God's Covenants

With Mankind

bible study

 by Pastor Janice L. Williams

There are many covenants in the Bible that God made with man.  For this Bible Study we will examine

5 Great

Bible Covenants 

The first man Adam [Genesis 2:15-17 KJV] * ¹⁵And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.¹⁶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:¹⁷But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

  
 5 Great Bible Covenants

•  1. God's Covenant With Noah [Genesis 9:8 thru 17 KJV]

THE COVENANT GOD MADE WITH NOAH & HIS SONS

GENESIS 9:8 THRU 17 KJV

8/And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,  9/And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;  10/And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.  11/And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12/And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  13/I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.  14/And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:  15/And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.  16/And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.  17/And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

• 2.  God's Covenant With Abraham

[Genesis 17 NIV] 

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. ²Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” ³ Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, ⁴ “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. ⁵ No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. ⁶ I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. ⁷ I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. ⁸The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.” ⁹ Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. ¹⁰ This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep:  Every male among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹ You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. ¹² For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. ¹³ Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.” ¹⁵ God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. ¹⁶I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” ¹⁷ Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!” ¹⁹ Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. ²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. ²¹ But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.” ²²When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. ²³ On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him. ²⁴ Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, ²⁵ and his son Ishmael was thirteen; ²⁶ Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day. ²⁷ And every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.

• 3. The Mosaic Covenant, God made with the Israelites [Deuteronomy 5:1-24]            

Below, see "The 10 Commandments" included within this Covenant

• 4.  God's Covenant With David

  Another covenant was between God and King David, in which David and his descendants were established as the royal heirs to the throne of the nation of Israel [2 Samuel 7:12-13].

  This covenant agreement reached its fulfillment when Jesus, a descendant of the line of David, was born in Bethlehem. The gospel of Matthew starts off by showing Christ was the Son of David  [Matthew 1:1].  Therefore He had the right to rule over God's people.  Peter preached that Jesus Christ was a fulfillment of God's promise to David [Acts 2:29-36].

•  5.  Believers in the New Covenant                  [Jeremiah 31:31-34 * Hebrews 11:7] 

The "new covenant" is the new agreement God has made with mankind, based on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The concept of a new covenant originated with the promise of Jeremiah that God would accomplish for His people what the old covenant had failed to do (Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 11:7-13). Under this new covenant, God would write His Law on human hearts.   The Epistle to the Hebrews gives the new covenant more attention than any other book in the New Testament.  It quotes the entire passage from Jeremiah 31:31-34 (Heb. 8:8-12). Jesus is referred to by the writer of Hebrews as "the Mediator of the new covenant" (Heb. 9:15; 12:24). The new covenant, a "better covenant ... established on better promises" (Heb. 8:6), rests directly on the sacrificial work of Christ.

Unlike the Mosaic covenant which God  made with the Hebrew/Israelite people; the new covenant of Jesus Christ is intended for all mankind -- regardless of race or weather a person has ever been circumcised in the flesh or not.  In the Great Commission Jesus sent His apostles into the entire world so they could tell the story of the cross (Luke 24:46-47; Matt. 28:18-20).  The gospel call is extended to every man, woman, boy and girl today! 

But make no mistake, Luke 21:24 tells us: "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."  And in Romans 11:25-27 KJV  we read:  25/For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.  26/And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:  27/For this is my [God's] covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 

********************************************************

It is imperative for you to review Weekly Bible Study #39 "THE TIME IS NOW!!!"   

***************************************                                                                                               For the week of July 13th-20th, 2011, review Weekly Bible Study #40                       "THE LATTER RAIN" & July 20th-27th, 2011,   Review Weekly Bible Study #55 "Victory in Jesus"

• BE BLESSED!!!

Weekly Bible Study * For Wednesday, May 11th-18th-25th-June 1st-8th, 2011[see directions for this week below] continue thru June 15th, 2011 reminder: Sunday June 12th, 2011 is Pentecost Sunday * Pentecost: a Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Resurrection Sunday, that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. Please review Weekly Bible Study #11 * "Pentecost-Holy Spirit Baptism." *continue this Bible Study thru June 22nd,  2011* Happy Father's Day greetings to all Dads on Sunday June 19th, 2011. * Continue this Bible Study thru June 29th-July 6th, 2011 & please review, Weekly Bible Study #39, "The Time Is Now!!! Then continue this Bible Study thru July 13th-20th, 2011, reviewing Weekly Bible Study #40, "The Latter Rain".  Continue with this Bible Study one more week, July 20th-27th, 2011, asking the Lord to give you revelation knowledge of His WORD.  Review Weekly Bible Study #55 "Victory in Jesus" & BE BLESSED!!!

****************

***************** 

AS WELL AS THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID

Revelation 22:16 KJV * I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.  I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star

 COVENANT/COVENANTS   

•  1.   a solemn agreement that is binding on all parties  2.  law:   a formal and legally binding agreement or contract such as a lease, or one of the clauses in an agreement of this kind.  A covenant is often used to require an owner or user of a parcel of land to do or refrain from doing something.  3.  law: lawsuit for breach of agreement: a lawsuit for damages that is brought because of the breaking of a legal covenant  4.  BIBLE: mutual promises of God and Israelites: the promises that were made in the Bible between God and the Israelites, who agreed to worship no other gods:

See "The 10 Comandments" in the "Mosiac Covenant" below:

DEUTERONOMY 5:1 THRU 24 KJV 

• ¹And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
•  ²The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
•  ³The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
• ⁴The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
• ⁵(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
• ⁶I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
• ⁷Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

• ⁸Thou shalt not make thee any graven image [a carving representing a god], or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
• ⁹Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me
• ¹⁰And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

• ¹¹Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

• ¹²Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
• ¹³Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
• ¹⁴But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
• ¹⁵And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

• ¹⁶Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

• ¹⁷Thou shalt not kill.

• ¹⁸Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

• ¹⁹Neither shalt thou steal.

• ²⁰Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

• ²¹Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet [want somebody else’s property:  have a strong desire to possess something that belongs to somebody else] thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
• ²²These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

• ²³And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
• ²⁴And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth [GOD LIVES].

 FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 1st thru 8th, 2011:

• MEMORIZE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ABOVE IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW THEM BY HEART [PSALM 119:11 KJV * Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.]
• REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #25 "DELIVERANCE TIME".

• BIBLE: The New Testament Blood Covenant With Jesus *

 Matthew 26:28 KJV

"For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

 The death of Jesus, ushered in the new covenant under which we are justified by God's grace and mercy and now have true forgiveness of sins with eternal life.

Through this Blood Covenant we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ Himself [Romans 8:17].  Everything God has belongs to us because we have a blood covenant with Him through Jesus.  Whatever we have need of spiritually, mentally, physically, or materially, God promises to provide for us.

Jesus gives us the right to use his name.  We are His bride and He is our groom. The Bible tells us that God has given us power in Jesus' name to drive out demons

[LUKE 10:17, 19 KJV * 17/LORD EVEN THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT UNTO US THROUGH THY NAME (THE NAME JESUS). *  19/ BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER]

and heal the sick [James 5:14, 15 KJV* ¹⁴Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:  ¹⁵And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.]

and that whatever we ask the Father in Jesus name, He will give it to us [John 14:13, 14 KJV ¹³And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  ¹⁴If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.].

Revelation 5:9, 10 * for thou [JESUS] wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10/And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

 Remember: Christian prayer is a covenant relationship between God and man in Christ. Covenant is how God has chosen to communicate with us, to redeem us, and to guarantee us eternal life in Jesus.