Abraham is a hundred years old when his son Isaac is born. Romans 4:19 says Abraham did not consider his own body now dead, yet he was about a hundred years old. The deadness of his body at one hundred is the backdrop against which the promise shines. 1 Corinthians 15:42 describes the resurrection body: sown in weakness, raised in power — the birth of Isaac from a hundred-year-old father is one of the Old Testament's most vivid anticipations of resurrection logic. The application: the thing God promises in the place where natural possibility has died shows most clearly that it came from him.

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