Scripture
foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the Gospel
to Abraham that all nations will be blessed through him
Gal 3:8
8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by
faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be
blessed through you.”[d] 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Gen 12:3
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
Gen 18:18
18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful
nation, and all nations on earth will be
blessed through him.
19 For I have chosen him, so that he will
direct his children and
his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by
doing what is right and just, so
that the Lord will
bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
Gen 22:18
Your
descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.”
Gen 26:4
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b]5 because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my
commands, my decrees and my instructions.”
Acts 3:25
25 And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said
to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.
We learn the following
from the above verses
1)
Scripture
foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the Gospel
to Abraham that all nations will be blessed through him
2) I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
3)
Keeping
the way of the Lord by doing what is just and right would bring our blessings
4)
If
we obey God, all the nations of the earth will be blessed through us
5)
We
will be a blessing when we obey God and do everything God expects us to do by keeping His commands, instructions and His
decrees
6)
God
blessed us through Abraham
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