Why does God make us wait?

Pastor Ken doesn’t claim to explain every delay, but he points to the centuries between the Old and New Testaments. To Israel it looked like silence, yet Galatians 4:4 says Jesus came when “the set time had fully come.” His point is that God’s timeline isn’t ours, and that a delay is not the same as a denial.

What is the “first gospel” in Genesis 3:15?

Right after Adam and Eve sin, God tells the serpent that the woman’s offspring will crush his head and he will strike only the heel. Pastor Ken explains that theologians call this the protoevangelium, the first announcement of the good news. His point is that God’s first move after sin was a promise of rescue, long before the manger.

Does it mean God has left when I can’t hear from him?

The message says no: silence is not absence and it is not abandonment. Israel went about 400 years without a new word from God, and Pastor Ken says that stretch was preparation, not neglect. “If God said it, he will fulfill it” is the line he asks people to hold onto while they wait.

What is the difference between knowing, believing, and trusting God?

Pastor Ken borrows three Latin terms used by the Reformers. Notitia is knowing what God has said, assensus is agreeing that it’s true, and fiducia is trust that acts on it. He describes fiducia as slow-cooked faith that obeys while waiting, one that prays when it has no answers and walks when it can’t see the path.