8 Feb 2015

Genesis

Homework 22

Day 1: Review of GENESIS 25:19-34 ISAACS TWINS & THE BIRTHRIGHT

God provides a spiritual inheritance that believers must treasure.

1. What did you find interesting, challenging, or encouraging in the lecture? How were you able to apply it to your life? ________________________________________________________________________________

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2. What part of the lecture helped changed your thinking about God? ______________________________________

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Days 2-6: ISAACS PATRIARCHAL BLESSING AND JACOBS BEGINNING WITH GOD

Day 2: Read Genesis 27:1-25.

3. In what way did Isaac's plan for Esau confirm or defy God's plan for Esau? (see Gen 25; 26:34; 27)

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4. a. What were some deceptions in Isaac's family? ___________________________________________________

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b. What can you do to be loving and honest with your family members? _________________________________

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5. a. How did Rebekah show she was on God's side while Isaac really worked against God? ____________________

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b. What was wrong with the methods Rebekah used? ________________________________________________

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c. Name some wrong methods that Christians use today and their "good reasons" for using them. _____________

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Day 3: Read Genesis 27:26-41.

6. a. Give the basic points of the blessing regarding land, nations, and family. _______________________________

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b. What part of God's blessing to Abraham was also part of Isaac's blessing to Jacob? _______________________

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7. a. What is the difference between regret and repentance? _____________________________________________

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b. Which describes Isaac and which desribes Esau? Give verses and phrases to support your answer. ___________

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8. a. From all the recorded words and actions of Esau in Gen 25-27, why would it have been detrimental for Esau to receive the blessing? __________________________________________________________________________

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8 Feb 2015 b. Give illustrations of how people today show by their words and actions that they cannot benefit from God's blessings ___________________________________________________________________________________

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c. What seems good about Esau until you look at the main direction of his life? _______________________

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d. How would God and others describe the main direction of your life? ______________________________

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9. (Challenge) How has Isaac's prophecy about Esau (or Edom) been fulfilled? (see Num 20:18-21; 2 Sam 8:14; 2 Kings 8:20-22, 14:7; 2 Chron 28:17; Obad 10-15. Herod the Great, called "the Idumean,'' was also a descendant of Esau in the time of Jesus - Matt 2) _______________________________________________________________

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Day 4: Read Genesis 27:42-28:9 with Hebrews 12:6-14.

10. Skim Genesis 29-35. How did God discipline both Jacob and Rebekah? _________________________________

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11. In Gen 28, Isaac transferred the Abrahamic blessing to Jacob. Give points in this blessing that show Isaac's faith in God. _______________________________________________________________________________________

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Day 5: Read Genesis 28:10-22.

12. a. In what way did Jacob's dream reveal to Jacob that the path between God and himself was open? ___________

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b. In John 1:51, how does Christ use this dream to teach Nathanael that He is the only way to God? (see also John 14:6 and Heb 10:19-20) __________________________________________________________________

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13. Give God's promise to Jacob regarding:

a. His land __________________________________________________________________________________

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b. His descendants ____________________________________________________________________________

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c. Blessing __________________________________________________________________________________

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d. God's presence with him _____________________________________________________________________

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14. a. In what ways did Jacob respond to God's revelation and God's word? __________________________________

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b. How are these also a part of our response when we receive the revelation of Christ's salvation as a personal promise to us? _______________________________________________________________________________

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Day 6: Read Genesis 27-28.

15. What can your group pray for you in light of what you have learned this week? _________________________

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