THE PROMISE LAND BY PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME DSc. D.D
4 Excerpts from Chapter 1
Excerpt 2
The Promise Was Made To Abraham and His Seed
In Genesis 17:7, God established His covenant with Abraham, and his seed. God said “And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and THY SEED after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to THY SEED after thee.” In his epistles to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul by the Holy Ghost threw more light on this and revealed the identity of this Seed of Abraham.
Galatians 3: 16: “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”
There is a great difference between “seeds” and “seed.” So whatever promise God made to Abraham was actually for his seed after him, and Paul brings out arevelation that when God spoke to Abraham, He did not say, “to your seeds” referring to many seeds. In effect God was not talking about Isaac, Jacob and all the sons of Israel. He was not talking about all those ones but rather that the promises which were made to Abraham were actually made to Christ.
Paul also revealed that, “the promises were made to Christ.” He could have said Jesus and that would have meant something else, but what he said has a technical significance. This is very important, when the Bible talks about Jesus, it refers to the man Jesus, but when He is referred to as Christ; the body of Christ is also being referred to. This is not mere semantics; we are the seed of Jesus. The seed and Himself (Jesus) form one whole body, and He is the head of the whole body, which is the Church. You need to follow this, it is no mere human logic. 1 Corinthians 12:27, “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” Also in Ephesians1:19-23, the Bible says, “And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.”
I n Galatians 3:27, 29 the Bible says: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ…And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Oh Halleluyah! This is beautiful; we who are born-again have automatically become Abraham‟s seed and heirs of the promises that were made to Abraham.
SCRIPTURES FOR MEDITATION
A-SCRIPTURE-TWO-WEEKS
WEEKS 1&2
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
WEEKS 3&4
Galatians 3:29
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
