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Genesis 15:5 · BSB
15:5 And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
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…came. How many of us are waiting for God to deliver something, but we're not expecting to wait 24 years? So in the middle, something happens. InGenesis chapter 15, Abraham hears from God again. This time he's 85 years old. So it's been 10 years since that first promise. And God says, you will be a father of…
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…that. Watch this now. The blessing of God is the generosity of God. The covenant of God is all of God. We don't have time to turn there, but inGenesis chapter 15, God speaks with Abram. He says, Abram, I'm going to make a covenant with you. I want you to grab some animals and I want you to cut them in half.…
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…passage in Romans chapter 4. I'll read a small a short section, but really the whole of Romans 4 is really thinking about this passage um from fromGenesis chapter 15. In Romans chapter 4, I'll put it up on the screen for you. Romans chapter 4 and verse um 20 to 24, um I'll just read it cuz I can't say it any…
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…between your faith and your feelings, then you're in good company. Because today, we're continuing in the book of Genesis. We're opening up toGenesis chapter 15, reading on about the story of Abram, who's later his name. God gives him a new name, Abraham. That's the later name for Abram. Abram is known as…
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…you. And so we find that God tested Abraham, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises, meaning Abraham, the promises of God.Genesis chapter 15, we talked about that a couple weeks ago. God's plan for Abraham's life to bless all of the world through the promises and blessings of God. The…
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…into a great nation. But he doesn't object to it. He doesn't ask any questions. He listens to God and he goes. A few chapters later when we get toGenesis chapter 15, Abram is about 85 years old at this point. So about 10 years have passed. And God repeats his promise. But this time Abram has some questions. He…
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…is the backdrop to our Abram encounter today. Understanding this cutting the covenant. And so let's let's talk about Abram today. We're gonna be inGenesis chapter 15. If uh uh you use the study that we put in the bulletin, you'll read the two chapters in between where we were last week to kind of get you ready…
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…land. Land. There are very clear and specific boundaries of land that were promised and given to the people of Israel. It's further expounded on inGenesis chapter 15. What's interesting is that this land, which gets all the talk and which gets all the conflict comes out of, is no bigger than the size of the…
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…go ahead and read it to you. Before I read today's text, I'm actually going to go back to the part where this part of the story began, and that isGenesis chapter 15. So let me just read you a couple of verses from Genesis 15 first, then we'll get to the conclusion of Genesis. But earlier on in the story,…
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…verse 15 let's say verse 15 let's see verse 15 and let's see some considerations that took place now verse 15 says verse 15 from chapter 15 sorrygenesis chapter 15from verse 1. this is after these things the word of the lord came unto abraham genesis 15 verse 1 in a vision saying fear not abraham i am thy…
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…the same long-term perspective that governs his own purposes. The most theologically dense moment in the first half of Abraham's journey occurs inGenesis chapter 15. The promises have been given. Abraham has obeyed, released Lot, refused the king of Sodom, tithe to Melchizedek and yet he has no son. The years…
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…way that he designed us to see him. And that's to give everything that we have to him and trusting him that he knows the best for our lives. Now inGenesis chapter 15and 20, we find Joseph, and he has been sold, he has gone through all the things in his life that have been really, really, really bad. And this is…
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…be primarily in Hebrews chapter 11, which you're gonna find in the latter part in the New Testament of your Bibles, and then we're gonna be inGenesis chapter 15uh in just a moment, also. And this morning we are going to talk about a really big figure in our lives. Though you know it or not, you're directly…
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…as a consuming fire. It's almost that refiner's fire that's referred to by the prophets, burning out the dross from metal so that it's purified. InGenesis chapter 15, God shows up as a fire in the night, a torch and a burning pot to establish a covenant. And so that fire was this sense of the presence of God.…
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…about a man by the name of Abram and a woman by the name of Hagar. Somebody said, mm-hmm, because they already know the story. God gave this man inGenesis chapter 15a promise. Or let's just say it this way: He had the word on this particular issue. They, him and his wife Sarah, couldn't conceive. So God comes…
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…necessarily been planned out on the, we've sort of followed the trajectory of God's names as it happens and it's revealed to us in Genesis. So inGenesis chapter 15, we encounter God as Lord Adonai. And then in Genesis 16, as Jake talked about last week and Rebecca shared, we encounter God as El Roy, the one…
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…In Genesis chapter 12, the Lord speaks to Abraham, the original promise. Because Abraham was alone, he speaks in this covenant promise. InGenesis chapter 15, the Lord creates A binding covenant with Abram when he was alone in Hagar in the wilderness. In Genesis chapter 16, she was alone and abandoned,…
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…in scripture in the book of Genesis, we see there are three key moments in Abraham's journey of faith. Three key moments in Genesis chapter 12, inGenesis chapter 15, and then in Genesis chapter 21. And I want to show you these for just a moment because I think it helps to articulate that Abraham didn't just…
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…in his commitment? In one sense Genesis 16 leaves those questions hanging unanswered. In another sense though they'd already been answered. InGenesis chapter 15when God renewed his promise to Abram when God Genesis 15 verse 18 made a covenant with Abram the Lord bound no one but himself he gave an…
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…want me to do? Alignment with God and God's special agency. So here's the pattern. Whenever somebody talks about Adonai, usually what they go to isGenesis chapter 15, where Abraham believed the Lord and he credited to him his righteousness. So in that confession, Abraham, God said, I'm going to bless you. Your…
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