Starting back in Genesis 12...Beginning in chapter 12 of Genesis, we are introduced to Abram and his family. This introduction begins with God speaking to Abram...Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.Gen 12:2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.Gen 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."The Lord instructs Abram to begin a journey which requires that he leave his family and home. With this command, the Lord also promises to take care of Abram. This is the important part of this introduction to the relationship between God and Abram. God gives instructions coupled with promise. What is God's purpose?
_________________Jer 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
Quote: """What is God's purpose?"""To bring us to the Seed Jesus Christ.Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.Romans 4:24-25 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.Gods promise by The Faith of Jesus Christ in us.1 Peter 1:21-23 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.1 Peter 1:19-20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,To make our faith and hope in God, this is what gives God glory.The mystery, even hidden from Abraham, revealed to us now.Colossians 1:26-28 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:Revealed to us by the Holy Spirit and the Faith and Spirit of Christ.Galatians 2:16-20 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.In Christ: Phillip
_________________"Christ in you the Hope of Glory" "The life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God."
Phillip wrote:Quote: """What is God's purpose?"""To bring us to the Seed Jesus Christ.Yes, this is according to Scripture....Jesus describes this precept that we have in the testimony of Abram...Jhn 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."Consider the testimony given to us in Scripture of the grace given to Abram prior to God stating that Abraham believed and it was reckoned to him that he was righteous. Search the Scriptures, how did God enable Abraham "to believe?"
Quote: """Search the Scriptures, how did God enable Abraham "to believe?" """I don't know. What is the difference in reckoned and made righteousness? Paul says, By the Grace of God, Jesus Christ was revealed in him. He also says this is a mystery that no person new until it was revealed to Paul to reveal to usward. Made righteous by the Christ in us.How? By His own blood. John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.Ro 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;Ga 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:Eph 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.Re 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in ((((((his own blood,))))))Ro 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many ((((((be made righteous.))))))1Ti 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.By faith Abraham believed what God spoke to him, that God will accomplish what He says.Through faith Paul received the mystery of being chosen from his mothers womb, to receive the revelation of the new birth, Christ being born again in Paul and becoming a new creature in Christ, which the world had never seen before it was revealed to Paul and the preaching of the mystery to the son's of God by birth, Christ in you the hope of Glory. I was enabled to believe by the work of the Holy Spirit when The Father birthed the incorruptable Seed, His Son Jesus Christ, my spirit now being the Spirit of the only begotten Son of God, whose faith we now have.Ro 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.Ro 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Without faith the Law was not established in men and could do nothing but kill me. With Faith of the Son of God, faith establishes the Law in the believer and gives life and not death. Romans 3:22-25 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: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;How do you believe we are enabled to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God which is the only way to salvation. John 3:16 1 John 5:9-13 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.And; 1 John 5:18-20 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. ((((((((And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.))))))In Christ: Phillip
Phillip wrote:"By faith Abraham believed what God spoke to him, that God will accomplish what He says."The testimony in Genesis of Abram is an example given to us so that we too might see the hand of God working in our own lives. The purpose is that we might believe in the One who is sent. Paul writes...Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."So do you see that God speaks to Abram with promise, and do you see how God creates belief from faith to faith in those who do what God asks? Do you see how Scripture teaches?
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.I see God the Holy Spirit teaching use the things of Christ, revealing Himself in us and building from faith to faith, the image of His Son that we might be perfect in Him and not in ourselves.Colossians 1:25-29 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.Only Christ in a born again son of God can bring forth perfection in us, as He presents us to the Father perfect by His blood and His Cross, thereby purchasing me forever.In Christ: Phillip
Phillip wrote:"I see God the Holy Spirit teaching use the things of Christ, revealing Himself in us and building from faith to faith, the image of His Son that we might be perfect in Him and not in ourselves."My question was more specific to the thread...do you recognize, according to the Scriptures, how God worked in Abram's life so that he could believe?
Do we recognize, according to the Scriptures, how God worked in Abram's life so that he could believe? What is more precise than the above question; I should have asked....according to Scripture, how did God work in Abram's life so that Abram knew "what to believe?"We are given the first fact in the following Scripture....The first testimony given to us in Scripture of the grace given to Abram is found in the book of Acts...Act 7:2 And he said, "Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,Act 7:3 "and said to him, 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.' [fn]What must Abram do and what will God teach him?
Act 7:3 "and said to him, 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.' [fn]The command..."Get out" is a conditional revelation. If Abram obeys God's command, then God says, "...I will show you." You see the carnal man is unable to know the things God has for those who love Him. For Abram, this is the beginning of his knowledge of God in a personal way. This is an example of the precept which Jesus declares...Mat 11:29 "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. The yoke is "the command". The promise is "learn from Me."
_________________SermonIndex.net Moderator - Robert Wurtz IIObedience is better esteemed with God than acquired knowledge, it is the most important lesson -fundamental to the gaining of all spiritual knowledge from God. (GW North)
