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Thank you
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You know um
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of this year
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as we start you know every year we probably do resolutions right What’s you already gonna be doing for this year
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and talk to the Lord
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told him I’m gonna be a little bit more open to what he has to say and what he wants to do and not push it off to the side or think too much about it Just just go kind of like what it used to
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Um
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the reason why I’m talking about this um
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as I was sitting there we worship and
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I feel like the Lord
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has somebody on his heart today Some something has happened with someone here maybe a great injustice And um
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you’ve been crying out to the Lord
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to um
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to basically to get in your corner
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and be your advocate And I just wanted I just who I don’t know if that’s here for some money maybe it’s some money online
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but the Lord’s in your corner
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and uh
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he doesn’t like what happened to you He doesn’t like what was the things that you’ve been accused of
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And if that’s you
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just want you to know that the Lord is going to be working things out
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and it hurt him just as much as it hurt you
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and he’s gonna be your advocate And that’s anybody here
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let us know when we come for prayer time Amen
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Amen
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All right
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I just feel it hard on this one guys
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my first people
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All right Well um
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as I mentioned I’m pastor Mike and uh one of the pastors here and today I wanna be talking about
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an everlasting covenant
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Now
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you know there’s been a lot of things written about the
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covenant and you know I I gotta admit I don’t really know too much about it other than what we
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hear in church and messages and things from the pulpit
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and things online that you read and it’s really really important to kind of go through it and read And I did a lot of studying this week about the covenant and I just want to kind of share some things that’s been on my heart that maybe I’ve had
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wondering what this is about what that’s about
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And in my studies
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today I’m hoping that I I uh give you a viewpoint of maybe some of the the covenants of because we’re gonna learn there’s a couple of covenants in the in the Bible So my foundational scripture
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is from Hebrews 86
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and it says this but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry in as much as he is also
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mediator of a better covenant which was established on better promises
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Amen Lord
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So recently Pastor Bill was actually talking about this a couple of sermons ago he mentioned the covenant and I had really started thinking about it or looking into it
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And uh it was really it was really kind of cool for me when he started talking about the covenants and it really made me to go Ok Lord I think you want us to maybe this year is kind of understand what it is the covenant and what we walk in Because many times guys
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we get we’re in as pastor Bill was talking earlier
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You know it it’s amazing that sometimes we don’t walk in these realities that we have that God has said in our word we’re still kind of back somewhere Some of the songs that we’re talking about we’re going forward This is a new day Goodbye to the past into what we we’re gonna be learning today or what the Lord has for us today
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But he was talking about the coming and that really sparked
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my interest I have for many years just kind of glossed over this term and really have had many questions on how they
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work
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what they did and how are they formed and what was the end result of them again I’m a process guy So I always like to say
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hey when if we’re gonna do something if we’re in something I wanna know how I got into it What’s gonna go on when I’m in it and what’s gonna be
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the end result or what was the the thing that happens because of that is it Does that make sense Um That’s my
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brain how it works If you think of the Bible in a covenant covenant way it is a written history of
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God’s covenant journey with mankind
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If you read throughout the scriptures guys from Genesis all the way to revelations we’re gonna uncover some covenants and what was going on in those And it’s it’s really it was really eye opening to me
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The Greek word
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is usually translated covenant in English versions of the Bible is a legal term denoting a formal and legally binding declaration of benefits to be given by one party to
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another without any conditions attached
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That’s what that’s what we see If you go into the the dictionary
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there have been thousands of servants written over the years and many li listen to online and and by other means and I’m going to see if I can help you if you had any
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questions that I have had rolling around in my head
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So hopefully I hope
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when I’m trying to figure something out I try to figure out hopefully somebody had those same questions You know every questions are not bad to ask when you’re asking God Hey can you kind of help me with this one He he’s OK with that
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in my studies I’ve seen that there are at least five covenants in the Bible and I’m going to do my best to touch on
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them with the time that I have today
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The first one is the no covenant that’s with Noah The second is the Abrahamic covenant And the third one is the mosaic covenant The fourth is the the Vidic covenant And
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lastly the new covenant in which we are a part of today
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this is important to know because many of us when we think or hear about the old covenant we are quick to say that we’re no longer under that And that is 100% true
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So that is 100% true But even though the old covenant is in the Old Testament there are others
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Israel lived under the old covenant for 1300
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years according to a biblical time span And that
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means between Genesis and Exodus that history was about 2800
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years What kind of covenant were they under
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You know it’s really interesting to me that God would use you know covenant is not something that God started ok there And if you look back in the
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old in the old um
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um times the countries they had they had had these covenants established It’s really interesting to me that God would use some of those imageries that things were going on at that culture at that time and bring a covenant So people would understand because there was already stuff going on Covenants are being made between parties between nations between people And he used those things that were already there to to do that with them So that was interesting to me I thought he was the one that created it And no I
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mean the was really cool
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Has any anyone has anyone ever asked other than me why did God
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do things in the Old Testament that seem cruel or reactionary
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You know I I
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I struggled with this for a long time because we read about that God is the same as today yesterday today and forever
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And I read this Old Testament or I read the old you know the Old Testament in the Bible and I see all these things and I’m like man God was he just crazy or what was going on But as the more I kind of studied this I kind of seen that God is
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this has been the same He’s
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tried to be the loving God to his people through all through the ages And there was maybe because of covenants there were some things that he he did because he had to keep his part of the of the covenant going on
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So it really became open to me because you know even even uh I was reading Steven famous atheist Stephen Dawkins
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once wrote that The God of The
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Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction Jealous He’s proud of himself He’s petty unjust unforgiving a control freak a vindictive bloodthirsty
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I I’m gonna just start reading this He just said a lot of things
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that he believed this God who God is and you know
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for for many of us it’s hard to answer
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somebody like that
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because you just you know you’re reading the Bible and you’re reading and you’re looking at the Old Testament and you’re reading who he is now or what we hear or we we what we’ve
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been taught
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and it’s hard to answer someone and go Oh yeah maybe he wasn’t but maybe
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like I said I’m gonna hopefully I uncover some stuff or show some stuff
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to you guys that he was always the same He just we’re gonna learn Ok
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I do not believe that the God of the Old Testament is any different than the God of the New Testament for it is written in Hebrews 13 8 that he is the same yesterday today and forever He is the God of love and has always been and
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maybe just maybe it’s because of the covenants that he got into men that some of the things happen like they did Do you know that every covenant God entered with man he’s always kept his end of the union or agreement
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God’s always kept up his end He always has which is pretty eye opening for me
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because you know we just I’m in a covenant But yeah I’m so we’re gonna learn some more
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in the ancient near near east the countries that derive from the cradle of civilization It’s widely known that there’s three types of covenants and and when we in the West may not have
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heard about these they are commonly created between two parties And I’m gonna tell you
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what the three are They’re grant covenants
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kinship covenants and vassal covenants
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I don’t have a lot of time but I’m gonna just kind of let you know a little bit
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The grand covenant is when a king decided to honor and bless a faithful servant or a lesser king
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He would establish a grant covenant A grant covenant was the best type of covenant because it came with no
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strings attached
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Pretty amazing
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It was unconditional and didn’t require obedience on the part of the receiver It was a generous overflow of love
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and grace poured out of the
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ruler heart
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upon the one receiving the grant covenant
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I’d say that’s the one I’d like to be in just from the top from reading That’s the one I want to be in
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The next one was a kinship covenant It’s when two equal parties decided to enter into the covenant together such as a military alliance or even in a marriage And this
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was known as a kinship covenant The covenant came with certain
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obligations which both
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parties would uphold similar to extending the vows and like a marriage ceremony So we’re we have a little understanding of that one of the kinship covenant because we see that in in in a in a marriage
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the last one or the
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third one that I was reading about was a
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vassal covenant
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And uh during the times of war a king may have decided to spare enemies nations women Children and the elderly elderly So he could continue to exact labor and tax money from them for years to come to keep them alive The king will establish establish a a vassal covenant which is the he was which was the heaviest covenant to bear The conditions of the vassal covenant were seemingly endless
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So that doesn’t sound too too nice right
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With the stipulation that the lesser party if he did not uphold their end of the deal the king would
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be really he could he could kill them
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They didn’t handle they didn’t part of they didn’t handle
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their part of the end or they’re part of the the the that part they could they could kill them So to understand the different covenants this is a pretty cool guideline to help us understand
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what type of covenants are in effect during the timelines when we’re reading about them It’s really started to open up for me now that I’ve read this
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when the two parties got into these agreements it was customary from time to time for them to come together and see if the agreements were working out mean they come together and let’s let’s kind of look at all this and let’s see how we both parties are are are handling
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Let’s see if we’re handling each part of our ends that we decided as we got into this
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Among the Old Testament covenants we find all three types of covenants God covenant with Noah Abraham and David were all
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grant covenants You guys remember
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what the grant covenant was
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really one that it’s really cool to get into
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Um And Moses covenant started as a grant covenant
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then it went to a
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kinship and then it ended in a vassal covenant So we’re gonna touch a little bit about that
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in Noah Covenant We read in Genesis 6 18 It says but I will establish my covenant with you
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and you shall go into the ark you and your sons and
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your wife and your son’s wipes with you
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later on in Genesis 9 11 God says thus I establish my covenant with you Never again shall I all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood Never again shall there be a flood
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to destroy the earth
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Notice how there’s no
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conditions on the promise that he’s establishing
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He’s basically just saying this is what I’m gonna do You guys
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this is this is just something that I’m gonna do for you There’s nothing that you have to do Now you could argue Well we made the boat we got into it and we we did our part of it But you know they didn’t really have to do that He got let it out there no one about the boat
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So we quickly wanna say well we had to do something to get that
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That’s not what I’m reading
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here A brief look at Abraham’s covenant We see that God tells him that he will make a great nation nation He will make Abraham’s name Great and bless those who bless him And then he says I will bless
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all people on the earth because of you
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pretty cool companies getting into their
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And if you think about it
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the one thing we know about Abraham he is a man of faith
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He had faith to leave his
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land faith to believe in a God He really didn’t know and faith to sacrifice the things that meant a lot to Him in order to follow God
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that’s kind of a cool pattern I don’t know if you got got that That’s something that
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really really need something that we wish we were more like that
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Let us take a brief look at Moses covenant If you think about it Now knowing what we’ve learned it starts off as a grant Covenant God offers Moses and Israel
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this covenant we’re gonna read this in Exodus 19
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verses five through six Now therefore if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people from all the
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earth for all the earth is mine and you shall be a kingdom or priest and a holy nation
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and there they move and then they move to the confirmation So God’s basically tells Moses here’s what I wanna do with the people So they move to for the confirmation of the co the covenant but the people are
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overwhelmed with the presence of God
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who would to be there the presence of God And we we we experience it a lot but we’re gonna see that more and more and I hope we’re not like what these people did But this this good thing about the Bible we get to read and see how maybe to change those
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So
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in fear they beg Moses to be
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a go between them and God basically they turned down his offer
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God I mean Moses you go talk to God for us We’re we’re we’re so afraid right I mean I’m I’m as I read this I see us I
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see sometimes the church I see myself you know God I’d rather go get a word from somebody instead of spending time with you instead and meeting with you and and I don’t know if I wanna get in your presence Lord but we are I’m always looking for somebody else
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to be a go between What if we were those people that
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wanted to just be in God’s presence and not look for the go between
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something to think about
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So God in his loving manner again because he’s the same yesterday today and tomorrow comes to them with a redrafted proposal Israel’s response is
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we are good where we where we are with you God
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we’re we’re good We we we are all right We we’re we’re ok We’re that’s all right
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Tell Moses do whatever he does whatever he says whatever you wanna
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tell him we’ll listen And that’s in Deuteronomy 5 25 you guys can go back and read that Exodus 20 also 18 to 19
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This is their response to them It’s kind of surprising to me now that I’m reading it but it’s really jumping out to me
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after this God gives Moses the 10 commandments and they are now in a kinship covenant Now this kind of covenant is punishable by death and the people are failing miser miserably in the
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desert
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Maybe that’s why a guy wants to kill them I don’t know They’re
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not they’re not they’re not uh kind of following their end of the deal right So
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hey maybe
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but he loves his
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people but he continues much like us today No matter sometimes we don’t follow sometimes
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we fail miserably but he loves us just like he
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loved them back then And he really didn’t want to do what he had to do But this is what this is what he this is what he did
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So so then um Moses then dies and the kinship covenant can now be over because one partner has died And that’s really interesting That’s a that’s a fact
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in in uh when a covenant a covenant
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is only in effect in effect
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while the other person who’s representing the other side is alive once
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that person is dead or dies or there’s no more people left at that that covenant
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is over
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So it’s very very interesting
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that uh we see it when Moses
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dies he’s basically gonna kind of redraft it again because he’s gonna start up with um Joshua
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So God amends the covenant again with Joshua and begins to lead Israel to a vassal
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covenant And you know you can go read the
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Deuteronomy right
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You guys can read Deuteronomy tonight where it says if you do this this will be this basically laying out His
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conditions
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And if you do this you’ll be blessed if you don’t
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you see all this stuff So I don’t believe that was in the heart of God I do wanna do that but that’s what he needed to
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do because of where the people
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were at that time This is the old covenant and the law that the New Testament refers to God had offered his people a grant covenant they chose a kinship and then failed to uphold their end So now in His mercy God downgrades him to a vassal covenant
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which we should should be able to clearly see that this is a form of covenant that was never
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in his heart for his people
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He just wanted to be their God right All throughout the old Testament Even today he just wants to be their God He just wants to be our God
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covenant is now has ended And based on my studies this is not God’s heart In fact it veiled
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who he really wanted to be to them
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Really really interesting as I’ve been reading and through this new perspective maybe maybe you guys have already had this I haven’t
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But
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and second Samuel we are now introduced to David’s covenant which is with
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God
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we see a heart of a man sold out to God Sometimes the church concentrates on his fears and it’s something that we should take
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note There were some things that David didn’t
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do
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But of course we get to see that David when he goes to his heart for the Lord he goes to Nathan because he believes the arc should not be in a tent but in a magnificent place God had never required that or
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asked for it
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But God tells Nathan to tell David do whatever is in your heart because what is in our heart to do for the Lord
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love to somebody that you know and he’s still saying that now there’s many of us that want to do some amazing stuff for the Lord and he’s gonna say do whatever is in your heart If you’re gonna do it unto me do it
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I believe because David has such an honor for God
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And if you think about He was asking for
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something that was not yet given He was asking if you go back through and leaving David he was asking for a clean heart
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and that we wouldn’t that the Holy Spirit would not be taken away from him
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And I believe that that was something that he’s God couldn’t give to him because that was gonna be something that he was gonna give to us But such a heart that God that David
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had for God
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that he was asking for something that he couldn’t give
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it to him yet because that’s something that we walk in Now
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the indwelling holy spirit and a clean heart
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And so as I was reading it I just
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really spoke to me
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I was wondering why God why do you love David so much That could be a reason Maybe it’s just me But that’s that’s what I was reading As I picked out
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Second Samuel 7-Eleven through 17 This is a new American standard uh Bible I checked out
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even from the day that I appointed Jesus over you my people Israel and I will give you rest from all your enemies The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a
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house for you
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when your days are finished and you lie down with your fathers I will raise up a descendant after you who will come from you And I
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will establish his kingdom
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and he shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever And I will
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be a father to him and he will be my son
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I think that’s a a covenant
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You read about it Basically God’s I’m offering you this David or I’m gonna tell you it is a grant covenant because of who you are How much you love me This is what I’m gonna do because of you
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And I’ll keep reading and when he does wrong I will
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discipline him with a rod of men and with strokes of sons of mankind But my favor shall not depart with him
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as I took it from Saul when I removed from for you
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your house and your kingdom will shall endure before be forever Your throne will be established forever and in accordance
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with all these words and all the visions So Nathan spoke to David
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go back and read that guys and then
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read his response David receives God’s promise with humility And we know that because if you read the response and that’s in second Samuel 7 18 to 29 we
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see that he understands he just entered into a covenant promise
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What type of that covenant guys
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grant Remember it’s a grant
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So I spent a little time in a different covenant today because I wanted us to see the magnitude of the covenant We
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walk in today with God
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as mentioned this covenant is built on better promises The New Testament uses several metaphors to make comparisons between the old and the new covenant I’m just gonna use a couple of them There’s a lot of them in my studies but I’m
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gonna use a couple of
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a new priesthood
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That was what was promised in the in
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the new covenant Hebrews 7 12 says it this way for the priesthood being changed of necessary of neces necessity There is also a change of the law
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So we see this Jesus is our new high priest and he’s not from he’s not a
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Levite
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You guys know that
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So
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the old covenant that was led by the levites
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you know once that is
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over with you had to be a levi to keep that thing going right But we know
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that Jesus is from the tribe of Judah
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So that priesthood is over with because Jesus is now our
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our our priest our high priest and he’s under another he’s under another family He’s come from the he’s a lion from the tribe of Judah So
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because of that we know that that covenant is
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over And now we’re in a new one
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the new Tabernacle
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Hebrews 82 says it this way a minister of the sanctuary of the true Tabernacle which the Lord erected and
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not man
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That’s amazing
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That stood out to me This is speaking of Jesus ministering into a superior temple the old covenant was based on the obedience of law And the new covenant is written on the hearts and minds of God’s people
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Hebrews 8 10 says it this way for this is the covenant that I will make with the house When I read earlier the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will put my laws in their minds and write them in their heart and I will be
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their God and they will be my people
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Could it be
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could it be that the new temple of God is not some other temple You know I’m always reading about oh there Jerusalem is waiting for the third temple and then all that and then all this will happen guys I’m eschatology I don’t try to figure out what’s going on because I wanna establish God’s kingdom on the earth Now I’m not waiting for a sign I I read this in
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the Bible that we’re in it today and that’s how I read it I may be
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flawed
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but I’m not waiting for something to happen something up somewhere else So if this happens and we’re in this and everything is great No I don’t have the uh uh um tell my wife all this the escape pod mentality I’m here We’re here to establish his kingdom on the earth We’re here to rule and reign here and to bring people to the saving grace of Jesus Christ to know them And if you’re looking to Hey the sweet we should be all excited that we’re all gonna go to heaven
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That’s an amazing thing But we have some work to be done here and we shouldn’t be thinking
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about leaving There’s too many people here that don’t know about who God is and what he can do in their life So I don’t I’m
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not in and what’s gonna happen here I’m
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more I’m about what’s going on now So this is really opening up my
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my mind as I was reading
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this
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could this be that we are the new temple of
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God
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and not some other
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temple that God you know that man is waiting
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for us to build on the other part of the world
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It’s an amazing thought I don’t know it might be too much but
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I’m still chewing on this A new glory
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Second Corinthians 37 says this in the first part of the verse that says but if the ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious we know that the old the
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old excuse me the old covenant was a glorious one OK No doubt about it
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or it came with glory
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When Moses came down from the mountain he covered or veiled his face For two reasons The people were afraid to look upon him in a time because they didn’t So they were afraid to look at him He comes down with a veil because he’s shining and the Lord’s
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presence is on him
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And so that was one reason that he did that the other reason I believe because he saw it was gonna fade
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it was gonna be a fading glory because we were going to go
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into something else And so he kept it veiled
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so that for one
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to shield the people because they were afraid of it and the other other part of it it was gonna be going
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away And maybe he didn’t want them to know maybe he
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didn’t want them to know
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that God’s heart was this is not what he really wanted for them And so he was trying to protect the people
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I don’t know I keep reading I keep reading and and still chewing on this one
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The veil of the old covenant blocked the glory from the time of
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Moses until the time of Christ
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It’s a crazy it’s a crazy thought Right
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Second Corinthians 3 18 says this but we all with unveiled faces beholding as in a mirror The glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just
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as by the spirit of the Lord
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In Christ’s new covenant we have an ever increasing glory unveil faces instead of hiding the glory we now reflect
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God’s glory in an
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ever increasing manner This is what I keep reading ever It’s gonna be ever increasing
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guys It’s not gonna fade away because being in a new covenant there’s there’s a new
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thing there’s new things that are going on
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A new wines skin This is another one I picked
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out If you think about it the new wine we’re kind of singing about that earlier or the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit cannot be poured into old wine skins or an
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old covenant
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can’t pour it in the news What God wants to do on earth with old mindsets
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it will burst it will not be able to handle it
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And I think
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it will be able to be kept in and it will get all poured out So
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did you know that Jewish historian Josephus stated that the temple was seen as a representation of the universe And the phrase heaven and earth
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was an idiom referring to the Jewish temple
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Jesus spoke about three divisions in the in the in the temple one was land sea in heaven I won’t get in the way But that’s really cool When Jesus spoke at the end of heaven and earth his hearers would have heard his words as a prophecy
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of the destruction of the temple or in other words the end of the law Now we know in 70 80 guys
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uh the temple was
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burned The temple Jesus talked about this in Matthew these things are happening I don’t think it was in the future I think it happened back then And once the old once the temple was destroyed that there’s no way so that there’s no priest they can’t be in the temple no more They can’t uphold the law they can’t do any of those stuff So now it becomes over
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and Jesus talked about that he was and he was using this uh in in in the scripture I believe he was
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saying
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it’s over with Once that happens it’s over We’re now in a new covenant
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Matthew five says uh 15 to 17 Did you do not think that I came to destroy the law of the prophets
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I did not come to destroy it but to fulfill for shortly I say to you till heaven and earth pass away One jot or one tittle will no no means
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pass from the law till it’s fulfilled
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Also further down Matthew around chapter 24
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uh verses 2034 35 It’s written and Bill talked about this Surely I say you this generation will no means pass till all these things All these things take place heaven and earth will pass away heaven and earth is what the temple heaven and earth will pass away But my words by no means will pass
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away
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So the the law is over The
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old covenant with Moses is over
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We are now in a new covenant The old covenant will pass away but any words from Jesus will be eternal and life
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giving
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All right guys I’m gonna I’m gonna wind down here
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Jesus fulfilled every covenant that it was made through the whole
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Bible
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you know he said I didn’t come
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to I didn’t come to abolish it I didn’t come to he came to fulfill it and I’m gonna just kind of go through it He was the living water that floods the earth not to destroy it
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but to bring everlasting life
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He was the offering of Abraham who trusted Yahweh even to the point of death and became a
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blessing to all nations
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He is the greater Moses leading us all out of
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bondage And he
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is the obedient Israelite who perfectly followed the
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laws of God
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He is the royal son of David who inaugurated God’s kingdom in this life in his life
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in his death and his resurrection And now sits at God’s right hand forever reigning as the one true king
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So he fulfilled all the covenants
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Jesus was the one to fulfill them all That’s how he fulfilled them all guys If you ever I’ve always tried to make this distinction How
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did he how did he fulfill it This is how this is I think Jesus predicted Jesus perfectly succeeded at every point where humanity humanity failed
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He is the guarantor guarantor and mediator of a
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new and better covenant
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The final covenant will never be
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broken because God if his end ending love is unending love for his people he sent his son as a man and now the covenant is between father and son
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You think you can break that You think either one of those big father and son are gonna break their their part of it
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So it’s not like when when God made those covenants with all the people a lot of times they didn’t
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hold up their end But what an amazing uh thing I thought that God decided
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I’m gonna send my son I tell you what Jesus I’m gonna send you back to earth as a man And then when you get there we’re gonna do all the stuff we talked about and the last thing we’re gonna do we’re gonna set up a new covenant and you know what you’re gonna be on one side and I’m gonna be on the other side and I know you’re gonna hold up your end and I’m not I’m gonna hold up my end
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So this thing will never get broken
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And guys that’s what we walk in
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today I don’t know if y’all thought about it
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Amen The final covenant will never be broken because I said this But
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um so we are joining heirs to this drone and we are included in this amazing covenant that
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is everlasting And guys I hope I I hope I helped you a little
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bit Uh I know I didn’t have a whole lot of time and um
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it’s been a really eye opening to
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me of the
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covenant that we walk in I probably didn’t do it justice but maybe I’ll do another part at some point But I hope you guys understand that the covenant we walk in is such an amazing thing Such an amazing part and it can never be broken
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it can never be broken It’s not gonna you know there’s not somebody who’s not gonna keep up our end Jesus is keeping up his end because and his in is in us and we’re gonna do all our best to to do what he asked just like I was talking about earlier This is gonna be a year guys
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God’s gonna ask us to do things God’s gonna ask
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us church to do things
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because we want to see his covenant ever expand his his kingdom ever expanding
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And I’m excited for what God’s gonna do through life Springs in 2023 Amen Amen
