A Child of Promise!

Genesis 21

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, April 27.

Did you know that every believer in Jesus Christ is a child of the promise of God?

Genesis 21:1-3 begins the story of what it means to be a child of promise:

Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised. So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

The ancient story of Abraham’s son Isaac and his half-brother Ishmael is used to describe who Christians become because of the work of the Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ. In Galatians 4:28, Paul contrasts being a child of promise and being a child of the flesh, “And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise” (cf. Romans 9:8).

We become children of promise by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, who grafts us into the family tree of God’s people (Romans 8:15-17; 11:17-24; cf. Galatians 3:29; 1 John 3:1).

We are like Isaac, the children of promise! This is why Jesus Christ came from Heaven to earth, as John taught in John 1:12-13: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

This is what it means to be born again, not of flesh, but of God, in order to be transformed from a child of the flesh to a child of the promise!

Seize the moment and put your faith in Jesus Christ.

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