{"id":756,"date":"2026-01-12T06:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=756"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:05:39","slug":"genesis-program-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Genesis (Program #77)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" \/>Genesis (Program #77) &#8211; Having Natural Weakness as Abraham and Living in the Natural Life as Jacob<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s life study is going to deal very much with natural life and the weaknesses of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.<\/p>\n<p>When we reconsider these Old Testament &#8220;heroes&#8221;, we don&#8217;t think of their weaknesses.\u00a0 However, through these life studies we have come to see the real situation.\u00a0 We have often heard of Abraham as the father of faith.\u00a0 We have seen how he believed that God was able to call things not being as being, as in the case of the birth of Isaac.\u00a0 And also believing in God being able to raise Isaac from the dead, after he offered him on Mount Moriah.\u00a0 And we usually consider everything about Abraham happening to him because he was a good, God-fearing man, strong in the faith.\u00a0 But if you have being following these life studies of Genesis, you found out that Abraham learned many lessons by his weaknesses and even his naturalness in the way he did things, the way he tried to help God and tried to enter into a clever solution to certain problems that came up as in the case of the birth of Ishmael and in his trying to have Eliezer to be in the place of his son.\u00a0 These kind of things show that Abraham wasn&#8217;t that perfect.\u00a0 He had some weakness that he acted in a natural way and he did things according to his natural cleverness&#8230;<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Genesis (Program #77)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2026-01-12T06:05:39-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Genesis (Program #77) - Having Natural Weakness as Abraham and Living in the Natural Life as Jacob\r\n\r\nToday's life study is going to deal very much with natural life and the weaknesses of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\r\n\r\nWhen we reconsider these Old Test...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Genesis\/Gen_077.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"14.4\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5341\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Genesis\/Gen_077.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5341','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Genesis\/Gen_077.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Genesis\/Gen_077.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=756-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Genesis\/Gen_077.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Gen_077.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis (Program #77) &#8211; Having Natural Weakness as Abraham and Living in the Natural Life as Jacob Today&#8217;s life study is going to deal very much with natural life and the weaknesses of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 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