Covenants

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SuperGoose

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Last Sunday we had a sermon on covenants, and an interesting point came up.  This was that when we accept Jesus into our heart we are making a covenant, or promise, with God that we will follow him.

In the Old Testament times people sometimes made covenants with each other by cutting animals in half and then walking through them.  Thus, saying that if they broke the covenant they would be chopped in half too.

Well, to the point of this topic.  We are very fortunate that God loves us and does not want us to risk losing our soul by messing up the covenant. That should be a very comforting thought .  
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I just thought I'd share that with you.  
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God Bless!

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The words under the topic title should say 'comforting thought
 
a covenant is legally binding

it is made with the spilling of blood and can only be broken by the spilling of blood. (death)

THe lord Binds himself to us in so many ways. He gives us 'legal' grounds to expect his response when we act as he says to.

for example

you buy a house, there's a contract. you hand over the cash, the house is yours.

That's what the Lord does with us so often. Covenants are contracts with blood sealing them.

If my people, who are called by my name.... it's a contract. you do your bit,

then, will i hear from heaven etc and HE WILL do his part

2 Chron 7:14-15
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. NIV


God promises action all the time, BUT Covenants are way cool...


sealcomm
 
Genesis 15


God's Covenant With Abram

1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:

"Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield, [1]
your very great reward. [2] "

2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD , what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit [3] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."
4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars-if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
6 Abram believed the LORD , and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD , who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD , how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"
9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river [4] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates- 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites." .
 
That's a wonderful story - shame the Hittites took the land back again, innit?

Eon
 
Theirs and other peoples... Still, the shoe is on the other foot, as they seem to have transitioned nicely from the Opressed to the Opressors. Looks like they learned a lot of lessons from their time in Europe 39-45 - just the wrong ones.

Eon
 
If Abraham hadn't pushed Gods timing and had a son with sarahs servant there would have been no Ishamael, and no second heir to the blessing on Abraham.

I guess it's a lesson of what can happen when we make decisions without the Lord


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