Covenant

Covenant vs. Contract: No “Ifs, Ands, or Buts...” Only “Therefore…” We talk about it all the time in Church, books, worship songs, Bible studies, or conversations: human’s natural tendency and struggle of applying human behavior, concepts, expectations, and categories to God. Obviously, because of the Fall - which severed our relationship with the Lord and twisted our human nature - we will always be dealing with the allure of imposing our nature onto the Lord’s. Also, the “Enemy” or Satan’s…

Abrahamic Covenant What is its purpose? The Abrahamic Covenant established the Israelites a God’s chosen people and promised to Abraham that he will have a great nation, have a great name, and will be a blessing to the whole world. This is a Covenant of Salvation because it aims to save a chose people from sin. What’s the story? Before God made a covenant with Abraham, he first made a three fold promise. As mentioned above, God promised to Abraham that he will have a great nation (many…

The covenant that God made with Abraham was that God would give Abraham many many descendants. Abraham would now become the ancestor of many nations. God told Abraham that he would be very fertile and the he will produce nations from you, and kings will come from you. God said he will set up his covenant with Abraham and his descendants after you in every generation as an enduring covenant. God then said that he will be your God and your descendants’ God after you. God told Abraham that he will…

Israel comes from two main things: religious reasoning and that they controlled the land first and last. According to Jewish tradition, Abraham received the covenant promise, which said that he would have descendants as numerous as the stars and that they would inhabit the land of Canaan, which is the area known as Israel and Palestine. The covenant promise was believed to have been carried down by Abraham's son, Isaac, which means that Jews should be entitled to the land of Israel according to…

The novel, “Covenant Child”, written by Terri Blackstock, is a metaphor of God’s undying love. Mrs. Blackstock used the parable of the prodigal son and drew an analogy of Amanda waiting for her step-daughters’ return with such patience and loving that only our God portrays. The theme of the story is that God’s love is unconditional and undying. He embraced us his powerful love when we were still his enemy. To begin with, when Kara woke up in the hospital after her abortion, an acrimonious…

In these three words I see the completion of the entire Old Covenant narrative and the germination of the New Covenant reality. I see these three words pregnant with meaning and power. It is finished could have been the engraved line on our Saviours tombstone if He had need of one. Which He did not! The magnitude and the majesty of this simple but history altering stanza is staggering to say the least. In those last words of the Lord Jesus, all of the Old Testament prophesies and all of the…

In this week’s reading, the question I had comes from section 82 of the Doctrine and Covenants. In verse three it says “unto whom much is given much is required.” I was questioning what this meant. First I need to know what is given to me. After pondering this question, I realized that we are given so much. Not only does this mean that we are given blessing for the things that we do, but we are given much more than that. We are given prophets, apostles, and other church leaders. These leaders…

C. God Consent with Family Too “The Family Covenant” Genesis 17:10, “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.” God made the covenant with Abraham as the unequal parties, that God himself that established the covenant, Abraham part was to agree to it and be blessed when he obey of it. The covenant sign of circumcision of forskin, it should apply to Abraham and his sons, from generation to generations.…

God established three unconditional covenants: The Abrahamic Covenant provides the blessings of God completely depending on the grace of God, constituting what He will, is and going to do throughout history. This is God’s primary purposes for humanity accomplishing His plans forever. The Mosaic Covenant covers the Laws of God which is conditional obeying the voice of God and given to the Israelites those believing in God’s promise’s given to Abraham describing how the people should be conducting…

Noah’s Covenant, also referred to as the Perpetual or Everlasting Covenant, is the third in Genesis, the first book of the Pentateuch at the beginning of the Hebrew Scriptures. Historically speaking, Genesis is a representation of the creation and this exegesis seeks to decipher the literal truths from symbolic statements. The three primary methods of exegesis, namely historical, literal and rhetorical (Collins, 2014a) with some others including reader-response, have been intentionally…