What was God promise to the world?
Jesus promised that he will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:15). And that He is with us unto the end of age (Matthew 28:20). We are promised a place in the world to come, as well as the riches and grace of being seated with Jesus in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).
What was God’s promise in Genesis?
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
What promises did God give us?
God has a plan for my life — Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” God can be trusted — Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.”
What is the main idea of Genesis 12?
Scholars mark Genesis 12 as the beginning of Genesis’s “patriarchal history,” which tells the story of Israel’s earliest ancestors: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob’s sons. God tells Abram to resume the journey his father began, to Canaan.
What was God’s reason for choosing Abram?
The Bible itself tells us this: “Because I [God] have known [loved, chosen] Abraham because he commands his children and his household after him to observe the way of the Lord to do compassionate righteousness and moral justice.” Once Abraham discovered this great truth, it gave him no rest.
What does the Lord promise Abram in Genesis 12 1 3?
God’s promise to Abram is threefold. He promises a land, which no doubt would have been comforting given the call on Abram to leave the land where he lived, his people, even his family. God promises to create from Abram and Sarai a people, an overabundant family tree.