A Protective Covenant With Abraham In Wake
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The famed Abrahamic covenant comes from Genesis -3. It reads: “Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
A proper “covenant relationship” with God requires five major experiences: 1) Faith, faith in Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. 2) Repentance of sins. 3) Confession of sins. 4) Baptism and 5) Obedience, effective operation of all of these means genuine conversion.
A covenant is a two-way promise, the conditions of which are set by God. When we enter into a covenant with God, we promise to keep those conditions. He promises us certain blessings in return. A covenant is a two-way promise.
And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
You entered into a Covenant with God, in the presence of His representatives on the earth, by saying those words under oath, to follow Him for the rest of your life. The words in that oath binds you to Christ eternally. It is an oath which must not be broken at all. You have no excuse for breaking your oath before God.
The covenant is a promise that God made with Abraham. ing to the covenant, God would offer protection and land to Abraham and his descendants, but they must follow the path of God. God then commanded Abraham and his future generations to perform the ritual of circumcision (brit milah) as a symbol of the covenant.
A proper “covenant relationship” with God requires five major experiences: 1) Faith, faith in Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. 2) Repentance of sins. 3) Confession of sins. 4) Baptism and 5) Obedience, effective operation of all of these means genuine conversion.
The covenant between Abraham and God consisted of three separate parts: the promised land. the promise of the descendants. the promise of blessing and redemption.
Exodus -8 records that the people unanimously agreed and it was sealed by the blood of the covenant sprinkled on the people (Hebrews -21).
God commanded that the covenant was sealed through Abraham's circumcision. Also known as Brit Milah.. Circumcision shall be the mark of the covenant between Me and you… 'Throughout all generations, every male shall be circumcised when he is eight days old…
