The Covenant with Abraham

Galatians 3:15-22 The Covenant With Abraham CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO

1. The Covenants
1. Man’s covenant
2. God with Abraham
2. Confirmation of the Covenant
1. Confirmed

1. “Back it up” – appears
2. “Bear it out” – born
3. Isaac, Ishmael, Gen 25 with Rebekah
4. Promises made, Gen 13:14-17
5. Righteousness, spiritual and physical
6. Land, Gen. 15:18
7.  Gen. 15:4-7
8. Rom 10:4
9. Lk 16:16
10. Acts 7:53

2. Everlasting covenant, Gen 17:8,19
3. Lord appeared, 17:1
4. Lord went up, 17:22
5. Therefore, no man annuleth or addeth
2. The Promise of the Covenant
1. Abraham and seed (v. 16)

2. Seed and land

3. Seed, righteousness, and land
3. The Seed of the Covenant
1. Seed = Christ
2. Had to be Jesus because Isaac didn’t live forever; needed Life
3. Covent confirmed before of God in Christ  (v. 17)
4. His appearance, Gen 17
5. His birth, Matt 1:1
4. The Law
1. The law 430 and later
2. Cannot annul
3. Promise no effect
4. Ex 12:40-41
5. The Inheritance (v. 18)
1. If inheritance is of law, then no more of promise
2. God to Abraham by promise
6. The End of Law (v. 19)
1. So why law? Added because of transgressions
2. Rom 4:15– make peculiar people, Ex 19:5
3. Till seed come (promise)

8. The Ordination of the Law
1. Ordained (ordain = proclaim, lay down, command, establish) by Angels