WHAT IS COVENANT? 4-30-26 VIDEO WHAT IS COVENANT
What does it mean that God keeps his covenant with us no matter what? Biblical covenant is a binding agreement between God and human beings. It’s different from a contract which is a transaction. A covenant is a promise. Between God and us. Abraham had a testimony of faith in God‘s covenant with him. We have a new covenant it’s the cup of his blood.
DEUT 7:9 Therefore know [without any doubt] and understand that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who is keeping His covenant and His [steadfast] lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; ‘ AMP
GEN 13:14 After Lot separated from him, Yahweh spoke to Abram, “Lift up your eyes and look around you to the north, the south, the east, and the west.
15 As far as you can see in every direction is the land that I will give to you forever—to you and your seed.
16 I will multiply them until they are as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. If anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could also be counted.
17 Now, get up and walk through the land—its length and its breadth. All the land you walk upon will be my gift to you!” TPT
HEB 11:8 By faith Abraham acknowledged the call of God which gave him his identity and destiny, as evidence of his inheritance as he journeyed into the unknown.
9 Nothing but his faith seemed permanent while Abraham camped in tents like a stranger in the land of promise. His sons Isaac and Jacob joined him as sojourners; equally persuaded that they were heirs of the same promise.
10 His faith saw a city with permanent foundations, designed and constructed by God. MIRROR
HEB 11:12 Sarah’s testimony of faith is just as amazing: she conceived and bore a child when it was humanly impossible. She believed that God would be faithful to his promise, and gave that belief authority over her life.
12 Faith brought into reality an offspring beyond calculation; from one as good as dead children would be born more numerous than the stars and as impossible to count as the grains of sand on every distant sea shore. MIRROR
HEB 11:22 At the end of his life, Joseph prophetically reminded his sons of the exodus. He had such a firm belief that they would possess the land of promise that he exacted an oath from them: they were not to leave his bones in Egypt. MIRROR
GEN 17:4 “This is my covenant with you: You’ll be the father of many nations.
5 Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, meaning that ‘I’m making you the father of many nations.’
6 I’ll make you a father of fathers – I’ll make nations from you, kings will issue from you.
7 I’m establishing my covenant between me and you, a covenant that includes your descendants, a covenant that goes on and on and on, a covenant that commits me to be your God and the God of your descendants.
8 And I’m giving you and your descendants this land where you’re now just camping, this whole country of Canaan, to own forever. And I’ll be their God.” MSG
ACTS 3:25 These prophets, along with the covenant God made with your ancestors, are your family tree. God’s covenant-word to Abraham provides the text: ‘By your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’ MSG
GAL 3:29 Also, since you are Christ’s family, then you are Abraham’s famous “descendant,” heirs according to the covenant promises. MSG
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GAL 3:29 Since Christ is the seed of promise, it is only in our realizing our union with him [in the incarnation] that we are equally related to Abraham and heirs of the promise. Faith and not flesh relates us to Abraham. MIRROR
EXODUS 34:10 And God said, “As of right now, I’m making a covenant with you: In full sight of your people I will work wonders that have never been created in all the Earth, in any nation. Then all the people with whom you’re living will see how tremendous God’s work is, the work I’ll do for you. MSG
2 CHRON 15:12 Then they bound themselves in a covenant to seek God, the God of their fathers, wholeheartedly, holding nothing back. MSG
2 CRON 15:15 The whole country felt good about the covenant promise – they had given their promise joyfully from the heart. Anticipating the best, they had sought God – and he showed up, ready to be found. God gave them peace within and without – a most peaceable kingdom! MSG
PS 25:10 From now on every road you travel Will take you to God. Follow the Covenant signs; Read the charted directions. MSG
ISA 54:10 Even if the mountains were to crumble and the hills disappear, my heart of steadfast, faithful love will never leave you, and my covenant of peace with you will never be shaken,” says Yahweh, whose love and compassion will never give up on you. TPT
ISA 55:3 Pay attention and come closer to me, and hear, that your total being may flourish. I will enter into an everlasting covenant with you, and I will show you the same faithful love that I showed David. TPT
ISA 59:21 As for me,” God says, “this is my covenant with them: My Spirit that I’ve placed upon you and the words that I’ve given you to speak, they’re not going to leave your mouths nor the mouths of your children nor the mouths of your grandchildren. You will keep repeating these words and won’t ever stop.” God’s orders. MSG
ISA 61:8 “Because I, God, love fair dealing and hate thievery and crime, I’ll pay your wages on time and in full, and establish my eternal covenant with you.
9 Your descendants will become well-known all over. Your children in foreign countries Will be recognized at once as the people I have blessed.” MSG
ZEC 9:11 And you, because of my blood covenant with you, I’ll release your prisoners from their hopeless cells. MSG
MATT 26:28 This is my blood, God’s new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins. MSG
1 COR 11:25 He did exactly the same with the cup after supper and said, “This cup holds the wine of the New Covenant in my blood; you celebrate me every time you drink with this understanding!” (From now on our meals are meaningful. We celebrate the fact that the incarnation reveals our redemption; the promise became a person. MIRROR
HEB 7:22 This makes Jesus the guarantee of a far better way between us and God – one that really works! A new covenant. MSG
HEB 8:13 By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf. And there it stays, gathering dust. MSG
HEB 12:24 You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s – a homicide that cried out for vengeance – became a proclamation of grace. MSG
HEB 13:20 May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole, Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus, the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd, up and alive from the dead, MSG