"The promises to Abraham" By Kevin Harvey and Message in song by Kevin and Norm.

Kevin and Norm : Message in song

(I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing 
Songwriters: WILLIAMS, SR., HANK / WILLIAMS, SR., HANK
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/h/hank_williams/im_gonna_sing_sing_sing.html ]

When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing
I'm gonna let the Hallelujah's ring
I'm gonna praise my blessed Savior's name
When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing

In this world of sorrow, I've seen trouble and woe
When I get to glory I'll see no more
For I know my prayers have not been in vain
When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing

Sometimes I get so weary inside
Then I recall how my Jesus died
Up there I know, there'll be no pain
When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing

When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing
I'm gonna let the Hallelujah's ring
I'm gonna praise my blessed Savior's name
When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing

Up there no tears will blind my eyes
As I'll walk along by my Jesus side
I'll meet my loved ones all once again
When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing

When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing
I'm gonna let the Hallelujah's ring
I'm gonna praise my blessed Savior's name
When I get to glory, I'm gonna sing, sing, sing


UNCLOUDY DAY LYRICS - WILLIE NELSON

O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies,
O they tell me of a home far away;
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an uncloudy day.

O the land of cloudless day,
O the land of an unclouded sky,
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an uncloudy day.

O they tell me of a home where my friends have gone,
O they tell me of that land far away,
Where the tree of life in eternal bloom
Sheds its fragrance through the uncloudy day.

O the land of cloudless day,
O the land of an unclouded sky,
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an uncloudy day.

O they tell me of a King in His beauty there,
And they tell me that mine eyes shall behold
Where He sits on the throne that is whiter than snow,
In the city that is made of gold.

O the land of cloudless day,
O the land of an unclouded sky,
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an uncloudy day.

O they tell me that He smiles on His children there,
And His smile drives their sorrows all away;
And they tell me that no tears ever come again
In that lovely land of uncloudy day.

O the land of cloudless day,
O the land of an unclouded sky,
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise,
O they tell me of an uncloudy day


Shouting On The Hills Of Glory Lyrics

The Stanley Brothers[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/shouting-on-the-hills-of-glory-lyrics-the-stanley-brothers.html ]

There'll be shouting on the hills of glory
Shouting on the hills shouting on the hills
There'll be shouting on the hills of glory
There'll be shouting on the hills of God

Oh what a blessed reunion
Oh what a blessed reunion
When will we gather over yonder
There'll be shouting on the hills of God

No more sorrow in that city

No more sorrow in that city
Jesus prepared a place in heaven
There'll be shouting on the hills of God

Now's the time to make your preparations
Now's the time to make your preparations
So stop and make your reservation
There'll be shouting on the hills of God

SERMON  "The Promises to Abraham"
By Kevin Harvey  
(Baptist Church of Chateauguay )
(Please find here excerps,  webmistress personnal notes, paraphrases, and results of research  to complete the notes taken during  Mr Kevin Harvey's sermon)

Calling every nations, kindred, tongues, and people of every ages.

Abraham's call is God's gift of Salvation to the Faithfull.

Genesis 13:12
New International Version (NIV)
12 Abraham lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

After Araham and Lot separated, 


The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2 “I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

God  promised the land to Abraham' descendants. 
Israel : God's people are back in the land  " miracle"
God fulfilled the promise. Jews were scattered over all the nations.


Exodus 6 
2 God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,[a] but by my name the Lord[b] I did not make myself fully known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.


We,  the church though that the promise of God was null and void.


(For our understanding : 
In a sentence, two covenants were nailed to the cross. One covenant was given to Adam and Eve, the second was given to the biological descendants of Abraham. ( Genesis 15:18; Exodus 24:1-8; Deuteronomy 31:16; Jeremiah 11:10; 31:31-34; Ephesians 2; Colossians 2:13-17). When these covenants became null and void at the cross, two things changed. Animal sacrifices were no longer necessary, and all distinction between Jews and Gentiles came to an end. Paul wrote, “For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile – the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ” (Romans 10:12,13) After the cross, salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ. “. . . Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) ref http://www.wake-up.org/Alpha/Chapter8.htm)


The Jews came back after the war:  miracle,  Genesis 14:

17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,19 and he blessed Abram, saying,

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
    Creator of heaven and earth.
20 And praise be to God Most High,
    who delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”

22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, 23 that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ 24 I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”)

The Lord’s Covenant With Abram


God promises a son : Genesis 15 

4 Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 


6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

This promise seemed impossible because they were so old but Abraham believed what God said.

Abraham was called the first "Hebrew" which probably means "to cross over" because he was supposedly so foolish for thinking that there was just one God and that if he crosses over the Euphrates river that he would find this new land that God had promised. But it was with Abraham that God established His covenant. 


Isaac's birth came about from a miracle - Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born (Genesis 21:5), and Sarah, at age 90, had been unable to have children (Genesis 16:1, 17:17). As explained by God:
"Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 

Genesis 15

8 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”

9 So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

Then the sacrificial system was horrible

God asked Abraham to sacrifice his own son. God was not blood thirsty: 

Abraham Tested

22 Some time later God tested Abraham.

He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,18 and through your offspring[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.”

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So, a land would be given to the descendants of Abraham - that's the essence of the first promise.

Abraham and Ishmael

What happens when we are impatient, we do not wait!

Isaac was not Abraham's firstborn, or only, son. Fourteen years before, when Abraham was 86 (Genesis 16:16), Sarah (then called Sarai) had arranged for a child to be born to Abraham through her own Egyptian maidservant, Hagar. Ishmael was born from the arrangement (Genesis 16:1-4).

Wars still....
The deeply-embedded seeds of the modern Israeli-Arab conflict indeed has roots dating back to the man Abraham.

Muslims trace their lineage to Abraham through Ishmael.
The “original Jews” are the physical descendents of Abraham, his son Isaac, and his son Jacob through Jacob's sons who became the 12 tribes of Israel

God makes promises after Isaac is born. Take your only son and sacrifice him. He knew that God would provide the sacrifice through Isaac.... as seen in verse 8 (above) ...Nevermind Abraham

Where is the lamb, the goat...he raises his knife and sacrifices the goat.

Picture of you and I's sins from Adam  

Sacrifice Jesus on the cross = lamb

Jesus Christ our Lord  ...He is the sacrifice. 


Call upon him

Whoever you are; whatever your blood line or national origin - you can hear, believe and obey the gospel. And thus become a participant in the spiritual promise God made to Abraham.

Jesus made a promise and he keeps his promise. Faith in Jesus and we will be saved. 
Jesus is not the same as the others Boudah etc


 Who Jesus was : 
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."


We are blessed today because of the faith of Abraham.

From John 12 
"Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. "


You will mess up and I will forgive you...


The 3 promises to Abraham :


1. The Land Promise: "A land that I will show you."

"I shall make you a great nation": Genesis 15:18

2. The National Promise: "A great nation."


"I shall bless you and make your name famous": Genesis 15:4-5 and in Genesis 17:4-8 



3. The Spiritual Promise: "All the families of the earth shall be blessed."

"You are to be a blessing!" : Genesis 22:18