33 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 3 - Abrahamic Covenant

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 3 ABRAHAMIC COVENANT Genesis 12:1-3 In these next lessons we’re going have a real in-depth study of the Abrahamic Covenant, which I have mentioned in previous lessons is so basic to understanding all the rest of God’s program for the ages and the change of God’s dealing with the human race as we come into Genesis chapter 12. Do you know people like that? Ephesians 2:11a Ephesians 2:12a "That at that time, (while Israel was almost in a snide way referring to Gentiles as the uncircumcised dogs) you (Gentiles) were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise,..." Ephesians 2:12b "…having no hope, and without God in the world:" Now that seems shocking doesn’t it? And people are prone to say, well that wasn’t fair. How could God do that? The next verse. Now, is a time word. We are no longer under those circumstances of being outside the Covenants and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, without hope and without God, now Paul says: Ephesians 2:13 Because that to me is just horrifying to have someone sit under what I think is good solid teaching and yet miss God’s salvation. I Corinthians 15:1-2 We’d better know why God is able to save a sinner. Now here comes the Gospel in the next 2 verses that saves you if you truly believe it for your salvation. I Corinthians 15:3 "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it (the Gospel) is the (what’s the next word?) power of God unto salvation to everyone that (what’s the next word?) believeth;"Doesn’t say to everyone that repents and is baptized. The very power that created the universe is released on us, to us, in us and we by that power of God then become a child of God. We can’t comprehend it, but the Bible says that’s what it is and when we believe it, God, as Paul says over and over, accounts it as righteousness. The blood of Christ!" We touched on it just a little bit last week, but now in chapter 12 of Genesis, we come to a place where once again, God is seeing the human race time after time utterly rebel and reject Him. It was a new set of regulations that God had now given, instruction or whatever you want to call it, was just totally different from life in the Garden. All right, under that set of circumstances then we found the human race just utterly rebel until it got so bad God had to bring in the flood. A whole new set of circumstances, and again God gives even more or different rules and regulations to live by. Human nature hasn’t changed. At the Tower of Babel, and now Satan’s influence comes in and they end up going after other gods – the introduction of idolatry. Remember? Paganism. Now what does God have to do? God says I’m going to do something different. So now with the human race totally saturated in idolatry, He says: I’m going to take one little group of people. I’m going to take one man and out of that one man I’m going to bring about a small nation of people. The human race. Humanity. While God is going to be dealing with this nation of people coming out of this one man, Abram, He’s going to let the rest of humanity just sort of drift along in their godless state to their eternal doom, having no hope as Paul says. God wasn’t fair." What had God been doing for 2000 years? From God to man. So even though these covenants are seemingly broken and forgotten, (but since they came from God they’ll never be broken) they’ll never be forgotten. So that he can give a revelation of the God of Abraham to these pagan godless Gentile nations. Has God forgotten them? Because before they got to the place where God could now take them into the Gentile nations and use them as His missionaries or His evangelists, what did they do? Satan was. So even though the favored Covenant People blew it, (that’s the best expression I can use), they just totally blew it, they didn’t recognize the one who had come to fulfill these covenants, they rejected Him, they crucified Him, but God went ahead and brought the Gospel to the Gentiles without Israel by bringing on the scene one little Jew. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible