Title: God's Covenant with Abraham
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God's Covenant with Abraham
Genesis 15:1-21
The promises of God are absolute and certain, and the fact that God Himself guarantees them. The text explains in detail God's promise, God's plan to keep that promise, how to wait for that promise, and how to make the promise and believe it.
First, God made a covenant with Abraham.
God had already promised Abraham that he would make a great nation and be a source of blessings, and that all peoples on the earth would be blessed because of Abraham. But for some reason, they did not give children children as concrete evidence of God's promises.
Even after receiving the promises of God, they must have been anxious and afraid because there was nothing concrete that they could confirm with their eyes and with their hands. God knew Abraham's deep heart and came to him with the word to comfort him. Today, we too are weak and we often fall and become discouraged.
If we always think only of our relative weaknesses, sometimes people who believe in Jesus will seem more pitiful and weaker. But we will have to be content with eternal things, content with truth, content with God, content with Christ. God made a covenant with Abraham.
In fact, just being a party to the covenant is a blessing. It is a blessing not to sit in the seat of the wicked, and it is a blessing not to stand in the path of sinners. God made a covenant to give Abraham greater assurance.
Second, God's covenants and promises must be received by faith.
The Bible reveals to us a truly unique truth. God made man in His image. But man was darkened and fallen because of sin. God decided to save mankind. Creation was done with one word, but to save life, a mediator was needed between God and man, and that mediator must be both true God and true man. Preparation was necessary for the coming of such a person, the Messiah.
For that preparation, he chose a man named Abraham. And he made a promise and a covenant with him, revealing that the Messiah would come from his descendants in the future. After that, God will specifically manage and intervene in the people of Israel until the Messiah comes. It was a people preparing as recipients of revelation until the coming of the Messiah.
Lastly, we need to be able to see God's promises broadly and long-term.
We try to look too narrow and shallow. God has yet to give Abraham any children, but he is telling Abraham what his descendants will be like 400 years from now. There are a lot of things that are too difficult to handle when you think on the human side.
In Genesis 15:13, "The LORD said to Abram, "Know it with certainty. I will come out with riches.” The words of this prophecy have come true.
In the end, we will have to live by faith, entrusting everything to God, looking forward to the glory of God through us who are lacking. That is why God told the agonizing prophet Habakkuk that the righteous will live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4).
Dear saints, Our reality today is often irritable and restless, just like Abraham. The reason is the anxiety that comes from not receiving visible blessings from God right away. But God's promises are always kept. That promise was clearly guaranteed through the conclusion of a covenant.
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1. Are you struggling with unresolved problems while praying and living your life of faith for a long time? What's the matter?
2. Nevertheless, what kind of confession should my life of faith be? You will have to move on to the process of getting closer and closer to your relationship with the Lord. What kind of confession should my faith be? And what should I do?