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Divine Visitors and Abraham’s Hospitality

Divine Certainty yet Sarah’s Laugh

Divine Power along with Rebuke

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Recalling the Covenant Promise to Abraham

Instituting the Covenant sign of Circumcision

Assuring of a Covenant Son in the Line of Promise

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Assurance of Offspring, and Abram’s Faith

Assurance of the Land, and Abram’s Obedience

Assurance of the LORD’s Faithfulness to His Promise

How are you righteous before God? Only by true faith in Jesus Christ: that is, although my conscience accuses me that I have grievously sinned against all the commandments of God, and have never kept any of them, and am still prone always to all evil; yet God, without any merit of mine, of mere grace, grants and imputes to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness and holiness of Christ, as if I had never committed nor had any sins, and had myself accomplished all the obedience which Christ has fulfilled for me; if only I accept such benefit with a believing heart. (Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 60)

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In the Line of Covenant Promise

Out from His Homeland in Ur of the Chaldeans

To a Promised Inheritance by Grace through Faith

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God’s Promise and the Covenant of Grace

God’s Promise and the Sign of the Covenant

God’s Promise and the Children of Believers

Mark 10:13-16

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The Inclusion of Children in the Kingdom of God

The Necessity of Child-like Reception of the Kingdom