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NASB | Genesis 30:27 But Laban said to him, "If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 30:27 But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, stay with me; for I have learned [from the omens in divination and by experience] that the LORD has blessed me because of you." |
Subject: Salvation of Christ Alone |
Bible Note: "The above words of Laban [Genesis 30:27-28] deserve to be noticed. This was a remarkable confession of Jacob's uncle -- 'The Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.' Laban was not blessed for his own sake, nor on account of any good deeds he had done; but he was blessed 'for the sake' of another. Was not God here setting forth under a figure the method or principle by which He was going to bless sinners, namely, for the sake of another who was dear to Him? Do not these words of Laban anticipate the Gospel? and point forward to the present time when we read 'God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you' (Ephesians 4:32), and again in 1 John 2:12 'your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.' Yes, this is the blessed truth foreshadowed in Genesis 30:27: God blessed Laban for Jacob's sake. So again we read in Genesis 39:15 concerning Potiphar, 'The Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake.' And again we have another beautiful illustration of this same precious fact and truth in 2 Samuel 9:1: 'And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake.' "Reader, have you apprehended this saving truth? That for which we are accepted and saved by God is, not any work of righteousness which we have done, nor even for our believing -- necessary though that be -- but simply and solely for Christ's sake.'" --A. W. Pink (1886–1952) |
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