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The Bible Teaches Doctrine (part 5):
God Pursues Through Covenant
Our God is a God of Covenant
Our God is a God of Covenant
Jeremiah 31:33b And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Our God is a God of Covenant
Adamic Covenant (a.k.a Creation Covenant)
Adamic Covenant (a.k.a Creation Covenant)
Hosea 6:7 But like Adam they transgressed the covenant;
there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Adamic Covenant (a.k.a Creation Covenant)
Romans 5:17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned
through that one man, much more will those who receive the
abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life
through the one man Jesus Christ.
Adamic Covenant (a.k.a Creation Covenant)
Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
Adamic Covenant (a.k.a Creation Covenant)
Noahic Covenant
Noahic Covenant
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Noahic Covenant Genesis 8:21b “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for
the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever
again strike down every living creature as I have done. …
9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. …
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I
establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,
Noahic Covenant
1 Peter 3:21 Baptism, which corresponds to [the flood], now
saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to
God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ,
Abrahamic Covenant
Abrahamic Covenant
Genesis 12:1Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and
your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show
you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you
and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth
shall be blessed.”
Abrahamic Covenant
Genesis 17:4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the
father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be
called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you
the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you
exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings
shall come from you.
Abrahamic Covenant
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout
their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to
you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of
your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession, and I will be their God.”
Abrahamic Covenant
Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no
one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples
and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm
branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice,
“Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the
Lamb!”
Abrahamic Covenant
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Exodus 3:7bI know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver
them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, …10 Come, I will
send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of
Israel, out of Egypt.”
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will
indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my
treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom
of priests and a holy nation.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Luke 22:20 “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my
blood.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Hebrews 9:12 he entered once for all
into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood,
thus securing an eternal redemption
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Hebrews 9:15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has
occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed
under the first covenant.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the
excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous
light.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace
and truth.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among
their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command
him.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Galatians 3:10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it
is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law,
and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God
by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” …
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
24 So then, the law was our
guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by
faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a
guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Mosaic Covenant (a.k.a Law Covenant)
Fulfilled by Jesus in New Covenant
Davidic Covenant
Davidic Covenant
2 Samuel 7:8 ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people
Israel. 9 …And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. 10 And I
will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place
and be disturbed no more. …
Davidic Covenant
12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his
kingdom. … 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’ ”
Davidic Covenant
2 Samuel 7:18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what
is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
Davidic CovenantFulfilled by Jesus
Davidic CovenantFulfilled by Jesus
John 18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my
kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not
from the world.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I
am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have
come into the world
Davidic CovenantFulfilled by Jesus
2 Corinthians 3:4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ
toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim
anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who
has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For
the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Davidic CovenantFulfilled by Jesus