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God’s Covenant

• Testament- covenant
• Covenant is a verb that means “to cut”
• Blood Covenant- there is nothing more sacred.
• Blood covenant: explain each party gets a substitute to represent themselves.
• Go in front of the priest, they cut their wrists just enough to put a few drops of blood mixed with wine, and then they drink it.
• They then will rub their wrists together mixing each other’s blood becoming brothers.
• Often, they will rub gunpowder on the wound to create a mark like a tattoo to signify they were in blood covenant.

Partnership, it is used to make sure that neither party will take advantage of the other

• Then the priest pronounced wonderful blessings on them.  After that the priest would announce horrible curses upon them if either side would break the covenant.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

(Go over the Blessings given to Abraham)

Galatians 3:29    

New International Version (NIV)

29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

• Stealing from a blood brother carried a death penalty
• His own family would turn him over to the avenger to be killed
• So sacred was the blood covenant that is was revered and past on to succeeding generations
• It was a perpetual covenant that could not be broken or dissolved

Genesis 15:1-9

New International Version (NIV)

The Lord’s Covenant With Abraham

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

“Do not be afraid, Abram.
    I am your shield,[a]
    your very great reward.[b]”

2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[c] 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 who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[d] 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, “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.”

• God is a spirit He needed a substitute in His place
• Abraham took God’s substitute and shed its blood in the sense realm for man to see & understand God’s covenant

Genesis 17:7-11   

New International Version (NIV)

7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. 10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

• Circumcision, let the blood flow
• Through the act of cutting, my covenant will be in your flesh and we will be blood brothers
• Abraham was now a covenant man and friend of God

God operates by the law set forth in His Word.

Genesis 22:15-18  

New International Version (NIV)

15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b] because you have obeyed me.”

• Often gifts are exchanged, symbolizing that everything that one has was at the disposal of the other if he needs it.
• It was his most prized possession.
• Had to be ready to make a complete surrender of himself to the one with whom he was in covenant with

Hebrews 8:6           

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

But the work that has been given to Jesus is much greater than the work that was given to those priests. In the same way, the new agreement that Jesus brought from God to his people is much greater than the old one. And the new agreement is based on better promises.

Hebrews 10:9        

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

9 Then he said, “Here I am, God. I have come to do what you want.” So God ends that first system of sacrifices and starts his new way.

• God does away with the old Covenant and starts the New Covenant
• New covenant better than the old and greater promises

Hebrews 8:9-12 

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their forefathers on the day when I grasped them by the hand to help and relieve them and to lead them out from the land of Egypt, for they did not abide in My agreement with them, and so I withdrew My favor and disregarded them, says the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their minds, even upon their innermost thoughts and understanding, and engrave them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

11 And it will nevermore be necessary for each one to teach his neighbor and his fellow citizen or each one his brother, saying, Know (perceive, have knowledge of, and get acquainted by experience with) the Lord, for all will know Me, from the smallest to the greatest of them.

12 For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.

• New covenant we will be His people and He will be our God.

Offering message:

Matthew 25:29

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will be [a]furnished richly so that he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.