Genesis
15:7 ¶ And he said unto him, I am the
LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to
inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD,
whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 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. 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. 11
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
God brings up
another promise that He made to Abram, the inheritance of the land of Canaan.
God took Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees.
Remember, most of the time the ch sound is like a k. The Chaldeans or Chaldees were a root ethnic tribe of
Babylonia and were dominant for a period of time. Some priests of Babylon were
identified as being Chaldean. (see
Ezra 5:12; Daniel 2:10) But, again Abram is challenging God and demands to know
what assurance he can be given that will guarantee this promised inheritance.
God promised to
save the Christian from an eternity of agony and suffering, God’s response to,
His judgment on, a rebellious humanity.
Acts
16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Romans
10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. 11
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed. 12 ¶ For there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that
call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
God coming to
indwell a person by the vehicle of the Holy Spirit is the deposit, the earnest
money, the guarantee of that promise of salvation.
Ephesians
1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that
ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Any Christianity
or Christian philosophy without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is a pathetic
joke, a dangerous delusion, and stumbling block to sanity. Without the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit the Christian faith is reduced to humanistic
drivel, man aspiring to please a God he does not or cannot know personally. It
then becomes a political slogan, a cultural expression, a way to keep the
masses down, or a justification to dominate others.
The Holy Spirit’s
indwelling, the fruit it produces in the Christian as listed in Galatians
5:22-24, and the religion it demands as an expression of your faith as
explained in James 1:27 and 1John 2:15-17, are part of the foundations of proof
that this indwelling is real. Being born again of the Spirit is the proof we
have that God’s promises in Christ are real to us as this upcoming ritual is
the deposit, the earnest, so to
speak, of God’s promise to Abram.
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