Keeping His Charge: The Finished Work

"And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." (Genesis 26: 4-5)

Abraham heard God's voice by faith, in that he did not feel condemned before God, but trusted him.

There are other great revelations we can draw from this verse, too.

Abraham kept God's charge, too.

What does that mean?

The second  mention of "mishmereth" will help explain:

"And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." (Exodus 12: 6)

This verse refers to the Passover, including the lamb to be offered.

This lamb is one of the most famous types of our Lord Jesus:

"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1: 29)

The charge that God wants us to keep regards the death of His Son, which we receive every day through partaking of the bread and wine, the symbols of his body and blood broken and shed for us.


Keeping God's charge is not about the efforts we expend, but resting in the truth that His Son completed a perfect work at the Cross, and that we continyue to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord and all that He did for us (2 Peter 3: 18)

"16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3: 16-19)

Part of keeping this charge, of course, rests on our not trying to force God to do something, but rather rest and receive by grace through faith all the wonderful things which His Son has paid for us to receive (Romans 8: 31-32)

To keep the charge of the Lord, rest and receiving all that Jesus paid for at the Cross through His Finished Work.