”I will be with you” - Genesis 26

The human race is no stranger to separation. We know that in the beginning, God created us in perfect communion with him and each other. He walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:8). He dwelt with them, he knew them, loved them, provided for them and blessed them. This all changed when Adam and Eve fell into sin. Because God is holy, they were separated from him due to their sin, banished from his presence – expelled from the Garden, from before God’s presence.

Yet God promised that one day this would change – that he would send the seed of the woman, a descendant of Eve, to crush the head of the serpent - to deal with sin and restore God’s people to himself. In the meantime, he did not just abandon his people, but he made a way to be with them through establishing covenants – arrangements where a holy God could be with unholy people. We saw this with Abraham (Gen 12, 15, 17), and now in our text this morning, see this same covenant being renewed with his son, Isaac. One of the key promises in this covenant is God’s promise to Isaac that he will be with him and he will bless him. What we will see today from this text, is that because God is with us in Christ, we are blessed.

Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.