Genesis 12:1-3

1. Genesis 12:1-3 • 1Now 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. 2And 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. 3I 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.”

3. What is wrong with the world?

4. Promise – What is God’s plan?

5. Genesis 3:14-15 14The LORD God said to the serpent, 15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

6. How will God do this? • Adamic Covenant • Noahic Covenant

7. How will God do this? • Adamic Covenant • Noahic Covenant • Abrahamic Covenant

8. 5 Promises • Great nation

9. 5 Promises • Great nation • Bless you

10. 5 Promises • Great nation • Bless you • Make your name great

11. 5 Promises • Great nation • Bless you • Make your name great • You will be a blessing

12. 5 Promises • Great nation • Bless you • Make your name great • You will be a blessing • Bless those who bless you

13. The Promise Carried Out • Representatives • Patriarchs • Priests • Judges • Kings • Prophets • The Marginalized

14. The Promise Carried Out • 6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. – Deut. 7:6-8

15. The Promise Carried Out • Foreshadowing • The covering for Adam and Eve  • The ark that saved  • God providing a ram for Abraham  • The bronze serpent that was raised • The Judges • The Priests • The Law • The ark

16. The Promise Carried Out Covenants • Genesis 1 and 2 - Adamic Covenant - A couple  • Genesis 9:13 - Noahic covenant - A family • Genesis 12 and 15 - Abrahamic Covenant - A people group  • Exodus 19 - Mosaic Covenant - A Nation • 2 Samuel 7 - Davidic Covenant - All nations

17. The Promise Carried Out 16And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them. - Deuteronomy 31:16

18. In the O.T. , God provided: • A sacrifice for a man - Abe and Isaac  • A sacrifice for a family - Passover  • A sacrifice for a nation - Day of Atonement  • But what about the whole world? 

19. The Promise Carried Out • 2Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, • and makes intercession for the transgressors. • - Isaiah 53:12

20. Application • Read the O.T.!

21. Application • Read the O.T.! • Pay Heed

22. Application • Read the O.T.! • Pay Heed • We can learn from people that lived in a time of promise.