Sermons About Contract
Covenant People III
Abraham’s blessing is ours through faith in Jesus! We are blessed with many covenant blessings including…Grace, knowledge, peace, power, guidance…but we are also blessed with the three primary blessings that God gave Abraham!
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Covenant People II
Ancient peoples made “blood covenants” with each other gaining the benefits of food, help, safety, support and partnership from one another. We discovered that God made a ‘blood covenant” with Abraham.
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Covenant People I
A covenant is a binding, legal agreement or contract between two or more parties for the purpose of mutual benefit. We are Covenant People and have a covenant with God.
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Paradise Promised - Covenants in the Scriptures
Teachers of Bible study and reading repeatedly stress three things crucial to the art of mining the Scriptures--context, context, and context. Among other things, context involves getting into the heads (the way of life, the thinking patterns, the culture) of the original author and intended recipients of the Scriptural text. Twenty-first century America is a far cry from the ancient Near East of Abraham's day, and for that reason one of the Bible's major unifying themes may elude us. That theme is "covenant." Unlike today, where the idea of covenant is relegated to a few cultural practices (such as marriage), covenant was a central component of society, both on individual and global levels. Therefore, when the early Hebrews read and heard of "covenant" in their Scriptures, they would have given it more than a passing nod (as we so often do). If you search for the term "covenant" throughout the Scriptures, you won't find all that many instances. Yet today we'll learn that this concept is one of the best ways to understand the Bible as one book--a single story, an over-arching meta-narrative. In fact, God's whole plan of fixing this broken world can rightly be summed up in that one word. Today's message may very well reorient your whole perspective of the Bible!
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