Words which God spoke to Abraham

 

Adam was created by God from the dust of the ground. 

Genesis 1

First God created everything the man and woman would need :  The heaven and earth, plants, animals, fish and fowl, trees for fruit.  

Then God created man.  

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created HE them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

31 And God saw every thing that HE had made, and, behold, it was very good.  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

21-22  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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After Adam, multitudes of people were born as sons and daughters of men of the earth.

Enoch was a friend of God and did not see death for God removed Enoch from the earth.  

Hebrews 11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Noah found grace in the sight of God and God kept Noah from being destroyed in the flood.  Genesis 6

God called Abraham and removed him from his father's house and from his people.  Genesis 12

God spoke to Abraham several times promising Abraham a seed that would be great nations and even more than the sand of the land if it were possible to count the sand, and as the number of stars in the heavens.

Here are some of those promises and words which God presented to Abraham in written form.

The focal point is on "that which God spoke" ... that is what is important!

To each of us the focal point is "That which God spoke."

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Genesis 12

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.

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Genesis 13

14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

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Genesis 15

1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And HE brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

7  And HE (God) said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

13 And HE (God) said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Genesis 17

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, 

I am the Almighty God; walk before ME, and be thou perfect.

2 And I will make MY covenant between ME and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

4 As for ME, behold, MY covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish MY covenant between ME and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep MY covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10 This is MY covenant, which ye shall keep, between ME and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish MY covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But MY covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

(Abraham was 99 when he was circumcised and Ishmael was 13.

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I think it is so interesting to see the Words God gave to Abraham and to see the promises of God and how all that God spoke to Abraham was fulfilled and how Abraham obeyed God in all things spoken by God to him.

God speaks to us today by HIS Spirit and by dreams and even by angels.

Write out those things you can remember God saying to you although there are so many things the Holy Spirit says, yet some words will really stand out to you even years after God spoke them to you.

Every one of the words spoken to us by God will happen.

Also as we share those words God spoke to us and those things God did for us we show God working in our lives and other people are also blessed by our testimony.

Philemon v. 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

When we tell what God has said and has done in our lives, our faith becomes "effectual" and others see God through our testimony.

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Written transcript of Podcast: "Railing" / I Cor. 5:11

Barbara, 

I did not recognize you as being a railer until the last incident. And that was yesterday that I recognized that you are a railer. 

I Corinthians 5:11 ... Paul tells us what we have to do.

 

I was lying down yesterday afternoon. I didn’t feel all that well. And something happened. 

 

I didn’t want to go to any of the activities that we have planned for the church meeting. I didn’t want to go to the Broadmoor for dinner. I didn’t want to go on the train ride. I didn’t want to go on the mountain drive. I didn’t want to go on the picnics. I thought “Well maybe I can just stay home and go to bed.” 

 

I didn’t know why I didn’t want to go. I just didn’t want to go. 

 

Later I was reading the blog and was especially interested in the chapter in the “Reading Through the Bible” series. It was I Corinthians 5, which I know very well, having had to use that, and do what it says, with Don Gelino, our Bible teacher whom I love very much. He was a fornicator. He admitted to me he was going to bars, picking up women, and having sexual intercourse with them. 

 

Paul said when a man who is a brother does that, put him away from you. Don’t keep company with him. Don said “That’s right. That’s what you have to do.” 

 

I did not see until yesterday that what you were doing to me was “railing”.  Railing is speaking in a crude, mean way about another person. You’ve done this several times. I have heard it for many years and have recognized there’s a sweet water and a bitter water in you. And the apostle James said “This ought not to be.”  And I know it shouldn’t be. And I’ve warned you for really a great many years about this. 

 

I didn’t recognize it was railing, but I knew you had sweet water, bitter water. 

 

Sometimes you speak so well. And sometimes you’re so mean. 

 

I heard a very strong bitterness coming forth from you about Joseph Biden, and I warned you. 

 

I saw something else recently, and that was that you are not taking every thought captive to bring it to the obedience of Christ. And if we fail to do that, we get eaten up by devils. 

 

You mentioned to me, several times, the subject of money. And since Edward has quit working, you have mentioned that many times throughout the years. That may be normal to do that. But I just wonder, “Has God gotten to the point that He is not going to take care of us just because we are not working and bringing in a salary? What happened to God?” 

 

And I could see that it had changed with you. You used to be so generous to your workers and even to me. But things changed where you were now living in a type of worldly fear. 

 

I warned you about it. You finally said you could see that what I was saying was true, that you had a niggling type fear of money. 

 

And I told you to take those thoughts that came to you about money to God each time you had those thoughts. I was basically speaking the doctrine of “Taking thoughts captive to bring them into the obedience of Christ.” 

 

This is probably the first doctrine God ever taught me as a new Christian, because I was having trouble by not dealing with destructive thoughts in a proper way. 

 

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Several years ago I had seen some show on television where they were using a cattle prod to move the cattle. And I thought “That’s what Barbara needs. She needs an electric jolt so that she will go forward” because I could see that you had talents that God had given you that were being held back. 

 

I told you that message. You took it into your heart as a resentment against me, and later accused me wrongfully. And you said something so crude I will not repeat it. But you said “Do you have any recollection about saying I needed to have a cattle prod run up me to get me to move forward?” 

 

The way you said it, Barbara, was so mean and crude. I’ve never used words like that in my life. And I knew I didn’t say that. But I did say you need an electric jolt like a cattle prod. But, the way you described it was crude, mean, little. I was horrified at the thought. I would not say that. And never in my life had I used the word A-S-S in connection with a person, so I knew I didn't say what you said. 

 

But you took it the wrong way. 

 

That bitterness is in you, because you take it in you. And then you rail out without really thinking through the situation. 

 

As Christians we have to learn not to do that. We can’t live like the world lives with our speaking. 

 

James 1 says that if we do not bridle our tongue, our religion is vain. 

 

The recent attack against me is an attack against the offices of apostle, prophet, and the whole ministry. For in the work of a prophet, a prophet is duty-bound to God to deliver messages of correction. 

 

In Ezekial 3, if we fail to deliver messages of correction, and that person dies in his wickedness, his blood is upon our hands. 

 

I know that’s Old Testament. But I asked God “Is there any place else in the Bible, the New Testament Bible, where it says their blood is on our hands if we fail to deliver a message of correction?” 

 

He reminded me of Paul speaking to the elders of Ephesus. In Acts 20, Paul called for the elders at Ephesus to meet with him. And he told them he knew they would never see his face again, and that he had kept back nothing that was profitable to them. But Paul said, “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” 

 

And then in verse 29, Paul says “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves”... the elders... “shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after themselves”, setting up strange doctrines. 

 

So, I could see that it is valid for us who belong to God, and are called as apostles and prophets, to deliver messages of correction when we see a problem. 

 

It wasn’t until yesterday that I recognized you are a railer, having an uncontrolled tongue, lashing out. If you are offended, you lash out at the person. 

 

That is an extremely serious offense. Because if you are a railer, you are categorized by God in the same category as a fornicator. I Corinthians 5. I had not seen this until yesterday. 

 

I Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 

 

And he says  Put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 

 

For it is wickedness. It’s reverting back to the way of the world, rather than controlling yourself by the Word of God, and keeping your tongue under control until the matter is resolved by God. 

 

James 1 ... If any man have an unbridled tongue, his religion is said to be vain by the apostle James.

 

Your tongue is unbridled. You get offended, and then you rail out at the person who offended you. Or you get offended at a person you don’t even know, like Biden, and you rail out against him to other people. That is not a Christian way. We cannot do that. 

 

When I saw that yesterday, I was pretty shocked because I had not seen you, until yesterday, as a railer, though you’ve done it to me many times. 

 

I called Pam into the room, because this was the chapter printed in “Reading Through the Bible.” And I just took my Bible and handed her I Corinthians 5:11 on my Kindle. And I said to her “What about this?” 

 

She said “I saw it. I saw it this morning when I read that. Barbara is a railer.” 

 

And I said, “What are we going to do about it?” 

 

We cannot allow a person like this to sit in the church, because they are uncontrolled, they will rail out, and we can’t allow them to destroy the whole church. 

 

With this meeting coming up, I knew then, at that point, that’s the reason I didn’t want to go to any of the activities that I personally had planned for the people who came to the meetings. I didn’t want to be there. And I didn’t want to eat with you. I did not want to keep company with you, though it does grieve me. 

 

You have been, to me, like a daughter. Several times I’ve said, “I want the best for you.” And you’ve said, “I really know that” 

 

Well, you’re not going to have the best until this is corrected. Until it’s strong enough that you take note of it. 

 

You don’t have a proper love of the church, and I know that. 

 

I told you when I was in the hospital, a man came to our floor and played and sang gospel music. I got the nurse to roll me out there, and I just sat there and wept over the magnificence of the church and the glory of being in the church. 

 

I know you don’t have the right attitude about the church. 

 

When I bring correction to you, godly correction, and you rail out at me, you are basically fighting the offices of apostle and prophet. And the last time you did this, when I warned you about prayer, you completely misjudged the message, rushed into attacking me. 

 

I told God at that time “I don’t want to carry any more messages to Barbara. I will, but I don’t want to. So, I’m asking you to give those messages to someone else. She attacks me.” 

 

This last time it was like it was over. 

 

And when I wrote to you and explained that I had never, ever, thought or said you didn’t pray, and yet you accused me wrongly of thinking that, because the bitterness is in you. It’s in your soul, in your heart, against me. I’ve never thought you didn’t pray. But you don’t take every thought captive. 

 

And you told me by phone that you had forgotten whether you work outside the home and just couldn’t remember. I thought maybe you’d had a little stroke or something. And you had to ask your husband, Edward, if you work outside the home.

 

I’d told you to do Philippians 4:6 which has several parts ...

 

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 

 

There are several parts to that scripture. I thought it might be a little too hard for you, at this point in time, to do that. So, I said “When the thought comes about money, just cry out to God, ‘God help me’” because you had said you had some niggling thoughts hanging around about money. 

 

I’ve been seeing it ever since Edward retired. Several times I’ve really thought “Well what happens to the Bible? Doesn’t it keep going on after the person retires? The promises of God, where Paul said ‘My God will supply all your need’, doesn’t that continue?” 

 

Before I saw that you are a railer, and that I had to take action or deny the Bible myself ... Paul said don’t keep company if the person is a railer. 

 

I had to put Don Gelino away in fornication, for he was committing fornication while teaching our Bible class, and he admitted it. And he even admitted I had no choice but to put him away. 

 

And it says in the last verse of I Corinthians 5, Therefore put away that wicked person. 

 

You are a wicked person. For you have not learned to control your tongue, and you strike out and hurt people, and speak evil of people who offend you. 

 

Christians have to learn to control their tongue. You have not. 

 

Another scripture was brought to my attention even before I Corinthians 5 concerning you, and it is ...

 

Titus 3:10-11 A man that is an heretick 

 

(You can be an heretick concerning one verse of scripture, a single verse, but you're still an heretick.

 Heretick is you refuse to submit to the power of God. 

 You refused to submit properly to correction I brought you as an apostle/prophet. 

 My cousin Jeanne did the same thing, and I was given this scripture over Jeanne. And at that point I cut her off from communication with her.) 

 

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 

 

11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. 

 

You might like to lookup that word “subverted”. It basically means you’re trying to overthrow the other person. 

 

Certainly, I’ve warned you more than two times. Two times in the past couple months. 

 

What you should have been doing is encouraging me, and helping me to be encouraged in things of God. Because this meeting is coming up. These people are coming here. And it’s my responsibility to lead the meeting, to edify them, to be sure that it’s setup in the right Spirit of God. I cannot do that and have someone railing at me from our own church group. 

 

I have protected the ministry as long as I have been given the ministry. My own mother had a dream many years ago that I came to visit them and I was in a big van, a travel van. And I was walking around that van to see if there was any way it had been damaged. I will not allow the ministry to be damaged. 

 

I cannot go into this meeting with railing coming against me. And, of course, it’s a devil trying to stop it and using people like you to speak to me messages from him that would destroy the ministry. That’s exactly what’s happening. 

 

When I read I Corinthians 5 yesterday and handed it to Pam, I said “What do we do about this?” 

 

The only thing we can do is to say, at this point in time, we cannot keep company with you. We can’t go to picnics with you. We can’t go to gatherings of the church with you. I did the same thing with Don Gelino over fornication. 

 

Railing is in that same passage, and I’m not going to deny the scripture. 

 

And I’m going to say, at this point in time, you are a wicked person. For you have not in 40 years learned to control your speech. 

 

And sweet water and railing comes out of the same mouth. And James, the apostle, said this ought not to be. 

 

Maybe you can get it under control. 

 

But I judge, at this point in time, its not under control. 

 

And the letter that you sent me recently said you did admit that you had lashed out at me. 

 

And you also sent me a letter saying you did admit that you had fears, niggling ... you used the word “niggling” ... concerning money. 

 

I submit to you that you aren’t acting as a Christian must act. 

 

If you can get it together, I would feel differently. 

 

But the last time I wrote to you about this problem of railing, without identifying it as railing ... because I didn’t know it was railing ... the lasts time I wrote to you, you expressed no remorse. You didn’t see your sin at all that you had done against me, and against the church, and against the offices of Christ. That’s a heavy sin. 

 

Robert Tilton was destroyed because of one sin. 

 

And you have attacked the church, the ministries, and me. 

 

You have not done what it says in the Bible, endeavoring to keep the unity of Christ together. 

 

You have not done what it ways in the Bible concerning the ministries. It says they beareth not the sword in vain. 

 

You have not shown a proper attitude or respect for them. 

 

And I don’t think you’ve shown a proper love of the church. 

 

Therefore, I am putting you away from me. I will not eat with you. I will not keep company with you at this time. The ball is in your side of the court. 

 

With that I conclude.

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