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Edwin Elisha James is an Evangelist whose commitment to preach wherever the Lord leads him has fructified in bringing hundreds of souls to the Lord - a dream and a desire that he has harboured for the longest time!

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Examples of Younger Chosen

Isaac

Genesis 17:15-19 

15 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 

16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” 

18 And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”

19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Jacob

Genesis 25:30 

He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Malachi 1:2 

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob's brother?” the LORD says. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

Romans 9:9-13 

9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

10 Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 
11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand: 

12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 
13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Joseph

Genesis 37:5-11 

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 

6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 

7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” 

11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.



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