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- I'm gonna do this at the end.
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- All right so our last 20 minutes or so is going to be dedicated to talking about the covenants and I have specifically chosen what I want to address because it's there's so much to address I have to limit myself.
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- Very quickly let us define what we mean.
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- Hopefully you read the chapter on the covenants.
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- Man is separated from God because of sin.
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- God chooses to enter into a relationship with man because of his desire to save.
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- Not because man is inherently good but because God is inherently good by nature and chooses to save and he chooses to enter into relationships with men based on the covenant or what is referred to as the an agreement or a essentially a promise a covenant that he makes.
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- Covenant is based on the idea of two men coming together and promising one another that they're going to do something those are mutual covenants sometimes today we call them contracts.
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- You know when two men come together and they make a promise they're both going to do something they both sign on the dotted line as it were that is a contract.
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- Well the first time the word covenant is used in the Bible is in Genesis chapter 6.
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- The Bible says he is going to create a covenant with Noah that he's going to save Noah from his judgment.
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- So the first time the word covenant is used in scripture it's in relationship to God saving someone.
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- That's an important tie.
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- It's Noah is a picture of salvation the judgment of God rained down but Noah was safe in the ark and it says in Genesis 6 that this was based on the covenant God had chosen to make with Noah.
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- But the Bible also speaks of a covenant that God made with Adam.
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- In Hosea chapter 6 and verse 7 it says this it says like Adam they transgressed the covenant.
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- Now that's just a passing statement made by the Prophet Hosea.
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- It says like Adam they transgressed the covenant speaking of the people of Israel.
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- So what does that tell us what can we infer from that? Adam had a covenant from God too but the Bible never uses the language of covenant when God is in relationship to Adam.
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- However based on Hosea we can infer that the covenant was made and we can define the covenant based upon the stipulations God gave to Adam.
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- Do not eat.
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- That was the parameters of the covenant in the garden.
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- Now there could be more but they're certainly not less than the covenant that God made with Adam which included the the prohibition to not eat of the tree.
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- So aside from Adam and Noah there are four others mentioned to have received direct covenants from God.
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- Abraham is said to be in covenant with God.
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- Well that's the sign of the covenant but but just what the we have very I'll give them to you in order.
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- We have the Adamic covenant or the Edenic covenant depending on you can either name it after the person or the place.
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- It was in Eden was given to Adam so we call it the Adamic or the Edenic covenant.
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- The second would be the Noahic covenant and that is the covenant God made with Noah.
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- The third is the Abrahamic covenant God made with Abraham.
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- That was the third.
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- The fourth is the Mosaic or the Sinaitic covenant.
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- We call it that because it was given at Sinai.
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- That was the covenant where God gave his law and established the nation.
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- The fifth is the Davidic covenant given to David and the sixth is the new covenant given through Christ.
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- Each covenant outside of perhaps the Adamic or the Edenic covenant is also accompanied by a sign.
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- One might argue that the Adamic covenant had a sign as well perhaps the fruit of the tree but ultimately we know what the Noahic covenant sign is.
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- What? The rainbow.
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- What is the sign of the Abrahamic covenant? Circumcision.
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- That's what you just said.
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- Very good.
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- What is the sign of the Mosaic covenant? The Sabbath.
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- Specifically the Sabbath is the sign of the Mosaic covenant.
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- I can show you several passages which says the Sabbath is given to you as a sign of the covenant.
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- The reason why Israel kept the Sabbath was to remember the covenant that God had made with them and that's why it's in the Ten Commandments.
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- The Davidic covenant is not expressly given a sign but it is given a promise that includes the throne.
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- So I believe the throne is the sign because who sits upon the throne of David? Christ.
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- And that throne will last forever ever forever and ever.
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- Right? So David's throne is the sign of the promise.
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- This throne will last forever.
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- And what's the final? The new covenant.
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- What's the sign of the new covenant? This is my body given for you as often as you eat it.
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- Remember me? This is my blood poured out for the sins as often as you drink.
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- The sign of the new covenant is the Lord's Table.
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- Communion.
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- Absolutely.
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- So one could argue that baptism also serves as a sign of the new covenant and we could argue it in this perspective.
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- We could say baptism is our sign of membership in the new covenant.
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- That is what signifies our entrance being baptized.
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- But the Lord's Table is the sign of our continuation in the covenant.
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- We continue because as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you show forth the Lord's death until he comes.
