Diving In Session 4 Covenant 6 The Land Covenant – Historical overview (OT)
Brief History of the Promised Land in the Old Testament Last week, we looked at the land promised by God to Abraham (blue and purple […]
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Brief History of the Promised Land in the Old Testament Last week, we looked at the land promised by God to Abraham (blue and purple […]
Continue reading »The Biblical Covenants form the unifying thread of God’s saving action through Scripture, from their conceptual introduction in Genesis to their eschatological fulfilment in Revelation […]
Continue reading »Reminder – Is the Mosaic Covenant still in force? Two parts – the Covenant and the Torah If the Mosaic Covenant is now redundant, then […]
Continue reading »The Purposes of the Mosaic Covenant are fulfilled It reveals the inability of mankind to keep the law because of the sinfulness of the heart. […]
Continue reading »Review progress of the Covenants to date: Edenic – provided conditions for mankind’s life and blessing, in communion with God; broken at the Fall Adamic […]
Continue reading »This week we discuss the purpose of the Covenant – why it was given, how it formed a framework for the spiritual life of the […]
Continue reading »As we saw last week, the Covenant was introduced in Ex. 19:1-8, and confirmed in Ex. 24:1-8, then signed sealed and delivered by the Lord […]
Continue reading »Introduction Week 1 In our review of all previous covenants, we reiterated that each period defined by a new covenant ended in failure on mankind’s […]
Continue reading »A. The Participants in the Covenant 1. Abram – An idol worshipper from Ur of the Chaldees (10th Patriarch) 2. Abraham and his ‘seed’. Who […]
Continue reading »The Oath made: Other things God has sworn by Himself: The Covenant confirmed: Binding of Isaac: Faith and Sacrifice Our discussion revolved around the biblical […]
Continue reading »The promises encompassed by God’s covenants with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are recorded in Genesis 12:1-3. God would bless Abraham in two ways: (1) he […]
Continue reading »What does cutting a covenant mean? Two words for making a covenant God ‘cuts’ the Covenant with Abraham and ‘established’ (or confirms) it with Isaac […]
Continue reading »Why the need for righteousness? Righteousness is God’s own nature – everything He does is righteous – this is the standard! And this is the […]
Continue reading »Background Who was Abraham? Descendant of Shem Gen. 11:10-26 So God chooses an idol worshipper from a place which was one of the centres of […]
Continue reading »Background Taking the cubit as the long cubit of ancient times (22 inches) would mean that the Ark was 547’ long, 91’ broad, 54’ high. […]
Continue reading »When Adam and Eve broke the one restriction of the Edenic Covenant, that Covenant was broken and a new situation had arisen – new to […]
Continue reading »Covenant Features The Biblical Covenants form the unifying thread of God’s saving action through Scripture, from their conceptual introduction in Genesis to their eschatological fulfilment […]
Continue reading »Last week we viewed the Big Story of the Bible as a series of events or crises which led to changes in the relationship of […]
Continue reading »The Plan of God – reminder from last time At one level (probably the highest level) the Bible is the story of God’s rest – […]
Continue reading »Introduction As Bible-believing Christians, we find our identity in what God says about us and what God does for us, and nowhere is this laid […]
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