Sermon by Bruce McCallum 11 March 2018

2. Abraham Covenant

3. ABRAHAM COVENANT
God selects Abraham from among the nations
scattered at Babylon and promises to him that
He will eventually restore His blessing to all
humanity.
This Covenant points all the way to the

4. Genesis 11:5-9 (NIV)
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the
tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD
said, "If as one people speaking the same
language they have begun to do this, then nothing
they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7
Come, let us go down and confuse their language
so they will not understand each other."

5. Genesis 11:5-9 (NIV)
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all
the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9
That is why it was called Babel - because there
the LORD confused the language of the whole
world. From there the LORD scattered them over
the face of the whole earth.

6. Acts 17:26-27 (NIV)
26 From one man He made every nation of men,
that they should inhabit the whole earth; and
He determined the times set for them and the
exact places where they should live.

7. Deuteronomy 32:8 (NIV)
8 When the Most High gave the nations their
inheritance, when He divided all mankind, He
set up boundaries for the peoples according to
the number of the sons of Israel.

8. Genesis 12:1-3 (NIV)
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.
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will
bless you; I will make your name great, and
you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who
bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through
you."

9. Promises of Blessing

10. 1. “I will bless you”
Genesis 12:2 (NIV)
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will
bless you; I will make your name great, and
you will be a blessing.

11. Genesis 14:18-20 (NIV)
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out
bread and wine. He was priest of God Most
High, 19 and he blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed
be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven
and earth. 20 And blessed be God Most High,
who delivered your enemies into your hand."
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

12. Genesis 13:2 (NIV)
2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock
and in silver and gold.

13. 2. “You will be a blessing”
Genesis 12:2 (NIV)
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will
bless you; I will make your name great, and
you will be a blessing.

14. Abraham – Gen 15:5, 17:4-8
Sarah – Mother of nations – Gen 17:16
Rebekah – to be a mother of thousands of millions – Gen
24:60
Isaac – Seed to be as the stars of heaven – Gen 26:4
Jacob – seed as innumerable as sand in the sea – Gen 32:12
Joseph – Fruitfulness and a multitude of people - Gen 48:4
Israel – Multiply and be blessed Deut 7:12-14,

15. 3. “I will bless those who bless
you” | “and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."
Genesis 12:3 (NIV)
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever
curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.“

16. Genesis 22:17-18 (NIV)
17 I will surely bless you and make your
descendants as numerous as the stars in the
sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your
descendants will take possession of the cities of
their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all
nations on earth will be blessed, because you
have obeyed me."

17. 4. “I will make your name
great”
Genesis 12:2 (NIV)
2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will
bless you; I will make your name great, and
you will be a blessing.

18. Genesis 12:3 (NIV)
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever
curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.“

19. Acts 7:8 (NIV)
8 Then He gave Abraham the covenant of
circumcision. And Abraham became the father
of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after
his birth. Later Isaac became the father of
Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the
twelve patriarchs.

20. Luke 2:21 (NIV)
21 On the eighth day, when it was time to
circumcise Him, He was named Jesus, the name
the angel had given Him before he had been
conceived.

21. How to live fully human and alive
in a rapidly shifting world?

22. 1. Blessed to be a blessing

23. 2. Be Baptised
Colossians 2:11-13 (NIV)
11 In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting
off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done
by the hands of men but with the circumcision done
by Christ, 12 having been buried with Him in baptism
and raised with Him through your faith in the power
of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 When you
were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of
your sinful nature, God made you alive
He forgave us all our sins

24. 3. Respond accurately to God’s
promises
Romans 4:20-21 (NIV)
20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief
regarding the promise of God, but was
strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
21 being fully persuaded that God had power to
do what He had promised.

25. Genesis 18:16-19 (NIV)
16 When the men got up to leave, they looked
down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked
along with them to see them on their way.
17 Then the LORD said, "Shall I hide from
Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham
will surely become a great and powerful nation,
and all nations on earth will be blessed through
him.

26. Genesis 18:16-19 (NIV)
19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct
his children and his household after him to
keep the way of the LORD by doing what is
right and just, so that the LORD will bring
about for Abraham what He has promised him."

27. 4. Your goal is multiplication and
nations.