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It is God’s Covenant with Adam and his descendants which God renewed with Noah after the Flood. There is a covenant even more ancient than the Covenants made with David, with Israel through Moses, or with Abraham, the father of the faithful. He inherits the promise of being a blessing to all nations of the earth when He grants salvation to all who trust in Him apart from works of the Law. Paul writes, “Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.” (Galatians 3:7) Jesus fulfills the Covenant with Abraham because He is the One Seed of Abraham.
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When a person believes in Christ, he is united to Him by faith and becomes one of Abraham’s offspring. Jesus therefore is the recipient of the great promises made to Abraham: that his offspring would be as many as the stars in the sky (Israel under the Old Covenant, the church today), that he would inherit a land (Canaan, and now all the world), and that in Him all the nations of the earth would be blessed (by Israel’s witness to its neighbors, now by the Church’s worldwide testimony.) (Genesis 12:1-3) The nations are blessed by being saved through faith in Christ, just as Abraham was saved by faith alone. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as referring to many, but rather to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16) Isaac, whom Abraham almost sacrificed at God’s command, was only an illustration, a type, of Christ. Paul writes, “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Mosaic Covenant was a temporary application of God’s promises to Abraham until the true heir of those promises, Jesus, was born. The Mosaic Covenant did not do away with the Covenant made with Abraham it could not nullify a promise made already. He saved Abraham by faith which shows that Gentiles as well as Jews can be saved. God accepted Abraham by faith long before He gave the Law to Moses and even before God told Abraham to observe circumcision. So this would beckon the question, “How was Abraham justified?” By faith, the Bible says. In part 3 of this blog, we discovered that Jesus is the One Seed of Abraham, sent to fulfill God’s covenant with Abraham (view part 1 and part 2). OctoThe Need for Jesus (Part 4): The Second Adam