The Messiah - Part 2
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 shew 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 families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 12:1-3
In Abraham all families of the earth were to be blessed. Sometimes
we think of blessings as material things like wealth and prosperity
but there is much more promised here than that. This blessing was to
be an eternal inheritance.
Here was a promise made by God Himself to
give us what the devil robbed us of when Adam and Eve disobeyed God
and caused sin to enter the world. Through Abraham God was going to
bring a way to forgive our sins, cleanse us from sin and bring us a
new beginning, a new birth. All who believe and receive this holy
way will have everlasting life. All who refuse and reject this holy
way will inherit the curse and be lost and apart from God forever.
This really isn't cruel and harsh as it sounds. First of all, we are
already lost eternally. After physical death we face eternal death
and separation from God in a place called Hell. The reason for Hell
I believe is to stop sin and evil eternally. It is a place of no
escape and sin will enter there and stop there.
All those who have
sinned will have to end up in Hell in order for sin to be stopped.
Man was created to live eternally and only the body dies at death.
The inner man, or soul and spirit of man lives forever at one place
or another.
God had to plan a way to save as many as He can from this awful
eternal fate. He had to send His own Son into the flesh. He caused
Jesus to be born of a woman, to became a man who could suffer death,
be tempted and live as one of us. Jesus was able to reverse the
curse by living a life without sin.
When He was killed, He suffered
death without deserving to die. He paid for sin that He did not
commit. In doing so, He was able to reverse the curse. All who
believe in what He did for them will inherit the eternal life that
was promised to Abraham. We inherit this by acknowledging that we
have sinned, desiring to be free from sin and then repenting of sin
and believing on Jesus Christ to free us from sin and give us
eternal life. We become a new creature in Christ Jesus. We become
"Born Again."
Fulfillment of Genesis 12:3
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of
the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham,
And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Acts 3:25-26
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises
made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to
thy seed, which is Christ.
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God
in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but
God gave it to Abraham by promise. Galatians 3:16-18
Messiah Index
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Son of Abraham
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
The Anointed One
part 1
part 2
part 3
The Messiah's Birth
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
The Forerunner
part 1
part 2
part 3
The Son of God
part 1
part 2
His Ministry
part
1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Prophet & Priest
part 1
part 2
Suffering Messiah
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Death & Resurrection
part 1
part 2 |