Dear Family,
Today is Monday, May 30, 2022, Day 2 of Week 7. This is the 44th Day in our Count to Pentecost.
The first time the English word covenant is used in the King James Version of the Bible is when God is dealing with Noah (Genesis 6:18). The word shows up in the Old Testament well over 200 times, and the study of each of these contexts is very helpful. However, the covenant that God made with Israel at Mt. Sinai is extremely important for true Believers to understand. It was a marriage covenant between God and Israel. It is a covenant that Israel quickly broke. And, it is a covenant that is being replaced by a better covenant (also a marriage covenant) based on better promises.
The reality about the everlasting fellowship God is calling us into is truly a beautiful love story!
Jeremiah 31:31-34 (31) Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: (32) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: (33) But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. (34) And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying; Know the Lord: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Isaiah 54:5-10 (5) For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of Hosts is His name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called. (6) For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. (7) For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. (8) In a little wrath I hid My face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. (9) For this is as the waters of Noah unto Me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. (10) For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Hebrews 8:6,13 (6) But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. (13) In that He saith; A new covenant, He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Everyone involved in the NEW covenant will be ready! This covenant is everlasting.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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