Genesis 15:7–11
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the most solemn, mysterious, and foundational passages in all of Scripture. If you want to understand the gospel, if you want to understand the cross of Jesus Christ, if you want to understand the bedrock of your own salvation, you must pay close attention to what happens here. Our modern sensibilities are often offended by blood, by animal sacrifice, by what seems to be a primitive and barbaric ritual. But this is because we have been catechized by a sentimental, bloodless, and therefore powerless version of Christianity. We want a God who makes suggestions, not a God who cuts covenants. We want a God who signs greeting cards, not a God who swears a bloody oath with His own life as the collateral. But God is not content to simply give a bare promise.