Week:	1/8/2017	-	1/15/2017
Reading:	Genesis 25	-	Genesis 48

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1/8/2017 Genesis 25 Genesis 27 View Discussion

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1/8/2017 8:00:11 AM

Jacob favored Esau and Rebecca favored Jacob which is not good..mother and son conspired against husband..father..so was the punishment that Jacob leave his home?Esau sold his birthright..is that why Jacob was favored by God and not Esau?
Another good questions.  I think that it's good to remember that just like David said that God knew him in his mother's womb, God knew Esau's heart as well, and he knew all of the trouble that Esau's disobedience of his parents in marrying outside of his own people would cause not just then, but even today!  However, even with that said I don't believe that the statement God hated Esau meant he was condemned before he was born.  Esau's eternal destination is not spelled out in the Bible, but whatever it is, he is there by his own free will.

	1/12/2017 10:08:04 AM
`I am learning moment by moment, day by day. I recommend http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0239.php for some insight into this passage about Jacob and Esau. May GOD have all the glory.`

1/16/2017 9:03:50 AM

Why is it back then they lived to be very old? Also who were childless use their slave servants to bare the children? Wouldn't that be call adutries? Just had always wondered that.

The life expectancies were longer back then I believe, because they lived a simple life, with lots of exercise and simpler food and they had a healther environment.  As for using their maids to have babies, I am not saying this was right, but in that society if your slave had a baby it belonged to you, so if a woman was unable to have a baby she could have one through a slave.

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1/9/2017 Genesis 28 Genesis 30 View Discussion

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1/10/2017 Genesis 31 Genesis 32 View Discussion

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1/11/2017 Genesis 33 Genesis 36 View Discussion

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1/12/2017 Genesis 37 Genesis 39 View Discussion

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1/13/2017 Genesis 40 Genesis 42 View Discussion

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1/14/2017 Genesis 43 Genesis 45 View Discussion

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Morning Readers: 1/15/2017 Genesis 46 Genesis 48 View Discussion

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Questions:
	`Have you ever heard someone ask the question; "How were people saved back in the Old Testament?" Well they were saved just like we are not by our works or our righteousness but by faith.`
	`As you are reading this week make note of the major characters in the Bible, people like Issac, Jacob, Rachel, Rebecca, Joseph and his brothers and see how they were sinners just like us. And yet, also take a look at how they not only professed faith in God, but acted out their faith.`
	`Ephesians 2: 8 and 9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not of your own doing; it is the gift of God not a result of works so that no one may boast." True in the New Testament, true in the Old.`

Questions:

Have you ever heard someone ask the question; "How were people saved back in the Old Testament?"  Well they were saved just like we are not by our works or our righteousness but by faith.

As you are reading this week make note of the major characters in the Bible, people like Issac, Jacob, Rachel, Rebecca, Joseph and his brothers and see how they were sinners just like us.  And yet, also take a look at how they not only professed faith in God, but acted out their faith.

Ephesians 2: 8 and 9

"For by grace you have been saved through faith.  And this is not of your own doing; it is the gift of God not a result of works so that no one may boast."

True in the New Testament, true in the Old.