servant refers to Abraham as ''my master,'' and to Isaac as son of ''my mast ...
Series: Genesis
D. Marion Clark
Genesis 24:1-14
Introduction
It is always interesting to hear how married couples met one another. There are childhood sweethearts, blind dates, falling for a friend's date, co-workers, in a bar, even in a church. A growing trend is internet matching services. We had neighbors in Philadelphia who had connected through a classified ad. Few are as peculiar as the story of Isaac and Rebekah.
Sarah has died. Forty-year-old Isaac is still living at home with Dad. It evidently has not occurred to either man that Isaac should be finding a wife. (Makes it like a modern story, doesn't it!) When the idea does occur to Abraham, instead of sending his son, he sends his servant to do the job. Remember the promotion of the sermon series – Genesis: The People…Their Problems…God's Solutions. The People are Abraham and Isaac. Their Problem is finding a wife for Isaac. God's Solution is to enable an old servant to pick her out and haul her back.
Reviewing sermons on Genesis 24, it appears that most preachers see the chapter as a kind of marriage manual – in particular, how to find a good wife or what a good wife should be like. What else to do with the longest chapter in Genesis that seems to serve little purpose other telling a good story of ''How I Married Your Mother''? Let's see what we can find.
Text
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
He should be 140 years old. The point being made is that a transition is taking place in this chapter, from the story of Abraham to the story of Isaac. At the beginning of the chapter, Isaac is referred to but does not actually enter into the story. He comes in at the end of the chapter, where Abraham is not even mentioned.
Of particular significance is how Isaac is referred to. At the beginning and throughout the story, the servant refers to Abraham as ''my master,'' and to Isaac as son of ''my mast ...
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