God’s covenant with Abraham
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· 17 viewsGod’s gracious promise made to Abraham, and repeated to his descendants, to bless both them and, through them, the whole world. In response God calls for faithful obedience, expressed particularly in the outward sign of circumcision.
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Features of the Abrahamic covenant
Features of the Abrahamic covenant
The covenant is based upon God’s gracious promise
The covenant is based upon God’s gracious promise
For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
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The covenant was confirmed by sacrifice
The covenant was confirmed by sacrifice
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.” 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. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. 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. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 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,
The covenant was given in perpetuity
The covenant was given in perpetuity
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.
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God’s promises to Abraham
God’s promises to Abraham
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. 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.”
God promised the land of Canaan
God promised the land of Canaan
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.”
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God promised that Abraham would be the father of a nation
God promised that Abraham would be the father of a nation
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.”
See also ; The change of name from Abram to Abraham is a sign of God’s covenant with him; ; ;
God promised a relationship with himself
God promised a relationship with himself
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.”
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The requirements of the covenant
The requirements of the covenant
Obedience
Obedience
Circumcision is the sign of Abraham’s commitment to God’s covenant with him;
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Faith
Faith
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God’s faithfulness to the covenant
God’s faithfulness to the covenant
God remembers his promise
God remembers his promise
For he remembered his holy promise,
and Abraham, his servant.
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God shows compassion for his people
God shows compassion for his people
But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.
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The scope of the covenant
The scope of the covenant
The covenant continued through Isaac, not Ishmael
The covenant continued through Isaac, not Ishmael
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. 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. But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.”
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The covenant confirmed through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
The covenant confirmed through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
See also Isaac
Jacob:
Jacob:
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The people of Israel are heirs to the covenant
The people of Israel are heirs to the covenant
so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today, that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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All nations will be blessed through Abraham
All nations will be blessed through Abraham
seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
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