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In Genesis 15:8 Abram asks a question that we’d all ask. Here God is telling him to move, he’s on the move and he says in Genesis 15:8, “O Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”

He’s asking, “God, how can I know for sure?”

What does God do? God responds to Abram with a covenant. Look at Genesis Chapter 15:18. “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram.”

What’s a covenant?  A blood bond of life and death.  The root word “covenant” comes from this phrase meaning “to cut.”

[The verse continues.] “On that day God made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendents I give this land.’”

So Abram brought a heifer, a goat, and a ram (and this is going to be kind of gross) and he took the animals and split them into. He arranged the bloody halves opposite each other. Then God walked through the bloody pieces of the animals taking the initiative in the covenant. God said, “Abraham, I’m going to pour out my supernatural favor on your life. I’m going to bless you. I love you unconditionally. I’m going to make your name great and you’re going to be just a huge difference maker. I’m going to keep,” God said, “my end of the deal. I’m in covenant with you.”

And then Abraham went into covenant with God. God cut a covenant with Abraham. He was the initiator.

Now, did you notice what I did? First, I called him Abram. And if you were paying attention you said, “Hey, wait a minute. You first called him Abram and now, Ed, you are calling him Abraham?”

Say Abraham with me. Abraham. Before the covenant his name was Abram. After the covenant, Abraham. What happened?

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