Abram’s Salvation Gen 15:1-6 I. Scripture No Salvation outside of Scripture. “the word of the LORD” II. Situation Salvation is the promise of the impossible. “This shall not be” III. Surrender Salvation is the result of complete Surrender to God. “he believed in the Lord”

1. Abram’s Salvation
Gen 15:1-6
A bram’s
Salvati on
Gen 15:1-6
Gen 15:6
6) And he believed in the LORD; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
Rev 19:11
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse; and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True,
and in righteousness he doth judge and make
war.

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Problems with the Passage:
Abram received righteousness
without knowing it,
Expecting it or
seeking it;
that is very different than in our age.
Jas 2:21
21) Was not Abraham our father justified
by works, when he had offered Isaac his
son upon the altar?
Jas 2:26
26) For as the body without the spirit is
dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Gen 15:6

3. 6) And he believed in the LORD; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
Abram, before the law, is under grace,
but nothing happens to him when he gets saved
Like it does in our age-
No spiritual circumcision,
no indwelling Christ,
no new birth, and
no cutting free the soul from body.
He is saved by believing,
without working, and that is about all
that is the same.
Gen 15:1
1) After these things the word of the LORD
came unto Abram in a vision, saying,
Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward.

4. 2) And Abram said,
Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me,
seeing I go childless, and the steward of my
house
is this Eliezer of Damascus?
3) And Abram said,
Behold, to me thou hast given no seed:
and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
4) And, behold,
the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir;
but he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels
shall be thine heir.
5) And he brought him forth abroad, and said,
Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,
if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him,
So shall thy seed be.
6) And he believed in the LORD;
and he counted it to him for righteousness.

5. 1)…the word of the LORD
came unto Abram…
I. Scripture
I. Scripture
Gen 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came
unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and
thy exceeding great reward.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit, and they are life.

6. Jas 1:18
Of his own will begat he us with the word of
truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of
his creatures.
1Pet 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth
and abideth for ever.
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1Thess 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without
ceasing, because, when ye received the word of
God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as
the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word
of God, which effectually worketh also in you
that believe.
Phil 2:13

7. For it is God which worketh in you both to
will and to do of his good pleasure.
4)…the word of the
LORD came unto him,
saying,
This shall not be thine
heir…
II. Situation
II. Situation
Gen 15:4
4) And, behold,
the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir;
but he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels
shall be thine heir.

8. Eliphaz reproves Job for justifying himself-
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he
which is born of a woman, that he should be
righteous?
Bildad-
Job 25:4-5
4 How then can man be justified with God? or
how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not;
yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
David-
Ps 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant:
for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Paul-
Rom 3:19-20

9. 19 Now we know that what things soever the
law saith, it saith to them who are under the
law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall
no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is
the knowledge of sin.
1Cor 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as
is common to man: but God is faithful, who will
not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
able; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1Pet 1:6-7
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more
precious than of gold that perisheth, though it
be tried with fire, might be found unto praise

10. and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ:
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Gen 15:1b
…I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward.
2Cor 4:18
18) While we look not at the things which are
seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1Cor 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man,
the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him.

11. 2Cor 4:17
For our light affliction, which is but for a
moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory;
“Exceeding great reward”
even the while we tread this earth.
2Cor 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power may be of
God, and not of us.
We are daily loaded with the beatifies as a
earnest payment on our future settlement.
Gen 24:53
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them

12. to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to
her mother precious things.
2Cor 1:22
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest
of the Spirit in our hearts.
2Cor 5:2
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be
clothed upon with our house which is from
heaven:
6) And he believed in the
LORD;…
III. Surrender
III. Surrender

13. Gen 15:6
6) And he believed in the LORD;
“in” covers all future instructions as well as the
current ones.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but
by me.
Acts 4:10
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people
of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him doth this man stand
here before you whole.
Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there
is none other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved.

14. Rom 3:22
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith
of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe: for there is no difference:
Rom 10:3
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,
and going about to establish their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God.
Matt 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls.
Matt 16:24

15. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man
will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me.
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Prov 23:26
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes
observe my ways.
Rom 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
Jas 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you.

16. N o Salvation outside
of Scripture.
“ the word of the
LORD”
Salvation is the
promise of the
impossible.
“ This shall not be”
Salvation is the
result of complete
Surrender to God.
“ he believed in the
Lord”
SCRIPTURE SITUATION SURRENDER
A BR A M ’ S SA L V
A TI ON
Abram’s Salvation
Gen 15:1-6
I. Scripture
No Salvation outside of Scripture.
“the word of the LORD”
II. Situation
Salvation is the promise of the impossible.
“This shall not be”
III. Surrender
Salvation is the result of complete Surrender to
God.

17. “he believed in the Lord”