Christmas in Genesis (Part 6 of 6)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
God’s promises are trustworthy, even when we don’t understand them. Abraham and Sarah laughed in disbelief at God’s promise of a child. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg traces the fulfillment of the promise and its foreshadowing of Christmas—and the cross.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. God's promises are trustworthy, even when they're not immediately understandable. |
| 0:34.6 | In Genesis, elderly Abraham and Sarah laughed in disbelief at God's promise of a child. |
| 0:41.5 | On Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg traces the miraculous fulfillment of this promise, |
| 0:46.4 | and we'll find out how Abraham's story not only points forward to Christmas, but also foreshadows |
| 0:53.1 | the cross. |
| 0:58.2 | Music forward to Christmas, but also foreshadows the cross. Now, the promise of God to Abraham is that in his seed, all the families of the earth |
| 1:07.0 | will be blessed, will be blessed. |
| 1:09.8 | What is being proclaimed here is that through the seed of |
| 1:13.7 | Abraham, from whose seed will come the Lord Jesus, the promise is of knowing God, is of having our |
| 1:23.5 | sins forgiven, is essentially the reality of salvation. Because you see, what is it that |
| 1:32.6 | Abram believed? When it says, did we read it there in chapter 15? Yes, and verse 6, and he believed |
| 1:39.9 | the Lord, and God counted it to him as righteousness. What did he believe? Well, he believed |
| 1:47.6 | the promise. What was the promise? The promise was that he would become the father of many nations. |
| 1:53.6 | How was that going to start with a child? Let me tell you when he believed. He believed the gospel. That's what he believed. If you doubt that, |
| 2:06.8 | you need to do what we said earlier, and that is go to the back of the Bible, where you'll find |
| 2:10.9 | many of the answers. And in Galatians chapter 3, Paul actually expounds Genesis chapter 15 and verse 6. And this is what he says. |
| 2:26.5 | Just as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. |
| 2:39.2 | And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles, |
| 2:43.4 | that is the people who did not have the promises of God, |
| 2:46.0 | and all of this by way of background, |
| 2:48.1 | that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, |
| 2:51.5 | notice here's the phrase, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, |
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