Resurrection

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Abraham Believes God

• Genesis 15

Presented by Bob DeWaay July 4, 2004
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Gods Word Comes to Abram

• Genesis 151
• After these things the word of the Lord came to
  Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram, I
  am a shield to you Your reward shall be very
  great.

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Abram has been Promised Descendants but is
Childless

• Genesis 152, 3
• Abram said, O Lord God, what will You give me,
  since I am childless, and the heir of my house is
  Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Since You
  have given no offspring to me, one born in my
  house is my heir.

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The Seed Promise is Reiterated

• Genesis 154
• Then behold, the word of the Lord came to him,
  saying, This man will not be your heir but one
  who will come forth from your own body, he shall
  be your heir.

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The Promise is Dramatically Reaffirmed

• Genesis 155
• And He took him outside and said, Now look
  toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you
  are able to count them. And He said to him, So
  shall your descendants be.

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The Promise to Abram as Given Earlier

• Genesis 1316
• I will make your descendants as the dust of the
  earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of
  the earth, then your descendants can also be
  numbered.

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Abraham Believes God and Is Justified

• Genesis 156
• Then he believed in the Lord and He reckoned it
  to him as righteousness.

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God Saves Those who Believe

• Jonah 35
• Then the people of Nineveh believed in God and
  they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the
  greatest to the least of them.

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God Judges Those who do Not Believe

• Psalm 7821, 22
• Therefore the Lord heard and was full of wrath
  And a fire was kindled against Jacob And anger
  also mounted against Israel, Because they did not
  believe in God And did not trust in His
  salvation.

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Genesis 156 Cited by Paul

• Romans 43-5
• For what does the Scripture say? Abraham
  believed God, and it was credited to him as
  righteousness. Now to the one who works, his
  wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is
  due. But to the one who does not work, but
  believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his
  faith is credited as righteousness,

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The Land Promise is Reaffirmed

• Genesis 157
• And He said to him, I am the Lord who brought
  you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this
  land to possess it.

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Abraham Asks for a Sign

• Genesis 158
• He said, O Lord God, how may I know that I will
  possess it?

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Cutting Covenant

• Genesis 15, 9, 10
• So He said to him, Bring Me a three year old
  heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a
  three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young
  pigeon. Then he brought all these to Him and cut
  them in two, and laid each half opposite the
  other but he did not cut the birds.

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Foreboding of Attacks on the Covenant

• Genesis 1511
• The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses,
  and Abram drove them away.

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Abrahams Awesome Divine Encounter

• Genesis 1512
• Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep
  fell upon Abram and behold, terror and great
  darkness fell upon him.

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Awe and Darkness When God Comes

• Deuteronomy 411
• You came near and stood at the foot of the
  mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to
  the very heart of the heavens darkness, cloud
  and thick gloom.

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The Egyptian Captivity is Predicted

• Genesis 1513
• God said to Abram, Know for certain that your
  descendants will be strangers in a land that is
  not theirs, where they will be enslaved and
  oppressed four hundred years.

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The Egyptian Captivity is Predicted

• Genesis 1514
• But I will also judge the nation whom they will
  serve, and afterward they will come out with many
  possessions.

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Abraham is Promised Shalom

• Genesis 1515
• As for you, you shall go to your fathers in
  peace you will be buried at a good old age.

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God is Just and Merciful

• Genesis 1516
• Then in the fourth generation they will return
  here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet
  complete.

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God is Just and Merciful

• Leviticus 1825-27
• For the land has become defiled, therefore I
  have brought its punishment upon it, so the land
  has spewed out its inhabitants. But as for you,
  you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and
  shall not do any of these abominations, neither
  the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you
  (for the men of the land who have been before you
  have done all these abominations, and the land
  has become defiled)

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Why God gave Israel the Land

• Deuteronomy 94
• Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God
  has driven them out before you, 'Because of my
  righteousness the Lord has brought me in to
  possess this land,' but it is because of the
  wickedness of these nations that the Lord is
  dispossessing them before you.

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Why God gave Israel the Land

• Deuteronomy 95
• It is not for your righteousness or for the
  uprightness of your heart that you are going to
  possess their land, but it is because of the
  wickedness of these nations that the Lord your
  God is driving them out before you, in order to
  confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your
  fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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God Alone Passes through the Pieces

• Genesis 1517
• It came about when the sun had set, that it was
  very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking
  oven and a flaming torch which passed between
  these pieces.

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Cutting Covenant

• Jeremiah 3418
• I will give the men who have transgressed My
  covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the
  covenant which they made before Me, when they cut
  the calf in two and passed between its parts

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God Gives the Land to Abrahams Descendants
Unilaterally

• Genesis 1518
• On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,
  saying, "To your descendants I have given this
  land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great
  river, the river Euphrates

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Israel is Beloved for the Sake of the Fathers

• Romans 1128, 29
• From the standpoint of the gospel they are
  enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of
  God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the
  fathers for the gifts and the calling of God are
  irrevocable.

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