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Order of Service
Song – A Thousand Hallelujahs
Song – Firm Foundation (He Won’t)
Welcome
Kids Talk
Song – Father Abraham
Bible Reading – Genesis 15
Sermon – The Gospel In Promis – Chris Jolliffe
Confession
Prayers
Song – Be Thou My Vision
Bible passage
Genesis 15 – New International Version
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,
your very great reward.”
2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
8 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
9 So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lordsaid to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here,for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abramand said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadiof Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites,Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Sermon Outline
The Gospel in Promise Genesis 15
A relationship with God?
- Our relational God vv.1-6
- Who binds himself to us vv.7-20
- unconditional covenant
- without precedent
- consistent with his character: gracious, kind, just
- … through Jesus, from Abraham Gal 3:6-7, 29
- a new one-sided covenant Luke 22
- credited as righteous Romans 3:21-25, 4:1-3
- Blessing: God, people, place 1 Peter 1
Next Week’s Topic
Genesis 16-18 – Forcing Fulfilment – Mitch Dunne
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