Genesis 15:1–6
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the most important passages in all of Scripture. If you were to rip certain pages out of your Bible, which God forbid, but if you did, the whole structure would collapse. What happens here in the dark, under the stars with an old man and his God, is the foundation for the central doctrine of the Christian faith, the doctrine upon which the church stands or falls: justification by faith alone. Abram has just come from a spectacular military victory. He routed a confederation of kings, rescued his nephew Lot, and recovered all the stolen goods. And in a magnificent act of faith, Abram refused the blood-soaked riches offered by the king of Sodom, declaring that Yahweh was his provider. And it is precisely here, in the quiet after the battle, that the old fear creeps back in.