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Abram, lectures on Genesis 12-25, by W.K.
Abram lectures on Genesis 1225 by WK Author:William Kelly Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ciple is. But the Lord begins, as you can easily understand, first of all with an individual; and there was great wisdom and much force in this. Long centuries a... more »fter it was the resource of the prophet Isaiah, impressed on his heart by God when Israel was passing into a desperately low condition, and with the prophecy of still greater ruin at hand. How does he seek to comfort the people ? With the fact that God called Abraham alone. He falls back upon what was the salient principle of God's dealing at this very time. It was as good as saying " Be things as they may, count on the Lord. Impossible to be lower than that with which Israel began ; for when God called and blessed at first, it was Abraham alone." To what end was this ? Not only that he himself should be blessed, but textit{to be a blessing: and this not only to his own seed, but to others far and wide. "In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." In the earth and with men, as they are, such is the sole possible way of blessing. In the line of His call God brings out His promises, and there it is that His blessing is found and maintained. Man may, no doubt (not to say that he must, when put on the ground of law), end in more manifest ruin than ever; but the principle of His call is not only sound but invariably true. If there is to be blessing at all in a world that is ruined, it must be on the ground of one who comes out obedient to the call of God, not staying where he is, nor attempting to reform the evil in the midst of which he may be. God made it particularly manifest at this time; for it was now for the first that the world had seen nations and families and tongues, all arranged inthe elements of that which is in our day approaching its finally developed form. The world was no more as it had heen ...« less