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Fresh Oil
Text: Psalms 92:10, “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”
Fresh Oil
Oil plays a significant part in the Scriptures and in the life of the believer.
The first time oil is mentioned in the Word of God it was used by Jacob to anoint the stone he’d used as a pillow (Genesis 28:10-22):
(10) And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. (11) And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. (12) And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. (13) And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; (14) And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (15) And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. (16) And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. (17) And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. (18) And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. (19) And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. (20) And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, (21) So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: (22) And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
There on that stone Jacob poured oil and dedicated it as a place of worship to God naming that spot Bethel – The House of God.
Later he came back to Bethel, built an altar and named it El-Bethel – the God of the House of God (Gen. 35:1-15).
The first time we see oil used on man it is the anointing oil poured on Aaron and his sons as they are dedicated and consecrated unto God as priests (Exodus29).
Throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, you will find the constant presence and use of oil.
- Consecration and Sanctification of Priests, Prophets and Kings, Tabernacle, Tools and Furniture (Exodus 30:22-25).
- Used Medicinally to Heal the Sick (both spiritual and physical restoration)
- James 5:14-15, “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: (15) And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”
- Acts 10:38, “…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
- There is a lingering presence when you have been anointed – God’s presence will stick and stay with you.
- Worship
- Mary anointed Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume (oil-based) as an act of worship (Matthew 26:7, Mark 14:3).
- Purification
- Leviticus 14:1-18 instituted cleansing rituals for those recovering from leprosy, symbolizing their legitimate return to society and acceptance into the general public.
- Joy
- Psalms 45:7, “Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
- Everyday Life
- Oil is used for cooking, cosmetics, skin care (Frankincense & Myrrh).
This fresh oil is a type of the Holy Spirit.
Just as oil pervaded, permeated, saturated, soaked and flooded every aspect of a person’s life in the Old Testament
The Fresh Oil of the Holy Ghost abides constantly in the life and spirit of the believer:
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
There are three types of oil that was produced from pressing of the olives:[1]
- First Pressing (Purest Oil) – Holy Use
- Used for anointing priests and kings, lighting the Temple menorah, and sacred meal offerings.
- Christ the Anointed One – Messiah
- Second Pressing (Medicinal/Food Oil) – Physical Use
- For healing wounds, cooking, and general household use.
- Christ the Healer and Provider
- Third Pressing (Crude Oil) – Cleaning and Fuel
- For soap (cleansing) and lamp fuel.
- Christ the atoning cleansing sacrifice and the Light of the World.
Gethsemane means “olive press,” and the three prayers of Jesus reflect these three pressings.
Just as the pressings extracted the oil in ever increasing intensity
Jesus was pressed to the point of sweating great drops of blood
The intense suffering of Jesus provides spiritual anointing, healing, and cleansing for believers.
1 John 2:20, “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.”
“Unction” is the same word for “anointing”
To be anointed you have that fresh oil rubbed in our poured on.
That’s what happened to David (1 Samuel 16:1, 13)
(1) And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons….(13) Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.”
Look what happened:
- God sent Samuel to Jesse’s house in Bethlehem to find the next king, telling him to fill his horn with oil.
- Samuel sees Jesse’s older sons, but God rejects them, explaining that He looks at the heart, not the outer appearance.
- David is brought from shepherd’s field
- God confirmed to Samuel that is was the chosen one – the one after His one heart.
- Samuel then takes the horn of fresh oil and anointed David in front of his family.
- At that moment, the Holy Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David and never left him.
Tonight, at the beginning of this New Year, we need to receive Fresh Oil – Fresh Anointing.
Fresh Oil will Eliminate Fear, Confusion and Frustration.
Fresh Oil will propel us into a future that will see us operate in faith and boldness as we reach our families, our friends and our homes with the oil of gladness.
To receive Fresh Oil for this coming year lift your hands and hearts to God and begin to thank Him for His Fresh Oil
Receive a renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 92:10, “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”
My horn = You can find joy tonight in foreseeing the mercy of the Lord. You will not perish, but God will lift you up over your difficulties.
Jesus is here tonight to anoint you with fresh oil that will enable you to be victorious, smooth the difficulties of life and prepare you for new levels of ministry and spiritual growth.
The overflowing effect of Fresh Oil will produce renewed purpose, focused vision, and divine wisdom.
God has sent Fresh Oil here tonight to refresh and renew you:
Acts 3:19 , “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;”
Fresh Oil releases Joy, Victory, Explosive Power and Divine Authority.
Fresh Oil will bring unity to this body:
Psalms 133:1-3, “(1) Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! (2) It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; (3) As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.”
- As the oil covered Aaron’s entire body, unity is a shared blessing that touches everyone.
- Unity is a divine gift, not just a human effort.
- The flowing oil signifies the blessing and life that God commands where unity exists, bringing a refreshing abundance, like the dew of Hermon.
- As Aaron was the High Priest, this anointing signifies that believers living in unity function as a unified priestly body, anointed and set apart for God’s purpose.
[1] Google AI Overview. Query: three oil pressings in the Bible. Accessed: 1/4/2026.
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A Thing Called “Hope”
Text: Matthew 9:20-22
(20) And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: (21) For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. (22) But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –
I’ve heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet – never – in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of me.[1]
Hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. A feeling of trust”[2]
Albert Barnes defines Hope as:
…a desire for an object, and an expectation of obtaining it.
If there is no desire for it; or if the object is not pleasant and agreeable, there is no hope, though there may be expectation – as in the expectation of the pestilence, of famine, or sickness, or death.
If there is no expectation of it, but a strong desire, there is no hope, as in cases where there is a strong desire of wealth, or fame, or pleasure; or where a man is condemned for murder, and has a strong desire but no prospect of pardon; or where a man is shipwrecked, and has a strong desire, but no expectation of again seeing his family and friends.
In such cases, despondency or despair are the results.
It is the union of the two feelings in proper proportions which constitutes hope.[3]
Hope is the place where desire and expectation unite:
A Thing Called Hope
She had been sick for 12 long years, but somehow she had not lost her hope. “She had gone to many doctors, and they had not done anything except cause her a lot of pain. She had paid them all the money she had. But instead of getting better, she only got worse.”[4]
She was ritually unclean and should not have even been out in the crowd, but there she was.
This was such a personal and private issue – an issue of blood – but fueled by desire and expectation – HOPE – and she quietly approached Jesus from behind.
She had no desire to make a scene. She simply had a hope kindled by an Old Testament messianic prophecy, and when she touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, she was expressing her faith in Him as the Christ:
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…”[5]
You have been holding onto your own quiet, personal, private issue of blood for some time now.
You may even think that nobody really cares about your situation. What you really want to do it quietly come to Jesus, just brush the hem of His garment because still resident inside you, despite how long, weary, disappointed and tired you have become in this struggle – you still have HOPE (desire and expectancy).
Don’t give up! The miracle is just a brush away.
The moment she touched the border of his garment, immediately her issue of blood stopped.
Jesus said, Who touched me? …Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
And when the woman saw that she was not hid [she had tried to be as inconspicuous as possible], she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.[6]
A Thing Called Hope
Is something you cannot afford to let go.
It is in the waiting where Hope is tested. The sometimes-insurmountable fear that this delay is just foreshadowing the disappointment to follow, but I hear Lord say…
Habakkuk 2:2-3, “(2) And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. (3) For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
There is a future Hope beyond this world, but there is a present Hope as well: Romans 8:24-28:
(24) For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
(25) But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(26) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (27) And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
(28) And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
A Thing Called Hope will hold you together when nothing else will:
- Psalm 38:15, “For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.”
- Psalm 42:5, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.”
- His face is turned towards you with favor and salvations.
- Psalm 42:11, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” (See: Psalm 43:5)
- If you hold onto hope, one day your face will display the joy within because you hoped in God.
- Job 14:7, 14, “(7) For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again…(14) If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.”
[1] Emily Dickinson. (1861). “Hope” is the thing with feathers.
[2] Oxford Languages.
[3] Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible. 2 Corinthians 3:12.
[4] Mark 5:26, CEV
[5] Malachi 4:2
[6] Luke 8:43-48
(Preached on 11/16/2025 to the saints of Tornado Apostolic Church, Pastor Wilson Hudson)
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Rejected, But Accepted
Text: John 1:10-13, “(10) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. (11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Jesus always looks for those whom the world sees as rejects.
He knows what rejection feels like and He knows how it feels to be seen by others as a reject.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.[1]
“…touched with the feeling of our infirmities…” – Jesus understands all your weaknesses, all your hurts, for he faced all the stuff you have faced, everything, especially rejection.
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
It was prophesied that he would be rejected:
(3) He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.[2]
Rejected, but Accepted
Because Jesus can sympathize with the rejects, the untouchables, the marginalized
He is drawn to people who recognize their need for Him – no matter how aware they are of Him.
There is a magnetic pull…a vacuum if you will…that Jesus is compelled to fill.
Jesus specializes in reaching for people many would not cross the street to talk with.
Men and women that society has deemed somehow unacceptable.
They have been called godless, useless, prodigals, wastrels, discards…trash.
Certainly, there were people when Jesus walked this earth in shoe leather and there are people now considered by the majority to be “rejects.”
Remember the moments when Jesus took time to come to the rejected:
- Zacchaeus – “Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.”[3]
- Other Jews did not like Zacchaeus, a Jew, because he chose to work for the Romans, and as a publican he was treated as a traitor to his people.
- When the people saw that Jesus was going into Zacchaeus’s home, “they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner” (Luke 19:7).
- Zacchaeus had risen to the top of the ranks of swindling tax collectors, he abused his authority by getting rich off the hard-earned money of others, and they rejected him.
- The people rejected him, but Jesus accepted him.
- Mary Magdalene – tormented by seven evil spirits, she was rejected by the people of her coastal hometown on the Sea of Galilee, but Jesus accepted her.[4]
- The Cleansing of the Ten Lepers – unclean and standing far away from Jesus and His followers, but “they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” [5]
- They were rejected by people and the Law of Moses, but Jesus accepted them.
- The man of Gadara – He was so full of unclean spirits that they called themselves “Legion” (possibly 2,000)
- The people there rejected him, but Jesus accepted him
- Thief on the Cross – ultimate form of rejection is when society demands your death – capital punishment.
- The legal system rejected this thief, but Jesus accepted him.
- Woman of Samaria – came to the well in the heat of the day. Rejected by the women of the city and perhaps the shame of her past caused her to reject herself, but Jesus accepted her.
Like so many truths found in Scripture, often the one most in need of spiritual rejuvenation, Holy Ghost regeneration, and Bible salvation is unaware of just how far they’ve fallen from grace.
Worthless, without value, insignificant – these are words sometimes used to “put people in their place,” by people who have forgotten the place where Jesus found them.
The sinner who has never come to Jesus before KNOWS she is lost, but the religious soul who has trusted in man’s tradition, in the trappings of religiosity, in the intellect of their own mind, and not in the power of the Holy Spirt – he has no idea just how lost he really is.
The fall of the haughty, arrogant and prideful is rarely overnight, but little-by-little.
Luke 18:9-14 highlights this truth:
(9) And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: (10) Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. (11) The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. (12) I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. (13) And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. (14) I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Paul wrote to the Church at Ephesus reminding them, and us today, that we are blessed “…with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”
He goes on to tell us, the Rejected, But Accepted: “…We have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, (14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.[6]
A permanent change is coming to us.
We who were once rejected are about to be eternally accepted:
(50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
- The saying that is written (Isaiah 25:8), “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.”
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- We who were one time rejects are accepted in the beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
(58) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- So, don’t stop serving Jesus, keep reaching for fellow rejects, and loving each other the way Jesus showed us to love one another.
Do you feel broken, marginalized, rejected?
Have you ever felt that way?
Your acceptance is as simple as believing and obeying the very words of Jesus:
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).
[1] Hebrews 4:15
[2] Isaiah 53:3-5
[3] Luke 19:5
[4] Luke 8:2
[5] Luke 17:11-19
[6] (10/26/2025, Sanctuary of Praise, Culloden, WV, Pastor David Gentry)
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Drinking from His Cup
“James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, will you do us a favor?” Jesus asked them what they wanted, and they answered, “When you come into your glory, please let one of us sit at your right side and the other at your left.” Jesus told them, “You don’t really know what you’re asking! Are you able to drink from the cup that I must soon drink from or be baptized as I must be baptized?” “Yes, we are!” James and John answered. Then Jesus replied, “You certainly will drink from the cup from which I must drink. And you will be baptized just as I must!” -Mark 10:35-39, CEV
Another nugget from Harold Hoffman…
Harold Hoffman teaching on the explosive nature of the Word of God when mixed with faith.
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Trust in God’s Will
Text: Genesis 12:1-3, “(1) Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: (2) And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: (3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
Trust In God’s Will[1]
“All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28).
Genesis 11:4, “Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
“Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee” (Genesis 12:1).
“So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him” (Genesis 12:4).
We can be eternally grateful God does not give us what we deserve. Truthfully, we deserve judgment; He gives us mercy. We deserve death; He gives us life. Like a judge allowing a guilty person to go free, the mercy of God allows us to escape the death penalty of sin.
But since God is holy, He cannot just ignore sin; someone has to pay the penalty and suffer the sentence we deserve. The gospel—the beautiful covenant God’s Word keeps pointing toward—teaches us that God Himself took our sins and our sorrows on Himself. He paid our penalty; He suffered our sentence. The covenant blessings of God go beyond a spiritual pardon. Not only do we not get what we deserve because of His mercy, but we get what we do not deserve because of His grace. Jesus announced: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2–3).
Abraham Believed and Obeyed
Believe and obey are action words. Like Noah, Abraham put feet on his faith. When God told Abraham to go, Abraham went. As Abraham walked with God, God continued to reiterate and refine His covenant. Not surprisingly, Abraham battled fear and doubt throughout this long journey. He even sired a son named Ishmael when God did not answer as quickly as Abraham had hoped. During one moment of doubt, God instructed Abraham to look up toward heaven and count the stars. This was enough reassurance for Abraham. “He believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:5–6).
The sign of the covenant for Noah was a rainbow in the sky; for Abraham and his descendants, it was circumcision. God commanded: “And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you” (Genesis 17:11). Then, God unfolded another prophetic page in His great master plan: “But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year” (Genesis 17:21).
The New Testament opens with these words: “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1). When Abraham looked up at the night sky to count the stars, little did he know that one of his descendants would be Jesus Christ, God manifested in flesh, the “bright and morning star” (Revelation 22:16).
“My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:8).
“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead” (Hebrews 11:17–19).
“Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, and in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities” (Acts 3:25–26).
“And again, I will put my trust in him” (Hebrews 2:13).
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3:5–6).
[1] SOURCE: God’s Word for Life. Covenant. Fall 2025 Lesson Guide. Lesson 4 – Abraham and Isaac. Pentecostal Publishing House.
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