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“I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly.
Genesis 17:2
I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.
Genesis 17:6
I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:7
I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 17:8
The Things God Determined
To Do For Abram
1. HIS PROMISE IS PERSONAL
a. “I will establish My covenant between Me and you” Genesis 15:18 – “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram” – In order for a covenant to live, something has to die!
Genesis 17:2
1. HIS PROMISE IS PERSONAL
b. “I will multiply you exceedingly.”
Genesis 17:2
1. HIS PROMISE IS PERSONAL
c. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 7:7,8
Genesis 17:2
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.” c. “And kings will come forth from
you.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”b. “I will make nations of you.” c. “And kings will come forth from you.”d. “Be fruitful, multiply and take dominion.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
Genesis 1:28
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.” c. “And kings will come forth from
you.”d. “Be fruitful, multiply and take
dominion.”
e. Mark 16:19-20
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
Genesis 1:28
So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mark 16:19
And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.
Mark 16:20
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
a. “I will establish my covenant between me and you.
Genesis 17:7
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
b. “And your descendants after you throughout their
generations for an everlasting covenant.”
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
c. “To be God to you and to your descendants after you.”
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
d. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
John 12:24
e. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
John 15:5
f. “For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
Acts 2:39
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICALGenesis 17:8
a. “I will give to you and to your descendants after you.”
b. “The land of your sojournings”
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICALGenesis 17:8
c. “All the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICALGenesis 17:8
d. Five times in Psalm 37 it declares that we can
“inherit the land.”
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICALGenesis 17:8
Psalm 37:9,11,22,29,34 39
e. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICALGenesis 17:8
Galatians 3:29
g. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by
lust.
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICALGenesis 17:8
2 Peter 1:4
What does God mean when He says, “I will make
you?”
Like melting silver (metal) to remove the dross
(impurities). Ezekiel 22:21
“As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out My wrath on you.”
Ezekiel 22:22
Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord.”
2 Kings 22:9
Once God established His will before Abraham; Abraham had to decide to conform his will to God. If you believe, then this is how you will behave.