The Establishment of a Covenant People The Promises of…
Genesis 15:1-21. The Promises of God (The Life of Abraham)[5] – The Cutting of the Covenant If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 15. One of the great passages in all of the Old Testament. We have so far been walking through the life of Abraham. This is the fifth in a series of the study of this great patriarch which runs from Genesis 12 to 23. We've already said that there's a sense in which Genesis 12, verses 1 through 3, is the very center point of the history of redemption in the Bible. Everything before Genesis 12, 1 through 3, leads up to it. Everything afterwards fulfills it. We've also noted along the way since the Missions Conference is coming up next week that the covenant promises to Abraham actually supply for us the ground for…