Knowing the God of the Covenants
The God of Covenants • Sermon • Submitted
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· 4 viewsBuilding a relationship with the God of covenants is more than trying to find a genie in a bottle. It is the work of walking in faith through the road the Lord has us on. The relationship will be time tested, refined, and forged by the experiences we encounter in the Lord as He reveals Himself to us.
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Called from Comfort
To know God is to know His voice. In many instances the Lord calls us from our comfort to progress us into the next season or period of our life.
These moments stretch us and bring significant growth.
In the language of covenants this is the way the Lord reveals Himself to us until we have a deeper understanding of who this God is.
Our relationship and the covenants with the Lord are not premised on instant gratification. They are not based on a tv microwave dinner gospel, Our relationship with the Lord is time tested, refined, and forged in each of the spaces the Lord brings us to.
Hearing the Call into the Covenant
Hearing the Call into the Covenant
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
During the time of Terah they served many gods. Many idols.
500 gods and goddesses
city of great accomplishment
Abram hears the voice of the true God
Doesn’t Reveal the full picture right away (v.1)
Immediate promises made:
Bless you and make your name great
You will be a blessing to others
Bless those who bless you
Curse those who dishonor you
All the families of the earth are to be blessed through him
Abram uproots and goes…
first step in obedience
did not hold things of his parents friends or relatives
A Glimpse into the Covenant
A Glimpse into the Covenant
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
On the road to the promise God gives Abram a Glimpse
1 of 2 Covenants (Land)
17 Stops 10 Different Locations
Building on the foundation
The Lord reveals a part of His nature at each stop
An opportunity for the person to grown in the Lord.
Faith and Patience in the Covenant
Faith and Patience in the Covenant
In Hab 1:5 Habakkuk had been pleading with the Lord
End to the injustice
Remembering the Promises in the Covenant
The Lord reminds Hab He is at work and doesn't tell him for he will not believe
Getting ahead of Ourselves
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”
Fear made him move
Fear made him lie
When he takes it upon himself he blunders
Gen 12:17 God protects him
In the learning process there will be blunders. When we have faith in the Lord He delivers
Raising an Altar
Raising an Altar
Abram encounters the Lord and Acknowledges a part of who God is
The Four Altars
The Four Altars
The God of Promise
The God of Promise
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Abram encounters the God of promises
Heb 11:8 because Abram believed… Faith is what drove him
The promise was enough
The Reliable God
The Reliable God
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
Calls upon the Lord
Symbology Bethel (the House of God) Ai (Heap of Ruins)
Work he would have to take on as the mediator for this covenant
Heb 11:9-10 by faith he went in search of a house whose foundation was God
Understood He would have to learn to trust God alone.
The God of Abundance
The God of Abundance
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Oaks at Mamre signify the fullness in strength, finance, possession
Abram is identified as having so much the land could no longer support him and Lot
The God of Provision
The God of Provision
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
In the bleakest of moments when it appears even what God has promised is being taken… God will provide
By the time Abraham gets to this stage he has been tested, refined, and the relationship between God and Abraham is secure.
In Gen 17:5 God changes Abram’s name by breathing on him a sign of the covenant that he would become a father to a multitude.
In our walk God will reveal Himself to us as we step into His covenant promises