Welcome to this weekend's In-Tutch podcast with Charles Stanley. Do you know someone who loves to plan ahead?

Well, no one planned more than God. Today's podcast reveals how long before the birth of our Savior, the Lord was already preparing every detail for his arrival.

I want to begin today a series of three messages to answer the question why Jesus came.

So, in order to do that and to lay a real foundation for that, if you'll turn to Genesis

chapter 12, and I want us to read the first three verses together, Genesis chapter 12.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from

thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee.

And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee, and in thee shall all

the families of the earth be blessed.

Now, if I should ask you, why did Jesus Christ come to this earth

2,000 years ago? 90% of the people would probably answer in order to save me from my sins. And that is true,

but that is not the only reason Jesus came. And I think one of the most beautiful demonstrations

of the faithfulness of God

is wrapped up in the whole concept of Christmas and Bethlehem and what happened the night that Jesus Christ was born.

But I want us to see something here because what God did for Abraham, he has also done for us. And so the first

reason I want us to see for Jesus Christ coming was this, that Jesus Christ came in order to

fulfill an irrevocable, unchanging, unalterable covenant promise which he made to Abraham some 6,000 years ago.

About 4,000 years before Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem.

So I want to describe something to you about a covenant, and then I want us to look to see what God

said and how he operated in the life of Abraham, and then how that applies to us today.

And I want you to see the great detail to which God went to in order to fulfill what he had

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