The church is established upon the foundation of Christ, and has been charged as the gatekeepers of the kingdom of God. We cannot bypass the cross for the crown, any more than Jesus did.

Abraham, after mourning Sarah's death, secures a property where future generations will be buried. We learn how people of faith face death and loss, looking ahead to a heavenly city.

Sarah conceives and gives birth to Isaac, and a few years later asks Abraham to cast out Hagar and Ishmael. Abraham establishes a covenant with Abimelech and settles in Beersheba, as the everlasting God is with him.

God preserves His covenant with Abraham and intercedes for him in spite of Abraham's discouragement, unbelief, and sin.

Lot compromises by sojourning in Sodom, then settling when it was time to escape. He suffered greatly as the city was destroyed, and though he was saved, his family became marked by scandal. Jesus has mercifully saved us from God's wrath and calls us to repentance and to hold fast to him rather than compromise our faith.

The three sons of Noah become the varied nations that populate the earth - but are ultimately only two kingdoms, the first represented by one man who defies God, and the second represented by the heir of the promise of Genesis 3:15

God makes a covenant with Noah (and creation) that foreshadows a true and better covenant that Christ, the serpent-crushing seed of woman, will make with his people by faith.