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Our portrait in Genesis by First published 1957 Second impression (paperback) 1972 Reissued 1984 / PRINTED PHOTOLITHO IN GREAT BRITAIN BY J. W. ARROWSMITH LTD., BRISTOL
UPC: 0551051574
- Publisher : Marshall, Morgan and Scott [for] Oswald Chambers Publications Association; 2nd Printing edition (January 1, 1972)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0551051574
- ISBN-13 : 9780551051577
Over thirty books continue in print under the name of Oswald Chambers, yet he only set out one manuscript! His Bible studies were not the outcome of a cloistered scholar's bookish study-the poignant comments, based on his reading of the Scripture, were delivered as practical addresses to soldiers and young men in college. His wife's shorthand notes of the talks were later published and have been in continuous demand ever since. Brief studies in the early chapters of Genesis. 'There are flashes of light on God's relation to fallen man which can touch a live nerve in a modern wrongdoer, and something of the Divine Mercy is seen as it persists with perverse and misguided men.
"Now these things were our examples" (1 Corinthians x. 6) We know nothing of the beginning of life on this planet Earth unless we accept the revealed facts recorded in the Bible. When these early stories are accepted as a true record of individual lives we can learn much about God's dealings with men and women in every age. There are flashes of light on God's relation to fallen Man which can touch a live
nerve in a modern wrong-doer, and something of the Divine mercy is seen as it persists with perverse and misguided men. Oswald Chambers brings out the moral significance of human conduct; the intrusion of sin into human affairs, and God's counter-move against sin and against the Satanic power behind the scenes. "Now these things were our examples", wrote the Apostle Paul in reference to some Old Testament incidents. This can be applied to Cain and Abel, to Noah, and to Abraham ("in these things they became figures of us" -R.V. margin) as we see the subtle working of sin in the unregenerate human heart; of craftiness and insincerity between man and man; of the law of retribution on the one hand or the due recompense on the other. Here is a book for to-day. The Spirit of God is revealing the deep things of God, especially as they bear on the deep things of humanity. Above all we hear of the God of all grace, Who gave His Son to be a propitiation for our sins-yours and mine-"and not for ours only, but also for the whole world." I thank God for this gallery of portraits in Genesis, and for the Spirit's illumination through the expositor's instructed and clear-seeing mind.
