5. The Promised Seed of Abraham

Gen. 12:1–3, 7; Matt. 1:1; Acts 3:24–26; Rom. 4:3;

Gal. 3:16, 19b; Heb. 11:8–9, 17–19; 

^GEN Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,

From your family

And from your father’s house,

To a land that I will show you.

I will make you a great nation;

I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

All this is a promises the Lord gave to the father of Israel, that he was going to bless the whole earth by his seed which Jesus is a part of the Line of Abe.  I think you can trace salvation and all of  our promises of the Lord back to this man.   All the Jews Muslims and Christians trace faith to this one man.  Israel is started right here and now and will be in a billion years. 

^ROM Abraham believed God, and it was [1]accounted to him for righteousness. ^HEB By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ^By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Salvation is always done in faith and not by works.  Note that faith is all the Lord needed to work.  I do not think faith is something that is earned but it is gift God gave and in it God imputed righteousness to man.  Jesus never expects one to just bang trust him but as one seeks God he gives grace and faith to that end so they will be saved.  Faith is also a act.  If God calls you go where he asks you to go.

^GEN Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.

A important foreshadow of the thing that is going to save us.  Jesus is going to be the son that is going to die in this spot.  A only Son Jesus is going to die.  And he is going to rised up in three days.  This show the Lord was more important than a son.  In the following He has faith in God bringing Issac from the dead.  Are we willing to lay our all on the altar and give all to the Lord trusting he has a plan. 

” ^HEB By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, ^of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” ^concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead.

^GEN And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” So he said, “Here I am.” And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering [2]instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

Jesus is always going to supply anything he asks us to give to him.  If it is Love Jesus gave  more love to us that anyone.  If Money He made it and gives more to you if you give.  In times I give I have more and in times I do not I struggle,  If forgiveness Jesus forgave you all.  If worship is there not a reason to bow when you find Jesus so good.  Worship is not singing it is the preaching of the bible and then the response to God talking to us.

Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

^GAL Now to Abraham and his [3]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. ^ACTS And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold ^MT of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham—^GAL till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made. ^ACTS You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

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[1] accounted to him for righteousness. Used in both financial and legal settings, the word accounted means to take something that belongs to someone and credit to another’s account. It is a one-sided transaction—Abraham did nothing to accumulate it; God simply credited it to him. God took His own righteousness and credited it to Abraham as if it were actually his. This God did because Abraham believed in Him. Abraham was a man of faith, but faith is not a meritorious work. It is never the ground of justification—it is simply the channel through which it is received and it, too, is a gift (cf. Eph. 2:8).

[2] instead of his son. The ram was offered as a substitute for Isaac. In this way, the ram pictures Christ’s substitionary atonement. Though sinners deserved death, Christ took the punishment, as the perfect Substitute, for all who would believe in Him.

[3] Seed. The singular form of the Hebrew word, like its English and Greek counterparts, can be used in either an individual or a collective sense. Paul’s point in Gal. 3:16 is that in some OT passages (e.g., Gen. 3:15; 22:18), “seed” refers to the greatest of Abraham’s descendants, Jesus Christ.