Message Notes

YOUTH WORSHIP SERVICE 25 September 2021

Scripture Text: Genesis 24:1-9

Message: “Take a Wife for my son Isaac” Pastor Charles Tan

INTRODUCTION

1. Looking for a life partner

a) Normal desire

b) How do we go about choosing a life partner?

2. Culture

a) Arranged Marriage

b) Personal Choice

ABRAHAM’S CONCERN

1. Old age Genesis 24:1a

2. Blessed by the Lord Genesis 24:1b

3. A wife for his son Isaac Genesis 24:3

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

1. Should Parents be involved?

2. How much should they be involved?

AN APPRECIATION OF AN OLD CULTURE
FOR CHOOSING A BRIDE

1. The mother plays a role
But Sarah had passed on Genesis 23

2. The father plays a role too
Abraham was determined to do his part for Isaac

3. Entrusting an old Family Steward

a) “The oldest servant of his house” Genesis 24:2a

b) “He ruled over all that he had” Genesis 24:2b

c) An oath to be taken

i) Oath
“To swear by the LORD,
the God of heaven and the God of the earth” Genesis 24:3a

ii) What cannot be done
“No wife… from the daughters of the Canaanites” Genesis 24:3b

iii) To return to the old country
“To my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac” Genesis 24:4

MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE

1. Why were Canaanite daughters forbidden?

a) Religion

i) Faith in God

ii) Following the ways of God

b) Culture

i) Canaanite culture not good or godly

ii) The wife will end up influencing the husband adversely

iii) The loss of faith can be very real

c) What this is not

i) It is not a racial issue

ii) It is not a class issue

iii) It is not personal prejudice

2. Why taken from Abraham’s family?

a) Same faith

b) Same culture

c) Potentially safer

THE CONCERN OF THE TRUSTED STEWARD

1. Questions

a) What if the woman will not be willing to follow? Genesis 24:1-9

b) Can Isaac be brought back to the old country then? Genesis 24:5b

2. Answers

a) Isaac is not to leave Canaan Genesis 24:6

b) Reasons:

i) Falling back on God’s calling Genesis 24:7a

ii) God had given Canaan to Abraham
and his descendants Genesis 24:7b

3. A word of Encouragement

a) Angelic guidance
“God will send His angel before you” Genesis 24:7c

b) There will be a wife
“And you shall take a wife for my son from there” Genesis 24:7d

c) If the woman is unwilling
Then the servant would be released from his oath Genesis 24:8a

d) Whatever the outcome, Isaac is not to leave Canaan Genesis 24:8b

4. The Trusted Steward

a) He would undertake this task

b) He took an oath to do what Abraham had tasked
him to do Genesis 24:9

CHALLENGING THOUGHTS TO PONDER OVER

1. How seriously do we take Relationships and Marriage?

2. What Principles should we consider adopting?

3. How does God help us?