This is Spoken Gospel.

We’re dedicated to seeing
Jesus in all of scripture.

In each episode, we see
what’s  happening in a Biblical text

and how it sheds light
on Jesus and his Gospel.

Let’s jump in.

So far in Genesis, we’ve
seen the promise God made

about one of Eve’s offspring
continue to hold true.

Through Cain murdering Abel, through
flooding the whole earth, through the blessing

and cursing of Noah’s children,
and even through the Tower of Babel,

God has kept a people for himself.

And now we get to one of the
most important of Eve’s children,

a man named Abram -
who will later be renamed Abraham.

God calls Abram out of
his land,  people, and family

in order to be a special and
new people group unto himself.

And God makes a
three-part promise to Abram.

First, God will make
Abram into a great nation.

He will have so many
children that counting them

would be like trying to
count all the stars in the sky.

This fulfills God’s original purpose
for Adam and Eve in the garden -

that they would
be fruitful and multiply.

Second, God will bless Abram.

More than that, all nations will be
blessed through Abram and his children.

This is the fulfillment of Adam
and Eve’s original purpose in the world.

They were supposed to
fill the world with God’s image,

but the world has been
filled with man’s image instead.

But through Abram, God
would pick up where they left off.

Third, and last, God promises to give
Abram and his children the land of Canaan.

This is what you might have
heard called the, "Promised Land."

In summary, God promises to
make Abram into a great nation

that would bless the
world and live in Canaan.

But only through Jesus, the
promised child of Eve and Abram,

are these promises perfectly kept.

Jesus has made the church into a family
so numerous that it is impossible to count.

It is so great of a
nation that it exceeds

all borders, nationalities, ethnicities,
social classes, and geographies.

Through Jesus, the whole world is blessed.

Anyone who puts their faith in Jesus,
naming him as the one who fulfills

God’s promise to Abram, is brought into
this covenant relationship with God.

They are blessed with the
same blessing given to Abram.

Finally, Jesus is the one who brings
us all into the promised land of God

where we will dwell with him forever.

Like Eden, the promised land was
never meant to be one geographical location

that we take possession
of, but it’s the starting place

for a worldwide explosion
of God’s glory and presence.

Only Jesus will finish this
promise when he returns in his glory,

remakes the whole earth,
and dwells with his people forever.

I pray that the Holy Spirit would show you
the God who is calling a people to himself,

and that you would see Jesus as the one

who fulfills every single one
of these promises God’s made.