#1,253 - God's Chosen People (Genesis 12:1–3)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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The mission of God to make his glory known, his goodness known, his grace, his blessing, his salvation known among all the nations.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:04.0 | Genesis chapter 12 verses 1 through 3 |
| 0:08.0 | 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. |
| 0:15.9 | 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. |
| 0:22.1 | I will bless those who bless you and him who dishonors you I will curse. |
| 0:27.2 | And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. |
| 0:32.8 | Let's put to of the earth shall be blessed. |
| 0:37.5 | Let's put together what we've prayed for in the last couple of podcast episodes |
| 0:41.2 | in Genesis 10 and 11 now with Genesis 12. So Genesis 10, we see this picture of many |
| 0:47.1 | different nations, tribes, clans, people groups, ethnic groups. |
| 0:53.0 | Genesis Chapter 11, these different groups, |
| 0:56.5 | speak different languages. |
| 0:59.3 | And we see from the very beginning of the Bible now |
| 1:02.4 | in Genesis chapter 12, God calling a specific |
| 1:07.8 | people group would come from Abram whose name will be called Abraham who will be the father of the people of Israel. |
| 1:17.0 | So God is here forming the Israelites, |
| 1:20.6 | and God is promising to bless this particular people group nation. |
| 1:26.0 | I will make of you a great nation. |
| 1:28.0 | I will bless you and make your name great. |
| 1:31.0 | I will bless those who bless you and who dishonors you I will curse and we see more |
| 1:35.8 | and more as we read through Genesis God establishing a special covenant relationship with the people |
| 1:41.1 | of Israel but don't miss the point. The purpose, God says, |
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