CHRIST THE TRUE SEED OF ABRAHAM
The story of Abraham is not merely ancient history. It is the very soil in which the Gospel grows. God made a covenant with that old pilgrim from Ur, and the Bible shows us that every word of that covenant was a whisper of Jesus. All the promises God spoke under the desert stars were promises that would one day take flesh and walk among us. Christ is the Seed of Abraham. He is the heir of every divine oath. And all who trust in Him are gathered into that same covenant, clothed in that same blessing, welcomed into that same family of grace.
When God spoke to Abraham and said, “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3), He was not speaking of a fleshly lineage or an earthly nation. He was speaking of faith. Abraham believed God, and God reckoned that faith as righteousness. And now, in Christ, the same God sees our faith the way He saw Abraham’s. This was never a covenant of bloodlines. It was a covenant of belief. The door has always swung on the hinge of faith, not flesh. From the beginning God intended to draw the nations to His heart through His Son.
The Old Testament sings this truth again and again. The covenant is renewed with Abraham, with Isaac, with Jacob, yet always pointing to One greater than they. And the New Testament removes all doubt. Paul tells us plainly that the promise was not spoken to many seeds but to One—“and to your Seed, who is Christ” (Galatians 3:16). Matthew opens his Gospel with the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1), so that we cannot miss the point. Christ is the heir. Christ is the fulfillment. Christ is the covenant. And all who belong to Christ are heirs with Him (Romans 8:17).
This covenant was never built on human strength or human righteousness. It stood long before the Law of Moses and never depended on our ability to keep it (Galatians 3:17-18). It was held up entirely by the mercy and faithfulness of God. Abraham’s tent stakes were driven into grace, and so are ours. The Gospel is simply this: all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ—Jew or Gentile—are one with Him and therefore children of Abraham by faith (Galatians 3:9, 29). Our standing before God does not rise from our social status, our race, or our earthly heritage, but from our union with Christ (Galatians 3:26, 28; John 1:12). God has but one family, and all its members wear the same mark—faith in the Lamb.
Every promise God ever made finds its “yes” and “amen” in Jesus (2 Corinthians 1:20). The inheritance of Abraham is not a strip of earthly soil but eternal life in that better country, the heavenly one (Hebrews 11:10, 16). We are citizens of heaven now (Philippians 3:20). We are the household of God (Ephesians 2:19). And we are born again into this family by the resurrection power of Christ (1 Peter 1:3). This is why claiming physical descent without faith means nothing. Jesus told some of Abraham’s own descendants, “I know that you are Abraham’s seed, yet you seek to kill Me… Abraham did not do this” (John 8:37, 39). Flesh cannot save. Faith alone finds the way home.
God swore by Himself to bless and multiply Abraham’s descendants (Hebrews 6:13-14), and in Christ, you are counted among them. You have a spiritual inheritance richer than all the gold of the earth. You are accepted, redeemed, and made righteous—not by who you are, but by who Christ is (Philippians 3:9). This is the Gospel Abraham believed from afar, and the Gospel we rejoice in today. Christ is the Seed. And because we are in Christ, we too are the seed of Abraham.
So lift your eyes and rejoice. You stand in the covenant of grace. You walk in the footsteps of faithful Abraham. And you are wrapped in the eternal promises of God, all purchased by the blood of the Lamb. Blessed are all who believe, for they are Abraham’s children indeed.
BDD
