What is a covenant? A covenant is a promise, an agreement, a contract between persons.... however it is more than a contract.
God’s Covenant law is to the moral order of human relations what the laws of nature are to the physical order. We are familiar with the law of gravity which govern material things like our bodies. Suppose one does not believe in gravity and decided to climb to the top of the tower and jump. What one can prove is nothing but that the law of gravity exist... The law of gravity is there whether you believe or not.
The same holds true for covenants in the spiritual sense. What happen if we decided to walk away from God’s covenant ? One may not believe in God, we may protests & complain about God’s covenant, God’s commandments and walk away from God... we don’t as a result of our decision & action break the natural moral law of the covenant, binding us to God and to one another. We only break ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.
Covenant is what God does & Who God is.... God is Love. God loves us. In the covenant, God swears that He will never forsake us. Tonight in the covenant, He is saying “You are mine and I am yours. I am your Abba Father, and you are my family.”
Covenant is a serious matter but too often we don’t treat it seriously.
Tonight, the Lord used Moses who led the twelve tribes of Israel out of bondage in Egypt, and ratify a national covenant that made them a holy nation, called to occupy the promised Land of Canaan as their inheritance.
After pouring out blood on the altar, which symbolised God or one party of the covenant, Moses then took the Book of Covenant and read it to the listening people. Then the people said, “We will observe all that the Lord has decreed; we will obey.” Only after this declaration, then Moses sprinkled the blood on the twelve tribes and people, which represented the other party.
Then Moses said; “This is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you, containing all these rules.”
They were officially made partakers of the same blood and brought into a kind of sacramental union.
We need to take God's covenant seriously.
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