Again, God didn’t reject Abraham and Sarah for doubting His promise. Thirteen years after Ishmael’s birth and 23 years after the first promise, God again reaffirmed the good news of the promise.

Faith not only goes, but it also stays. And although Abraham’s faith swayed for a time, he kept clinging to the promise that God would one day bless both he and his descendants, Genesis 12:2.

Abraham would not have received his promises, had he refused to leave Chaldea. Later on in the Gospels, 10 lepers would not have been healed, had they not obeyed Jesus’ instructions to show ...

Where Abraham doubted God’s promises before, this time he trusted to the point that He was willing to sacrifice his son. The book of Hebrews helps us understand what was going on.

In the Bible, God promises Abraham a blessing in the form of land, children and inheritance. To claim it, Abraham and his wife, Sarah, who is barren, leave his native land for a place God has chosen.

We stand today, like Abraham, atop the mountain, facing the delicate challenge of reconciling morality and prophecy.

Therefore, it stands to reason that this covenant, this promise God made to Abraham, the one which Jesus came to fulfill, is one we should take to our graves as fact.