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Pastor Martin Saine begins Genesis 17.

Part I

Gen 17:1  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 

99 years old;
Abram was 86 when Ishmael was born

“Walk before Me;

ale al- properly denotes walking toward

Gen 17:2  And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” 

Reaffirmation of Genesis 15..

Gen 17:3  Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: 

Gen 17:4  “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. 

Gen 17:5  No longer shall your name be called Abram, (high Father) but your name shall be Abraham (father of many nations); for I have made you a father of many nations. 

Think about Abram’s name: High Father. 

Could that have stung a bit being called High Father when you’re the father of none???

Name changes in the Bible are very significant!  Did you know that WE get a new name? 

Rev 2:17  “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ‘ 

Rev 3:12  He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. 

Rev 3:13  “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ‘ 

Many NATIONS are to come from Abraham, not just Israel!

Rom 4:1  What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 

Rom 4:2  For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 

Rom 4:3  For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” 

Rom 4:4  Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 

Rom 4:5  But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 

Rom 4:6  just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 

Rom 4:7  “BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS ARE FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED; 

Rom 4:8  BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD SHALL NOT IMPUTE SIN.” 

Rom 4:9  Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 

Rom 4:10  How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 

Rom 4:11  And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 

Rom 4:12  and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. 

Rom 4:13  For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 

Rom 4:14  For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 

Rom 4:15  because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression. 

Rom 4:16  Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 

Rom 4:17  (as it is written, “I HAVE MADE YOU A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 

Rom 4:18  who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE.” 

Mat 25:31  “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 

Mat 25:32  All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 

Mat 25:33  And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 

Mat 25:34  Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 

Mat 25:35  for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 

Mat 25:36  I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ 

Mat 25:37  “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 

Mat 25:38  When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 

Mat 25:39  Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 

Mat 25:40  And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ 

Mat 25:41  “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 

Mat 25:42  for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 

Mat 25:43  I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ 

Mat 25:44  “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 

Mat 25:45  Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 

Mat 25:46  And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” 

The Nations that enter into the Millennium are those that believe in the Messiah by faith, according to the Abrahamic Covenant!

There’s no escape clause!  And NO EXPIRATION DATE! 

Gen 17:6  I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. 

Gen 17:7  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. 

Gen 17:8  Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” 

The Abrahamic Covenant cannot be separated from God’s promise of deeding them the land!

The descendants of Abraham did have some responsibilities: God is to be their God!

Gen 17:9  And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. 

Gen 17:10  This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; 

Gen 17:11  and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. 

sign=  oth- signal, flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.  mark, miracle, sign, token

Circumcision is a sign, an indicator or identifier, of God’s covenant with His chosen people.

Acts 15 asks the question: Does a Gentile have to be circumcised to be saved?  The answer is a clear and resounding NO!

God’s Covenant with Abraham identifies a special people, but they’re not the ONLY people!

Isa 65:1  “I was sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ To a nation that was not called by My name. 

Rom 10:12  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 

Rom 10:13  For “WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.” 

Rom 10:14  How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 

Rom 10:15  And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, WHO BRING GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS!” 

Rom 10:16  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?” 

Rom 10:17  So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 

Rom 10:18  But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: “THEIR SOUND HAS GONE OUT TO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.” 

Rom 10:19  But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I WILL PROVOKE YOU TO JEALOUSY BY THOSE WHO ARE NOT A NATION, I WILL MOVE YOU TO ANGER BY A FOOLISH NATION.” 

Rom 10:20  But Isaiah is very bold and says: “I WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK ME; I WAS MADE MANIFEST TO THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR ME.” 

Rom 10:21  But to Israel he says: “ALL DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HANDS TO A DISOBEDIENT AND CONTRARY PEOPLE.” 

Deu 32:19  “And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 

Deu 32:20  And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith. 

Deu 32:21  They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation. 

Eze 20:32  What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.’ 

Eze 20:33  “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. 

Eze 20:34  I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. 

Eze 20:35  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. 

Eze 20:36  Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord GOD. 

Eze 20:37  “I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; 

Eze 20:38  I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 

This not only applies to Israel, but to ALL nations who come in to the Millennium, under the Abrahamic Covenant!

So where is the Church in all of this?

Simple question:  Does the Church have a real estate property deed?

Gen 17:12  He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant. 

Gen 17:13  He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 

Gen 17:14  And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.” 

Gen 17:15  Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 

From “My Princess” to “Princess”

Gen 17:16  And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.” 

I’ll close with this: Is anything too hard for God?

Heb 11:11  By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 

Heb 11:12  Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. 

Luk 1:30  Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 

Luk 1:31  And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. 

Luk 1:32  He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 

Luk 1:33  And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.” 

Luk 1:34  Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” 

Luk 1:35  And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 

Luk 1:36  Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 

Luk 1:37  For with God nothing will be impossible.” 

Luk 1:38  Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. 

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