Hebrews 6:13-18 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: In Genesis 15 the Lord appears as “a smoking firepot with a blazing torch”. He passes through the pieces of the offering that He commanded Abraham to prepare. After doing so God makes an oath to deliver Abraham’s descendants into the promise land. While this is going on, Abraham is asleep in darkness. The Lord passes through Himself because it would be upon the Lord’s shoulders to accomplish the promise, just as it would also be upon the Lord’s shoulders to “bless him greatly and multiply his descendants abundantly.” The Lord would have to do it. Sarah was barren and Abraham was of old age. Sarah thought it was so ridiculous that she laughed when she heard of the promise for a son. You don’t come to God on your own terms, but you are invited through grace because those are His terms. When God promises, it is a sure thing.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:20:44 +0000
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