1. Human Attempts to Fulfill God’s Promises

2. Man’s Attempts to Fulfill God’s Promises
Posterity / Lineage (Seed)
Relationship / Covenant (Blessing)
Land
Kings

3. Man’s Attempts to Fulfill God’s Promises
Message
God’s people have established a pattern of not trusting God to do what he said he was going to do in his own time and in his own ways
When man attempts to fulfill God’s promises…
He ALWAYS fails
There are ALWAYS tragic consequences

4. Man’s Attempts to Fulfill God’s Promises
Romans 10:1-3
New Living Translation
They don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
New Century Version
They did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

5. Are You Right With God? Do you expect to participate in his promise?
Romans 10:1-3
New Living Translation
They don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
New Century Version
They did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

6. Are You Right With God? Do you expect to participate in his promise?
Do You Believe God?
Galatians 3:22
22 But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
“Faith” (noun) – pistis
“Believe” (verb) - pisteuō

7. Are You Right With God? Do you expect to participate in his promise?
Do You Believe God?
John 3:16–18
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:36
36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

8. Are You Right With God? Do you expect to participate in his promise?
Do You Believe God?
1 John 4
4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
5:5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

9. Are You Right With God? Do you expect to participate in his promise?
Do You Believe God?
Jesus in the Gospels
Synagogue Official (Matt. 9:18)
Woman with blood disorder (Matt. 9:19-22)
Two blind men (Matt. 9:27-29)

10. Are You Right With God? Do you expect to participate in his promise?
Do You Believe God?
Waiting for Jesus’ second coming
Maranatha “Our Lord Come” (1 Cor. 16:22)
Apecdechomai “Eager Waiting” (Phil. 3:20-21)
“Looking for / Hastening his coming” (2 Pet. 3:10-14)
Ephesians 3:11–12
11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.