Title: Eliezer's Obedience
Title: Eliezer's Obedience (Genesis 24:1-9)
Deuteronomy 28:1 If you listen carefully to the word of the LORD your God, and keep and do all his commands that I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you above all the nations of the world. 2 If you obey the word of the LORD your God, all these blessings will come to you. I will come to you and tell you: 3 Blessed will be in the city, and blessing in the field, 4 Blessed will be your children, and the produce of your land, and the offspring of your beasts, and the ox and the young of your sheep. you will be blessed
The Jews who obeyed the Word became global citizens.
Currently, there are about 14 million Jews worldwide, 5.9 million in the United States, 5.3 million in Israel, and the remaining 2.8 million are spread all over the world. However, since 1901, when the Nobel Prize was established, there have been as many as 175 Jewish Nobel Prize winners. This number accounts for 23% of all Nobel Prize winners. 20% of the 100 richest people in America are Jews
We believe that this is not a coincidence, because they exert their efforts to thoroughly obey God's Word.
The text of the text says that Eliezer, Abraham's servant, was a servant of obedience.
Here it is evident that the old servant in charge of all possessions was Eliezer of Damascus (Genesis 15:2). He was a loyal servant of the house of Abraham, and before Isaac or Ishmael was born, Abraham pointed out that he was his heir. About 60 years have passed since then, and sons have been born, but Eliezer may be able to hand over Abraham's inheritance to Eliezer's heart. It means that you trust it. He was faithful and faithful, a faithful man who received the trust of Abraham completely.
We must be these faithful stewards. Jesus Christ was crucified for us and shed His blood to save us. When we think of this grace, shouldn't it be right that we, like Eliezer, stand as faithful servants when the Lord sees us?
Animals such as doves and crows at the time of Noah's Flood were also faithful in their work.
Please see Eliezer here. How faithful and faithful, Abraham believed and when he chose his son's wife, he told him to go to my hometown and to my people and to choose a wife for my son Isaac.
We see that Eliezer even made an oath at the words of his master Abraham.
9 Then it is said that the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham, and made an oath to him concerning this matter.
The Lord tells us not to swear in Matthew 5. This is a reference to those who made an oath and then left it alone.
Eliezer obeyed his oath.
27 “They said, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham. You have not ceased to be in your love and faithfulness to my master; you have led me on the road to the house of my master's brother.”
I told Eliezer to go to my hometown and to my people and to choose a wife for my son Isaac, so he chose Rebekah the son of Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, in his second hometown, the land of Haran, where his brothers stayed.
Why did Abraham choose Isaac's wife from Haran's own relatives instead of from the Canaanites? It was to preserve the lineage and to protect the purity of faith. Therefore, unbelief marriage should be prohibited. (2 Corinthians 6:14, Exod 34:16, Deut 7:3,) Abraham obtained Rebekah in Haran through his servant Eliezer, a loyal servant.
Did God want us to establish ourselves with loyalty? How much did you believe that you were appointed as the Lord's servants? 1 Corinthians 4:1 Let men ought to regard us as ministers of Christ and entrusters of the mysteries of God. 2 And of those entrusted with it, we must ask for faithfulness.
I hope that we too, like Eliezer, will become God's trusted faithful for the Lord.