After This | Pastor Hart Ramsey | Covenant

[Music] amen it's so good to be back the last time i was here the last time i was here um this place was packed full of life and i was just shocked that when i came into the building today the presence of god is still powerful in this place so here's the thing in the e-church because we're social distancing there's only a few people here you need to be loud in the comments say man god has a lot to say i want you to do this for me before i go any further i want to honor the uh shepherd of this house a great man of god a friend of mine i want you to give the lord some a great praise for your man of god apostle dr matthew in the comments i will get a shout out dr stevenson and his lovely wife camilla listen also uh i i never leave home without my wife the lovely lady candace is with me i ca i can't teach the same if she's not there man i have so much to say to you today bring me my phone real quickly uh there's something there's something i've got to share um this is i sense in my heart that the the theme this month is is covenant and god has put some things in my heart i i promise you that what i share today it may be a little bit weighty but i believe it's going to change the way you perceive the things of god we're in a season where the enemy has launched an attack against everything that is right everything that is tight he's seeking to disconnect and to dismantle now when you search the scripture what you'll find is that god himself is the author of plagues which is strange enough because you think this is the work of the devil but it's not whenever god seeks to get his people's attention and bring us back into alignment he will shut down the world with either war plague famine or a wild animal that's scripture and it's hard to look at that and say what kind of god is this and i want to talk to you today my topic is going to be the misunderstood god the misunderstood god i do a question and answer before we see stay standing you give me energy when you stand um i do a question and answer every week on wednesday for a bible study and the number one question i keep getting and i failed to answer thoroughly is um what is god doing why why why does it seem like i don't even know god and today i came to give you doctrinal explanation i was standing in the office of a teacher today not as a pastor to explain to you with my with accent and all i want to explain to you this god that we have misunderstood for years and what he's doing god is wrapping some things up now the thing you need to know about covenant i mean i sent for my phone because there's things you need to know i need to say this at the top covenant is about securing lasting relationships it's important and i made this note to myself because you're going to need lasting relationships with a journey ahead your life needs connection it craves authentic people who fit you and who gets you you got it so when you have people listen to me when you have people that know you when you have people that love you you when you have people that understand your struggles and your strengths do not easily disconnect from them because when you do that you set yourself up the enemy understands that two are better than one and a threefold chord is not easily dismantled or torn apart he gets that and so he seeks to rip you apart to separate you in this season it's easy to disconnect because his heart of accountability seems harder but do your best extend your efforts to stay connected sit down for a minute before i go into this into this teaching that i'm going to give you um it's critical for us to understand the the uh the idea of a bouquet when my wife or when i take note of my wife and how she's moving if she seems a little down or whatever i would call to the floors and i order a bouquet of roses or because flowers the kind she likes and you know how you know what it is the danger though of under of misunderstanding flowers is that whenever you get a bouquet or a floral arrangement you have to understand that what you're giving is a gift of something that's dead my mother always told me she said heart i would send a flower and she would call me from california and she said to me she said when if you're going to send me anything send me a living plant not dead flowers i said the flowers were dead when you got them and she'll she also say no she says that whenever you cut a flower from the thing that gives it life it begins to die immediately and although you put it together with other dying things in a dying or dead arrangement and it looks beautiful and smells good it doesn't mean that it's not dead what is simply what it simply means is what's not is going to serve its purpose it's already dead you get to enjoy it as it dies and then when it actually manifests its death then you throw it out that is a critical starting place for us to understand getting to know god is about understanding how god flows people struggle with the fact that god can allow a pandemic and god could allow people to die and god he said what what kind of god is this atheist rant on god because he seems to be uh unstable in his dealings but in order to understand god you must understand covenant and if you don't understand we talk about covenant a lot and many people watch this now they talk about covenant and they think that covenant people what they really are are contract people be careful not to cut covenant with contract people contract people want the benefit of the relationship the security of the relationship but they don't want all that comes with it when you're in covenant you get the good the bad and the ugly you get all that comes with it covenant is not listen you must understand that covenant is not always comfortable if you're in covenant with me you're gonna get the best of me and you'll get the terror you're gonna wake up listen you'll get the morning breath you're gonna get everything it says you'll get all that comes with covenant you got it it's important for you to understand so i want to begin today in john chapter 17 verses 1-3 after the bible says after saying all these things jesus looked up to heaven and he said father the hour has come glorify your son so he can give glory back to you for you've given him authority over everyone he gives eternal life to each one you've given him and then he says this and this is the way to have eternal life he makes a strange statement he says eternal life is to know you the only true god and jesus christ the one you sent to the earth he said the only way to eternal life is to know you and the one he said now i want to share with you that knowing god when you talk about this word knowledge or knowing in the new testament is speaking to many different words in the greek english can or reduce a language to one word and but in the greek it's very very expanded this word is the word ganasco and the word gnostical speaks to knowledge that comes through experience and so what he's saying is jesus is saying the only way to eternal life is to have righteousness now knowledge of god is gained by experience and you have to know jesus christ too because he's the way to god listen to me i'm speaking and i believe that the people who are here this morning just a few people that are here you're here for a reason you're here because god wants to answer the questions that you have concerning him even preachers today struggle with god and what god allows and what god has determined and you look at all the with the political upheaval all that's going on you wonder uh one part of the church is saying god is this and other part of saying that god is that and people are struggling in the middle what is god doing who is this god and jesus said the only way to eternal life is to know you to know god let's watch this in first corinthians chapter 2 verse 11 paul writes to the church he says no one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit and no one can know god's thoughts except god's own spirit and then when we read this we think it's the same word but this is a different word for no it's the word ido and the word it spells e-i-d-o for those of you who are taking notes and making comments i do it means to see with the mind or to have an idea to become aware of something or to understand he says the only way to know someone really is if the spirit of the person reveals to you who the person who the person is god cannot be discovered he has to be revealed he has to be revealed and the problem is we've searched for god in books and we search for god in different ways and i'll tell you this i've learned over 38 years of working with god i've learned that god will reveal himself to people who really want to know him you got it when you talk to talk about covenant covenant with god is a whole different thing every time you see god do something in scripture and you can see god or part a sea for his people to go through then you turn around see god kill give the command kill everyone in the city men women children everyone and you wonder what is going on understand that whenever you see god move god is moving in the context of covenant if you search the the internet of youth and you you search heart ramsey you you see pictures of me maybe from 12 or 13 years ago i looked like a whole different person i found a picture of myself and i was looking at it and i laughed at myself because i used to wear these suits that were two sizes too big and i always dressed up maybe 10 years older but it was in the context of the covenant i was in and the context of that come that's who i was not just just in life but even with my church i wore the gators i wore the uh you know the gators and the expensive suits and the bling and stuff that was that's what i was and that's who i thought i had to be but when i made the covenant with god to be who you made me to be watches now and to live as authentic as i can then i went back to my jeans and my and the way i dress people say well you know you you dress like a younger person listen i dress like who i am you got it the covenant that rushes you we know people within the context of covenant have you ever seen a person or i knew this lady she used to be a member of my church and she was an actual african princess and she would come to church and she would have these ladies around her turban on her head and i mean just really decked out asked who's this lady and they say well she's a princess from africa i said wow so i got to meet her and got to know her and her husband summons her she went back to africa to whatever country she was from and she's and she went back and she had to do some dealings and then i saw her again some years later and i said this lady looks familiar she was in church and i said who's this lady and he said um you remember the sister that was the african princess i said yes they said well well she's no longer in that situation and when i she's a whole different person and i got a chance to talk to her i said hey what's happening she told me how her life shook down and how things went and she was basically dismissed from the royal family and but now i saw her i saw a real person she wasn't under all that stuff when the covenant shifts people change and when covenants change watches that when god is operating within a covenant he expresses himself differently um before social media and i'm about to age myself or dick myself rather there was a thing years ago called a pen pal pen pals were usually strange now you know what pen pal is i mean you got to be seriously old because i mean this i was introduced to you listen i remember in class they would give us a list and we had to pick people off the list for this pen pal thing and i was like what this is about pen pals were usually strangers whose whole relationship was based primarily on the exchange of letters that's what they do they give you a pen and a name and you actually write letters to some stranger it worked it worked way back then or you pick the name a person or or will write you you write them back and before long you develop a relationship with a stranger based on nothing but words and because we use pens to write the letters we call them pen pals it is possible to get to know someone what is not to a certain degree based solely on what they say or right versus the spirit of their words the heart in their words the consistency of the speech you can track words and know who a person is it's also possible to trust someone watch this now based on their written history the history of the activities what they've done that's why watch us now when it comes to certain covenants we have to submit the history of what we've done in writing resumes for a job for example that's your work experience history and when you when when you're cutting a covenant or contract for that matter with a company they want to know your work experience history you got it when you go into a contract or covenant with a bank to get money they want financial records what why because they want to know your history of money when you're going to a certain university they actually are your transcripts from high school why they want to know your academic history it's a written history of who you are written histories are important but in order to really know a person he or she has to reveal themselves to you they have to let you in their world they have to let you into their space they have to let you into their hearts it's impossible to know god if god does not tell you who he is this is a critical point that we all have to understand listen the person has to tell you things that you can never learn by observation because it's a very hard thing to learn truth about anyone by just observing them from far off you can look at a person think you know who they are you can even judge them for decisions they make and not know the context of the decision and misrepresent or misunderstand who the person is and so people look at god and in our times that we live and they're people who look at god and they say you know what i don't want to serve him anymore i can't tell you how many people in the last four years have walked away from just in the context of my church walked away from the lord not not because they were bad people not because they backslid it's just that they just no longer understood god and some of us in this room struggle with our understanding of god talked to a pastor not long ago he told me he said i'm not in ministry anymore i said why he just couldn't do it anymore he said how could i explain what i don't understand listen to the question how can i explain what i don't understand i want you to understand something god is no different from people there are many people today especially after listening to christians bigger and different over political and theological theological theological differences come out of here they're not sure who god is they don't even know if they want to serve him they've tried to know god by studying his people and one of the worst things you can do is look at a person who serves god and think that you can know god by looking at a person you can't even know god by looking at your pastor he can tell you who god is but the reality is you've got to search god out for yourself and you have to know god within the context of covenant is critical that you guys are hearing this word covenant over and over again because i will tell you right now we are covent-breaking people contract has condition contract says in order for you to have me and my strength in your life then you got to be who i want you to be so contract says i get to create you in my image and after my likeness covenant says i see who you are and i agree to walk through life with you taking the good and the bad and there's some days there's some seasons in your life listen to me i'm about to tell you and this is you got to hear this god is going to allow the worst of what's in you to come to the surface the thing that you buried in your heart the thing that watches when you came to the lord and you came to the lord there were things in you that you felt then listen i want to know god i want to know his people i want to be accepted and you buried some things alive and thought they were dead and all they did was they had a dark place to grow and the seed or became a plant and the plant sprung leaves and then it burned fruit and here you are loving god on the one hand but struggling with yourself a dichotomy means that one single object has both light and darkness in it you've seen the moon and all the planet venus in dichotomy one side is lit the other side is dark people's people call you a hypocrite because you come to church and you're lit in church and you're dark out there they don't understand that you're walking through a covenant relationship with god and in covenant god says you're not just mine when you're doing well you're not just mind when you're when i'm benefiting from you your mind when you struggle your mind when you're standing your mind when you're falling your mind when you love me your mind when you don't love me your mind when you bring me glory your mind when you don't you we gotta stop throwing people away and identifying people by their sin because they struggle we're all gonna struggle in development because here's what god does god will walk you through a season of easy i call it ease of comfort of of where he's glorifying you and the best of you is coming and then what would happen with god watch this now the lord will say this is a season i've chosen to deal with that thing that's hidden in you and god help you when god gets ready to deal with the thing that embarrasses you or the thing that you were always ashamed of god help you the people in your circle don't understand covenant god help you if you don't if the people around you don't understand that just like them you got something in you that has to be dealt with and god is such a covenant god such a loving god that he will undress you in front of your friends and deal with your friends if they reject you there's so much i gotta say and so little time to stay then you can't know god by studying people when you read the bible especially from a western point of view it could appear that god as i said has multiple personality disorder it can be hard to get to know him because as i said he can he can he can throw you off sometimes and one chapter he's delivering people another chapter he's killing people destroying everybody everything see he often comes across as scary and unpredictable and unappeasable he comes across as a monster sometimes but there's one detail about god that will help you to know him better and put him in perspective and here is what it is god is a covenant keeping god he operates only in the context of covenant the word covenant from the latin word convert or coveneer means agreement god operates according to agreements and everyone in the bible who knew god well understood this fact about god now here comes the technical doctrinal part forgive me for for dumping this on you but i promise you i believe you have the capacity and the depth to get this okay god can only be understood in the context of covenant he's not three different gods he's not angry means spirited genocidal demanding uncaring he's not a control freak who craves worship and praise he's the covenant keeping god in deuteronomy 7 and 9 when moses is in his 120th year he's doing something i want you to pay attention to this the book of deuteronomy is a restating of the law according to watches now are covenants that were made it's written in five parts and he's reviewing the old i mean the covenant was given he's trying he's updating it because what happens is when moses dies god is gonna change the covenant because all through scripture you're gonna find that god never makes covenant with a people god makes covenant with a person and i'ma show you the kind of covenant keeping god he really is that's what moses said to the people in deuteronomy 7 verse 9. he says no i'm reading from the amplified bible he says no recognize and understand therefore that the lord your god he is god he's the faithful god the lord faithful means he's predictable he's dependable he's going to be who he says he's going to be he's the god who keeps covenant watches now and steadfast love and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations moses actually told the people he said listen he says the first thing you need to know about about god is that he's really god he is god he's the god but he's faithful and he is a covenant keeping god god will restrict himself to covenant god cannot do more for you than than the uh the degree by which you accept covenant god god rushes now god will be able to help you and not not help you because of the way you see covenant the way you you frame covenant in your mind now i'm gonna i'm gonna get into some bible language for you so you can understand the bible is written in the language of covenant and if you're unfamiliar with the different types of covenant in the bible it can be very confusing to you to understand the bible okay ready here comes the notes the bible is divided into two testaments the old testament and the word of man all this is responding in the house what you know it is old testament and new testament because of that here's what we say we say the bible has two covenants but the bible does not have to covenants the bible has two testaments that watch us now i'm about to help you on listen to me carefully there are five covenants in two testaments and they're three different types of covenants this is what messes people up we say well is this this old covenant a new covenant uh sometimes the other covenants involved there are five i'm going to share with you in a minute so what you need to understand in the old covenant the oak covenant of primarily focuses on and explains for the old testament rather explains four covenants the new the new testament of the first five books are are are given to document the phasing out of what's called the old covenant and there's one covenant in the in the old testament that's called the old covenant it phases out one and brings in the other for 40 years from a.d 30 to 80 70 what you're seeing is a phasing out of the old covenant the law of moses and a phasing in of the new covenant which is which is the covenant of jesus or the covenant of grace or the covenant of the gospel am i making sense to you okay now i will repeat myself you need me to just raise your hand because i we got to get this i don't care i don't care about being up here or on preaching you happy this this is important the enemy is banking on our ignorance my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge okay so i want to i want you to get here the numbers there are five covenants in two testaments and they're three different types of covenants real quickly okay the covenant of the of noah or the noah covenant there's the abrahamic covenant got it that is the the mosaic covenant or the covenant of moses and then there's the davidic covenant there's the four old testament covenants and then the new covenant is called the new covenant built a better promise as the covenant of jesus notice that each one is given a name now i'm gonna come back to that in a minute the kind of covenant is determined to watch us now by who swears the oath to approve or to confirm it so so there are three type different types there's a grant covenant there's a kinship covenant and then there's called a vassal covenant and lord i i don't want to do this to you e church stay with me if you're a good note-taker put notes in in the comments if people can get it there's a grant covenant in the grant covenant a favor is granted with no strings attached it's based solely in love there are no stipulations there's no com or conditions or demands whenever god makes a covenant with anyone god always wants to give a great covenant and here's why covenants are always based on or or the strength of a covenant is based on the two people in it for example the second kind of covenant is a kinship covenant k-i-n-s-h-p kinship you know kinfolk kinship you can have two good people in a bad kinship because marriage is a kinship covenant have you ever seen two good people in a bad marriage it's interesting watches now two bad people can't have a good marriage but two good people can have a bad marriage and i'll tell you what happens because when you start looking how these covenants are set up what happens is when we're courting the situation or when we're dating we misuse the dating season and instead of investigating the person about to make a covenant with we enjoy the physical advantages and when you restrict that when i when i involve myself intimately with a potential covenant partner without knowing who they are it does my discernment and it gets me where i'm just sucked in by the physical part of the thing and what happens is it blinds a certain side of me and then when it's time watches now doing doing the engagement period the espousal period when we should be investigating each other interrogating each other checking out each other's uh record uh i want to see your your checkbook i want to see your health records i want i mean these are things you should be asking for what's your what's your credit report you should be asking but no you know what we're doing we're celebrating and posting pictures of the ring we're planning elaborate ceremonies we're not even thinking about the fact that you just covenanted to live with some food i'm sorry some person for the rest of your life you get what i'm saying now watch this this is so critical for us to understand so the grand covenant the grand covenant depends solely on god when god gives a grand covenant russia here's what he's saying he says nothing you do can break it i want to show you this and there's like the grant covenant a kinship covenant is one step below in a kinship covenant which was the predominant covenant of the land it depends on two people is an agreement between two parties each has a role each has a right each has a responsibility this type of covenant typically involves what is now a ceremony vows or an oath and a family meal in the covenant ritual so your reception let me tell you what a reception used to look like back in the day first of all they get animals they cut them in half they'll they'll cut in half take one half to that side and they create what's called a trail of blood or a path of blood and the couple you see how the bride walks down the aisle technically both the husband and the wife should be walking down the aisle the bride in the groom here's why because that's the walk that's the walk of blood and they're walking to the blood and what they're actually saying is if we break this covenant what happened to these dead animals on the side of us it's going to happen to us that's how serious covenant was and let me tell you these reception dinners you know how you sit down and we're eating if we having fun we're talking no no those look those me let me see how it used to be set up once the what the bride's family will be on one side of the table the groom's family on the other side of the table and they're staying each other down it was not a pleasant thing they were looking to see who i'm going to kill when the war broke out this is real covenant was a very serious thing people took it seriously both parties jointly pledged themselves to each other resulting in this bond our reciprocal responsibilities scripture offers so many examples of this i want to read a couple for you in exodus 24 verses one matter of fact just this is one this one will really help you god tells moses he said watch this god made a grand covenant with israel when he brought him out of egypt notice something with god israel complained uh or asked for this and acts of that whenever a problem came they complained but god never killed them whenever they asked for anything god told moses to give it to them then when he brought them to mount sinai something happened god god all set out to make a grand covenant with them that depended on him and when the people heard his voice the people told moses to god don't speak to us god had said i want a kingdom of priests you know the kingdom of priests means that every single person within that kingdom can come to me face to face for themselves that's what he wanted he said there will be a peculiar people holy people i want people who approach me for themselves but israel's like they throw moses little they say god scares us so you let him tell you what he wants and you tell us that we'll do it but we don't want to talk to him and people don't know this that's that's when god shifted look at god's pattern god stood back and god says okay that's what they want he said well i'll tell you what he said moses you come at the mountain and the covenant was reduced because they're telling god we don't want the covenant to just depend on you we want we want our part we want to do our part too god says you think you could uphold your end of the bargain okay good he said but understand understand this is gonna be a regular kinship covenant you mess up somebody's gonna die god didn't want that they wanted it i'm gonna go a step further the third covenant is called a vassal covenant you know what vassal means it means subjugated it means slave a vassal covenant was a covenant that was made between a conquering king and a conquered people and and listen to the language of it this is going to really bless you because you're going to relate to this when when a king came and conquered a land he took the the conquered king he paraded him in the street before his people and he says to the people i will let you live watch this now but you have to love me with all your heart all your mind all your soul and all your strength what does it sound like heard that before that should love the lord that god all that's when god watches now because what happened is when moses who was a covenant partner with god i'm assured that in every one of these covenants god took a person not a people he took a person as a partner that's why every covenant is attached to a name the covenant of noah of abraham of uh or uh who is it moses and of david have a name i'm gonna show you something about those names in a minute so so god now he says to he says to the people okay you want a vat you want a kinship covenant all right so he kept that covenant going with moses watch it and every time they were sin at one time they sinned against god and god says move out the way moses i'm going to kill him my mother said moses because god said no no remember what you said and moses reminds god and the bible says and god repented god repent what god repents i thought he was a man he's not a man that he cannot lie no neither the son of man that he can repent what happened there god was in a grand covenant with moses and in the kinship covenant with the ignition of israel moses kept the first covenant that god gave him and i'll show you something when moses died as was the as was the customs back then god reserved the right to renegotiate the covenant god because they downgraded it from a grant covenant god downgraded it again to a vassal covenant and he says to them i need complete loyalty from you or i will kill you and when people we read this from a western perspective in modern times we said god is so mean he wasn't being mean he was doing exactly what covenant demanded you want to show what kind of covenant keeping god your god is every named partner in each of god's grant covenants every single one even moses moses remember israel was in a kinship covenant and then a vassal covenant which made them slaves to god but moses kept his grand covenant with god and each one of god's men messed up nor after the flood was drunk in his tent and the bible says come in here my the bible says that uh his son came in and saw him moses i'm sorry noah woke up and cursed his grandson canaan you remember that but when god mentions noah in the new testament that's never mentioned abraham twice said sarah was a sister he lied he he he he got hagar with child and sent her away after 13 years when god mentions abraham in the new testament he never mentions that david well let me before i get today moses killed the whole man he was listen do you know how moses left his job he was fired for insubordination god fired moses off from his job because moses was supposed to speak to the rock and he hit the rock he struck the rock god fight but in the new testament is never mentioned god says of moses he was faithful in all my house david do you know david's story he numbered israel thousands hundreds of thousands of people died he he he took uriah's wife and uriah's life he did not handle a situation with his son when his son raped his sister he wouldn't see absalom and cause all his wives to be raped on the top of the palace when god mentions david in the new testament he never mentions those things why because they were in a grand covenant with god and when the best of god dealt with them he dealt with them as a partner deals with a partner but he did not destroy him why because the covenant did not depend on them in a grand covenant the covenant depends on god so what happens is i'm going to show you the powerful thing had israel israel or just gives us obey god and say god whatever you want whatever you want us to be to you will be to you then that would have been a great covenant too the new covenant that's listed in the new testament involves each one of the grand covenants except the covenant of moses let me show you this we still today i don't care how badly it storms matter of fact the worst storms are more likely you are to see a rainbow you know why because each covenant has a token or a mark you know a token i mean every every married person whether they wear it or not is a token that comes with marriage right there's a token that comes with a covenant so each covenant has a token the token watch this now of the of the norway covenant is a rainbow and even today when the stones really badly the rainbow appears sometimes a double rainbow why god has god still is keeping that covenant in the covenant of abraham it was circumcision a mark on his physical body that rushes the covenant the covenant with of moses was was the ten commandments on the covenant of david was the promise of a son to sit on the throne so the the cut the mark was a birth you have to be born into the lineage that's why god says god was telling these people um you can't marry that person who came here why because god is trying to keep his promise to david so when you read certain things the whole i'm gonna say something that's gonna blow your mind the whole bible is the word of god but the whole bible's not for us today you read it you find wisdom you find strength you find understanding but the problem is i had a guy say to me read the book of leviticus the book of leviticus says it says that slavery is god's heart and because they didn't understand the context by which those things were permitted it was in a vassal covenant we are no longer in listen we were never in the vassal covenant with god let me explain what a vassal covenant is again a vassal covenant is where slaves or or subjective people are conquered by a king and he says if you mess up one time i kill everybody i have the right to kill everybody and god actually gave israel the best version of a vassal covenant because what he did god instead of killing them every time they messed up sometimes he always leave a remnant to come back to try to jump start the covenant he's a covenant keeping god and and to understand god he's so misunderstood you read the bible i can't believe god will have us do this do you think god cares what you wear i got four disqualifying folk for tattoos on their arms you got it you listen you have a whole heart full of hatred and you you upset at my tax they don't understand god and when you don't understand god what happens is you you create him into this monster and you present them to people and demand they serve the monster that you created that's not the god i know so in jeremiah 34 18 god makes a statement that just broke he says because you have broken the terms of our covenant god says i will cut you apart just as you cut apart the calf when you walk between his halves to solemnize your vows god says when you walk between there's a story in genesis 15 that i got to tell you and i i feel i gotta i gotta discharge this real quickly abraham is concerned he's in a grand covenant with god and god keeps telling me i'm give you a son then genesis 15 but right after abraham has this encounter to get lot delivered the bible says that god appears to abraham he said don't be concerned he said i'm your protection i'll be your reward why would god say that to him because abraham had just went out against four kings and defeated them and when he was offered a reward he gave he gave it back to the kings and said you will never say you may be rich now he's concerned he's because he in covenant mentality saying i turn that down what is god going to do god shows up and says abraham don't worry about what just happened he said i'll be your shield he said i will protect you and your reward will come from me and abraham asks a question to his covenant partner he says why don't i have a son he said eleazar my servant is going to be my ear and god says eliza will not be your ear he god says show us i'm god and i live and i kept i give you my word i'ma keep my word and abraham said well how i know for sure now abraham knew that covenant was accustomed and god knew what abraham was thinking he said tell you what you do go get a three-year-old heifer a three-year-old three-year-old she-goat a three-year-old ram and get a turtle dove and was one other kind of bird he sit and bring them and when when god said that abraham knew exactly what to do god never told him to cut him but he knew exactly what he did the bible says he hacked the heifer or the cow in half he laid the pieces on the side he's getting ready he said i'm going to walk through the blood with god abraham in his mind was going to downgrade the covenant because he didn't get what he wanted and that's what we do when god doesn't move fast enough for us we downgrade the covenant and we try to put ourselves in place listen because you've still got stuff in you that's not right that's not that you that you say i just wish i could get delivered works won't help you when abraham tried to downgrade the covenant i love this the spirit of god watched abraham lay out the pieces he laid out the pieces he was ready for the the ceremony abraham just knew this was going to be it and the bible says as soon as he got done he was sitting there waiting for god to show up and the buzzer came out he found the buzzer up he said you're not going to mess us up and as soon as he got ready he fell asleep god knocked him out god knocked him out and in while he was sleeping god kept his heart awake and he's walking he's in this dream god starts speaking first and then he sees god come walking down the middle of the of the path of blood by himself he abraham is sleeping he can't even talk he can't even exchange bob he can't make god and he promises that he could break god knocked him out so he couldn't talk and god came through the pieces by himself and god says no of a shirt that your children your degeneration is after you will be in captivity for 400 years he began to to share with abraham the future that he had for him and abraham was in a state of sleep he could not respond and when when he woke up the covenant was already cut and made and god protected abraham for making a promise he couldn't keep listen to me i want to help you with this this mic is messing me up listen here's what i want you to know god will not allow you in this covenant that he has and i wish that time i'm giving you a whole series in an hour okay this covenant that he made remember that two testaments they're five covenants four in the old one in the new every covenant has a mark a norse covenant is a rainbow abraham's covenant is circumcision moses covenant the ten commandments david's covenant is the birth of a son what's our covenant marking the bible says that when jesus jesus rose from the dead him he appeared to his disciples and thomas wasn't there and when thomas says i will not believe that he's risen from the dead my heart is too broken he broke my heart before i thought i knew god and i didn't but thomas misunderstood god he misunderstood what god was doing and the bible says that jesus the next time he appears he walks through the walls to where they were and he shows them his hands he shows his side and he shows the covenant markings of the new covenant the only man-made things you've heard me say this before in heaven are the wounds of jesus christ why did god allow jesus in his new perfected body to have the imperfections of wounds because the wounds are the receipts of the covenant that god made not with you god couldn't trust you in the covenant so you know what he did he prepared a body for jesus and jesus came to the earth and the covenant the new covenant that's made the covenant is built on grace that covenant is between god and jesus it's a grand covenant between god and jesus and here's the thing in that covenant god says nothing you do will stop me he said we could do whatever we want to do if you if you love your covenant partner you're not going to just do anything if you love your covenant partner you'll get to know him why you want to please him i want to encourage you there's so much more i had to say today but i believe by the holy spirit i've delivered the word of the lord to you lord notice this of each person in within this covenant or committee or this covenant cadre that god distinguished no none of them was a perfect person the only covenant that got me with the perfect person was with jesus why would he do this because the god that we don't understand understands all too well that covenant is everything you say why would god do because of covenant the covenant that god made with jesus includes you like the covenant that he made with moses include the children of israel i need you to understand this and i want you to i want you to get this in your heart listen all nations eat church i want to explain something to you wherever you are whatever you've been through whatever you're going through right now this is a season of shaking it's a sifting but what god has in mind is to bring you out on the other end of this thing better than you you went in what is he depending on you no you say pastor just i just can't get it right but you have someone who did get it right you did it you watch this jesus jesus is the is the partner in this full-on grand covenant with god watch this and and all the grant covenants are found in the new covenant jesus fulfills the promise of noah of the promised made to know rather to never destroy all humans ever again in jesus we have the blessing of abraham that's what galatians 3 13-14 says like moses jesus promised is the promised deliverer who saves god's people from the harp labor of sin and the harsh task master of the devil and the house of bondage if you look at the life of jesus when you look at what he's done he's fulfilled everything to know god you must see him in jesus i i have covered our covenanted with god that i rather preach jesus poorly than anything else well because in jesus is everything that god ever promised if you if you find yourself getting bored when people talk about jesus re-examine your heart because he's our covenant man everything that god has for us is in him and that's why the enemy wants to distort who he really is will you serve why jesus listen no no no no about one jesus yes and i'm gonna tell you this right now if you if you got to make jesus look like you to serve him i'm this is for the white folk and the black if you got to make him look like you to serve him then you're trying to make a god in your image and after your likeness that is not the plan of god what god has for us is in christ he's the well that everything springs from he's the life that god promised the bible says god has given us life he that has a son has life he that has not the son that's not the life play something soft i want to do this real quickly father i pray for every single person that heard this word thank you for trusting me to unveil this just just a piece of this today god for every person that's that's or watching that there is a woman god that's watching today and she's in the house of someone that she has she's she told you god i'm leaving but i'm afraid she said this is not how you want me to live and she used to know you so well and for that lady right now god i thank you in the name of jesus that she found an answer when she steps out to do and to be who you've called to be father meet her there because you're the covenant keeping god i pray for every person or those that don't know you those that desire to know you i pray in the name of jesus father that they will receive jesus christ as lord and savior today and they will never go back from it they'll never trust themselves or even trust people to be anything to them that you determined that you should be father all of us now we make commitment as a part of covenant to look to jesus that although we see in ourselves flaws oh god and failure that we will not disqualify ourselves from what you've promised us we understand now when we look at scripture we see tables and meals that these are covenant metaphors and father we declare in jesus name that we will sit at your table and partake of all that you've prepared for us bless this great house bless this great people bless this great movement bless this man of god let good come to him all the days of his life cause this place to prosper in ways of god that no one ever imagined and that no enemy can stand against i thank you and bless you in jesus name amen amen

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Published: Tue Nov 17 2020