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  • Essay / The Importance of Making Covenants with God - 1616

    One of the ways God demonstrates His goodness and kindness to His people is through His covenants. When God enters into a covenant, he sovereignly enters into a relationship with men that is a bond of life and death. When a covenant is made by God, there is no bargaining on the part of man, after all, the Sovereign Lord of the universes has no need to humble Himself before man. A covenant is a blood bond, that is, once an alliance is made, nothing less than the shedding of blood is necessary if one party fails to uphold the covenant . The entire history of humanity can be understood as a continuing alliance between God and man. . Some believe that God's first covenant was with Noah, on the contrary, God's relationship with man before Noah can be called a covenant. Although the word "covenant" is not used before Noah, we know that creation is a covenant, as Jeremiah 33:20-26 states, as well as Hosea 6:7 telling us that Adam was in a covenant with God, but he transgressed it. From creation to consummation, covenants determined God's relationship with his people. The main covenants God made were with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and the new covenant, as well as the original creation and God's first connection with man after the fall as well. being an alliance. Is it appropriate to consider these alliances as distinct? Does the successive alliance cancel the first? Are the alliances related to each other in any way? One of the necessary foundations for understanding the covenants of Scripture is a knowledge of the unified character of the covenants. Although the specific details of the alliances vary, they ultimately constitute one alliance. Each successive covenant builds on the previous relationship, that is, God does not wipe the slate clean and begin completely...... middle of paper ...... the grace of covenant of God. The final covenant called the consummation covenant brings together the various covenant promises throughout history. Through this new alliance, all the promises of the previously established alliances will find their complete fulfillment. The heart of this covenant rests on one person, the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ represents the full restoration of God's blessings to the Promised Land. The law of God will now be internalized by the work of the Holy Spirit. There is an eternal character to this alliance which implies an eschatological dimension. It is the last covenant, which brings the full fruit of what God wants in redemption. The form of the Old Covenant disappears, but the promises of this covenant are fulfilled in Christ. There is no need for types, shadows and ceremonies now that reality is here..