genesis teaches faith: covenanter genesis 15:7-21

Genesis Teaches Faith: Covenanter Genesis 15:7-21

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Jeremiah 31:33b And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply

and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

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Genesis 15:7 And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out

from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

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Genesis 15:8 But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall

possess it?”

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berith = “cut” a :(berîṯ) בריתcovenant.

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Genesis 15:11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses,

Abram drove them away. 12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And

behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.

SURPRISER Genesis 15:12 As the sun was going

down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great

darkness fell upon him. 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for

certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not

theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall

come out with great possessions.

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15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be

buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the

fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet

complete.”

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 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill

his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward

you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach

repentance.

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Genesis 15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these

pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram

FULFILLER2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake God made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the

righteousness of God.  

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a

curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is

hanged on a tree”— 14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the

Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

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Isaiah 53:8b he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people.

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Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them,

saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in

remembrance of me.” 20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new

covenant in my blood.”

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Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take

away sins. …9b [Christ] does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been

sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for

all.

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