Our Covenant
Our covenant is a new and better covenant (Hebrews 8:6). A covenant is an
arrangement between people who commit to do certain things for each other. A
covenant is an extremely serious promise that requires trust, faithfulness, and
loyalty in order for the covenant to be kept. Because God foresaw the
importance of this covenant being kept, He swore by Himself, and ratified it in
the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
The most important covenant in the Bible is God’s covenant with all people
through the work of His Son, Jesus Christ. God’s covenant gives everyone the
opportunity to have a close relationship with Him. Through this relationship,
God can purify our hearts and minds. This covenant promises the guiding
power and comfort of the Holy Spirit for all people who believe. It gives meaning
to our lives and provides us with guidelines about how we should act. If we
accept God’s covenant with us, He will bless us and we will live with Him for
eternity.
A blood covenant is so binding that if one broke it, they were put to death.
Since God cut our covenant with the shed blood, of Jesus Christ, and swore by
Himself (Psalms 89:34-37) “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that
is gone out of My lips. Once have I sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to
David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It
shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah”, we know that our covenant is forever binding. God made it available to
all mankind through faith. We have to remember that “the just shall live by
faith”. Our covenant is based on the completed work of Jesus (Hebrews 8:6-
12). Our part is to believe in the finished work of Jesus.
The New covenant is the last will and testament of Jesus Christ. When you are
told that you have been named in someone’s will, you go to the reading of the
will to see what belongs to you. The Bible is the will and testament of God for
us, we must read it to see what He has left for us. It is our responsibility to learn
what our covenant gives to us. Jesus fulfilled the legal side, and we have to
enforce the vital side. The Bible says “let the redeemed of the Lord say so”.
Jesus went to the cross; His sacrificial death served as the oath that God made
to us to seal this new covenant. Jesus established the new covenant between
humans and God (II Corinthians 5:17-18,21) “therefore if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold, all things are become
new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus
Christ, and have given to us the ministry of reconciliation. For He has made
Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him”.
God promised in Jeremiah that He would put His law in our heart (Jeremiah 31:
31-34) “behold, the days come, says the Lord Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Not according
to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the
hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they broke,
although I was an husband to them, says the Lord Yahweh. But this shall be
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, says the
Lord Yahweh, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts
and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no
more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, know the
Lord Yahweh; for they shall all know Me from the least of them to the greatest of
them, says the Lord Yahweh; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more”.
The covenant of promise are God’s promise that He would provide salvation for
His people (Ephesians 2:12-13) “that at that time you were without Christ, being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus
you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ”. This is
God’s promise to everyone that turns to Him in repentance and faith.
The new covenant accomplished what the old covenant could not; removal of
sin and cleansing of the conscience (Hebrews 10:1-2,19-22) “for the law having
a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the
comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way, which He has
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh. And having an
high priest over the house of God. Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience; and our
bodies washed with pure water”.
The work of Jesus Christ on the cross, made the old covenant obsolete and
fulfills the promise of the prophet Jeremiah.
The old covenant was by the law, which blessed you when you did and cursed
you when you didn’t (Deuteronomy 28). The provision of a chosen people
through whom the Messiah would be born is the promise of the covenant with
Adam and David (Genesis 3:15, II Samuel 7:14-15). The devil tried to avoid this
from coming to pass, but failed, and after His birth, he has tried to get rid of
Him, but he played into the hand of God; the Bible says “which none of the
princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified
the Lord of glory”.
The new covenant by grace by what Jesus did for you, has now, put His law
within our heart and the Spirit guides us through this life.
Our covenant gives us the right to enter into the supernatural realm (Hebrews 6:
11-15) “we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope to the end. That you be not slothful, but followers of them
who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made
promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swear by
Himself. Saying, surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply
you. And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise”.
By making a covenant with Abraham, God promised to bless his descendants
and to make them His special people. Abraham in return was to remain faithful
to God and to serve as a channel through which God’s blessings could flow to
the rest of the world (Genesis 12:1-3); in the new covenant those who believe in
Christ are people of a new and better covenant (Galatians 3:29) “and if you be
Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise”.
In many nations, people are able to believe and receive their covenant rights,
mainly because they understand what a covenant is and know that they are
binding. They are able to receive their healings, and deliverance, and are
being blessed. God’s covenant is for all who believe that Jesus Christ is Lord,
but we all have to study this out, and meditate on the word of God to we get
clear understanding, they we too can walk in the fullness of God.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: May 1, 2009
Our covenant is a new and better covenant (Hebrews 8:6). A covenant is an
arrangement between people who commit to do certain things for each other. A
covenant is an extremely serious promise that requires trust, faithfulness, and
loyalty in order for the covenant to be kept. Because God foresaw the
importance of this covenant being kept, He swore by Himself, and ratified it in
the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
The most important covenant in the Bible is God’s covenant with all people
through the work of His Son, Jesus Christ. God’s covenant gives everyone the
opportunity to have a close relationship with Him. Through this relationship,
God can purify our hearts and minds. This covenant promises the guiding
power and comfort of the Holy Spirit for all people who believe. It gives meaning
to our lives and provides us with guidelines about how we should act. If we
accept God’s covenant with us, He will bless us and we will live with Him for
eternity.
A blood covenant is so binding that if one broke it, they were put to death.
Since God cut our covenant with the shed blood, of Jesus Christ, and swore by
Himself (Psalms 89:34-37) “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that
is gone out of My lips. Once have I sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to
David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It
shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah”, we know that our covenant is forever binding. God made it available to
all mankind through faith. We have to remember that “the just shall live by
faith”. Our covenant is based on the completed work of Jesus (Hebrews 8:6-
12). Our part is to believe in the finished work of Jesus.
The New covenant is the last will and testament of Jesus Christ. When you are
told that you have been named in someone’s will, you go to the reading of the
will to see what belongs to you. The Bible is the will and testament of God for
us, we must read it to see what He has left for us. It is our responsibility to learn
what our covenant gives to us. Jesus fulfilled the legal side, and we have to
enforce the vital side. The Bible says “let the redeemed of the Lord say so”.
Jesus went to the cross; His sacrificial death served as the oath that God made
to us to seal this new covenant. Jesus established the new covenant between
humans and God (II Corinthians 5:17-18,21) “therefore if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold, all things are become
new. And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus
Christ, and have given to us the ministry of reconciliation. For He has made
Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him”.
God promised in Jeremiah that He would put His law in our heart (Jeremiah 31:
31-34) “behold, the days come, says the Lord Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Not according
to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the
hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they broke,
although I was an husband to them, says the Lord Yahweh. But this shall be
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, says the
Lord Yahweh, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts
and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no
more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, know the
Lord Yahweh; for they shall all know Me from the least of them to the greatest of
them, says the Lord Yahweh; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more”.
The covenant of promise are God’s promise that He would provide salvation for
His people (Ephesians 2:12-13) “that at that time you were without Christ, being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus
you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ”. This is
God’s promise to everyone that turns to Him in repentance and faith.
The new covenant accomplished what the old covenant could not; removal of
sin and cleansing of the conscience (Hebrews 10:1-2,19-22) “for the law having
a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the
comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way, which He has
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh. And having an
high priest over the house of God. Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience; and our
bodies washed with pure water”.
The work of Jesus Christ on the cross, made the old covenant obsolete and
fulfills the promise of the prophet Jeremiah.
The old covenant was by the law, which blessed you when you did and cursed
you when you didn’t (Deuteronomy 28). The provision of a chosen people
through whom the Messiah would be born is the promise of the covenant with
Adam and David (Genesis 3:15, II Samuel 7:14-15). The devil tried to avoid this
from coming to pass, but failed, and after His birth, he has tried to get rid of
Him, but he played into the hand of God; the Bible says “which none of the
princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified
the Lord of glory”.
The new covenant by grace by what Jesus did for you, has now, put His law
within our heart and the Spirit guides us through this life.
Our covenant gives us the right to enter into the supernatural realm (Hebrews 6:
11-15) “we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope to the end. That you be not slothful, but followers of them
who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made
promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swear by
Himself. Saying, surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply
you. And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise”.
By making a covenant with Abraham, God promised to bless his descendants
and to make them His special people. Abraham in return was to remain faithful
to God and to serve as a channel through which God’s blessings could flow to
the rest of the world (Genesis 12:1-3); in the new covenant those who believe in
Christ are people of a new and better covenant (Galatians 3:29) “and if you be
Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise”.
In many nations, people are able to believe and receive their covenant rights,
mainly because they understand what a covenant is and know that they are
binding. They are able to receive their healings, and deliverance, and are
being blessed. God’s covenant is for all who believe that Jesus Christ is Lord,
but we all have to study this out, and meditate on the word of God to we get
clear understanding, they we too can walk in the fullness of God.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: May 1, 2009
