Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland teaches you why you must be unwavering in your belief that God is a covenant-keeping God. And John saw the Lord God Almighty as He sat upon that throne of the universe [Revelation 4:2]. Never, not once, has our Creator and Father broke His covenant with man. Now preparatory, I am going to read out of Deuteronomy 31:7-8: And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord has sworn. I fear that some, maybe even many, of us don’t experience the full promise of God. Why, man, they had been gone from that land over four hundred years! So don’t believe the devil or his reports,” he said. . What can we take away from this passage? Deuteronomy is a set of sermons preached by Moses. This time is gone, and we will pick it up from there and carry the covenants of God clear through the whole Bible. Before… https://bible.org/seriespage/8-keep-covenant-genesis-157-21 And then the next Sunday, and the next Sunday, we will follow it through. Then an astonishing thing happened. Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember HIS HOLY COVENANT. This scripture is some of Moses’ last words. What will I be able to expect in these relationships? The miracle of Joshua stopping the sun and moon reveals the extent God will go to keep His Covenants. Now, let us turn to Deuteronomy, the last of Deuteronomy, and you just read it. And they all point to one person, the One who is the full and final embodiment of God’s redemptive covenant. We are now in the season of Lent, that time when we consider just how far God will go to keep covenant with his people. The Jews had broken that agreement. At the center of the universe is the throne of God. I would think that in translating the two words by which he seeks to describe the appearance of the “One who sat upon the throne” [Revelation 4:2], I would say if you translated it, you would say the first was a diamond and the second was a ruby [Revelation 4:3]. Now, the covenant—Genesis, chapter 12: Now the Lord had said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Your word “jasper” is just a spelling-out in English of the Greek word iaspis, “jasper,”  and your English word “sardine” is not a translation; it is just a spelling out in English of the Greek word sardinos, and translated here “the One who sat on the throne . That doesn’t make any difference, for God’s covenants do not change and God’s promises do not fail, and God shall fulfill every word that He speaks! It is often referred to as a contract a covenant is much more than a contract. How faithfully the Lord keeps that word and how earnestly does He lay it upon the hearts of His people. One was brilliant in crystal clearness, and the other was blood red. As already stated, a covenant establishes the parameters of the relationship between God and man. The Israelites, according to Genesis 17:14, needed to be circumcised in order to be inside the covenant of God. This is the land. Now, I have still another minute, and then let me add one other word and then I will quit. The Covenant Keeping God Psalms Sunday Service Wayside Presbyterian Church. The third commandment, found in Exodus 20:7 is a charge to not take God’s holy name in vain: “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD [Yahweh] your God, for the LORD [Yahweh] will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.” We are to not treat His name as “empty” or “nothing.” It looked like God is done with Israel. This is the assurance we have as we face an inevitable hour that lies ahead. “God said to Abraham, ‘As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations’” (Gen. 17:9). This is the great basis for everything that you will read thereafter in the Bible, this is it: God said to Abraham, “Out of thy loins,” out of thy body, from thy flesh and bones, “shall he come who shall be thy inheritor” [Genesis 15:4]. Keeping covenant with him and with each other, may we proclaim his faithfulness from generation to generation – God helping us. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Your browser does not support the audio tag. And these are the beginning words of Revelation 4: After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me: which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must come to pass after these things.”. Now when you read over there in the apostle Paul, he will be talking about that, “Because He could swear by no greater, God swore by Himself” [Hebrews 6:13]. This is the season, like no other, when the words grace, love, and covenant all come together to mean the same thing. What would your answer be if someone asked, “Who is God?” Watch Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he teaches why El Shaddai is our covenant-keeping God. #JerrySavelle #FavorOfGod #Miracles“Our Covenant Keeping God,” Jerry Savelle explores the covenant God made with Abraham, a promise of favor and blessing. He is just a recipient of it, for the promise is unconditional on the part of God. And Abram passed through the land…and the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. Are we living life abundantly? God speaks all the time and His word will never lose it's power in our lives to His glory. Now, the rest of the Bible—all of it—is nothing other than a working out through time, and history, and nations, and generations these great unconditional confirmations and affirmations of the Lord God Almighty. - Genesis 17:8–9 In today’s passage, God again pledges to give the land of Canaan to Abraham and his offspring (Gen. 17:8). So too the covenant bond may be violated relationally. They are just transliterated. The first signaled the exodus from Egypt, and this celebration signaled the entrance into the Promised Land. . Ancient Israel was not to look at keeping God’s covenant as a means to earn their salvation. God commands and Joshua follows. . If God makes a promise to us, says Psalm 105, He will definitely keep it, because it is God’s nature always to keep covenant. He remembers them, and this is a sign and an assurance of the faithfulness of Almighty God. They were living outside of the promise of God! And that is our invitation to your heart and to your soul. This audio sermon and transcript is entitled 'The Abrahamic Covenant', and is from the ministry of David Legge, a Christian preacher and Bible teacher from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Now, this sermon is one of these that we have been preparing and delivering, which sermons are preparatory for an understanding, as I can understand it, of the message of the Revelation. The last of Deuteronomy. In the balcony round, somebody you, on this lower floor, a family you, as the Spirit of Jesus shall say, and shall lead in the way, make it now, coming in trust, coming in faith, coming by letter. "¡XInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia Thesis: God has made a covenant with his people, and if we keep that covenant we will be blessed. So as you look, he saw there in appearance the diamond-like holiness and brilliance of the crystal, pure, holy, unapproachable, ineffable, iridescent God [Isaiah 6:3]. Can I call them up after school and will they want to meet me? These questions don’t stop in school. I believe Thee for it” [Genesis 15:6]. . – The word covenant is used in the bible to refer to the relationship between God and His people. As we continue through Joshua 5, the focus turns to Passover. . Under Moses and Aaron, the psalmist declared, God led Israel out of their bondage in Egypt, and they went through the Sinai Desert on their way to Canaan, the land that God had promised (covenanted) to them. “This is My blood of the new covenant” [Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24], and by what right could I believe and rest my soul in assurance that God will keep His promises to His apostles? He does not change. He has been speaking from the beginning and He will continue to speak to us as long as we maintain an intimate relationship with Him. And the third part: that in his Seed as of one, all of the nations of the earth would be blessed, a universal salvation and redemption to those who will turn in faith to accept the covenant promises of God [Genesis 12:3]. The Rewards of Covenant Fidelity And God put it on the side of righteousness [Genesis 15:6]. [Genesis 15:17]. Then as John looks upon the Almighty seated upon the throne forever, enduring the immutability of the sovereign God, as he looks, the first thing that he sees is: “and there was an iris,”the word in Greek, “an iris.”  You have one in each one of your eyes, an iris. Then red, ruby, which of course would represent and portray the redemptive work of the Lord Almighty; His mercy and love and forgiveness. “And in thy Seed,” as of one [Galatians 3:16], “shall all the nations of the earth be blessed” [Genesis 12:3]. How shall I know? The covenants God makes with people always follow on from either (a) a promise and/or call; (b) salvation/redemption. There had not been a Jew, there had not been a Hebrew, there had not been a seed of Abraham in that land for four hundred fifty years! The Power of Blood Covenant (3) - Our Covenant-keeping God - Sermon Videos. Jesus says in John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. This must be important if it was some of Moses’ last words! On the radio and on television, you are sharing the services of the First Baptist Church in Dallas. Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. God says, “I will save him forever” [John 3:16-18, 10:27-30], and He keeps His promises. First: that he himself would be personally blessed; temporal blessings, spiritual blessings, household blessings, heavenly blessings, earthly blessings, a great man, and nations come of him and kings out of his loins; personal blessings to Abraham [Genesis 12:2]. Arise, thou and this people, and  every place on which your foot does rest, that will I give unto thee and to thy children forever, forever. All over the ancient world this blood covenant was used. God will surely visit you? Put your trust in Him; do it. As we look upon it, it’s mostly an arch, just half a circle. Now turn to the next chapter, chapter 13, verse 14: And the Lord said unto Abram . Abram brought to it nothing. They were living outside of the promise of God! “This is the land, this is the land that I sware unto Abraham, and unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it to thy seed, and forever” [Deuteronomy 34:4]. And it was not prismatically colored with the spectrum of the seven that we see in the sky; but it was all green—the color of the earth, of life. A Solid Basis in Grace There’s no limit to the miracles that will happen in your life if you just choose to believe God! It is a complete bow around the throne [Revelation 4:3]. But this was only a repercussion of the larger issue stated in verse 8: "'You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. In preaching through the Bible, we have come, after many years, to the last book of the sixty and six. They had failed to keep the commitment to their spouses. (See Jeremiah 32:27) He’s the God of all flesh. “God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land into the land that He sware,” and from here on, you will find it again and again, “which He sware unto Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob” [Genesis 50:24], that covenant forever! Fear not, nor be discouraged. . – Covenant is God’s natural initiative and response to human wellbeing, needs, problems, and predicaments. And in the little moment that remains, may I just show you just to start off with, may I show you God’s faithfulness to that covenant? And he made the children of Israel swear.”  “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from hence” [Genesis 50:24-25]. And the book of Joshua starts off—the Book of Joshua starts off: After the death of Moses . A man does not walk on an equality with God. As he looked, he uses two words to describe the indescribable, which are not translated here. The Israelites celebrated Passover 40 years after the first Passover in the land of Egypt. This is the pastor bringing the early morning message entitled, Our Covenant-Keeping God. So rest easy in the knowledge that you have a covenant-keeping God who CANNOT break His covenant … Come outside.”  Abraham went outside, and God said, “Look up into the sky and what do you see?”  Abram said, “I see the stars innumerable.”  And the Lord God said, “So shall thy seed be” [Genesis 15:5]. Connection to unit theme. The Israelites, according to Genesis 17:14, needed to be circumcised in order to be inside the covenant of God. The only time any word from Joseph is mentioned in the New Testament is this, “And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, I die: but God will surely visit you” [Genesis 50:24; Hebrews 11:21-22]. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. “God will do what He says He would do. The Lord God alone walked through that sacrifice [Genesis 15:17]. the Lord spake unto Joshua…saying, My servant Moses is dead; therefore, arise! “How shall I know?”  How shall I know? The word “Covenant” appears specifically 313 times in the Word of God. If God will not keep one, I have no assurance He will keep the other. I don't think we always live like we trust or believe in the promises of God. So this rainbow, round about the throne of God, is God’s promise. Our God and His promises and His covenants, keeping them to the last hour of these last days that shall come upon this earth. Then they divided it exactly half and half, and one-half was placed over here by itself, and another half of that sacrificial animal was placed over here by itself. A deep sleep fell upon Abram [Genesis 15:12], and there Abram is in that deep slumber, and then under the sign of a flaming fire—that is so typical of a symbol of God. And I do not understand and I cannot see, and I tremble before the promise of God.”  Finally, you know, Abraham got to be one hundred years of age, and Sarah was ninety years of age, and there was no child born. You never get away from it. And the Lord said unto him, “I am the God that brought thee from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit” [Genesis 15:7]. One of the last things he tell us is this: You need to be in a covenant relationship with God. . The New Covenant made between God the Father and His Son Jesus. Will I be able to trust them? to look upon was like” [Revelation 4:2-3]  Then in the second, “in sight like unto, homoios horasis,” like in appearance [Revelation 4:3]. How shall I know? Will I make some good friends? If God made a covenant in an ancient day and did not keep it, and if God gave promises to His prophets and did not keep them, then by what assurance could I rest my soul that God will not also break the covenant that He made with Christ? At the heart of this creation is the sovereign room and authority of the Almighty; the throne set in heaven, in contrast to the mutability of the governments of the earth. God has a plan. It doesn’t mean monetarily or with possessions—but are we living life abundantly in the promises of God? Dr. Brian Cosby. The ancient Greeks used it. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. In our preaching through the Revelation, we have come to chapter 4. Scripture Two Sundays ago, I started … Now at the beginning of this great tribulation, there is that rainbow, a sign of our covenant God. And the promises He makes never fail. He could not describe God, and as he looked, he just saw what he could write in the likeness, in the appearance [Revelation 4:2-3]. Abraham was old and Sarah was old, and Abram said to the Lord God, “I do not understand. And may his blood be poured out into the ground as the blood of the sacrificial creature was poured out on the earth. By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord . The great, first covenant of God with His people is found in Genesis chapter 12. It is like all of God’s covenants. Oh, don’t lose hope, because He is the Lord God and there is nothing too difficult for Him. But as John looked upon the throne of God, it was complete. Now, look: Moses went up and the Lord God showed him all of the land, and the Lord said unto him: “This is the land,” verse 4, “This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed” [Deuteronomy 34:4] and for ever! So the message is Our Covenant-Keeping God : what He promised in the Old Testament, the covenant that He made in the ancient day, and the thesis of the sermon is that God will keep that promise forever, and that God will hold inviolate that covenant forever! So God made a covenant with Abraham. The chlorophyll that makes our world green is the sustenance and the sustaining, the keeping of all life. The heir in mine house is this Eliezer, a Damascene, a Syrian from Damascus. . At the end of chapter 11 before he begins chapter 12—which is the last half of this terrible period of the visitation of the Almighty and has to do particularly and especially with God’s people Israel—there is that sign of the covenant of God again. All right, turn to chapter 15 and verse 18: In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the River Euphrates.”. It should draw you closer to God’s love and covenant,” he stated. My friend, God will do as He has promised you, and to set your heart at ease, He bound Himself to a covenant with you when He cut it with your representative, Jesus, at Calvary. In our preaching through the Bible, we have come after many years to the last and the climactic book of the Scriptures, the Apocalypse which God gave to Jesus Christ, written down through His holy servant John, and spread in an open book before our eyes that we might see and know with confidence and assurance God’s faithfulness in the future. This word is defined as an agreement between God and man. God Fulfills His Promises - Deuteronomy 7; God Gives the King We Need - 1 Samuel 16; A Voice to Our Story - Psalm 55; Do You Really Desire Wisdom - Proverbs 1, James 2; Scriptures: Deuteronomy 7:6-11. Now in the twenty-first chapter, in the eleventh verse, the word “jasper” is described as “clear as crystal” [Revelation 21:11]. The second part of that covenant: national blessings. Whereas ordinarily, the two who make the covenant pass between the bloody sacrifice, it says here in the book, in verse 12, that God made a deep sleep to fall upon Abram, a deep sleep—like God made a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, when he took Eve from his side [Genesis 2:21-22]. Genesis ends—Genesis ends with the word from Joseph. And he saw an iris—translated a rainbow—and there was an iris—a rainbow—round about the throne, homoios horasis, in appearance like an emerald, surrounding the throne of God: a complete circle, a rainbow, an iris, and the color, a light green, an emerald [Revelation 4:3]. From the very first member of GodÂ’s earthly family — AdamÂ’s family — the relationship of God and His creation has included a covenant. And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. He never owned a piece of it save the little spot called the cave of Machpelah in Hebron where Sarah was buried [Genesis 23:8-20]. When I was in grade 6, we moved and I had to attend a new school. For you see, “immediately, out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices” [Revelation 4:5]. Let’s start at verse 5: Thou shalt not be called Abram, but Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee. But He does not change. And then Abram asked one other thing: “Lord, I do not understand how one born out of my body and in my house will be mine heir [Genesis 15:4]. Will they want to play with me? “God will surely visit you.”  Now, he says, “When God visits you, swear to me that you will take my bones up from hence and bury them in the land of Canaan. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. But I just trust Thee for it. And God said to Moses as he looked over the land, the home of the Canaanite and the Amorite and all of the rest, God said, “This is it! But before a single judgment falls, before God touches one of His creation, before these awful and awesome judgments fall, there is first the rainbow round about the throne. This is part 1 of a Bible Study Series entitled 'Covenants', looking at the Old and New Covenants. But, the covenant that God made in the Old Testament, and as He keeps it, all of the rest of the Bible is but an unfolding of those promises God made in the ancient day. Out of all of the majestic phenomenon of nature, none is more variedly beautiful than God’s bow in the sky with its prismatic colors, the sign says the Lord Almighty of His covenant with the earth, placed there after the storm and the fury of God’s judgment upon an unbelieving, a gainsaying, vile, blaspheming, and wicked world. Yet Thou sayest, ‘out of my loins and in my house shall he be born’ [Genesis 15:4]. But with them, I pray God shall open to view these things that He has written large on the page of the Scriptures. What would it matter for a man’s bones to turn back to the dust in Egypt, or in Ethiopia, or in another part of the earth, if that ended the man’s life, and his story, and his destiny, and his people, and his vision? Because of an unconditional promise of Him who never fails! There it is again. That is what we are going to do in these immediate sermons, is to follow it through to see that covenant-keeping, unchangeable God. Abraham, Covenant, Israel, Jews, Promise, Revelation 1961 - 1963, 1961, Revelation. What would be different in your life if you lived like God keeps His promises? So we are going to begin. There’s another day, there’s another time, there’s another hour, there’s a great millennium coming, and Joseph prayed that in it he might have a part and a share in the promises and the covenant-keeping God. He admonished them from Judges 2:1, Psalm 89:34 and Isaiah 54:10 to trust God because He would never break His covenant with them. The Lord said, “Abram, take a heifer three years old, take a goat three years old, take a ram of three years old, take a turtledove, and a young pigeon [Genesis 15:9], and divide them, pour out their blood on the ground and divide them. It does not matter what a man might think. God will forever be faithful to His word, for He is the living WORD and when He speaks it will be as He says not otherwise. “This is My blood of the new covenant, shed for the remission of sins” [Matthew 26:28]: when God says, “If a man will give his heart in trust to Jesus, I will save him forever” [John 3:16], it does not matter what a theologian might say. And I have no heir; no one is born to me. Inspirational devotions delivered right to your email inbox.