FAITH AND COVENANT

COVENANT
•A WRITTEN AGREEMENT OR PROMISE
USUALLY UNDER SEAL BETWEEN TWO
OR MORE PARTIES
COVENANT
•A WRITTEN AGREEMENT OR PROMISE
USUALLY UNDER SEAL BETWEEN TWO
OR MORE PARTIES
•A CONTRACT
•A PACT
COVENANT
• TO CUT
 AGREEMENT OF GOD AND ABRAHAM
GENESIS 17:7 (NLT)
I WILL CONTINUE THIS EVERLASTING COVENANT BETWEEN US,
GENERATION AFTER GENERATION. IT WILL CONTINUE BETWEEN
ME AND YOUR OFFSPRING FOREVER. AND I WILL ALWAYS BE
YOUR GOD AND THE GOD OF YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU
 GENESIS 14
14WHEN ABRAM HEARD THAT HIS RELATIVE HAD BEEN
TAKEN CAPTIVE, HE CALLED OUT THE 318 TRAINED
MEN BORN IN HIS HOUSEHOLD AND WENT IN
PURSUIT AS FAR AS DAN. 15DURING THE NIGHT
ABRAM DIVIDED HIS MEN TO ATTACK THEM AND HE
ROUTED THEM, PURSUING THEM AS FAR AS HOBAH,
NORTH OF DAMASCUS.
 GENESIS 14
16HERECOVERED ALL THE GOODS AND
BROUGHT BACK HIS RELATIVE LOT AND HIS
POSSESSIONS, TOGETHER WITH THE WOMEN
AND THE OTHER PEOPLE
 ISSUES THAT CONCERNING ABRAHAM

•PROTECTION
 GENESIS 14
21THE KING OF SODOM SAID TO ABRAM, “GIVE ME
THE PEOPLE AND KEEP THE GOODS FOR YOURSELF.”
22BUT ABRAM SAID TO THE KING OF SODOM, “I

HAVE RAISED MY HAND TO THE LORD, GOD MOST

HIGH, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND HAVE
TAKEN AN OATH
 GENESIS 14
23THAT I WILL ACCEPT NOTHING
BELONGING TO YOU, NOT EVEN A THREAD
OR THE THONG OF A SANDAL, SO THAT
YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SAY, ‘I MADE
ABRAM RICH.’
 ISSUES THAT CONCERNING ABRAHAM

•PROTECTION
•PROVISION
 GENESIS 15:1

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. ”
 GENESIS 15

• 2BUT ABRAM SAID, “O SOVEREIGN LORD, WHAT

CAN YOUGIVE ME SINCE I REMAIN CHILDLESS AND
THE ONE WHO WILL INHERIT A MY ESTATE IS
ELIEZER OF DAMASCUS?” 3AND ABRAM SAID,
“YOU HAVE GIVEN ME NO CHILDREN; SO A
SERVANT IN MY HOUSEHOLD WILL BE MY HEIR.”
 ISSUES THAT CONCERNING ABRAHAM

•PROTECTION
•PROVISION
•POSTERITY
 GENESIS 15

4THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM: “THIS

MAN WILL NOT BE YOUR HEIR, BUT A SON COMING
FROM YOUR OWN BODY WILL BE YOUR HEIR.” 5HE TOOK
HIM OUTSIDE AND SAID, “LOOK UP AT THE HEAVENS
AND COUNT THE STARS—IF INDEED YOU CAN COUNT
THEM.” THEN HE SAID TO HIM, “SO SHALL YOUR
OFFSPRING BE.”
 ISSUES THAT CONCERNING ABRAHAM

•PROTECTION - SECURITY
•PROVISION- SATISFACTION
•POSTERITY- SIGNIFICANCE
 GENESIS 15:6

• ABRAM
6 BELIEVED THE LORD,
AND HE CREDITED IT TO HIM AS
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
 GENESIS 15:8

• BUT
8 ABRAM SAID, “O SOVEREIGN
LORD, HOW CAN I KNOW THAT I
WILL GAIN POSSESSION OF IT?”
 GENESIS 15:9

9THEN THE LORD TOLD HIM, "BRING ME A

THREE-YEAR-OLD HEIFER, A THREE-YEAR-OLD
FEMALE GOAT, A THREEYEAR- OLD RAM, A
TURTLEDOVE, AND A YOUNG PIGEON
 GENESIS 15:10-11
10 ABRAM TOOK ALL THESE AND KILLED THEM.
HE CUT EACH ONE DOWN THE MIDDLE AND LAID
THE HALVES SIDE BY SIDE. HE DID NOT,
HOWEVER, DIVIDE THE BIRDS IN HALF. 11 SOME
VULTURES CAME DOWN TO EAT THE CARCASSES,
BUT ABRAM CHASED THEM AWAY.
 GENESIS 15

12THAT EVENING, AS THE SUN WAS

GOING DOWN, ABRAM FELL INTO A DEEP
SLEEP. HE SAW A TERRIFYING VISION OF
DARKNESS AND HORROR.
 GENESIS 15
13 THEN THE LORD] TOLD ABRAM, "YOU CAN BE SURE
THAT YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE STRANGERS IN A
FOREIGN LAND, AND THEY WILL BE OPPRESSED AS SLAVES
FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS 14 BUT I WILL PUNISH THE
NATION THAT ENSLAVES THEM, AND IN THE END THEY WILL
COME AWAY WITH GREAT WEALTH.15 (BUT YOU WILL DIE IN
PEACE, AT A RIPE OLD AGE.)
 GENESIS 15
17 AS THE SUN WENT DOWN AND IT BECAME
DARK, ABRAM SAW A SMOKING FIREPOT AND
A FLAMING TORCH PASS BETWEEN THE
HALVES OF THE CARCASSES.
 GALATIANS 3:26, 29
26YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD THROUGH
FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS
29IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, THEN YOU ARE
ABRAHAM’S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING
TO THE PROMISE.