Believed God

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“And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

At this stage Abraham had just believed God and did what God had told him to do. He didn’t do anything to earn God’s respect. It is important to remember that Abraham was not a “salvation by works” man, he was a “believed God” man. He had no legitimate heir at this stage even though he had an illegitimate son with one of his wife’s slaves. However, God declared the end from the beginning (Is 46: 10).He knew that Isaac would be born and that a great nation would descend from this son. The Lord also promised that the Land would be given to the descendants of the promised son for an everlasting possession. This was not a spiritual promise but a physical promise. Later, when these descendants took possession of the Land the Lord told them that they would have to obey the Law to stay in the Land. After all, the Lord had driven the former inhabitants from the Land because they degraded the Land through their sin. If Israel was going to degrade the Land through their sin then they, too, would be driven out of the Land. But, there was a great difference. The other people were driven out in punishment, Israel was driven out to bring them to their knees so that they would submit again to their God. This is well illustrated in Deut 30: 1-6. God is faithful (see Lam 3: 23).