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Promises Fulfilled Advent 2009 #3
Gen 3:15; 17:7; 21:12;
The Promised Seed
Well we’ve been talking about Promises
Jesus was promised to be born in Bethlehem and he was
He was promised to be born of a virgin and he was
Today we talk about Seeds.
Jesus, the Promised Seed.
Seeds are something.
They are small but produce much.
There are rules of the Harvest
You Reap What You Sow
You Reap More than you Sow
You Reap Later than you Sow
He was just a baby.
Small is the way they come.
Even big babies are small.
He was just one of many babies born on November 4, 1975.
He was just a little seed of promise like all babies are.
But seeds produce more than they appear, and they produce later than when they are sown, but oh what a harvest.
A little acorn grows into a huge mighty Oak tree.
A little wheat grain when it germinates can produce a mighty wheat harvest to support a family and feed masses.
And that little seed born in Sandusky, Ohio was “planted” and grew.
Seeds of learning, education, hard work, training, technique, and training tables, germinated with a little time in Columbus and in 1997 that seed was 6’7” and more than 320 pounds.
And he was drafted #1 by the St. Louis Rams and signed the biggest contract ever for a Rookie of $23 million plus a $5 signing bonus.
That little seed has grown a long way from an infant to the hulk of a man he has become, numerous awards, and tens of millions of dollars.
Not a bad harvest from a little seed
A seed, Jesus Christ is the fulfilled promise.
He was a Promised Seed.
So, let me paint a picture, a picture of God’s Seed in the Consciousness of Israel.
The Seed planted through prophesy and promise and Harvested in Jesus Christ
I want you to see Jesus described as 4 seeds and then seeing the Promises fulfilled, I will tell you what it means for you and me.
So save a little space at the bottom of each section
So, let me take us through some Old Testament scripture and build a base on which to Stand and see the Glory of God in Christ Jesus
Oh the Promises of God, born in Bethlehem, of a Virgin and today the Promised Seed
First …
*1.
The Seed of the Woman*
Mary?
No further back, all the way back.
Genesis 3. Adam and Eve were in God’s perfect creation.
And it says satan was “more crafty than any of the animals”.
He appeared to Eve.
He lied to Eve.
He tempted her.
He enticed her to do the only thing God had told her NOT to do and that is to eat from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.
She ate, she gave to Adam and he ate and with the willful disobedience, sin entered the world and with it came death.
Physical death and spiritual death entered the world.
God pronounced necessary judgment and consequences on all, including Adam, Eve, the Serpent and all of his creation.
God himself provided for the remission of their sin through animal sacrifice and clothing of Adam and Eve.
The reason we wear clothes is because of our sin.
So Matthew Henry says there is “little reason to be proud of our clothes, which are but the badges of our poverty and infamy.”
And so, I’m sure, right in front of Adam and Eve, God killed those animals.
What a gruesome thing for them to see the violence of sacrifice because without the shed blood there is no forgiveness for sin.
They watched as he sacrificed for them.
How fitting.
The first animals killed on earth were innocent for a sacrifice.
But in the midst of it was a Promise … Speaking to Satan, he said …
Genesis 3:15 -
And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
The seed of the woman, will eventually, ultimately, and finally Crush the Head of the Serpent.
The word “offspring” is literally “seed” – and the promise is that the see of the Woman will crush, strike, or bruise … the word is “shuwph” /shoof/ bruise, crush, to fall upon
The promise from the beginning was that this would not be the end of the story.
That Eve would have a descendant that would right the wrong that she had started.
The Promise was 1) that our Redeemer would come physically 2) He will die physically as satan will bruise his heal and 3) he will WIN as he will crush the serpent’s head.
Again this sin would not be the end of the story.
There was a Promised seed that would Harvest Victory over Sin.
Now in your notes write down “Fulfillment” and we will be back in a moment.
The Seed of the Woman and next
*2.
Seed of Abraham* – Gen 17:7; 22:18
Abram was part of a pagan culture in an area called Ur of the Chaldeans.
It is in what is now Turkey, north of Iraq and Syria.
In Genesis 12, God chose him and pronounced his blessing as he obeyed God’s leading to a new Land.
Abram followed God.
He traveled to Canaan and as far as Egypt.
More than 20 years passed since God made the promise.
Abram had failed God many times and wondered if perhaps he had missed the opportunity for God’s blessing.
In Genesis 17 God appeared to him again.
He was 99 still with no son by Sarai, his wife
And God confirmed his covenant and said
Gen 17:7
7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
A covenant to BE Your God and the God of your descendants … it was a seed planted
And then after their child Isaac had been born and was a boy or young adolescent, God says in
Gen 22:18
18 and through your offspringb all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
All the nations of the earth would be blessed, because Abram obeyed
The Promise is based on God.
God gave the promise, so God will fulfill the promise
God says “I will establish” quwm / koom/ arise, stand, abide
The promise fulfilled is God’s doing and it is marvelous
He said “I will be your God” elohiym – ruler, judge, divine, one, God
God’s promise was everlasting.
That means it has always been and always will be.
It is From everlasting and it is TO everlasting.
And we will know it has come as the promise is fulfilled in the Seed of Abraham
What you have is determined by who your god is.
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