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This week we read TWO Bible passages... Genesis 17:1-8 and Galatians 3:6-14.

The whole theme for this week was PROMISE or COVENANT. God made an agreement, called a covenant with Abram. He promised that he would lead him to a new land, make his descendents into a great numerous nation and that all nations would be blessed through him. God chose Abram and said that he would be his God and Abram and his descendents would be God's people....

God was pleased with Abram's faith - if we use the words in Genesis 1, it was as if God saw Abram's faith and it was good. We looked at the book of Galatians where Paul was writing to the church there and telling them, look at Abraham (God gave Abram a new name remember?) God was please with him because he trusted God's promise. He trusted in God. He obeyed God because of his faith...

Some people in the church of Galatia were being told that they needed to follow the Jewish laws in order to be saved. Some people were preaching that believing in Jesus wasn't enough. Paul was telling them, hang on a minute... it's because we couldn't obey the law, because of our sin, that God sent Jesus to die for us in the first place. Trying to please God by our own actions isn't enough - it won't please God because we can never be perfect, we already messed up!! Paul was putting them straight - look at Abraham, God was pleased with him because he didn't try to do anything from his own strength, but he trusted God would keep his word, so he left his home country and followed God's leading...

So,... how about you? Do you believe that God can be trusted? Is God's word true? Will he change his mind and decide that actually sending Jesus was just a joke? When we die will he actually laugh in our face and say, haha, I tricked you? OR.... is God for real... maybe what he says is true and we can trust him... and if we don't... we can't do anything to save ourselves...?

You decide... God promised, and he kept his promise to Abraham... do you believe that he will keep his promise to you?

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

John 3:16