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For those of you following along in your books, you’ll know that for the past several weeks, we’ve changed the order of some of the chapters in the Believe Book...
…that we’re walking through
The reason for this is because we wanted to follow the order that is laid out in Scripture more closely than the book does...
As you know, we’ve been walking through the fruits of the Spirit to finish out this sermon series...
AS we’ve been trying to answer the question:
WHO AM I BECOMING?
With that said, this week we come to (Sermon Title: Faithfulness)
Now in the book, the majority of the chapter focuses on the Faithfulness of man toward God...
What I want to do today is focus in on: The Faithfulness of God
I think that maybe MOST of the time, when we hear the word “FAITH” within the Christian community...
we think of the Faith of the Church - the faith of Christians...
And maybe rarely do we consider the Faithfulness of God Himself...
Let’s do that today…but where do we start?
Let’s start with Abraham
Remember the Abrahamic Covenant?
So there are really 3 promises that are apart of this covenant between God and Abraham.
Land
Descendants (God will make Abraham a great nation)
Blessing (in/thru Abraham all the families of the earth shall be blessed)
Now - What is a covenant?
A covenant is a solemn promise by which 2 or more parties commit themselves to the rights and responsibilities demanded by their relationship and accept the serious consequences of breaking faith.
SLIDE:
So basically, a covenant is a picture of "relationship built on promise".
What is a Covenant?
NOW - how good, up to this point, was mankind at maintaining it’s promises to God?
Well let’s look at the evidence:
The Fall
The Flood (all the intentions of the heart of mankind was only, evil, continually)
The Tower of Babel
Not a good track record!!
And so - with this specific Covenant with Abraham, we see God take matters into His own hands...
and we see the Covenant Ceremony take place in Genesis chapter 15 (you remember?)
So what’s happening here?
(*Explain)
Ordinarily when a servant would enter into a covenant with a lord, the servant would pass thru the dead animals as he made his promise of faithfulness.
This was a way to say - If i'm not faithful to this promise i make today, may i be torn into pieces and killed like these animals.
The servant is agreeing to take on the curse of the covenant if he does not keep his oath.
Now with this in mind...let's look at what happens here.
So instead of Abraham passing thru the dead animals...
God does!
In the form of a smoking fire pot and flaming torch,
God passes thru the blood path (the dead animals),
and as He does, He promises to bless Abraham in all the ways He has promised.
Typically the Servant would pass through the blood path...BUT God does...
OR - to view it this way - GOD points to the Son of God (Jesus) who would come to .... SERVE...as a Suffering Servant...
So God walks the blood path....
And then the ceremony ends.
Abraham never walks.
This means that God promises to take the curse of the covenant upon Himself...
NOT ONLY if He fails to obey the covenant, but if Abraham does.
And then FROM HERE - throughout Scripture we see the...
the ABSOLUTE FAITHFULNESS of God...
…in the shadow of the constant UNfaithfulness of man...
And so as we walk through these points today....view them IN LIGHT of the PROMISE of God…in the Abrahamic Covenant…!
SLIDE: The Faithfulness of God: In the Awakening of His Saints
The Faithfulness of God
If God is going to remain FAITHFUL to His covenant promise to Abraham…then how does the “Awakening of His Saints” play into this?
Any Christian will agree that he is a sinner...
that sin is real...
BUT - what is the REAL effect of SIN in the life of a person?
Remember back in the garden in Genesis 1 God said that the moment Adam and Eve eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil...
that they would SURELY die…?
Was God lying?
Did they die in the garden?
Answer....???
the answer is - yes they did
They DIED spiritually....
They SURELY did!
And it’s CONFIRMED here in Ephesians 2:1 that we were all DEAD in our sins...
NOW - what does that mean?
Does sin just make us GUILTY before God? - yes…but that’s not all
If sin ONLY made us GUILTY before God - then that means we would ONLY need to be - FORGIVEN
Forgiveness is ALL that we would need - correct?
But is that ALL that God does for us?
Let’s read THIS again (Eph 2)
Now, verse 4
God MAKES us alive…physically?
NO - spiritually
but why?
Because we were DEAD spiritually!
Remember when Lazarus, the friend of Christ had died...
He had been in the tomb for 4 days...
He had died 4 DAYS prior to Christ showing up on the scene...
Why hadn’t he gotten up and out of that tomb long before that 4th day?
You would say - because he was physically dead!
Yes, BUT, oxygen was readily available to him…(there was oxygen in his nostrils)
His wrappings weren’t too tight...
What was the problem?
Yes, all of those things were available to him, but the problem was this:
Physically dead people don’t do physical things
They are UNABLE to do physical things
Now equate that to the SPIRITUAL...
Spiritually DEAD people don’t do Spiritual things...
indeed - they CANNOT do Spiritual things...
And so this idea that God lays forgiveness on the table, and just leaves it there for Spiritually dead people to just Spiritually embrace...
is what?
Spiritually dead people are UNABLE to do spiritual things...
THAT’S WHY the Bible teaches that God MAKES us ALIVE...
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