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Hi, there. My name is Jeff Arthur with The Values Conversation. Here today to talk to us about how God is a God of covenants. In Genesis chapter 15 we begin to see the nature or we begin to see exactly who God is as he’s working with his servant Abraham.

Abraham is an older man by this time in his life. He has no heirs. He has no children. God comes to Abraham and he tells him, “I promise you that I’m gonna make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.” He took Abraham out so that he could look up into the sky at night. He told him, “Your descendants are gonna be as numerous as the stars in the sky.”

Now understand at that this, I repeat, there were no children. It was him and his wife, Sarah. There was nobody else in his life. He had extended family, but not children. So it’s a baseless promise. But God made a covenant with Abraham, took his sacrifice, sealed it in the blood of the animal, and promised because God is a God of covenants. He makes covenants with us. A covenant is a promise that is deeper than just a vow. It is sealed in blood. The covenant between us and God is always where he makes it and then we accept it, and Abraham accepted it. His faith, we’re told in Genesis chapter 15, his faith was counted to him as righteousness. That it was exactly what God was looking for. Not based in reality, just faith.

Now we, in our day and age, we get this screwed up a lot of times and we kinda go out on a limb and talk about blind faith. It wasn’t blind faith with Abraham. He had watched what God had done in his life over and over and over again, and he knew God was gonna take care of it because God is a God of covenants. You and I live under the blood of Jesus Christ, which is the blood of the new covenant. Understand the power of God in our lives. My name is Jeff Arthur with The Values Conversation. You can find out more about us on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheValuesConversation.