God Gave 3 Unilateral Covenants To Abraham. Why? – Seeing The Future Using Bible History (22 of 26)

Series 211 - Looking Ahead After Looking Behind

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A unilateral covenant is a one-sided covenant. When God said “I promise, I will never send a flood to destroy the earth again” that was a unilateral covenant. It’s not incumbent on man's behavior. God just said of himself “I promise you I will never do that again”, and that's what made him so mad when they built the Tower of Babel. A unilateral covenant is a one-sided promise, it’s not based on mutual participation, it's not based on mutual agreement; it is one-sided — unilateral.

You hear statements in politics “a unilateral move” that means one side of the table does something on its own — what it wants to do. A unilateral covenant means one-sided. A bilateral covenant is a mutual or two-sided covenant. God gave Abraham three unilateral promises or covenants, here's the first one: God took Abraham outside and said “Look up at the heavens and count the Stars if indeed you can count them; so shall your offspring be”. Now, here's a man with no children and God is saying “Abraham, you're going to have this many children”. And Sarah is thinking “Oh, please, No!”

God said to Abraham “You know something Abraham, when I called you by the spirit to leave your home, to leave everything behind and to go to a land that you knew nothing about, you showed me you were a man of faith, and I honor people of faith. God said “Abraham, I love you so much I would like to have a whole world full of little Abraham-ites. Aren’t you glad they're called Israelites instead of Abrahamites? Abrahamites would be more correct. Abraham believed even though he couldn't see the evidence. That’s a man of faith! Let me explain....

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