Scripture Foresaw

Galatians 3:8-9 - The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

1 Timothy 5:18 - For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages."

Romans 4:18 - Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

Hebrews 11:19 - Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.

Conclusions:

• Scripture foresaw is a personification of Scripture that calls attention to its divine origin
• The use of Scripture for both an Old Testament and a New Testament passage shows that by the time of 1 Timothy portions of the New Testament were considered to be equal in authority to the Old Testament Scriptures
• Paul develops Abraham as a man of faith at length
• When all hope, as a human possibility, failed, Abraham placed his hope in God
• So strong was Abraham's faith that he actually believed that God would raise Isaac from the dead if necessary, an event that did occur figuratively when the substitute ram was provided

Application:

• Do you see Scripture as divinely inspired?
• Do you place your hope in God?
• Is your faith strong enough to believe that God can do anything?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV

Conclusions derived from NIV Study Bible