COVENANT
Brother James, OIC
Heb 8:13 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.
There are many types of covenants. A covenant is a contract. Marriage, Mosaic Covenant, Covenant with Noah, various covenants of friendship and the most important the Covenant between God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ – The New Covenant.
Every covenant has its end but one- The New Covenant. Some covenants end by agreement, some by completion, others decay away and yet others are broken. But all covenants with the exception of the New Covenant are temporal and The New Covenant is Eternal.
Many today believe being Christians they have a covenant with God the Father. That is not so. We as Christians have a Marriage Covenant with Jesus Christ. Jesus has an Eternal Never Ending Blood Covenant with God the Father and we are recipients of Their Everlasting Covenant.
All covenants are not made in the Light. There are many covenants made in darkness. We are warned:
2Co 6:14-18 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Jesus Christ came to set those God the Father would call to Him in alignment to become Christ’s Bride and receive benefit from the Eternal Blood Covenant. In doing this Christ begins separating and dividing covenants that were not Gods Will to begin with.
Mat 10:34-39 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife (husband), or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
If God has called you and Christ has begun the surgical work of removing you from the areas of darkness you’ve been yoked in, it will bless you to heed these next two scriptures and allow the process of the forward movement of conversion help you.
Luk 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Php 3:12-14 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
In this process patience is needed to get to the place where you receive the benefits of Gods covenant with His Son:
Heb 10:35-38 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
