ABRAHAM’S
SEED
Second
of nine devotions in Incarnation Parallel
Bible Study series
Genesis
12:3, Acts 3:25
Genesis
12:1: “The Lord had said to Abram,
‘Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land
I will show you.’”
After
Eve and Adam broke God’s one command of never eating from the “Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil,” people have been born into sin. But God had a plan to fix what the first
couple broke. His plan included His Son Jesus.
Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of
sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Belief in Jesus fixes what Adam and Eve
broke—communion with God. Jesus offers
people a choice of eternal life, as opposed to unbelievers’ eternal death.
The human spirit never dies, so every
soul will spend eternity somewhere. People’s
choice is made before death where/how
they’ll spend eternity. The Father planned
for Jesus’ birth—from Abraham in the Hebrew race—in order to provide people
that choice. Jesus arrived forty-two
generations after Abraham lived.
Genesis 12:2-3 shows God’s sevenfold
promise to Abraham when he’d obey God’s command to leave Haran. 1) Make Abraham into great nation. 2) God’s blessing Abraham. 3) Make Abraham’s name great. 4) Abraham would be a blessing. 5) God would bless whoever blesses
Abraham. 6) God would curse whoever
cursed Abraham. 7) All peoples on earth
will be blessed through Abraham.
Abraham had problems. But he also had great faith. Abraham’s wife Sarah, was unable to have
children! Abraham saw this as a big
problem. How would he ever be a great
nation? But Abraham did what God
commanded. He left Haran with Sarah, his
nephew Lot and all their possessions. He
was already seventy-five years old!
When they arrived in Canaan, God
showed Abraham the land that would be his (Genesis 12:7). The Canaanites already lived there, and they had
a famine. So Abraham took his family (and
possessions) to Egypt, then on to Negev, Bethel, ending up in Ai. Abraham and Lot became so prosperous that both
their herds couldn’t survive together on the same land (Genesis 13:6). So, Abraham and Lot chose different lands,
and they parted company (Genesis 13:11).
Abraham overcame every problem. Every one of God’s words came true.
Take Home Nugget
Abraham
is the Patriarch of both Judaism and Christianity. Patriarch
means father. The parallel Scripture is Acts 3:25: “And you are heirs of the prophets and of the
covenant God made to your fathers. He
said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the peoples of the world will be blessed.’”
Celebrate your heritage of being in
God’s family through Abraham!
J.D.
Griffith
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