#481 – Advent: A Promise Fulfilled (Genesis 15:1–5)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Bible Study, Spirituality, Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Prayer, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, David Platt, John Piper, Pray, Louie Giglio, Baptist, Radical

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

God fulfilled His promise to Abram as Christ died and rose from the grave that sinners from every tribe and tongue may turn from sin and trust in Him. Explore more content from Radical.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.8	Genesis chapter 15, verses 1 through 5.
0:10.2	After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.
0:13.9	Fear not, Abram, I am your shield.
0:16.1	Your reward shall be very great.
0:18.9	But Abram said,
0:20.2	Oh, Lord God, what will you give me? For I continue childless,
0:23.8	and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. And Abram said, behold, you have given me no offspring,
0:32.1	and a member of my household will be my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him.
0:39.1	This man shall not be your heir. Your very own son shall be my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him. This man shall not be your heir.
0:45.2	Your very own son shall be your heir. And he brought him outside and said, look toward heaven and number the stars if you are able to number them. Then he said to him, so shall your offspring be.
0:54.2	This text is one of a few different times.
0:57.9	We see God giving this same promise to Abram
1:02.1	that through his line, his family line,
1:06.9	his offspring would be a family that would be more numerous than the stars in the sky if you
1:16.8	are able to count them. The whole picture here is obviously much bigger than just one son that
1:24.7	would come to Abram, but many sons and many daughters.
1:29.9	Offspring far beyond what he could ever imagine, which points obviously to a much larger family.
1:36.7	And we know that this is the beginning of a promise that would lead not just to the coming of Jesus so we can trace. And Matthew does a masterful
1:49.2	job of this in his gospel tracing the lineage of Jesus all the way back to Abraham. But it's not
1:58.1	just Jesus who would come from the line of Abraham.
2:02.5	It is all those who trust in Jesus.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Platt, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Platt and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.