The Everlasting Nation

Psalm 79

Psalm 79 ESV

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us. How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name! For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation. Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake! Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes! Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die! Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord! But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

Advent 2 (Judah and Gideon)

Advent 2

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Well, once again and as always good morning church, I was glad when they said to me, let us go and Worship in the house of the Lord. This morning, we're continuing our Advent series looking at The big promises that God has made to his people and how ultimately spoiler alert, Jesus will be the Fulfillment of all of the promises that God has made for salvation.

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For goodness for manifold blessings. Every promise God has made finds there, we talked about this a little last week, yes, and amen. In Jesus Christ. Last week, we looked at Genesis 3. And, and the first, the, the promise of the snake, Crusher, one, who would crush the head of the serpent?

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We looked at the seed of the woman Uh the famous name for that passage. I didn't talk about this last week, is the Proto Evangelium or the very beginning of the Gospel, is really how we look at that passage. And as Genesis continues, you have a lot of what's called the pre-history and you have creation fall.

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You have Noah you have a lot of genealogies at the very end. You have the Tower of Babel. I just wrote this week. A paper on the Tower of Babel. I consider myself. One of the world's leading experts on that passage. So if you have any questions about the Tower of Babel, I'd be happy to answer them to you.

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That's in Genesis chapter 11, And then in Genesis chapter 12, we're introduced to Who may be the person who may be? Besides Jesus, the most important figure in scripture, I mean, that's saying a lot and it's debatable, but He's definitely in there. We're introduced to Abram. And God calls Abram.

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He tells him, leave the land of your fathers and go to ER of the Chaldeans, pick up everything and move. And God begins to deal with Abram. In a very particular. And a very important.

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And then, In Genesis chapter 17, which is where we'll be looking today. God decides that he's going to give Abram a new name. Abram. Shall henceforth be called Abraham. And even more, we see the world changing. Because of Abraham, yes, more importantly. I'll argue My Hope Is what we'll see.

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Because of God's promises. To Abraham promises that we'll find their ultimate fulfillment. In Jesus Christ. Our text for today. Genesis chapter 17 verses 1 through 8. So more than two verses this week, which is a nice change of pace for us. Genesis chapter 17 starting in verse 1. Let us read God's word together this morning.

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When Abram? Was 99 years old. The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him. I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless that I may make my Covenant. Between you between me and you and may multiply you greatly, Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, Behold my Covenant is with you and you shall be the father of a multitude of Nations.

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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. And I will make you exceedingly. Fruitful. And I will make you into Nations and Kings shall come from you. And I will establish my Covenant between me, and you and your Offspring, after you throughout their Generations, for an everlasting Covenant.

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To be God to you and to, to your Offspring, after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you, the land of your sojournings, all of the land of Canaan. For an everlasting possession. I will be Their. These are the words of the Lord for us this morning.

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Let's open with a word of prayer.

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Our Father in heaven. We do thank you. That you are a God who would see fit to condescend and Covenant. With people. Sinful wretches that you call out of Darkness into light that you promised to be with, to hold to keep sustain and to uphold, And so, I pray that you would be with us this morning that you would Care for us, show us, teach us.

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We ask that your Holy Spirit would work in our hearts to help us. See and understand all that. You have said and done. We thank you for your son, our Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Fulfillment of these promises, the mediator for us. May we rest in him and his work.

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It's in his name that we pray, the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord Amen.

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As we read this passage. I said last week and I stand behind this Genesis 3, 15, 14 and 15. What we looked at last week was the most important passage In all of the Old Testament, I stand behind that. The passage we're looking at today. Might be second. It will lay the foundation this along with really the whole Abraham narrative, lays the foundation for What we look for how we read and hope and understand to see what God is saying and doing.

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Throughout all of, The, the Bible. Abraham. Will be important. Since Abraham existed. Till forever and so knowing and understanding what's going on in this passage is extraordinarily important for us. And so this week, This may have been I will submit to you. Now, this may have been me trying to be just a little bit too cute.

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But for those of you who are here last week and paid attention to the sermon, You might notice something as we walk our way through this text, and I promise, I have a reason and I hope you'll see as we draw go through this, the heart behind my reason.

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Let me just share before we dive in

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I think it's important. That we all understand better. What's going on? In all of the promises that we'll look at for the next. Well for Advent, so four weeks the next three weeks including this one. And the best way that I can think of to do that. Is to sort of repeat yourself over and over again.

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Those of us who are parents, we know, sometimes you just have to say the same thing over and over and over again, until people understand. And by people, I mean your children, understand what exactly it is you're trying to say With Willow. Willow. Do you understand? Yes. Okay. What did I just say?

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She repeats it back? Okay. Do you understand what that means? Yes. Okay, so we were Hobby Lobby, yesterday. Willow Please don't touch everything in the store. Okay, I won't do you understand. Yes, what did I say? Don't touch everything in the store. Okay, so let's say it to ourselves together.

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We're not going to touch everything in the store. We work our way through this, but over and over and over again, repetition helps us understand. And so last week, we looked at sort of what was being said around it. We looked at what was being said in the passage and then we we looked forward.

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We're gonna try to do the same thing this morning. So to do the same thing. We have to start with. The context. We just read God coming to Abraham. He comes to Abraham and he says Abraham walk before me and I'll bless you. He says, I, I can try God says, look Abraham here is the Covenant.

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The promise that I will make to you. And he gives him the promise. But it's this isn't the first time. God has met with Abraham. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened and this isn't the first picture of Abraham's struggle and Abraham's faith, that we're going to have to wrestle through.

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And so we have to work our way through the context. I mentioned that it's it's Genesis chapter 12. The, the Abram shows up in the picture, it's the first we read. Technically, it's an April, it's in 11, we see the genealogy we get to Abram and then this is what happens.

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The Lord says to Abram in Genesis 12 1, go from your country. God appears to Abram and he says, look Abram pick up everything. All your people, all your servants, all your possessions, all your everything, all your cousins, all your people, and go. Leave the land of your fathers and go to where I'm telling you to go.

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And if you listen and you obey and you go where I'm telling you to go, I will God promise in Genesis 12, make of you a great nation. That's Genesis 12 2. And so in Genesis 12 4, Abram goes as the Lord tells him, he takes lot with him.

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He goes and he does these things. And all of this starts. We hear Abram was an old man. Abram was an old man Genesis 12. We are introduced to Abram at the age of 75. At 75 Abram's Story starts. So for those of us that just had a birthday, you turned 40.

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You start to feel things. Like what am I am I doing what God called me to do with my life. Do I still have time to Abram was 75. Now he's definitely the exception, not the rule, but God can do with you what he will whenever he wants. That's sort of the point here.

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And Abraham goes, excuse me. And it's not super easy. And there's trouble. And there's trial. And there's Battles. Clan Warfare. This is these are nations yet but Abram has to do some stuff. Lot gets himself in trouble and Abraham has to rescue him or Abram. And we have this scene, this famous scene where we don't, we cannot cover it, We have this scene where Abram is blessed by the high priest Melchizedek, It's important.

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And so then in Genesis 15 after God said, go and I'll make you a nation and he goes, and there's trouble in Genesis 15, God comes to him again. He says, I'm gonna bless you Abram. He was like, you promised me kids, I'm 75. I'm now older. I'm 80.

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83 however. And you're still gonna promise it, I'm gonna have kids. This is not how biology Works. God? And God tells Abraham look in the Stars. Look to the stars of the Heaven. Count them. Your descendants will be greater look to the Sands of the sea. Your descendants will be greater.

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And so, Abraham is given another promise from God. And now Abraham and his wife, Sarah Sarai at this point. Thing. How can we? This is a dangerous thought just so you know, if you ever have this thought be careful. Of how can we help God be right? God's always right?

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How can we help God along with what we think he should be doing? And we have this whole scene with, Hagar Sarai's handmaiden and Abraham. And we have an illegitimate child that's born. Ishmael, we have that whole scene where Sarah has this great idea. Have a child with my handmaiden Abram listens to his wife.

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We saw this didn't pan out well, for Adam Abram listens to his wife decides. That's a great idea has a child with not his wife. It doesn't end well. And so now in Genesis chapter 17, that's that's what happened immediately before, this And then we open the scene. Abraham Abram at this point, still We open red is 99.

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Years old. It has been 24 years since he first left. His father's house to go to the land that God showed him. 25 years of waiting on God's, promise of trying things, his own way of having difficulty of still trying to glorify God of making huge mistakes. And then, at 99 years old, God comes to Abraham.

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After Abraham has. Tried and failed in his own strength. And Has wandered. In some sense, in the wilderness. Has had these trials and troubles and struggles. That's the context that we find God coming to this man. And giving to him. The same. A more detailed. Promises. Our context is an old man, 99 years old.

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Without a true heir of his own who's been promised, not just in heir, but that he would be the father of a multitude of Nations. God's promises feel like they may be failing. He has left everything. He's known and love to move to a foreign land. Gave up on his hopes and dreams his desires.

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And it might feel like for Abraham His life's a mess. God's promises have failed. So what does God do? He gives him more promises. God's solution to Abram feeling like God's promises might be failing. Is to give him more promises. That's really what's happening here? And so, with that context we can now look at the content of the promise.

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What happens? And we can just walk through it step by step. First, God requires of Abram that he would walk before him. That was verse one. Walk before me and be blameless and I will make a covenant with you. Now, this important part of Covenants, we didn't cover this last week.

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Covenants. As we look at the Old Testament in the Old Testament time, it's important to note Right? So we often think of covenants as promises and that's true. They are But promises are often made between peers. Right? Like I can make a promise to you. We're equals, you can make promises back that works.

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Contracts. Are usually made between someone who has. Power and authority. And someone who doesn't, right? Like if I sign a contract, we sign a contract to to rent out the building here. There's someone who owns it that has the power. The authority over the building ultimate. Right? The owner but we come and say we want to use it.

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We're going to pay you rent. We're going to do this and we lay out. Usually for a contract, though. The person who's in a weaker position, is the one that puts all the qualifications on themselves. There are certain responsibilities. Yes, that the landowner has to keep it You know.

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Livable, if there's a huge, you know? Tornado rips through here and riffs off the roof. He has to fix that. Those sorts of things. But paying rent, That's on us day-to-day upkeep paying utilities doing all those sorts of things cleaning. All of those things, they fall to us, right?

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The contract protects the more powerful party in this regard. Covenants, on the other hand, We're usually made. In such a way that There was a It's usually called a Susan, vassal treaty. These are technical words, a ruler and his little people. Treaty. And it was often made with sort of when a foreign King would come and take over.

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And one of the things that we would see in traditional, Covenants. Not biblical ones where God's making it but like between people Is hey, I took you over. You're now my people, this is what you're gonna do, this is how you're gonna live. This is what you owe to me.

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It was a lot. Like we would think of a contract, This makes what God does in his covenants even more astounding. He places the responsibility and the work. On himself. Says, this is my Covenant. This is what I will do. Abraham. We have to note this Abraham walk before me, and then I will promise what I will do for you.

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The promise of God hinges on what God has said, God will do. And so what has God said that he will do? Verse 2. Multiply you greatly.

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Does a 99 year old man.

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With no kids. And a wife almost as old as he is.

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I'm still going to multiply you Abraham. Abram. I'm still going to do what I said I would do. I haven't forgot.

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Behold verse 4. My Covenant is with you. And you shall be the father of a multitude of Nations. Aaron, you're sitting there hoping that your descendants will become a great nation. They will

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But you're not thinking big enough. You shall be the father of a multitude of Nations. In some sense here, a nation of Nations. Worldwide, big deal. And so verse 5, no longer shall your name be called Abram. But your name shall be Abraham. Abram just so we know Abram means, exalted father.

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So Abram had this name, as I hope in a promise that he would be an exalted father. And yet that wasn't coming true. So again God doubles down you're not exalted father anymore. Abraham. Means father of a multitude. So he went from being the exalted, father of maybe one or two if he could hope for even dream to being the father of a multitude.

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In promise. Not in reality yet.

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But note verse 5, no longer shall your name, be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham.

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We have to see what God says here. We have to understand how God works and how God talks to his people.

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What does faith look like, right? That's the question. I want to ask. What is Faith look like?

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To Abram now. Abraham, God does not say For, I will make you, your name shall be Abraham for. I will make you the father of many nations. That is not what he says. Your name shall be called Abraham for. I have made you the father of a multitude of Nations.

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The way God speaks this is already a done deal. Abram. You're now Abraham because I have made you the father your name. I've already made it come true. And Abraham looks around. No, you haven't. Yes, he has. He looks around and thinks God no, you haven't. My one son that I had with my wife's handmade.

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Like that blew up in my face.

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And this is troublesome. Eventually Abraham probably could read the writing on the wall where there's going to be this huge division that that his firstborn. And let's be careful here. His firstborn out of wedlock sun is going to get sort of sent away. Abraham knew this He knew it was he was having here wasn't Feasible workable situation.

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And God says, I have made you the father of a multitude of Nations. I've done it. Because here's the point of God has promised it. It will happen. God says, I've already done it. Now in verse 6, the tense changes I will make you exceedingly. Fruitful? I will make you in donations and King.

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Shall they will come before you I will establish it's note the content of this promise. I will establish my Covenant between me and you and your Offspring after you throughout their Generations, for an Lasting. Covenant. A few questions here. Or points. And then I'll ask a question and then I'll answer the question.

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As we read this we should be reminded of what we talked about last week, right? Last week in in the the curse of the serpent. There was this idea of you and your Offspring, the woman and her Offspring and God was making a promise he was making a promise here to crush the head of the serpent.

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For us, great for the serpent. Maybe not so great, but he's making this promise and the promise, then the way God made it, would last through generations. God, does the same thing with Abraham. God makes a promise with Abraham and Abraham's offspring when Abraham doesn't even have Offspring yet.

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This promise Abraham because you I have made you a multiple father of multi-nations and you will have offspring and I will do this and I will bless you and I will bless you and this promise this Covenant is between me and you and between your Offspring. I will be with them too.

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Throughout their generations for an everlasting Covenant. Here's the question.

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What is the expiration date? Of this promise. When does it end? When does God's promise with Abraham come to an end?

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It's an everlasting. Covenant. It doesn't. The promise that God gave to Abraham thousands of years ago still stands today And what is that? Promise to be God to you? Enter your Offspring after you to be your God. And all that comes with this. And so we have to sort of put ourselves in a little bit in Abraham's mind here.

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What does it God? Do it fights for his people. A God cares for his people. A God provides for his people. God protects his people. God goes into battle for his people, a God provides land, and sustenance and rain, and God provides all of these things and God Almighty.

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The creator of the universe comes to Abram. And says, I will do all that for you. I'll be with you. I'll care for you. I'll care over you, I'll shelter you, he's promised to be the god of Abraham. And his offspring. The content of this promise is, first of all, God's saying I've already done it.

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Just have faith. The content of this promise. Is that Abraham will have

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So many children that you'll be the father of a multitude of Nations, and That God will be Abraham's God and God will be Abraham's children's. God. And verse 8, I will give to you. And to your Offspring. After you, the land of your sojournings all the land of Canaan.

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Foreign. Everlasting possession. And I will be their God. To take these backwards. God reiterates, I will be their God. And there's a promise of land that they will enter into the land. The land Abraham's been roaming around and fighting in and doing all this other stuff because that will be your land.

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And we can note, if we look to the Future all that Abraham, actually, physically owned of this land was a burial plot And yet. This promise. Is true. So the content then of the promised Abraham here and again the problem is Abraham is huge and it covers chapters, the swath, it's the most like biggest portion of Genesis in many ways There's a lot. But here in what we read, Is Abraham be the father of a multitude of Nations? That God would be with them forever. And that they would inherit. This length.

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Do God's promises come true. Now, we're gonna do the same thing. We read God's promises and now from the moment God makes this promise as we now go forward, we begin to ask did God's promises come true? We begin here to look for The child. That is the Fulfillment. Of these promises because God promised Abraham, you'll be the father of multitude of nation. Does Abraham have a child that is the father of Everlasting Nation. They're gonna have this. It's an everlasting Covenant. Is to God's is to The Offsprings. The land will be we read in verse 8, an everlasting possession. So this is a nation that will hold for all time this land.

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And God will be their people do we find that child?

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Well, Isaac's birth is promised right? After this portion. We have the covenant circumcision Isaac's birth is promised.

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Then it changes. And then in 19, We have the Sodom and Gomorrah Saga. In verse 20, Abraham. Fights with abimelech, there's these issues going on. There's, there's There's things that are happening. And then in chapter 21, four chapters after this,

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And,

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A year later, four chapters. And one year later. Isaac is born. Abraham. A son. Chapter 21. Verse 5, Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Is Isaac the child we longed for in this promise. Yes, and no.

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From Isaac, he will have a son. Jacob Jacob's name will be changed to Israel. Israel, we finally start right in Jacob. We finally start to see the fruit of a multitude of Nations. He has 12 sons Those 12 sons become the 12 tribes of Israel.

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Well, is Isaac. The child will kind of. And so this is what makes right? This story of the sacrifice of Isaac when you read it, understanding that Isaac is not just this son long waited form, though he was the son long waited for Isaac was all of the promises of God, and when God says, go sacrifice your son. He is saying, what do you care about more? And what do you trust more? What you see or what I have promised and if I'm calling you to sacrifice his son, do you trust me enough? You had to wait 25 years for this son. Do you trust me enough to give you another one lane?

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Do you trust God enough? And Abraham did, and it was counted to him as righteousness. Hebrews tells us

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But Isaac wasn't the child.

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Isaac, struggled to even get a wife, read the story. Let alone become a great nation. And then we fast forward and we still haven't found the child. We still haven't seen the Fulfillment of this promise. And then we open up in Exodus. And Exodus opens and the people are crying out to God. They are an oppression and slavery in Egypt. They have it seems the numbers to be a great nation and yet this nation supposed to be a multitude of Nations a nation, that's a blessing to the world supposed to be all these things, and they're enslavery in Egypt.

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And God heals them. And sends another child Moses. To save and deliver them is Moses. The child.

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Though, he calls them, they have become a great nation, this is what right? The traditionally considered most boring book of the Bible, the book of numbers What is the point of the book of numbers is to look back to the God's promise Abraham like God was on to something? He did bless him and he did do what God promised he would do. Kind of, Because in numbers, right? If the promise is a great nation, well, we got the people, we have no land So what do the people have to do? They have to go to the promised land and make war

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And so Joshua comes and Joshua leads. The people is Joshua. The child who will make God's promises come true.

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They still don't fully own the land. There's some issues where they make poor deals with the inhabitants of the nation. They don't root out the idolatry and sinfulness

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Still not perfect.

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I know what we need. The people think. I know what we need to be this nation. We can I said this is bad thought. Anytime we can help God's promises come true, we can figure out how to do this in our own string. The might we need a king And he gets Saul and Saul's, definitely not the child. But God says I'll pick a king for you and he picks. David is David the child? Close. We're getting closer. Under David. The boundaries of Israel expand to further than they'd ever been before peace Reigns in the nation, David rules over the land.

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Seems good. Well, wait a second. What was the promise?

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You shall have the land for a verse 8 Everlasting possession.

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After day becomes Solomon, after Solomon comes Civil War. Now the Kingdom's divided, there's no peace. That doesn't feel like an everlasting possession. It gets worse. The Babylonians and the syrians come and they invade the northern and the southern Kingdom, they wipe these people out, they send them into Exile. The nation that was supposed to have this land for an everlasting. Possession is no more. Did God's promises fail? That's what it feels like.

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Ezra Nehemiah, come back, and they rebuild some of the temples. Some they still do some of this stuff. Are they the child is this? Now the Everlasted position? No. Because history teaches us that that's not what's going on because then Rome comes.

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And so, here we are. Rome has taken over the land God promised to make an everlasting Covenant with Abraham and his descendants where Abraham's descendants. Where's God's promises? He promised this land would be an everlasting possession. We don't own it. What is going on here?

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Did God's promises fail? No, they did.

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So, we looked to the chart.

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Born in the main.

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Born to the Virgin, Mare. Born under Roman opposition.

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Here. The wise men say is king of the Jews.

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Jesus. Is the child.

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And there's a lot that we could unpack here in in a lot of time, we don't have to deal with this. How is Jesus the Fulfillment of the promises? To Abraham in every way.

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But in particular,

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I want us to see this.

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What promises do we have in Jesus? What have we attained? What have we Been given. In the precious work of our savior life and salvation. Yes, hope and healing. Yes, goodness and Grace. Yes, all of this and more. Yes, John, the Apostle, John, the Beloved disciple, John, When he was in Exile on the Isle of Patmos, In prison. Also an old man. Had a vision.

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A bright light appeared to him.

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And and this is Revelation, 1 1, the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him. Jesus came and spoke to John. And John walked with Jesus. He would know who Jesus was when we was speaking. And so John knew this is not John knows what's happening here.

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This is the message. To the seven churches who are in Asia, therefore, by extension to all of us who get to read this blessed letter. Revelation chapter 1, verse 4, grace to you and peace from him, who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven spirits who are before his throne. And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, the ruler of the Kings on Earth, who is Jesus, the ruler of the Kings on Earth. He is the ruler of all the rulers of all the nations he is king of all Nations.

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He who was descended from Abraham, we looked at that in the genealogy in Matthew last week. Is now the ruler of a multitude of Nations is Abraham the father of a multitude of Nations. Yes. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood. That's the gospel.

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That's what we celebrate that Jesus would come and free us from our sins. This is what John is. Proclaiming. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, Revelation chapter 1, verse 6 and made A kingdom.

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There's a lot of ways we could think through this. Here's how I like to think through it and I don't have time to unpack, exactly theologically how this works. But hear my heart in this and be encouraged as we Ponder the promises of God.

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The church.

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Is God's kingdom. Here on Earth. When Jesus says pray your kingdom come your will be done. Part of praying, your kingdom come is for the church that's part of what we're praying for there. It's not all of it. It's part of what we're praying for there. And so we the church have been made a kingdom. So, what's going on? Just think through this. What what are we saying here? What is going on right now? As we like as I am speaking right now?

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This church down the street another church. This way three churches that way 100 churches. This way in this town, how many churches are there? I don't know. In this nation. How many churches are there? I don't know a lot. In this world. How many churches are there? I don't know. Countless

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And all of this is because the son of Abraham, Jesus came saved us from their sins and he established made us a kingdom. We in the Kingdom are priests. We are all priests hear me church. We are all priests. To his God and Father, to him, be glory, and dominion, and power forever and ever. Amen. This is the child Jesus is the one who made sure all of these promises to Abraham. And so he comes and rules. Why do we look and say? It's important that Jesus rules because the promise is made to Abraham, Because when God made these promises, when he came to this, man and said, I promise, you'll be the father of a multitude of Nations, you will be blessed forever. You will be an everlasting Covenant to you and your Offspring. You will have these things. Jesus came and said I did them.

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All of them. He rules and Reigns every promise of God Finds Its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Look to the child. See your savior. And all of your blessed hope. Let's pray.