“I will establish My
covenant between Me
and you, And I will
multiply you exceedingly.
Genesis 17:2
I have made you
exceedingly fruitful, and I will
make nations of you, and
kings will come forth from
you.
Genesis 17:6
I will establish My covenant
between Me and you and your
descendants after you
throughout their generations
for an everlasting covenant, to
be God to you and to your
descendants after you.
Genesis 17:7
I will give to you and to your
descendants after you, the
land of your sojournings, all
the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I
will be their God.
Genesis 17:8
The Things God
Determined
To Do For Abram
1. HIS PROMISE IS PERSONAL
Genesis 17:2
a. “I will establish My covenant
between Me and you”
Genesis 15:18
– “On that day the Lord made a covenant with
Abram”
– In order for a covenant to live, something
has to die!
1. HIS PROMISE IS PERSONAL
Genesis 17:2
b. “I will multiply you exceedingly.”
1. HIS PROMISE IS PERSONAL
Genesis 17:2
c. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek,
and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you. “For everyone who asks
receives, and he who seeks finds, and to
him who knocks it will be
opened.
Matthew 7:7,8
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.”
c. “And kings will come forth from you.”
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.”
c. “And kings will come forth from you.”
d. “Be fruitful, multiply and take dominion.”
Genesis 1:28
2. HIS PROMISE IS GOVERNMENTAL
Genesis 17:6
a. “I have made you exceedingly fruitful.”
b. “I will make nations of you.”
c. “And kings will come forth from you.”
d. “Be fruitful, multiply and take dominion.”
e. Mark 16:19-20
Genesis 1:28
So then, when the Lord Jesus
had spoken to them, He was
received up into heaven and
sat down at the right hand of
God.
Mark 16:19
And they went out and
preached everywhere, while
the Lord worked with them,
and confirmed the word by
the signs that followed.
Mark 16:20
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
Genesis 17:7
a. “I will establish my
covenant between me and
you.
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
b. “And your descendants after
you throughout their
generations for an
everlasting covenant.”
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
c. “To be God to you and to
your descendants after
you.”
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
d. “Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, it
remains alone; but if it dies,
it bears much fruit.”
John 12:24
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
e. “I am the vine, you are the
branches; he who abides
in Me and I in him, he
bears much fruit, for apart
from Me you can do
nothing.”
John 15:5
3. HIS PROMISE IS GENERATIONAL
f. “For the promise is for you
and your children and for
all who are far off, as
many as the Lord our God
will call to Himself.”
Acts 2:39
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICAL
Genesis 17:8
a. “I will give to you and to your
descendants after you.”
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICAL
Genesis 17:8
b. “The land of your sojournings”
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICAL
Genesis 17:8
c. “All the land of Canaan, for
an everlasting possession;
and I will be their God.”
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICAL
Genesis 17:8
d. Five times in Psalm 37 it
declares that we can “inherit
the land.”
Psalm 37:9,11,22,29,34 39
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICAL
Genesis 17:8
e. And if you belong to Christ,
then you are Abraham’s
descendants, heirs
according to promise.
Galatians 3:29
4. HIS PROMISE IS GEOGRAPHICAL
Genesis 17:8
g.
For by these He has granted to us
His precious and magnificent
promises, so that by them you may
become partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world by
lust.
2 Peter 1:4
What does God mean when
He says, “I will make you?”
Like melting silver (metal) to
remove the dross (impurities).
Ezekiel 22:21
“As silver is melted in the
furnace, so you will be melted in
the midst of it; and you will know
that I, the Lord, have poured out
My wrath on you.”
Ezekiel 22:22
Shaphan the scribe came to the king
and brought back word to the king
and said, “Your servants have
emptied out the money that was
found in the house, and have
delivered it into the hand of the
workmen who have the oversight of
the house of the Lord.”
2 Kings 22:9
Once God established His will
before Abraham; Abraham had
to decide to conform his will to
God. If you believe, then this is
how you will behave.