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EPISODE · Jan 11, 2026 · 51 MIN

Genesis 47 - Grace in a Foreign Land

from The Scarlet Thread - Finding Christ in Every Book of the Bible · host Concord PCA

Join us as Dr. Jon Becker teaches from Genesis 47, titled "Grace in a Foreign Land"Questions to consider from todays teaching.Q1. How can you sojourn in a land that demands you to dwell? What can we do practically as Christians to draw the line between sojourning and dwelling? How can we focus our hearts, minds and actions toward the eternal and away from the temporal?Q2. What does Jacob's answer to Pharoah in verses 7-9 tell us about this life? Does his answer remove our responsibility as Christians to persevere?Q3. Does God cause us to settle in uncertainty? What can we learn from Jesus's statements in Matthew 6:25-34?Q4. What do verses 13-26 teach us about our carnal perspectives on security?Q5. How do verses 23-25 tie into Christ's work as a penal substitutionary atonement for our sins?

Join us as Dr. Jon Becker teaches from Genesis 47, titled "Grace in a Foreign Land"Questions to consider from todays teaching.Q1. How can you sojourn in a land that demands you to dwell? What can we do practically as Christians to draw the line between sojourning and dwelling? How can we focus our hearts, minds and actions toward the eternal and away from the temporal?Q2. What does Jacob's answer to Pharoah in verses 7-9 tell us about this life? Does his answer remove our responsibility as Christians to persevere?Q3. Does God cause us to settle in uncertainty? What can we learn from Jesus's statements in Matthew 6:25-34?Q4. What do verses 13-26 teach us about our carnal perspectives on security?Q5. How do verses 23-25 tie into Christ's work as a penal substitutionary atonement for our sins?

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