as we look at Genesis chapter 25 and as we begin here in verse 19 and look at uh what is a very familiar passage of scripture and also a a difficult one for us to comprehend to sort of wrap our minds around. So, if you’ll join me there in in Genesis chapter 25, there is an overlap here in this series. We are looking at the life of Isaac and the life of Jacob.
There’s an overlap in this moment between Isaac’s life and Jacob’s life because we are introduced to Jacob. And it’s very important just like it’s important for us to understand uh Abraham in order to understand Isaac. It’s important for us to understand Isaac in order to understand Jacob and vice versa because much of who Jacob is is really uh caught up in the identity of his father and the identity of his grandfather.
Also, we don’t have much information about Isaac. Unfortunately, we we know very few things about Isaac and most of them are not very positive. You ever thought about that? You look at the information that we have about Abraham. Tons of information about Abraham. A whole lot of Genesis is [music] devoted to the life of Abraham. When it comes to the life of Isaac, there’s just this small sliver as though he’s a kind of speed bump to get us from Abraham to Jacob, if you will.
And most of what we see in Isaac’s life is an unfortunate repetition of many of the failures of the life of Abraham. In fact, one of the only positive moments in the life of Isaac is a moment that we’ll examine here in Genesis chapter 25. Uh other than th this moment here, uh most of the moments in Isaac’s life uh are are not very positive.
Look here beginning at verse 19. These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham fathered Isaac. And Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebecca to be his wife, the daughter of Bethuuel, [music] the ar the Aramean from Panaram, the sister of Laban, the Aramean. By the way, that name Laban is going to occur again.
