The difficulty in trusting God is not after the promise has been fulfilled, but while still in the journey of the everyday.

2. Genesis 15:1-2
After these things the word of the Lord
came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not,
Abram, I am your shield; our reward shall
be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord
God, what will you give me, for I continue
childless, and the heir of my house is
Eliezer of Damascus?”
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3. Genesis 15:3-4
And Abram said, “Behold, you have given
me no offspring, and a member of my
household will be my heir.” And behold,
the word of the Lord came to him: “This
man shall not be your heir, your very own
son shall be your heir.”
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4. Genesis 15:5-6
And he brought him outside and said,
“Look toward heaven, and number the
stars, if you are able to number them.”
Then he said to him, “So shall your
offspring be.” And he believed the Lord,
and he counted it to him as righteousness.
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5. Genesis 15:7-9
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who
brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans
to give you this land to possess.” But he
said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I
shall possess it?” He said to him, “Bring me
a heifer three years old, a female goat three
years old, a ram three years old, a
turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
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6. Genesis 15:10-12
And he brought him all these, cut them in
half, and laid each half over against the
other. But he did not cut the birds in half.
And when the birds of prey came down on
the carcasses, Abram drove them away. As
the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great
darkness fell upon him.
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7. Genesis 15:13-14
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for
certain that your offspring will be
sojourners in a land that is not theirs and
will be servants there, and they will be
afflicted for four hundred years. But I will
bring judgment on the nation that they
serve, and afterward they shall come out
with great possessions.
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8. Genesis 15:15-17
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in
peace; you shall be buried in a good old
age. And they shall come back here in the
fourth generation, for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet complete.” When the
sun had gone down and it was dark,
behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming
torch passed between these pieces.
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9. Genesis 15:18-21
On that day the Lord made a covenant with
Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this
land, from the river of Egypt to the great
river, the river Euphrates, the land of the
Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites
and the Jebusites.”
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11. Genesis 15 is a PIVOTAL
scripture, but the phrase I
could not get out of my mind
was, “AFTER THESE THINGS”

12. Genesis 15 is a PIVOTAL
scripture, but the phrase I
could not get out of my mind
was, “AFTER THESE THINGS”
For Abram it has been 10 years and he is yet
to see any HINTS of the promise
MATERIALIZING; all the while life goes on.

13. Genesis 15 is a PIVOTAL
scripture, but the phrase I
could not get out of my mind
was, “AFTER THESE THINGS”
For Abram it has been 10 years and he is yet
to see any HINTS of the promise
MATERIALIZING; all the while life goes on.
The difficulty in trusting God is not AFTER
the promise has been fulfilled, but while still
in the JOURNEY of the EVERYDAY.

14. The PRESENCE of faith
doesn’t mean the ABSENCE
of all doubt.

15. The PRESENCE of faith
doesn’t mean the ABSENCE
of all doubt.
God doesn’t say “fear not” because of the
ABSENCE of threats, but the PRESENCE of
His protection.

16. The PRESENCE of faith
doesn’t mean the ABSENCE
of all doubt.
God doesn’t say “fear not” because of the
ABSENCE of threats, but the PRESENCE of
His protection.
Abram knows God’s promise but it seems in
CONFLICT with present REALITY.

17. We have a TUG of WAR
between doubt and faith;
REALITY and PROMISE.

18. We have a TUG of WAR
between doubt and faith;
REALITY and PROMISE.
Prior to CIRCUMCISION and prior to Mosaic
LAW, righteousness is derived from FAITH.

19. We have a TUG of WAR
between doubt and faith;
REALITY and PROMISE.
Prior to CIRCUMCISION and prior to Mosaic
LAW, righteousness is derived from FAITH.
Justified by FAITH doesn’t mean it must be a
PERFECT faith to justify.

20. We have a TUG of WAR
between doubt and faith;
REALITY and PROMISE.
Prior to CIRCUMCISION and prior to Mosaic
LAW, righteousness is derived from FAITH.
Justified by FAITH doesn’t mean it must be a
PERFECT faith to justify.
In the promise to Abram we find the NEAR
fulfillment in Isaac, the ULTIMATE fulfillment
in Jesus.

21. Please take a moment to fill out your
Communication Card
My Next Step Today is to:
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)
( ) Read Romans 3:21-5:21
( ) Read Galatians 2:15-4:31
( ) Identify where I am needing to trust
Jesus
( ) Reflect on what it means to walk by
faith
( ) Other________________________