What are the spiritual lessons that God would have us to draw from this text? Isaac is the picture to us of the mature believer and Abimelech is the picture to us of one who is young in faith, and perhaps Abimelech is not even involved yet in the things that would cause him to become a mature believer. But he wants a good relationship with Isaac, the mature believer, because he sees that the Lord is blessing him. The Lord does enable some people who perhaps do not yet know God as well as we do, to see that He is with us and He has blessed us. And so what this passage is teaching us is that we do have a responsibility towards all such people; to do them good, and to enter into a covenant of good will with them, if they are looking for it. It is an agreement that we will not work against them, but we will be helpers together with them of their faith. So let me pose this question to you: What are the responsibilities which the Christian has, towards those in government, society, and other denominations; people who may know the Lord, and they have seen that the Lord has blessed us? I think that if we consider ourselves to be mature believers, there are 3 responsibilities which we can glean from this text, which are given to help us in such situations.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
