Biblical Covenants of God

do you know what a covenant is the Covenant is a contract or an agreement and the Bible covenants are made between God and His people there are eight covenants in the Bible understanding these covenants is the key to understanding the entire meta-narrative of God's purposes and ultimate will for his people let's take a look the identic covenant the key word here is the word rule in Genesis 2:15 right after God had created man he put him in the garden told him to care for it from the very beginning God's eternal purpose for man was to rule and enjoy him forever Psalm 8 says you make him to rule over the works of your hands you've put all things under his feet David was saying you've made something from nothing you're powerful and you've made man ruler over your creation to show your glory but man rebelled and forsook his position we all know the story Adam ate from the tree that God told him not to eat and brought sin into the world the penalty for sin was death because God would not let man live eternally in his sin so man lost it we will need a second Adam to reclaim God's original purpose for man to rule but only after he redeems man from his sin which brings us to the next covenant number two is the Adamic covenant the chief word here is the word Redemption so because of Adam's sin God curses men animals and the earth so it will yearn for his Redemption so immediately after sin occurs God tells us how he will deal with it genesis 3:15 god reveals his unconditional covenant and his curse upon the serpent by saying i will put enmity between you and your seed meaning satan and the woman's seed meaning jesus he will crush your head and you will strike his heel Satan will inflict minor damage on Christ through crucifixion but Christ will inflict major damage on Satan by defeating the curse of death Jesus is the only one who can accomplish this because he will be born of the Holy Spirit incarnated going around the curse born without man sin as time went on man's found sin deteriorated into a sick and depraved wasteland of evil until every intent and thought on his heart was wicked and God said I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created and that took place in Genesis 6 verse 7 number 3 is called the noahic covenant the key word here is the word restraint this covenant shows an attribute of God that we can be grateful for and that is his restraint for instead of blotting out the entire human race he preserved Noah and all the animals in the ark and restrained his wrath partly because of his mercy but also partly because of his covenants which he cannot change then in Genesis 8:21 God makes a covenant that he will never again destroy all living creatures and gave Noah and the earth the rainbow is a sign of that covenant promise but man would soon turn back to sin in an effort to make a name for himself at the Tower of Babel where we see the introduction of other gods so God scattered them among the nations to begin a new nation for himself our fourth covenant is called the Abrahamic covenant the key word here is the word restore in Genesis 12 1 2 and 3 God chooses one man through whom he will restore his people to himself Abraham and in that covenant God promises him three things and verse 1 he promises him land and verse 2 he promises him a people and in verse 3 he promises him blessing the land was Israel the people were the Jews and the blessing is they will be the touchstone of God towards all the people of every nation to know of him through them to bless those who bless you and to curse those who curse you and God made good on his promise to because as the nation grew greatly Egypt enslaved them and God saw their affliction and cursed Egypt greatly through Moses and brought them safely out in the Exodus our fifth covenant is called the Mosaic Covenant key word here is the word reveal now that Israel had grown into a great multitude of people God brought them to cyanide to make a covenant this covenant was to serve as a temporary supervisor teaching the righteous standards of God and reveal man's sin until the coming of Christ in Leviticus 26 God tells Israel in verse 1 have no other gods verse to keep the Sabbath verse 3 keep his laws and Commandments so while the first four covenants were only up to God the Mosaic Covenant has conditions for man and through those conditions men will have his sin revealed and he will see the need for a sacrifice the Mosaic Covenant was temporary until Christ fulfilled every requirement of it living perfectly and dying is the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all who believed the sixth covenant is called the Palestinian covenant it's key word is return well the old guys died and the young guys forgot the Mosaic Covenant and didn't keep God's laws so in Deuteronomy 29 God tells them that they will not keep his covenant and in Deuteronomy 30 verse 2 and 3 he tells them come back to me because when they do and verse 4 and 5 reminds them of what God promised in the Abrahamic covenant land seed and blessing in verse 6 something more a new heart which hasn't happened yet until Christ returns and gathers them to a new land the seventh covenant is called the Davidic covenant and the key word here is the word reign after 500 years of judges chaotically administering God's law God appointed a king named David King David loved the Lord with all of his heart and in 2nd Samuel 7 12 through 16 God makes a covenant with David that he will give David's son Solomon three things number one a throne number two a house and number three a kingdom forever after David died Solomon received the benefit of this covenant with the most prosperous Kingdom in Israel's history but the Covenant promise was forever and Solomon eventually died so this covenant had a second meaning to reveal David's greater son of another nature Jesus Christ who would be from David's royal line 490 years later the eighth covenant was called the New Covenant key word here is the word regenerate after david and after many evil Kings in Israel and Judah God sends Israel into exile under Babylon but before he does he promises them in Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 27 through verse 34 that he will bring them back one day and give them and god invents a term here he will give them a new covenant and verse 32 God says they have been like babies needing their hand held but in verse 33 one day they will be sons with new hearts like a Jewish boy going through Bar Mitzvah becoming a man this is Israel's Bar Mitzvah the law was for babies teaching them about their sin grace is for sons of God with the law written on their hearts John the Baptist said behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world it hasn't happened to Israel yet but Jesus spoke of this new covenant at the Last Supper for the church as we were grafted in so we got their King and their covenant and in verse 34 God will forgive everything they've done the Christians purpose doesn't cast aside Israel but makes Israel jealous until the second coming of Jesus when all the covenants will be fulfilled and God's purpose from the very beginning for his children to rule and enjoy him forever will be accomplished once and for all and those ladies and gentlemen are the covenants of God

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Published: Wed Oct 02 2019