Rev Mendez Sermons & Notes

Rev. Arturo Mendez Advent Mid Week Dec 7 2022 Sermon Theme: The First Promise to Abraham 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. A double stream of narrative runs through the first four books of the Pentateuch. One of these may be called the Priestly narrative—the other, the Prophetical narrative. The text sets before us one of the characteristic features of the Prophetical narrative—that consciousness of the ideal destiny of Israel which developed afterwards into the definite hope commonly called Messianic. God Yahweh has already made a promise to Abraham his chosen one, he was chosen not because he was a good person nor much better than others, just by mercy he was chosen by God, because we need to remember that because of the disobedience of our first parents Adam and Eve, original sin came into the world, and in consequence of their disobedience we were co-heirs of original sin, so God ma