This week on The Word of the Lord Indoor's Forever, we inch closer toward the culmination of St. Luke's Gospel with Crucify, Crucify, Father, Forgive, Jesus, Remember Me,

into your hands and burial.

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Now pay close attention, little children. It's somebody you ought to know.

It's all about a man that walked on earth nearly 2,000 years ago.

Well, he ill asleep and afflicted.

When Abraham is very old, his wife Sarah is dead.

He has in mind to find a wife for his only son Isaac, but he does not want Isaac to marry outside the family.

He gets his trusted servant to swear that should he die beforehand, he would see to it that Isaac gets a family not from among the Canaanites, but from among Abraham's family.

Welcome back to Issues, et cetera. I'm Todd Wilken. Thanks for tuning us in live on this Tuesday afternoon, the 9th of May.

We're going to be teaching a Sunday school lesson on Isaac and Rebecca in Genesis chapter 24.

Pastor Tom Baker will be our guest. Then we'll spend some time talking about the vocation of congregational elder with Pastor Timothy McArthur of the book,

Pastor's and elders, caring for the church and one another.

Pastor Tom Baker is host of a radio show called Law and Gospel. For almost 30 years, he met monthly to prepare his Sunday school teachers for the classroom.

Tom, welcome back.

Thank you.

Why did Abraham make his servant swear to find his son Isaac a wife from his own family?

The reason he did that is he did not want Isaac to marry from the Canaanites and the Sunday school material from Enduring Faith has a little paragraph where it says,

it's important to Abraham that Isaac not marry a local woman because the local women did not follow the one true God.

Abraham knows how important it is that Isaac and his wife both be followers of God.

And that's a very important lesson for the Sunday school students to understand that as they look forward to being married, one should marry someone who is of the same faith as the husband, primarily Lutheran.

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