THE COVENANT

Is Your Covenant with God Real?

1 Samuel 20:1-18

 

 

Definition of Covenant: “An Agreement or Pact”

 

  • God made a covenant with Adam & Eve, promising divine favor in return for obedience. (Genesis 2:16-17)

  • God made a covenant with Noah that He would survive the deluge and that there would never again be such a flood. (Genesis 6:18)

  • Other Covenants which were made include:

    • Abraham – Genesis 13:17, 17:2,4,7,11,13-14

    • The Israelites – Exodus 31:16

    • The Levites – Malachi 2:4,8

    • David – 2 Samuel 2:7, 15-16

 

There was also given a new covenant of a more spiritual nature…designed for all people with Christ as the Mediator.

 

Jeremiah 31:31-34:
31   "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
32    not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.

33  "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, " I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people

 34  "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."  

 

In this passage of scripture (1 Samuel 20:1-18) David is running from Saul, Jonathan’s father.  In verse one, David asked Jonathan, “What is my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?”

In the relationship of Jonathan and his father Saul, Jonathan said of his father in verse two, “Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me.”

This means is father hid “nothing” from Jonathan….WRONG!!!

Jonathan found out in verse 33 that his father had decided to put David to death.  (Some Partnership!!)

 

In our new covenant relationship with Jesus Christ, there are three tings we need to know:

1.   Your Father does not hide anything from you. (Matthew 7:7-8) People say, “there are mysteries in the Bible that are hidden from me”. That is because your mind can’t handle all of the mysteries, but hey will be revealed one day.

2.   Christ does not have to make another sacrifice for you. (Hebrews 10:10-12)

3.   The Lord does not cut off His loving kindness. Psalm 107:1, Psalm 118:1 “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His loving kindness is everlasting.”

 

Sounds like a pretty good covenant relationship, doesn’t it?…His side..

 

How about our side?

 

Are we wavering in our covenant with God?

 

If we are to meet with God will our seat be empty?  If it is, He will miss us.

 

Hebrews 10:23 says, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful”…..

 

If you said, “I do” to Jesus, did you mean it?

 

 

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