The Abrahamic Covenant
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Big Picture Pt. 4: Abraham Pt. 1 “The Abrahamic Covenant”
Recap:
Recap:
(Q) Where have we been?
Session 1: ORIGINAL CREATION = VERY GOOD
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Session 2: THE FALL,, ORIGIN of SIN…
**ALSO EXTENT!
CAIN MURDERS ABEL
DESCENT INTO COMPLETE GODLESSNESS in NOAH’S DAY!
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Session 3: NOAHIC COVENANT
FOUNDATION for ALL the REST
COVENANT SIGN--RAINBOW—SPARING FROM FLOOD
GIVES CHANCE FOR REDEMPTION
INSTEAD of STARTING OVER,, GOING to RESCUE WHAT IS...
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Transition:
Transition:
Genesis 11: TOWER of BABEL
MANKIND TRYING to BE GREAT ASIDE FROM GOD
LANGUAGES CONFUSED
ORIGIN of NATIONS ....
TODAY…WE’RE GOING to SEE the ORIGIN of THE NATION CHOSEN BY GOD..
**REF. CHART: ......MOVING FROM PRE-PATIARCHAL to PATRIARCHAL
R.C. SPROUL: RELAY RACE/BATON ILLUSTRATION
**FROM HERE on OUT,, COVENANTAL BLESSINGS WILL BE PASSED FROM ONE PERSON to the NEXT
BATON = FIRST HANDED to ABRAHAM (ABRAM)
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Background:
Background:
READ (11:27-32): Gen. 11:27-32 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran
· Introduced to a FEW IMPORTANT CHARACTERS:
o ABRAM (Abraham) the son of Terah.
o LOT, is Abram’s nephew.
o SARAI is Abrahm’s wife and she is barren with no children (V30).
EXTENDED FAMILY MOVES (V31-32):
FROM UR of the CHALDEANS
to HARAN
((DON’T MAKE it to CANAAN))
(T) LOOK @ 12:1
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Abraham
Abraham
READ: Genesis 12:1-3 ESV Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
(Q) ANYONE HERE EVER LEFT FAMILY BEHIND BIG TIME & MOVED?
—>> CAN YOU IMAGINE DOING IT WITHOUT a GUARANTEED DESTINATION?!
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GOD SPEAKS to ABRAHAM:
MOVE.
LEAVE FAMILY BEHIND.
GORDON WENHAM: APPEARS TERAH (FATHER) DIED 60 YEARS AFTER the MOVE!
GO to the PLACE I’LL SHOW YOU
***WE DON’T KNOW ABRAHAM’S FAITH BACKGROUND....
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BEGINNING of COVENANTAL PROMISES:
1. God will make of him a GREAT NATION
2. IN HIM (namely in his descendants) ALL the FAMILIES of the EARTH WILL BE BLESSED...
++ GENERAL BLESSINGS...
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MAJOR PROBLEM: Gen. 11:30
30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
SARAH = BARREN....
WHERE’S THIS NATION COME FROM???
(T) DOES ABRAHAM OBEY?
READ (V4-6) 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
ABRAM OBEYS!!
ABRAM
SARAI
LOT (NEPHEW)
& EXTRA PEOPLE/SERVANTS, ETC.
ALL LEAVE HARAN—HEAD to CANAAN!
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More Background:
(V4) —ABRAM = 75 YEARS OLD!
PROBLEM of PROMISE BECOMES GREATER
BARREN WIFE
+ OLD MAN
ABRAM COMES to LAND of CANAAN
(V6B) CANAANITES LIVED in LAND...
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(Q) Does anyone remember from the LAST TEACHING night the SIGNIFICANCE of CANAAN??
(A) HAM,, SON of NOAH,, LOOKS UPON FATHER’S NAKEDNESS...
“CURSED BE CANAAN”
GEN. 10:6---CANAAN = SON of HAM.
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READ (V7-9) 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.”
LAST PROMISE to ABRAHAM: LAND!
1. God will make of him a GREAT NATION/MULTITUDE of DESCENDANTS
2. God will give the LAND of CANAAN to the descendants of Abraham
3. Through Abraham (his offspring) all the FAMILIES of EARTH WILL BE BLESSED...
**MULTIPLE TIMES TONIGHT… WE’LL SEE THIS UNFOLD FURTHER
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GEOGRAPHICAL TERRITORY = BELONGS to ABRAHAM’S OFFSPRING....
ABRAM = NOMAD,,
**NOTE TIMES HE PITCHES HIS TENT. (V8)
ABRAM RESPONDS in WORSHIP,, BUILDING an ALTAR
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GOES to NEGEB...
DRY DESERT REGION in SOUTHERN PORTION of ISRAEL
LATER TERRITORY of JUDAH
***SEE PIC***
(T) THINGS GOING PRETTY WELL...
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Abram’s First Lapse of Faith: Going to Egypt (12:10-20)
Abram’s First Lapse of Faith: Going to Egypt (12:10-20)
READ 12:10-20 10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
SHOCKING PASSAGE…BUT MILDLY ENCOURAGING
WHY??
REMIND US GOD DOESN’T CHOOSE PERFECT PEOPLE…THEY DON’T EXIST!
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ABRAHAM = FREQUENTLY MAN of GREAT FAITH
LEAVES EXTENDED FAMILY BEHIND to GO LORD KNOWS WHERE!
ABANDONS LAND of PROMISE in FAMINE (SEEMING LAPSE)
GOES to EGYPT…ESSENTIALLY GIVES WIFE AWAY! (SURE LAPSE of FAITH)
(Q) IF PHARAOH KILLED HIM…HOW WOULD GOD MAKE of HIM a GREAT NATION??
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TAKES GOD to BRING HIM OUT of MESS of HIS OWN MAKING!
GOD SENDS PLAGUES
ABRAM GETS SARAI BACK
SENT AWAY
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Returning to Canaan Land
Returning to Canaan Land
READ (13:1): 13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
BACK in SOUTHERN REGION of PROMISED LAND
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SUMMARIZE (V2-11): –ABRAM & LOT’S HERDSMEN FIGHT OVER LAND
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READ (V11-13): “11 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other. 12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.”
LOT TAKES the GOOD LAND (REF. V10),,
WICKED PEOPLE THOUGH
ABRAM SETTLES in CANAAN·
READ (V14-17) “14 The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.” 18 So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.”
PROMISES REITERATED:
o Land (v14-15)
o Innumerable offspring (v16)
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WALK THROUGH the LAND: TASTE the PROMISE
ABRAHAM AGAIN MOVES TENT
BUILDS ALTAR (WORSHIP)
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SUMMARIZE (GEN. 14): Genesis 14—LOCAL BATTLES,, W/ VARIOUS KINGS...
LOT,, NEPHEW = CAPTURED
ABRAHAM LEADS SERVANTS to RESCUE HIM.
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Abrahamic Covenant2
Abrahamic Covenant2
READ (15:1-3): Genesis 15:1-21 ESV “After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”
GOD SPEAKS to ABRAM AGAIN...
ABRAM POINTS OUT — I HAVE NO HEIR BUT a SERVANT!
REMEMBER:
75 YEARS OLD
BARREN WIFE.
Reasonable Questions:
INNUMERABLE,, NATION of OFFSPRING… I DON’T HAVE 1!
OFFSPRING INHERITING the LAND?? WHAT OFFSPRING?!
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READ (V4-6) 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
GOD MAKES CLEAR: NOT a SERVANT.... BUT YOUR OWN SON....
HEBREW: “THAT WHICH COMES FROM YOUR BOWELS/LOINS!” WILL BE YOUR HEIR.
1ST PROMISE---LIKE SAND of SEASHORE...
SIMILAR METAPHOR.... NUMBER the STARS!
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AGAINST REASON....AGAINST ALL ODDS…AGAINST SIGHT…ABRAHAM BELIEVES
(V6) COUNTED to HIM as RIGHTEOUSNESS....
B4 the LAW---RIGHTEOUSNESS IMPUTED BY FAITH!
**BELIEVING in GOD’S REVELATION = BELIEVING in GOD’S PERSON
DEREK KIDNER: ABRAM’S TRUST WAS:
PERSONAL: IN the LORD
& PROPOSITIONAL: IN GOD’S WORD
IT PRONOUNCED HIM RIGHTEOUS APART FROM WORKS in the SIGHT of GOD!!
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READ (V7-11) 7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” 8 But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. 11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
**CUTTING COVENANT BACKGROUND
ALL SORTS of POSSIBLE SYMBOLISM in THIS SETTING...
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READ12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
PROPHETIC REVEALING of STORY of MOSES & EXODUS....
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WHY WAIT??
INIQUITY of AMORITES NOT YET COMPLETE....
WAITING FOR A FUTURE DAY of JUDGMENT!
DEREK KIDNER: “The clause for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full (16) throws significant light on Joshua’s invasion (and, by inference, on other Old Testament wars), as an act of justice, not aggression. Until it was right to invade, God’s people must wait, even if it cost them centuries of hardship.”[3]
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READ17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.””
POSSIBLY REPRESENTATIONS of GOD,, PASSING THROUGH ANIMAL PIECES??
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PROMISED LAND MENTIONED AGAIN:
***REF. MAP… RIVER in EGYPT to EUPHRATES***
STILL HAVE a PROBLEM.... NO “OFFSPRING” to INHERIT THIS LAND!
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Genesis 16: Abram’s Second Lapse of Faith
Genesis 16: Abram’s Second Lapse of Faith
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU GET IMPATIENT & STRUGGLE to WAIT??
YOU TAKE MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS, RIGHT?
READ (16:1-6) Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!” 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
COMMON ANCIENT PRACTICE: SURROGATE MOM SORT of DEAL...
PROBLEMS:
HAGAR CONCEIVES
LOOKS @ SARAI W/ CONTEMPT (BRAGGING)
DIVISION in HOUSEHOLD
ABRAM PUTS RESPONSIBILITY on OTHERS...
READ (V7-16) 7 The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.” 9 The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.” 11 And the angel of the Lord said to her,
“Behold, you are pregnant
and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
12 He shall be a wild donkey of a man,
his hand against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
13 So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” 14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
HAGAR = SENT AWAY…ALONE, PREGNANT,, & DESPERATE
ANGELIC VISITATION & MESSAGE
HAGAR RESPONDS: “THE LORD WHO SEES”
& BY IMPLICATION, THE GOD WHO CARES!!
DOESN’T THAT ENCOURAGE YOU???
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DISBELIEF BROUGHT ABOUT a BABY…THE WRONG WAY...
86 YEAR OLD ABRAM BECOMES a DADDY
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The Covenant Sign of Circumcision
The Covenant Sign of Circumcision
READ: Gen. 17:1-14 ESV… When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
ABRAM = 99 YEARS OLD...
(Q) ANYONE REMEMBER HOW OLD HE WAS at the START?
(A) 75 YEARS OLD!
24 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE the INITIAL PROMISE!!!
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PROMISES = SHOWERED AGAIN...
BUT NOW ABRAHAM,, WALK BEFORE ME BLAMELESSLY...
WALKING in GARDEN W/ GOD
FALL = BROKEN....
ENOCH WALKED W/ GOD
NOAH
ABRAM…YOU TOO.
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GOD = GOD ALMIGHTY = MORE than ABLE to MEET NEEDS
(V5) ABRAM = RENAMED!
GOD HAS CAUSED HIM to BE FRUITFUL—GOD WILL BRING ABOUT HIS OWN PROMISE!!
HEB: ABRAHAM = FATHER of a MULTITUDE...
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(V7-8) GOD PROMISES to BE ABRAHAM’S GOD & GOD to HIS DESCENDANTS....
COVENANTAL RELATIONSHIP
***IF YOU’RE GOING to BE MY PEOPLE— YOU OUGHT to WALK a CERTAIN WAY....
HOW ABOUT FOR US TOO??
GOD GRANTS an ETERNAL/EVERLASTING COVENANT....
ABRAHAM & HIS DESCENDANTS WILL ALWAYS BE GOD’S PEOPLE,, A SPECIAL,, CHOSEN PEOPLE
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READ (V9-14): 9 And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, 13 both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
SIGN of COVENANT: CIRCUMCISION
AN ACT of OBEDIENCE,, SEPARATOR (FROM SOME PEOPLE GROUPS)
PERMANENT CHANGE to BODY = REMINDER of PERMANENT COVENANT
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READ: Gen. 17:15- 21 ESV “15 And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.” 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” 19 God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.”
1ST ABRAM’S NAME = CHANGED...
NOW SARAI TOO BECOMES SARAH (PRINCESS… BUT NO CHANGE in MEANING)
GOD MAKES CLEAR,, THERE’S a PROMISED LINE!
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(Q) HOW’S ABRAHAM RESPOND?
—>> HE LAUGHS!
100 YEAR OLD MAN ???
90 YEAR OLD WOMAN???
ABRAHAM DIDN’T BELIEVE IT
—>> DON’T FORGET YOU’RE TALKING to GOD ALMIGHTY!!!
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PROMISED SON: ISAAC (HE LAUGHS) יִּצְחָ֑ק —EXACT SAME WORD!!
ISHMAEL WILL BE BLESSED…BUT NOT the CHOSEN LINE...
ISAAC = CONSTANT REMINDER of GOD’S FAITHFULNESS to HIS SOMETIMES UNBELIEVABLE PROMISE!
(T) Closing:
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READ: 22 When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. 23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. 27 And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.”
***NOTE ABRAHAM’S INSTANT OBEDIENCE
CONFIRMING COVENANT: WE’RE GOD’S PEOPLE!!
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GOD NOW HAS:
CHOSEN MAN
CHOSEN FAMILY
CHOSEN LINE —ISAAC, JACOB,,,........DAVID.....CHRIST.
PROMISE of GREAT NATION of DESCENDANTS— WHO WILL BE GOD’S PEOPLE —> ISRAEL.
BASIS for WHOLE OLD TESTAMENT.
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Takeaways:
Takeaways:
FAITH = RESPONDING WHEN WE DON’T SEE OR UNDERSTAND
Hebrews 11:1 (ESV)
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:8–10 (ESV)
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
ABRAHAM MOVED FROM HOMELAND to PLACE HE DIDN’T KNOW
BELIEVED GOD FOR a SON...
24 YEARS PASSED...
WILL YOU WAIT???
Gordan Wenham: While Genesis implies that the sons of Abram must be men of faith, Paul turns the words around and explains, “it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham” (Gal 3:7).[4]
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2. GOD ONLY WORKS THROUGH IMPERFECT PEOPLE....BECAUSE HE’S GOT NO ONE ELSE to WORK WITH!
EVERY CHARACTER ASIDE from JESUS CHRIST DISAPPOINTS SOMEWHERE...
SO WE DON’T IDOLIZE THEM...
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3. GOD SEES US in OUR TIME of NEED
ANGELIC VISITATION of HAGAR
HE SEES
HE CARES
HIS EYE is ON THE SPARROW....AND I KNOW HE WATCHES ME...
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4. GOD is MORE THAN ABLE to FULFILL HIS PROMISES....EVEN the IMPOSSIBLE
DON’T FALL INTO DISBELIEF… HE’S GOD ALMIGHTY!
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[1]Kidner, Derek. 1967. Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 1. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
[2]Wenham, Gordon J. 1987. Genesis 1–15. Vol. 1. Word Biblical Commentary. Dallas: Word, Incorporated.
[3]Kidner, Derek. 1967. Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 1. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
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