Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes with Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Today’s program is called, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Lord spoke to me one day, and He said, Remember Abraham, remember Isaac, remember Jacob. Why did He say that to me? What was it about these three men? What did they have in common, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? All three of them worshipped God: everywhere they went they built altars and offered sacrifices and worshipped Him. God appeared to all three of them and blessed them. Remember Abraham, remember Isaac, remember Jacob.

Gen 12:1, Now the Lord had said to Abram: Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the Earth shall be blessed. Verse 7, Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, To your descendants I will give this land. And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. Chapter 13, verse 3, And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord. Verse 18, Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord. 

Gen 26:23, talking about Isaac, Then he went up from there to Beersheba. And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham's sake. So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well. 

In Genesis 28, we read about Jacob and the dream that he had on his way to Haran to stay with his mother’s brother Laban. Verse 10, Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the Earth, and its top reached to Heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the Earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the Earth shall be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven! Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had been Luz previously. 

Many years later, when Jacob was 130 years old, he went down into Egypt to be with his son Joseph, and he stopped in Beersheba, with all his family and their little ones, and their cattle and their goods and worshipped God. Gen 46:1, So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here I am. So He said, I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.

God told Moses, in Exodus 3:6, …I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s Seed is Jesus. God said to each one of them, In your Seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed. Gal 3:16, Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to your Seed, who is Christ. 

Let’s turn to John 4:5, talking about Jesus,  So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me a drink. For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman, for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans? Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. I want to skip down to verse 19, The woman said to Him, Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and truth; the Word of God with the Holy Spirit: Spirit and truth. Have you ever been in His presence? That is where the blessing of God is: when we worship Him in Spirit and in truth, and He responds to our praises and blesses us. It must be in the Holy Spirit and in the truth. Our worship must be in the Holy Spirit and in the truth. His Word is truth. If we are embracing false doctrines and lies, it will be in vain. Mat 15:7, Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.  

Where is your heart? Is it like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s hearts, or is it full of the world and the things of this world? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob obeyed God’s Word; they believed Him and followed Him. God told Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that in their Seed all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed; the greatest blessing: that He would bring forth the Messiah, Jesus Christ, out of their loins. Rom 2:28, For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. 

We are blessed in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s Seed. All the nations are blessed in Jesus, because of them. Shall we then hate them and seek to destroy them? It is the people of the Beast, the Anti-Christ, who hate them and seek to destroy them. The people who are truly of the Lamb love the Jewish people. Jesus is a Jew, the Seed of Abraham, and He came to the Jews first and also to the Gentiles. The Gentiles who believe in Him are children of Abraham through faith. Gal 3:29,  And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Those that are truly of God; of the Lamb, worship Him in Spirit and in truth; they keep His Words; they love Him and serve Him, and they love not their lives unto death. 

Gen 22:1, Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am. Then He said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. Verse 11, But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham! So he said, Here I am.   And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Verse 15, Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of Heaven, and said: By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your Seed all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice. 

It was through the people who truly loved God and obeyed Him from their heart, like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Moses and Joshua and Samuel and Ruth and Boaz and David and Josiah and Mary, that God brought forth His Son to bless all those who would believe in Him and love Him and keep His Words, to save them through the sacrifice of Himself. In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. That whoever lives and believes in Him should not perish, but inherit eternal life in Him. And He shall be King over all the Earth, and all His enemies shall be put under His feet.

Psalm 95:6, Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen (2 Cor 13:14)