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“Unconditional
Covenant - Abraham”
GENESIS 15:1
1 ¶ After these things the word of the
LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield,
[and] thy exceeding great reward.
GENESIS 15:2
2 ¶
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless,
and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of
Damascus?
GENESIS 15:3
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast
given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
GENESIS 15:4
4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] unto
him, saying, This shall not be thine
heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels shall be thine heir.
GENESIS 15:5
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able
to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
GENESIS 15:6
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted
it to him for righteousness.
GENESIS 15:7
7 ¶ And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD
that brought thee out of
GENESIS 15:8
8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it?
GENESIS 15:9
9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years
old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
GENESIS 15:10
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided
them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds
divided he not.
GENESIS 15:11
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
GENESIS 15:12
12 ¶ And when the sun was going down, a
deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
GENESIS 15:13
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
GENESIS 15:14
14 And also that nation, whom they shall
serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
GENESIS 15:15
15 And thou shalt go
to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.
GENESIS 15:16
16 But in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
GENESIS 15:17
17 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when the
sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
GENESIS 15:18
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this
land, from the
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God made two--three covenants. The first covenant He made He made with
Adam. Broke it. The second covenant was Noahic covenant. It was broke. When God made His covenant
with Abraham, He never said, "If you'll do certain things, I'll do certain
things," He said, "I
have..." Unconditional covenant, God determined to save man. No uncertain
sign about that.
"Abraham,
I have saved you and your seed after you, and I'll swear by Myself
that I'll do it." Amen. Nothing uncertain about that.
"I've done it, already done it." See, man's rotten to begin with.
Anything he does is rotten--anything he does.
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E-77 Noah broke his covenant, or Noahic covenant was broke. Adam's covenant was broke.
Anything that God makes with man... But God was determined, and
would save man, because He foreknew man. And He was determined to save him, so
He saved man by an unconditional covenant. Amen. No uncertainty
about it. He said, "I will." It's wholly by grace, and unconditional,
which makes it by grace. Not, "If you will", "I will". Oh,
how glad I am for that. Not what I am, but what He was. Amen.
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E-37 The--the love of God, after man had fallen,
and deliberately opened the door to the enemy, and come in and marred him, and
set death in him, still God was not willing to be defeated. He came down and
started all over again. He was going to make that man again.
He put Adam on a covenant, do this, and
not this, this, and not that; touch not, handle not, taste not. But we find out, when He started again He started
with--with Abraham. And in Abraham He started him on a
unconditional covenant. Not if you will; "I have, I've already done it.
I've blessed you, you and your seed, and so forth, after you." It was a unconditional covenant. He started with Abraham His
workmanship again, and now with His unconditional covenant.
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51 Now, this unconditional covenant. Not
"if you will, I will, but I will later on," or something like that;
"I have already give the land to you, and your
seed after you!" Amen. See, already done it; It's a finished work.
You said, "To Abraham He did that." Yes, not
only Abraham, but his seed after him. And if we're Abraham's seed, it's a
finished product. "Those who He foreknew, He called; those who He called,
He's justified; those who He has justified, He has already glorified." What you scared about?
That's right. "And the antichrist in the last days," according to
Revelations, "deceived all that dwelt upon the face of the earth, whose
names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life," since the last
revival? No, "before the foundation of the world."
That's when your name was put in the Lamb's Book of Life, when the Lamb was
slain. God spoke the Word; It was in His thinking, in
His thought, He spoke the Word and everything happened just at that time. This
is just God's seed materializing; that's all. His Word's coming down. Now, when
the Light of God flashes across that, quickly that Seed recognizes It, because It's borned of God.
It's Abraham's Seed foreknowed by God. That's why the
Light flashes is to catch that Seed. If it...
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13 All right, we find then, taking the church
back just for a little preview, found out that God promised Abraham that He
would save him, give him a unconditional promise, unconditional
covenant. He would save him and his Seed; not all of his seed, but his promised
seed Isaac. Abraham had eleven sons, you know, but only one of them was the
promise, through Isaac. That's the reason Paul said in--in Romans the 9th
chapter that all that are
We notice, Christ was in Abraham; Christ
was in Isaac; Christ was in Jacob; Christ was in Joseph; Christ was in Moses.
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138 Speaking the other night on the--Abraham
and his Seed after him, how that God showed through Abraham, how He justified
Abraham, the 12th chapter of Genesis. And on the--this on
down, 16th chapter, how He confirmed the covenant through sanctification.
On the 17th chapter, let him nurse from His breast, draw in the Holy Spirit.
And then He confirmed, or placed him (like you've heard me preach the sermon of
"Hear Ye Him"), took Abraham out and changed his name from Abram to
Abraham, give him part of His Name, Elohim, h-a-m.
Then we find out, that after that, He appeared to Abraham.
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E-20 Therefore He, by election, He
chose Abraham, for He knew what Abraham would do. You remember
when He called him out there and said He'd not keep the thing a secret from
him? When He was going down to destroy
But God foreknowing that, and knowing that Abraham would do it,
then He told Abraham in the beginning that He would save him and save his Seed
after him, and would give him the--the unconditional covenant that He made with
Abraham. Not because Abraham was good, but because God was good.
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E-24 Now, I want you to notice that this promise
that God made Abraham wasn't only just to Abraham, but it was to his seed after
him. Now, many people says, "Oh, if I'd have been like Abraham, if I
would've been where God had talked to me and--and give me the assurance like He
did Abraham, then I would've--I--I would really have faith, Brother Branham, if
I just had--if God had talked to me like He did Abraham." But you have the
same promise that Abraham had; that is, if you are a seed of Abraham.
Then you say, "But, Brother Branham, I'm a Gentile. I could
not have the seed of Abraham."
The seed of Abraham wasn't the natural seed; it was the
spiritual seed. For the circumcision of that was nothing, the promise to him
was given before circumcision. But it was given to him before circumcision. And
it wasn't because he was circumcised and in the covenant with God that way; is
because that Abraham believed God.