CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. The Calling of Abraham
3. Abraham and the Land of Canaan
4. Abraham and His Son (1)
5. Abraham and His Son (2)
6. Abraham and His Son (3)
7. The Characteristics of Isaac
8. Isaac in the New Testament—God's Provisions
   in Christ
9. Jacob's Nature and the Discipline He Received
10. The Breaking of Jacob's Natural Life
11. The Maturity of Jacob
12. The Constitution of the Spirit

PREFACE

Watchman Nee gave a series of studies on the characters of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the early part of 1940. These messages were published in Chinese in 1955 by the Taiwan Gospel Bookroom under the title, The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This book is a translation of the Chinese publication.

PREFACE TO THE CHINESE EDITION

God said, "I am...the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (Exo. 3:6).

In order to bring a group of people to come under His name, and in order to make them His people, God did a special work in three persons, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, respectively, and gave each one of them particular experiences. God gave Abraham the experience of knowing God as the Father, showing that everything comes from God. He gave Isaac the experience of knowing the enjoyment of the Son, showing that everything the Son has is from the Father. He gave Jacob the experience of the discipline of the Holy Spirit to deal with his natural life and constitute Christ into him.

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the beginning of the history of God's people. As such, their total experience should be the experience of all of God's people. In publishing this book, we hope that the readers will find spiritual meaning in the experience of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in God's Word. May God bless this book and its readers and guide us to a full knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob so that we can become vessels of God's testimony.

The Editors
Taiwan Gospel Book Room
February 1955