Abrahamic Covenant
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Last Lesson
Last Lesson
Chosen people
Covenant relationship
An agreement between two parties
Conditional - If you do this, I’ll do that
Unconditional - I will do that, regardless
Covenants include
Blessings for obedience
Curses for disobedience
6 Covenants mentioned in the OT
Noahic
Type - Unconditional covenant
Covenant between God and all of creation that he will never again destroy the earth with a flood.
Divine pledge between God and Noah given unconditionally . No matter what this world does, God will not cause a flood to take place that destroys anything ever again
The sign of this covenant is a rainbow
It is an everlasting covenant
This Week
This Week
Abrahamic Covenant
Abrahamic Covenant
Most significant of the covenants God made with Israel because it deals with all subsequent covenants. Foundational.
Unconditional
Summary - Covenant where God reveals His chosen people
Make thee a great nation
Will bless thee
Will make them a blessing
Make their name great
To the world as well
Curses upon the nations against thee
Blessings upon the nations that bless thee
All nations of the world would be blessed through little Israel
Deals with
People
Land
Nations
Kings
Everlasting covenant
The Promises of the Covenant
The Promises of the Covenant
Personal promises to Abraham
Genesis 12:2
Make of thee a great Nation
I will Bless thee
Name great
Thou shalt be a blessing
Beyond Abraham
Genesis 12:3
Bless those that bless thee
Curse them that curse thee
In thee shall all Nations of the earth be blessed
The Prophetical Elements of the Covenant
The Prophetical Elements of the Covenant
The promise of seed Genesis 13:16, the physical descendants of Abraham
The promise of land
Gen 12:7, 13:15
The dimensions Gen 15:18-21
The duration Gen 17:8 -Everlasting
The promise of Kings a throne - Gen 17:6
The Permanency of the Covenant
The Permanency of the Covenant
Gen 17:7, 13, 19
Everlasting
There is nothing Israel must do to keep this covenant in place.
It’s in place because of God’s character
Confirmed to Isaac Gen 26:3-5
Confirmed to Jacob in Genesis 28:13-14
Application
Application
Genesis 12:3