Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Our church is currently meeting in person with restrictions on Thursdays from 6:30–7:30pm at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally.
In this service, Pastor Luke Humphrey is preaching on Genesis 25-26, God’s Freedom and God’s Faithfulness. We’d love to connect with you if you have any questions. Email us at info@redeemeralain.com or fill out a connect form by clicking the link below.
February 18 Online Service
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WORSHIP THROUGH SINGING
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Hallelujah for the Cross — Newsboys
Come Thou Fount — Sovereign Grace Music
BIBLE READING
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25:19 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21 And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you shall be divided;
the one shall be stronger than the other,
the older shall serve the younger.”
24 When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. 26 Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
26:1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Genesis 25:19-26; 26:1-5
SERMON
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God’s Freedom and God’s Faithfulness
Luke Humphrey
Study Questions
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Read 25:21-22. Why was the issue of barrenness so significant?
What does God’s choice of Jacob over Esau in 25:23 teach us? How should we think about it?
Why is it so significant that Esau despised his birth right (25:34)?
Where do we see the elements of the Abrahamic renewed in chapter 26?
What are ways that God’s freedom and God’s faithfulness encourage our faith?
Song Credits
Hallelujah for the Cross
℗ 2014 First Company Management
Come Thou Fount
℗ 2008 Sovereign Grace Music