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Covenant Partners With God

Genesis 17:7 . . . I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. God spoke these words to Abraham. His “descendants . . . in their generations” includes all those who belong to the Lord (Galatians 3:29). We have been “adopted,” (Romans 4:4–7) we have been “grafted” (Romans 11:17) into the family tree of Abraham. The Bible calls Abraham the father of those of us who believe (Romans 4:11). He is the one to whom God made the promise, “You will be the father of many nations” (Genesis 17:4), and when Paul writes to the Galatians, he makes the point that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ has become an offspring of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). As persons of faith, you and I have become members of the household of Abraham (Romans 4:13), so promises spoken to Abraham’s descendants are words that you and I can apply to our own lives of faith (Romans 4:16; Galatians 3:16). Amen

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