Covenant Renewal

He is the mediator of the new covenant of grace.

God is a covenant God! Time will not let me go into detail.

God had a covenant with Adam.

God had a covenant with Noah.

God had a covenant with Abraham.

God had a covenant with David.

When Jesus said “It is finished”, he completed the covenant man has with God and Jesus Christ was the mediator.

All the covenants God made with man was always that Jesus Christ is the foundation of all God’s actions.

Christ was the second Adam. The one who redeemed fallen man.

Christ was the ultimate sacrifice. As Abraham put Isaac on the altar.

God is a covenant God and Jesus Christ has always been the mediator between God and man.

The importance of the covenant is this. It answers some important questions we have.

•Does God relate to man?

How can man establish a relationship with God?

There cannot be a one-sided relationship between a perfect God and sinful man.

Before Christ, the Old Testament was a book of covenant. The sacrificial blood offering to God.

After Christ on the cross, the ultimate sacrifice, “It is Finished” is the covenant of our

relationship to Christ and His atoning blood.

Righteousness is a covental word. Righteousness is ascribed as a man or women who is living in a right relationship to God. Outside of God we cannot be righteous

Do you know what an Agnostic is? It is a person who believes in God, and that is where it stops.

They believe God doesn’t care about them.

They believe that God doesn’t care what you do.

They believe that God doesn’t care if you talk to him.

They believe he is just out there! He/she may or may not have created everything, but he does not want to have anything to do with his creation.

Society, by definition are becoming Agnostic!

•Believe there is a God out there, and believe that is enough.

That He won’t hold us accountable because He doesn’t make himself available to us.

That is not what the Bible says!

God made the first move toward man!

He desires to have a personal relationship with each one of us.

Let’s look here-

Since the beginning of time, God tried to bridge the gap between Him and man.

And in that time, man has always put the blame on someone else. Genesis chapter 3 “It’s the women’s fault, it was the serpent’ all the way to the Israelites crying out to God in Egypt and God delivering them. “You brought us out here to die”!

40 years God let them wander and the complainers died!

All the while God met their needs.

Prior to that- Israelites had purpose! Their purpose was to get to the promise land of God and build a new life with their God.

29:1- “These are the terms of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites.

Today’s words- This is the term of the contract the Lord commanded to each of us.

Listen to me;

The covenant or contract that Jesus made for our salvation is free...absolutely free!

It is not based on what we do, you cannot earn it, it is based entirely on what Christ did for us.

Here’s the agreement- I provided everything for salvation. You have to accept it! For your sin, I have provided redemption. When you accept it, truly in you heart.