Sermons on Genesis (VI) - BE A GOSPEL WITNESS WHO SAVES THE HUMAN RACE FROM DESTRUCTION

The Blessings that follows the Obedience to God’s command
This is illustrated in the following scripture:
Now the LORD had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2. I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3. I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
4. So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and lot went with him. And Abram was seventy -five years old when he departed from Harlan.
Then Abram took Sarai his wife and lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Harlan, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.”
We notice here that it was the obedience to the command given by God to Abram that led to the manifestation of all the promises given by God to Abram. At this point, his name had not been changed, so it was the beginning of the testing that would lead to finally his name being changed by a Covenant between God and him.
Likewise, when we compare this to the Word of God in John 3:3-5, ‘Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.’” This means that unless one is born again, he cannot understand the righteousness of in the Kingdom of God or the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
‘Nicodemus said Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’”
Here we realise that Nicodemus was not verse in spiritual truth; for the Lord was telling him that the soul needed to have a good conscience through being born spiritually of God from Heaven.
Then the Lord answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.”
Here the Lord has given a parable which all in this world must believe as Abram believed God, from the main passages above. We must believe into the heart, the Word of John 3:5 as it is written so that understanding of it will manifest as we look at the baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17, and to understand the doctrine of Christ in given through Apostle Peter in 1 Peter 3:21, “There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism(not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Here Peter tells us that the baptism of Jesus, resulted in us, by faith, were baptised into His death and resurrection, because as the Lord also was raised to life by the Father through the Spirit. For all New Testament churches must believe the Word of His power, John 3:5 in order to receive the understanding of the mystery of the salvation of the soul which God had finished before He rested kn the seventh day from His works. Likewise, our Lord finished all His works, and declared, “it is finished” and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, with power and authority in Heaven and earth, and all of the Universe, and gave us the gospel of the water and the Spirit; for us to bring others in in all the nations to believe and to enter the Kingdom of God in the heart, in spirit, because Jesus has solved all the problems of sins in the heart such that we only need to accept the truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and become the priests, saints, servants and the children of God.
Returning to the main passages of the scripture, it was the obedience of Abram that preceded the Covenant of faith between God and him.
We only have to ruminate in the blessings that we’re promised to Abram of which believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit have also inherited, because of the obedience of Jesus Christ to wash away all the sin of the world with His water of His baptism and blood and give us the Holy Spirit that indwells our hearts; for He is our Helper and Comforter in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and witnesses the truth in our hearts or conscience and leads us walk in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Abram also was weak in the flesh as we are, though we are saved from the condemnation of sin; for in Romans 3:23, it written, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But Abram became the father of faith, through his obedience to the Word of God , despite his weakness as a men as we also are weak in the flesh but have received our sinless lives in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Because of our faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit we have become the priests of God, and are called to spread this gospel to all nations. We have inherited the same blessings shown shown in the main passages through our faith in the water and blood and the Spirit; for the Spirit witnesses the truth in our hearts, because the Spirit is truth. This blessings are not available to those who reject the truth of gospel of the water and the Spirit, because they are idol worshippers who walk in the ways and practice of Balaam.