Let's take one by one.
You say the promise of Abraham - father of nations.
Then Jesus will come
to gather the children of Abraham.
Is that right?
Thank you.
You all know Abraham?
I'm not here for the theology school.
I'm here for the divine meaning of the Bible.
We have the Letter of the Scripture
and we have the divine meaning of the Bible.
Before I answer this question, let me give an example -
Apostle Paul.
Paul knew the Torah very well,
the five books of Moses,
the Law and the prophets.
And Saul stood against the revelation of Jesus.
He persecuted the church.
Because he thought that Jesus was not the promised Messiah.
He thought that the Gospel
is not representing the lost tribe.
Because he felt the Gospel of Jesus,
that is not the promise of Abraham.
That's why all the Pharisees,
all the teachers of the law stood
against the revelation of Jesus.
So, Jesus said in the Book of John 8, Jesus said,
why can't you believe my words?
I'm here to tell you the truth, which Abraham has not done.
And he said to them, before Abraham was, I am.
And they were shocked.
They said, how can you, this little boy, small boy,
you have not 50 years.
And you said, you have seen Abraham.
Jesus said to them, they said to Jesus,
we are the children of Abraham.
Jesus said, if Abraham was your father,
you would do the works of Abraham.
Abraham saw my day.
And he rejoiced.
If you want to understand the promise of Abraham,
for the Christians, you have to understand what Paul said
in the Book of Galatians 3:13-15.
Can somebody read?
Galatians 3.
Yes, listen to Paul.
I said from verse 12.
Paul said,
Do you hear that?
The law of Moses is not of faith.
Why he said that?
God made a promise to Abraham, right?
Abraham said in Genesis 17:16,
"God, You said I will be a father of nations
and I will possess this land.
How am I going to possess it?
How will I know?”
That's what he asked.
God said, you will grow old, you will die.
In four generations, your children will come to a free land
where they will be enslaved.
I will come down and deliver them and set them free
and I will lead them to the land of Canaan.
And I will give it to them.
Before God fulfilled the promise,
God put Abraham to the test.
In Genesis 22:8,
God said to Abraham,
"Take your son, Isaac, whom you love and offer him to me
in sacrifice to one of the mountains I will show you."
God said it to him.
Abraham never doubted.
The Bible says Abraham took his son, Isaac,
and traveled towards the land of Moriah,
where the mountain of sacrifice should take place.
The Bible says, when Abraham drew near
to the place of sacrifice,
his son, Isaac, said to him,
“Father, this is the wood,
where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
Abraham looked and said, "Jehovah Jireh,
the Lord will provide."
God, in this scripture, has revealed to Abraham
what God Himself will do to bring this promise
to all the nations of the earth.
God spared the life of Isaac.
He saved the life of Isaac,
and he provided a ram, a ram for the sacrifice.
But God did not spare the life of Jesus
on the Cross for you and me.
That promise has to be fulfilled by Jesus himself.
That's why Jesus went to the cross
to take all the curses we deserve.
Let me continue.
Don't forget, before this happened,
to understand the Bible, to understand the Old Testament,
you have to go back to Genesis 3:15.
When Adam sinned, death came.
And God said to the snake that I will put enmity
between you and the woman.
His seed and your seed.
So, that's the first promise God made.
A seed will come from a woman
and will break the dominion of Satan
and restore the relationship.
That's righteousness.
Righteousness.
So, when the time came for God to fulfill that promise,
to bring man back to God,
that's what the Bible is all about.
The gift of righteousness, which we shall receive by faith
in the cleansing power
of the Blood of Jesus Christ.
That's why the Bible says in the Book of John 1:35,
"This is the Lamb of God
who takes away the sins of the world."
In Genesis 15:6, when God brought Abraham out,
look at the stars, such will be your descendant.
So, there were two promises,
a promise on the earth, territory,
and a heavenly promise.
The real promise of Abraham, as Galatians said,
is when the Holy Spirit comes, you are born again.
That's the divine inheritance of the sins.
That makes you a descendant of Abraham.
Let's go to Romans 2:28-29.
Let's listen to what Paul said.
So, when Paul said in Galatians 3,
that the law is not of faith,
because the promise can only be accepted by faith.
If I make you a promise
that tomorrow I will give you this, if you believe in me,
you will wait for me to fulfill the promise.
Am I right?
But if you don't believe in me,
you will just listen to me and go.
You will not come.
Faith is expecting God to do what he promised.
Faith is the heart that believes God.
Abraham was 99 years old
when the promise was fulfilled,
But when God made a promise to him in Genesis 15,
the Scripture says that Abraham waited
for more than 25 years.
But Abraham never doubted.
Why?
Because if God speaks to you today,
and your heart believes it, you have the promise.
If truly you believe that God is faithful,
if you believe that God is trustworthy,
all that you need is to hear his word.
Because God's word can never fail unless God fails,
and God never fails.
You know Moses?
God used Moses
to deliver the children of Israel
and bring them to the promised land.
God used Moses
in Exodus 20
to reveal his law and commandment to Moses
for the children of Israel.
Moses built a tabernacle.
Moses wrote the law and gave them guidelines on how to live
as a holy people when they were entering the promised land.
But Moses said something
that confirms the word of Paul in Galatians 3:12.
Paul said the law is not faith.
Why?
In Deuteronomy 29,
Deuteronomy 29:4,29,
Moses was saying to the children of Israel,
That's faith.
It means faith has not come yet.
Because with the heart you perceive,
with the eyes you see by faith,
with the ear you hear the voice of the Holy Ghost by faith,
so faith comes by hearing the Word of God.
And 2 Corinthians 5:7 said,
"We walk by faith, not by sight."
Moses is saying that to them.
Why did Moses say God has not given them heart to perceive
and eyes to see and ears to hear?
Because on Deuteronomy 29:29
Moses said:
Moses is saying it takes revelation
to do the work of the Law.
It takes the heart to perceive revelation
to understand what the law means.
Prophet Isaiah said the same thing in Isaiah 6:9.
See their eyes so they could not see.
See their ears they could not hear.
Make their heart dull, they would not understand.
And the prophet said God for how long?
God has to wait till the nations
like you and me will believe Jesus,
will be saved, will receive the promise of the Holy Spirit.
But one day the time will come,
the time will come
where the people of Israel
and the nations will come together
to worship the same Jesus.
Romans 11:1-2
So, this, the summary of the Bible is all this.
Adam sinned, man was separated from God
and God made a promise of righteousness
that God will put the Holy Spirit will come back again
for man to have relationship with God.
But for that to happen, someone has to come,
the seed of Abraham
which is Jesus the promised Messiah.
Jesus is the fulfillment of the promise of Abraham.
If you read the Book of Genesis 19,
before judgment came to Sodom and Gomorrah,
in Genesis 18, God said to Abraham,
"Will I hide to Abraham what am I going to do?"
Will I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
Many say God is coming to destroy So,dom and Gomorrah,
but that is not it.
God is saying to Abraham,
I came down from Heaven
to fulfill the promise I made.
Right from Genesis 3:15,
"I will have a righteous branch
that will bring my righteousness back on earth."
When all the nations of the world will come to me
through Jesus Christ.
That's why God put him to the test
and asked him to sacrifice his son.
Galatians 3:7 says that God has preached the Gospel
to Abraham in advance
where God will send His son to redeem us from sin
when we believe in Jesus Christ,
when we repent of our sins,
when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior,
when we believe His resurrection from the dead,
we receive the gift of righteousness.
So, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Law.
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Holy Bible.
Thank you.