God’s unconditional grace is received not by a perfect life but by humble repentance and faith.
Sermon Title: WHY ISRAEL MATTERS
Sermon Text: GENESIS 12:1-4 (ESV)
Sermon Series: LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS
By: PTR NESTOR SY
Sermon Notes:
GENESIS 12:1-4 ESV
1 Now 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.
2 And 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.
3 I 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.”
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
“The Jews, your majesty. The Jews.”
ROMANS 11:1-2 ESV
1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
Replacement Theology
I. The Promise of Land
GENESIS 12:1 ESV
1 Now 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.
EZEKIEL 36:5 ESV
5 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
EZEKIEL 36:20 ESV
20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.’
EZEKIEL 36:28 ESV
28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
GENESIS 15:18-21 ESV
18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
God’s unconditional grace is received not by a perfect life but by humble repentance and faith.
II. The Promise of Blessing
GENESIS 12:2-3 ESV
2 And 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. 3 I 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.”
MATTHEW 1:1 ESV
1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
HEBREWS 11:8 ESV
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
GENESIS 12:3 ESV
3 I 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.”
III. The Promise of Preservation
GENESIS 12:3 ESV
3 I 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.”
ZECHARIAH 12:2 NLT
2 I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah.
God keeps his promises.
Even when God makes a promise 4,000 years ago, he keeps it!