Yahweh's Covenant with Abraham

1 After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great. 2 But Abram said, “Lord God, what can You give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 Abram continued, “Look, You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir.” 4 Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.” 6 Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness. 7 He also said to him, “I am Yahweh who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” 8 But he said, “Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?” 9 He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds. 11 Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. 12 As the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him. 13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years. 14 However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions. 15 But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. 16 In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” 17 When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River: 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Relevant

Godly

Personal - feelings and thoughts, ideas and beliefs, opinions ; offensives and defensive; the difference amongst the various gods of this world: Baal, Moleck, Murdoch, etc.

The living and revealing God

Positional - The occupation being held by an object, an arrangement with an order and a purpose, a structure of rank to lead and to follow

Humanity

Personal - Individualistic, unique; derived from the environment or training; based on circumstance and situations

Positional - Authority, status, order and structure; determined by requirements, discriminating

Life/Death

Final consequences of all decisions; absolute

Experience

Emotional

Reactions and responses to various stimuli that occurs within our lives

Logical

Laws of nature a process by which results are deduced, consistency

Reasonable

Formulas to predict an outcome, natural occurences, cause and effect

Relational

Usage of sympathy and empathy

Truth

Local - a geographical place on the earth, a region marked by boundaries, limitations of land

Universal - shared by all members, affecting all members, including all members

Absolute - Perfect and pure, unchanging, free from mixture

Fulcrum

God’s Sovereignty

Several theories dealing with Power of God, choices of God, manipulation of God, direction of God, placement of God, control of God, ruler of all things, absolute and unrivaled rule

Freewill

The freedom to choose, freedom to reconcile, deals with an offering, does not deal with life or death, justification or salvation, but sanctification.