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Children of the Covenant

on Aug 5, 2013 | OGI |


Children of the Covenant


You are the CHILDREN of the prophets, and OF THE COVENANT which God made with our fathers...
(Acts 3:25 WEB)

A covenant is a pact between two or more parties, each binding himself to fulfill certain obligations. From the beginning, God has progressively revealed His plan for humankind by the establishing of covenants. We are now participating in the New Covenant. This is a blessed era, for God has promised to place His Word and His Spirit within the hearts of those who repent and believe.

During the Old Covenant, being accepted by God depended primarily on the keeping of the law. This proved to be too difficult for God’s people and insufficient in meeting the their basic need. However, by the prophets, God foretold the dawning of a new day.

Jeremiah prophesied, “Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant…I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people” (Jeremiah 31:31, 33). Ezekiel also predicted, “Thus says the Lord God…I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes” (Ezekiel 36:22, 27). This dual covenantal pledge has brought recovery and restoration to multitudes, powerfully setting them free from the prison of a fallen nature. No wonder the Bible terms this arrangement, “a better covenant…established on better promises” (Hebrews 8:6).

 Meditation verses:

     Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments... (Deuteronomy 7:9)

     The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. (Psalms 25:14)

     How much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 9:14-15 MKJV)