Day 9 of our Bible Reading Plan” Genesis 15 - impressions
Please Holy Spirit help us to be humble and quite enough to listen to You in the first place, rather than jumping to our own conclusions; to enjoy that interaction with you as Abram did.
Thank you that you revealed and offered yourself to Abram and also to us and that we can be honest with you about our struggles.
Help us to build our lives on the rock of listening and doing Your Word, by the power of the Spirit, and to delight ourselves in you and to live by every Word that comes from Your mouth.
Thank you that you revealed and offered yourself to Abram and also to us and that we can be honest with you about our struggles.
Help us to build our lives on the rock of listening and doing Your Word, by the power of the Spirit, and to delight ourselves in you and to live by every Word that comes from Your mouth.
God's promises and our faith responses.
(Abram - about 2,000 BC.)
- God doesn’t break promises.
- I’m not to interpret God’s delays as indifference.
- God was saying to Abram: “Trust Me.”
- The ceremony was well-known in the ancient East - it was a treaty, a vow.
How do I handle the test of faith in the gap between God’s promise and the fulfilment of His promise?
- It doesn’t look as if God is going to keep His promise.
- Abram seems to give up hope for a son of their own.
- Abram starts to make alternative plans - Plan B.
- Abram first struggles in doubt and now he believes! (Genesis 15:6)
- What convinced Abram? Was it the fresh night-air and the twinkling stars?
The interaction between God and Abram - and fellowship with God for us too.
Some examples of many in this chapter:
- God reveals Himself to Abram.
- God offers Himself to Abram.
- The Most High God comes near Abram.
- He calls Abram by His name reiterates His promise, assures him.
- God says to Abram, “I am the Lord”
- The Creator of the heavens and earth takes Abram on a star-lit walk.
Genesis 15:6 is a very important verse.
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
- This is how God saves people.
- Justification with God is by faith alone.
- Martin Luther says that on this principle the church falls or rise.
- Salvation by faith alone in Christ alone.
- This is the only way we can be saved.
- Trying to get to heaven by our good deeds is like trying to stand on a step-stool to reach heaven.
- Our good works will not bring us anywhere close to our right standing before God and being born again.
Galatians 3:17
Romans 4:14,15
James 2
