My Devotions

It is not because they sold out Joseph that he became a king. He can become a king even if his brothers do not sell him. What happened here is that their wickedness cannot be justified. Here they did evil. And it is evil ever. Only God turned it to his plans. Jesus was crucified. It is not because Judas betrayed him. Jesus will be crucified even if Judas do not betray him. Evil cannot be justified because a good thing comes out of it. If good comes out of it, its because God, seeing the evil, came to rescue and turned things to his intentions. 

God will never bless a deceiver. He gave him a strike on the hip. After the punishment he blessed him. Whenever there is an uncleanness we will have a fight with the Lord. 

Here it was not said that God tested Abraham's faith. But it was said later that God told him that He came to know that Abraham fears God. Abraham's faith issue was already settled in chapter 15. Now it is 22nd chapter. There are many believers. Out of 100 people that have faith, only few of them have fear of God. Saul has faith, otherwise he would have not sent David to fight Goliath. If David fails Saul got become slave. Saul believed and sent David. But Saul has no fear of God. 

Before Abraham built a house, Lot already built one. He closes the door behind him. He is very powerful father and the daughters are obedient girls because in such terrible city he could have daughters that are still virgins. 

Abraham was reckoned righteous because of his faith and it is even before his circumcision. Circumcision is not the righteousness but it is a seal of the righteousness he got by faith. 

This is the second call that God gave to Abraham. The first call he gave was while Abraham was in Mesopotamia. The first call was mentioned by Stephen in Acts 7th chapter. The call we see here in this 12th chapter of Genesis while Abraham was in Haran. In the first call time, Abraham's father was not dead. In the second call his dad was dead, God told him to leave his father's house. While his dad was living God did not tell him to leave his father's house or his father. Never leave your parents. 

Adam failed to overcome the temptation of :  For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life c —is not from the Father but is from the world. When he got the temptation he was in abundance.  When the second Adam Jesus got this same temptation he was in hunger. 

Adam was given two jobs. One is a permanent job that is taking care of the garden and another is a temporary job that is naming the animals.

John the Baptist was the Elijah (Matt. 11:14, 17:10-13) yet he said "i am not" (Jn. 1:21). He doesn't know that he was Elijah. Later he was also puzzled about Christ. Luke 7:9. Now if John the Baptist doesn't know about himself, then how can he know who was Jesus? They asked him "are you the Christ?" He said "no". Then  they also asked,  "are you that prophet?" (referring to the prophet that Moses spoke about.  Deut.  18:15-18) He said "no".  For them both Christ and "that prophet" are two different persons. Their ignorance made them kill Jesus. They asked about it a person who doesn't know about himself yet. Before the baptism of Christ John the Baptist knew Jesus very well but as a relative. (Luke 1:36). He knows the character of Christ that is why when he saw him he said, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” (Matt. 3:14). After the baptism when the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus, then he rea...

Whatever I am writing down here are not correct. They are my thoughts, doubts etc. Gen. 1:1   In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. It seems it is the first creation. I said it seems. I thougt it is first creation because, the earth here was said that it was created. But later we see that it has gone under the water and brought back. May be there was a flood after the first creation. Genesis Chapter 2 seems to be an another creation. There may be an another flood between Genesis 2:3 and 2:4.