Bible Survey - #5 - Genesis 12-17

The Day of Promise

God made a promise to Abram. He told him that He would bless him, that He would make Abram's seed into a great nation, and that through Abram all the people groups of the earth would be blessed.

He also instructed Abram to go to a land that He would show him. Abram went out, not knowing where he was going. As the years passed, he did not seem to be receiving all the promises of God, though the Lord was blessing him through all sorts of experiences.

God repeated His words of promise to Abram, and Abram believed God. Abram's faith was far from perfect. He struggled with the plain facts that he saw around him, and he even tried to win the blessing his own way. Yet God somehow counted Abram's faith as righteousness.

The battle of faith admits of sad moments of unbelief and disobedience. But it is God who is our hope. He has made a promise that He will perfectly keep. Everyone else may fail us, but Christ has fully obeyed the Law. Then He was cut off for a time from the body of the God's people, so that we might be kept in the love of God forever.

Like Abram, we have heard the Word of the Promise. We believe God, and the Lord has credited us with a righteousness that is not our own.

Our father Abram heard the Word of God.

He did believe, God helped his unbelief.

As God declared him righteous in His sight,

The righteousness of Jesus counts for me!