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Please feel free to share this Gospel Message - This is part of a series:
'WALKING THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH JESUS'
A BEAUTIFUL SABBATH PSALM: Psalm 91:16 & 92:12-15
"With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. The righteous shall flourish like
the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they
flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green;
to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him."
Piqua (Ohio) Seventh-day Adventist Church
4020 W State Route 185 - Piqua, Ohio
God has always had a covenant with His people starting way back in the Garden of Eden, with His inimitable unblemished Eternal Covenant. After sin reared its ugly head, there were times of crisis, and temporary or improvised covenants were made to deal with fickle and disobedient people. God has always been the same, people were always saved by His favor and grace, and blood was always a part of the temporary covenants. Of the Covenants outlined below, 1 and 7 are the Eternal Covenant, and also overarch all other Covenants. God has always had a Covenant people. "It is my family God has chosen! Yes, He has made an everlasting Covenant with me. His agreement is eternal, final, sealed. He will constantly look after my safety and success." 2 Samuel 23:5 (NLT)
SEVEN MAIN COVENANTS OF THE BIBLE
1] CREATION COVENANT -
Genesis 1:26-2:3: Genesis 2:15-16
2] ADAM AND EVE - Genesis 3:14-23
3] NOAH - Genesis 9:8-17
[See also Hebrews 11:7]
4] ABRAHAM - Genesis 12:1-3; 17:1-14; 22:15-18
5] MOSES & ISRAEL – Exodus 3:1-10; 6:6: Exodus 19:3-6; 20-24:
Deuteronomy 11:1-23
6] COVENANT OF GRACE - Genesis 3:15; Jeremiah 31:31-34;
Matthew 26:26-29; 27:45-51; 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 2:2, 3; Ephesians 2:8, 9;
Colossians 2:6-23; 3:12-17; Hebrews 8; 9:11-15; 10:8-10
NB: The book Hebrews refers to the first and second, old and new Covenants.
The first Covenant included sacrifice and temple worship, but the second or new
Covenant of Grace includes Jesus as the Lamb of God, the High Priest, and no
veil that separates God's people from Him. We now have direct access without
the need of a priest - Jesus' blood was shed and He took our guilt to the cross.
7] COVENANT OF GLORY– Isaiah 66:22, 23; John 14:1-3;
Galatians: 4:24-27;Revelation 21:1-7; 22:12-21 - NB: The Covenant of Glory is in
actuality a return to the original Covenant in the Garden of Eden at Creation.
KEEPERS OF THE COVENANT – THE REMNANT
Romans 11:5
Revelation
12:17
Revelation 14:12
C. H. Spurgeon preached a sermon at the Music Hall in Royal Surrey Gardens on September 4, 1859, with
the title ‘The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant.’ He read from Hebrews 13:20 “Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus
from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete…” and went on to
say “It is called an everlasting covenant. And here you observe at once its antiquity. The covenant of grace is the oldest of all
things.”
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Hebrews 13:8
# What does the Bible mean when it says that God rested?
# Was He tired?
# Had He worked too hard?
# Was Creation an exhausting task?
# What is the real meaning of Sabbath?
"It is a state of peace between man and nature. The Sabbath is much more than a mere ‘day of rest’ from a hard week’s work. It is a symbol of our belief in God's creation. On Sabbath, the process of creation stopped completely. We emulate God's rest with our Sabbath. The Midrash asks an obvious question. If God rested on the seventh day, how could He have finished on the very same day? If He did nothing on the Sabbath, then obviously, He finished on the sixth day. The Midrash gives us a most profound answer. It says that on the Sabbath, God created Rest. In order to understand this, we must introduce a still more fundamental concept: The more something resembles God, the closer it is and the more it partakes of Him. Indeed, the ultimate purpose is an emulation of God." Derech HaShem 1:2:22
God dwells in Eternity, in a realm beyond change and time. He Himself told the prophet in Malachi 3:6 "I am God, I do not change." Rest, peacefulness and tranquility are therefore an imitation of God's attributes. God created the world in seven days. From day one to day six He created our world and everything in it in ascending order, from light to Adam and Eve, and then His final crowning and glorious act of Creation was the Sabbath day, the seventh day of the week. Jesus said "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" Mark 2:27. The full meaning of this Scripture is that the Sabbath was made, wrought and finished by the Lord and was a completed product - not for us to tamper with it.
