COVENANTS & CONTRACTS
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COVENANT & CONTRACTS
“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when 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 lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
NEVER SURRENDER COVENANT FOR A CONTRACT
DO YOU WANT A MARRIAGE OF COVENANT OR CONTRACT?
WHY?
CONTRACTS ARE SECULAR AND COVENANTS ARE SACRED
COVENANT - A SWORN AGREEMENT BY OATH WITH CUTTING UNTIL BLOOD IS SPILLED
4 COVENANTS NOAHIC,ABRAHAMIC,MOSAIC,DAVIDIC
ALL COVENANTS ARE RELATIONAL, PERSONAL, AND SACRIFICIAL
THE STRENGTH OF COVENANT IS IN THE WORD
*I FOUND CARDS TO BECCA BEFORE I WAS HER HUSBAND
JESUS IS A LOVE LETTER TURNED LOVER
GOD HAS GIVEN YOU HIS WORD
MATTHEW 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
JESUS IS THE COVENANT OF OATH/WORD
JESUS IS NO LONGER THE LOGOS - HE IS ALIVE!
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
NO SERVING THE LETTER ALLOWED.
GOD’S COVENANT CAN ONLY BE AS POWERFUL AS YOUR RELATIONSHIP
WE CANNOT DEMAND PROMISES WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP
THE STRENGTH OF COVENANT IS IN THE BLOOD
- THE COVENANT IS ONCE AND FOR ALL
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’
For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
APPLY THE BLOOD
Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance;
the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.
It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—
THE BLOOD OF THE OLD COVENANT HAD A SHELF LIFE!
DAVID HAD 6 STEPS
PRIESTS HAD 1 DAY A YEAR
ISRAEL HAD 1 NIGHT
CAIN & ABLE - TRUST IN THE BLOOD
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS ETERNAL! NO SHADOWS/NO BACK ROOMS
HIS BLOOD TAKES YOU INTO THE REALITY OF HEAVEN NOW!
WE APPLY THE BLOOD THROUGH RELATIONSHIP
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO RECEIVE THE BLOOD OF JESUS
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
THE CUT ON THE INSIDE WILL ALWAYS LEAVE EVIDENCE OF TRANSFORMATION ON THE OUTSIDE
THE COVENANT IS INSIDE
HEBREWS 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
JEREMIAH 4:3-4
For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, And take away the foreskins of your hearts, You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury come forth like fire, And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings.”
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
CLOSE:
DO YOU WANT TO CUT A COVENANT WITH GOD TODAY?
CUT ME ON THE INSIDE - TURN ME INSIDE OUT
I WANT A COVENANT NOT A CONTRACT
*HEART SURGEON