The Covenant Flow (NBS2)

01/26/08

The Mystery and the Power of the Blood

Life is In the Blood
The Covenant Flow
The Cup of Blessing

"Pleading the blood!"

My people perish for lack of knowledge!

Key Verses

I Corinthians 4:1
- Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

The Covenant Flow

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21

Covenant

<Hebrew> (ber-eeth)
- in the sense of cutting, an incision
A contract or agreement between two parties.
An oath of three key componets:
- Loyalty – friendship unto death
- Protection – unto death
- Provision – unto exhaustion

Introduced by God

Deuteronomy 4:29-31
- But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
Psalm 89:1-4
- I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.” “I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David: ‘Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations.’”

Accompanied By A Sign

Genesis 9
- The promise and the rainbow
Genesis 17
- Isaac’s miracle birth

God’s “counsel,” “oath,” “promise”

Psalm 89:3, 4
Psalm 105:7-11
Hebrews 6:13-20
Luke 1:67-75

Bestowed Blessings

Isaiah 59:21
Jeremiah 31:33-34

Historical Examples

Adamic Covenants
- Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”
- Hebrews 9:22 “And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.”
Noahic Covenant
- God’s promise to Noah after the Flood
  - Genesis 8:20-22 “Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”
Abrahamic Covenant
- Genesis 17 – The flow of blood
- Leviticus. 26:42 “then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.”
- Renewed in Isaac & Jacob & the twelve tribes through Joshua
Mosaic Covenant
- Exodus 34:27-28
- Leviticus 26:14-16
  - This was afterwards renewed at different times in the history of Israel (Deut. 29; Josh. 24; 2 Chr. 15; 23; 29; 34; Ezra 10; Neh. 9).
- Added priestly covenant following Israel’s failure at Mount Sinai
  - The Law & the covenant of the priesthood (Num. 25:12, 13; Deut. 33:9; Neh. 13:29)
Davidic Covenant
- A promise of family fulfillment on the throne in Jerusalem.
- The first king to unite Israel and Judah and the first to receive the promise of a royal messiah in his line.
- David was pictured as the ideal king of God’s people. He ruled from about 1005 to 965 B.C.

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