Covenant Blessing

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Covenant Blessing

Covenant definition:
Arrangement between two parties involving mutual obligations; especially the arrangement between God and his people, expressed in grace first with Israel and then with the church.
It can be regarded as a deal enacted between two parties which one or both make promises under oath to perform or refrain from certain actions in advance.
Psalm 111:5 NKJV
He has given food to those who fear Him; He will ever be mindful of His covenant.
Noahic covenant
Eternal but also unconditional
Genesis 9:8–17 NKJV
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Gen 9:
Abrahamic covenant:
the details of covenant in show that both partners assumed responsibility.
God commiteed himself voluntarily to Abram and his descendants in turn requiring certain commitments from Abram.
God assumed the responsibility of the Blesser: The blessing Abram would receive became clear from the name God gave Him”
“No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations”
Genesis 17:5 NKJV
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.
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God would give to Abraham, through his descendants, the land of Canaan as an everlasting gift and would be the personal God of Abraham and his family in perpetuity (Gn 17:7, 8).

God would give to Abraham, through his descendants, the land of Canaan as an everlasting gift and would be the personal God of Abraham and his family in perpetuity (Gn 17:7, 8).

God would give to Abraham, through his descendants, the land of Canaan as an everlasting gift and would be the personal God of Abraham and his family in perpetuity
Genesis 17:7–8 NKJV
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

God’s giving required a response of obedience from Abraham: “Walk before me, and be blameless” (Gn 17:1). Those simple words indicate the essence of covenant relationship: to relate to God is to live in his presence; since God is holy, one who “walks before him” is expected to live a life of integrity and blamelessness.

God’s giving required a response of obedience from Abraham: “Walk before me, and be blameless” (). Those simple words indicate the essence of covenant relationship: to relate to God is to live in his presence; since God is holy, one who “walks before him” is expected to live a life of integrity and blamelessness.

Another dimension of the covenant lay still further in the future: “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Gn 12:3)

Another dimension of the covenant lay still further in the future: “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Gn 12:3)

Another dimension of the covenant lay still further in the future: “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” ()
Mosaic or and Sinaitic covenant
Exodus 34:28 NKJV
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 10:4 NKJV
And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.
exclusively with Abrahams seed, natural children.
Exodus 31:17 NKJV
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”
Luke 16:17 NKJV
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.
Outside the new covenant in Christ the Jew remain under the curse of the Law
Acts 13:39 NKJV
and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Romans 7:20 NKJV
Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 5:20–21 NKJV
Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
New covenant/ Covenant of Grace
Luke 22:20 NKJV
Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
Was entered into by the three persons of the Godheard.
In it the Father represented the Godheard in its indivisible sovereignty, and the Snn his people as their surety.
John 17:4 NKJV
I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
John 17
Isaiah 42:6 NKJV
“I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles,
Is 42:

The conditions of this covenant were, (1.) On the part of the Father (a) all needful preparation to the Son for the accomplishment of his work (Heb. 10:5; Isa. 42:1–7); (b) support in the work (Luke 22:43); and (c) a glorious reward in the exaltation of Christ when his work was done (Phil. 2:6–11), his investiture with universal dominion (John 5:22; Ps. 110:1), his having the administration of the covenant committed into his hands (Matt. 28:18; John 1:12; 17:2; Acts 2:33), and in the final salvation of all his people (Isa. 35:10; 53:10, 11; Jer. 31:33; Titus 1:2). (2.) On the part of the Son the conditions were (a) his becoming incarnate (Gal. 4:4, 5); and (b) as the second Adam his representing all his people, assuming their place and undertaking all their obligations under the violated covenant of works; (c) obeying the law (Ps. 40:8; Isa. 42:21; John 9:4, 5), and (d) suffering its penalty (Isa. 53; 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13), in their stead.

Christ, the mediator of, fulfils all its conditions in behalf of his people, and dispenses to them all its blessings. In Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24, this title is given to Christ.

Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988). Covenant. In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (Vol. 1, p. 532). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
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