The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Message One
Knowing and Experiencing the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob to Become the Israel of God
THE EXTRACT OF THE OUTLINES
Scripture reading:
Gen. 28:13 And there was Jehovah, standing above it; and He said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your seed.
I. Our God is the God of three particular persons—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; this implies that He is The Triune God—Exo. 3:15, Matt. 28:19, 2 Cor. 13:14:(Monday)
A. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the foundation of the nation of Israel; without them, there would be no nation of Israel—Exo. 3:15-16.
———————————————————————
B. In the book of Genesis, the records of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob overlap; Genesis portrays them not as three separate individuals but as the constituents of one corporate man—Gen. 27:41, 28:1—35:12.(Tuesday)
———————————————————————
II. We need to know and experience the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob:(Wednesday)
A. Abraham believed God as the unique source, the One who “calls the things not being as being”—Rom. 4:17.
B. Isaac is the best prefigure of the Son; in him we see that everything comes from the Father, and the principle of Isaac is the principle of receiving—Gen. 24:36, 25:5, 1 Cor. 4:7.
———————————————————————
C. Jacob speaks to us of the Holy Spirit; his experience represents the work of the Holy Spirit, and his history typifies the discipline of the Holy Spirit, so that Christ may be constituted into us and formed in us, causing The Triune God to have a corporate expression—Gen. 31:38-41, Gal. 4:19, Eph. 3:16-21.(Thursday)
———————————————————————
D. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is Jehovah, Elohim—the self-existing and ever-existing Triune God, the eternal, great I Am—Exo. 3:6, 14, Rev. 1:4.(Friday)
E. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is the God of resurrection—Exo. 3:6, 15, Matt. 22:23-33, Acts 3:13.
F. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is the God of the tabernacle; while they dwelt in tents, they eagerly waited for the eternal tabernacle of God, which is the city of New Jerusalem—Exo. 40:34-35, Rev. 21:2-3.
———————————————————————
III. Experiencing the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob issues in the Israel of God, which is the church in The Triune God—Gen. 35:10, 33:20, Gal. 6:16, 1 Thes. 1:1, Matt. 28:19:(Saturday)
A. The Israel of God is the genuine Israel, including all the gentile and Jewish believers in Christ, who are the true sons of Abraham, the household of the faith, and those in the new creation; the genuine Israel, the spiritual Israel, is the church—Gal. 3:7, 29, 6:10, 15-16, Matt. 16:18.
B. The Israel of God is the church in The Triune God; the church is in the processed Triune God, and this vision will govern our thinking, our activities, and our entire living—1 Thes. 1:1, Matt. 28:19, Prov. 29:18a, Acts 26:19.
