I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
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… God speaks to Abraham. Genesis 26, verse 4, And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven. I will give to your descendants all these lands. By the way, you go search and see, and it's actually the Hebrew descendants of Abraham. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. Remarkable. One more. Galatians chapter 3 verse 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say and to seeds as of many but as of one. And to your seed who is Christ. What does that mean? Jew and Gentile must come to Christ to experience the blessings of God for salvation. Don't discount God's fulfillment, blessing, and plans for the actual nation and land of Israel because that's a great part of Bible prophecy yet to come. Don't confuse the two as many would have. And so church, remember last time together we started this, the way of wisdom. We talked about the church being an influencer, you and I. …
… certainly in the land, he promised to give him land, but also in descendants. God said, I'm going to give you descendants. He gave the promise to Abraham, then Isaac in Genesis chapter 26 verse 4, Jacob in Genesis chapter 28 verse 14. God says, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, I'm going to bless you, and that blessing is going to be evident in descendants like the stars in the sky. Descendants everywhere. And the points of tension in the book of Genesis, do you remember? points of tension oftentimes revolve around barrenness and questions about an heir, descendant coming. The whole issue with Abraham and Sarah. Sarah was barren, and it was a miracle that God provided them with a child in very old age. And the whole picture was God saying, I'm going to bless you in this way. Same thing happened with Rachel. You look in the Old Testament, you'll see key points where barrenness is an issue. Because barrenness was pictured as a curse. You get to Genesis chapter 49. …
… All the families of the earth. Then God says the same thing to Abraham's son Isaac in Genesis 26.4, Isaac's son Jacob in Genesis 28.14. You're going to be, your descendants are going to be the dust of the earth. They're going to spread out to the west and the east, the north and the south. All peoples on earth, all the nations will be blessed through you. Enjoy my grace. Spread my glory to all the nations. and that becomes the foundation for why god does what he does in stories throughout the old testament think about god's deliverance of his people from egypt brings them to the edge of the red sea splits that sea in half brings them through in the middle of dry ground that water comes crashing down the egyptians why did he do that exodus 14 verse 4 says i'm going to gain glory for myself among the egyptians i'm going to show my glory to the egyptians in this way joshua 5 and 6 they're about to enter into the promised land joshua's on the outskirts looking over the city of Jericho, first major city in the promised land, these huge walls. …
… and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For to you and your descendants, I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father, Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your offspring, Isaac, all the nations on the earth will be blessed. Because Abraham, your father, obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands and decrees and my instructions. Verse 6, So Isaac stayed in Gerar. When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, oh, that's not my wife, that's my sister. Because he was afraid to say, she is my wife. He thought the men of this place might kill me on account of Rebecca because she's too beautiful. So right away, Isaac and I got something in common. Our women are too beautiful. Praise the Lord. Verse eight, when Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife, Rebecca. Whoopsies. So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, she is really your wife. …