OCG BS 3 - The Power of Covenant Part I [Chapter 9 - 11]
Chapter 9 - I'm Assured Of My Covenant Heritge
- God initiated the rite of circumcision as He revealed Himself as El Shaddai, and changed Abraham's name to Abraham - "father of a multitude" and circumcision was a sign of the covenant, which were to be kept throughout every generation. [Genesis 17:7-8]
- God had made specific promises/covenant to Abraham & these promises were fulfilled as seen in Genesis, Exodus & Psalms 105.
· An heir from Abram's own body [Genesis 15:4], Psalms 105:9, [Genesis 21:1-3]
· Descendants as many as the stars in heaven [Genesis 15:5, Psalms 105:24]
· Inheritance of the land that God will give to Abram & his descendants[Genesis 15:7, Genesis 18-21, Psalms 105:44]
· Abram's descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs & will serve them & they will afflict them 400 years [Genesis 15:13, Psalms 105:16-23, Psalms 25, Exodus 12:40]
· The nation whom Abram's descendants serve God will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions [Genesis 15:14, Psalms 105:26-38, Psalms 42-43, Exodus 6:4-6]
· Abram will go to his fathers in peace; he will be buried at a good old age [Genesis 15:15, Genesis 25:7-8]
· In the 4th generation, Abram's descendants will return to the land [Genesis 15:16]
- If we walk in God's commandments, keep and perform them, we will receive blessings from Him. [Leviticus 26:3-13]
- However, if we choose to not obey Him, not observe His commandants and break the covenant, then God's curses will be upon us.
[Leviticus 26:14-39]
- Of course, if we confess our iniquity and are humbled to accept our guilt, we will receive grace from Him. [Leviticus 26:40-41]
Chapter 10 - I Have A New Identity
- When we have a covenant partner, we are no longer alone. When we put on our covenant partner's robe, it means that we take on the covenant partner's likeness & values. Also, we will make decisions taking regard for our covenant partner's concerns & interests & well-being. [1 Samuel 18:4]
- We are to put on Lord Jesus Christ & to lay aside the deeds of darkness. [Romans 13:12-14]
12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. [Romans 13:12-14]
- When we struggle, we should always take our struggles in sin to the Word because each new truth we learn is liberating. Sin is walking independently from God. That was the was the "old self", "old man" or "old you" lived until you, in faith, drank the cup of the New Covenant in His blood, the same covenant in which you spiritually walked into death and shed the old man. [2 Corinthians 5:14-17]
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. [ 2 Corinthians 5:17]
- In Colossians, this death of old self is the circumcision of your flesh. Circumcision is the cutting away of the old. [Colossians 2:11-13]
- A comparison of the old robe & new robe were made as well.
Old Robe
* Lay aside deeds of darkness [Romans 13:12]
* Behave indecently as in day time, in orgies & drunkedness, in sexual immoralities & debauchery, indessension & jealousy [Romans 13:13]
* Earthly natures: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed which
amounts to idolatory [Colossians 3:5]
* In anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language from lips, lie to each other [Colossians 3:8-9]
New Robe
* Put of amour of light [Romans 13:12]
* Cloth yourself in Lord Jesus Christ and do not think how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature [Romans 13:14]
* Cloth in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. [Colossians 3:12]
* Bear each other and forgive whatever grievences you may have against one another [Colossians 3:13]
* Put on love, let peace of Christ rule in your heart. Be thankful. [Colossians 3:14]
* Let the love of Christ richly dwell in you. [Colossians 3:16]
Chapter 11 - I Have His Help In Temptations
- Lord Jesus Christ became a man because He wants to put on the robe of man. [John 1:1-3, John 1:14]
- Lord Jesus Christ chose to leave the ivory palaces where the heavenly host constantly sang His praises, to a place where He is confine to our fleshly images and to be despised and rejected by men because:
* He loved us as Himself and wants to enter into a covenant with men & to put on our humanity. [John 3:16-17]
* That He might taste death for every man, ie: pay for our sins, for the wages of sin is death. Through death, He destroys the Satan, that might deliver those who fear death not to be the subject to slavery to Satan. [Hebrews 2:14-15]
* That we can have a high priest who can understand our weakness, sitting on the throne at the right hand of God because He knows that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. [Hebrews 2:17-18]
- Thus, we all must know how to deal with temptations like Jesus Christ.
* Through prayer and petitions [Hebrews 5:7]
* Not giving into temptations [Matthew 4:1-11]
* Living on the Word [Matthew 4:4]
* Submit to God & resist the devil [James 4:7]
* Flee from temptations & seek righteousness[2 Timothy 2:22]
* Better to lose one part of your body than for the whole body to be thrown to hell[Matthew 5:29-30]
* Resist & be firm in your faith [1 Peter 5:9]
- God initiated the rite of circumcision as He revealed Himself as El Shaddai, and changed Abraham's name to Abraham - "father of a multitude" and circumcision was a sign of the covenant, which were to be kept throughout every generation. [Genesis 17:7-8]
- God had made specific promises/covenant to Abraham & these promises were fulfilled as seen in Genesis, Exodus & Psalms 105.
· An heir from Abram's own body [Genesis 15:4], Psalms 105:9, [Genesis 21:1-3]
· Descendants as many as the stars in heaven [Genesis 15:5, Psalms 105:24]
· Inheritance of the land that God will give to Abram & his descendants[Genesis 15:7, Genesis 18-21, Psalms 105:44]
· Abram's descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs & will serve them & they will afflict them 400 years [Genesis 15:13, Psalms 105:16-23, Psalms 25, Exodus 12:40]
· The nation whom Abram's descendants serve God will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions [Genesis 15:14, Psalms 105:26-38, Psalms 42-43, Exodus 6:4-6]
· Abram will go to his fathers in peace; he will be buried at a good old age [Genesis 15:15, Genesis 25:7-8]
· In the 4th generation, Abram's descendants will return to the land [Genesis 15:16]
- If we walk in God's commandments, keep and perform them, we will receive blessings from Him. [Leviticus 26:3-13]
- However, if we choose to not obey Him, not observe His commandants and break the covenant, then God's curses will be upon us.
[Leviticus 26:14-39]
- Of course, if we confess our iniquity and are humbled to accept our guilt, we will receive grace from Him. [Leviticus 26:40-41]
Chapter 10 - I Have A New Identity
- When we have a covenant partner, we are no longer alone. When we put on our covenant partner's robe, it means that we take on the covenant partner's likeness & values. Also, we will make decisions taking regard for our covenant partner's concerns & interests & well-being. [1 Samuel 18:4]
- We are to put on Lord Jesus Christ & to lay aside the deeds of darkness. [Romans 13:12-14]
12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. [Romans 13:12-14]
- When we struggle, we should always take our struggles in sin to the Word because each new truth we learn is liberating. Sin is walking independently from God. That was the was the "old self", "old man" or "old you" lived until you, in faith, drank the cup of the New Covenant in His blood, the same covenant in which you spiritually walked into death and shed the old man. [2 Corinthians 5:14-17]
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. [ 2 Corinthians 5:17]
- In Colossians, this death of old self is the circumcision of your flesh. Circumcision is the cutting away of the old. [Colossians 2:11-13]
- A comparison of the old robe & new robe were made as well.
* Lay aside deeds of darkness [Romans 13:12]
* Behave indecently as in day time, in orgies & drunkedness, in sexual immoralities & debauchery, indessension & jealousy [Romans 13:13]
* Earthly natures: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed which
amounts to idolatory [Colossians 3:5]
* In anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language from lips, lie to each other [Colossians 3:8-9]
* Put of amour of light [Romans 13:12]
* Cloth yourself in Lord Jesus Christ and do not think how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature [Romans 13:14]
* Cloth in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. [Colossians 3:12]
* Bear each other and forgive whatever grievences you may have against one another [Colossians 3:13]
* Put on love, let peace of Christ rule in your heart. Be thankful. [Colossians 3:14]
* Let the love of Christ richly dwell in you. [Colossians 3:16]
Chapter 11 - I Have His Help In Temptations
- Lord Jesus Christ became a man because He wants to put on the robe of man. [John 1:1-3, John 1:14]
- Lord Jesus Christ chose to leave the ivory palaces where the heavenly host constantly sang His praises, to a place where He is confine to our fleshly images and to be despised and rejected by men because:
* He loved us as Himself and wants to enter into a covenant with men & to put on our humanity. [John 3:16-17]
* That He might taste death for every man, ie: pay for our sins, for the wages of sin is death. Through death, He destroys the Satan, that might deliver those who fear death not to be the subject to slavery to Satan. [Hebrews 2:14-15]
* That we can have a high priest who can understand our weakness, sitting on the throne at the right hand of God because He knows that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. [Hebrews 2:17-18]
- Thus, we all must know how to deal with temptations like Jesus Christ.
* Through prayer and petitions [Hebrews 5:7]
* Not giving into temptations [Matthew 4:1-11]
* Living on the Word [Matthew 4:4]
* Submit to God & resist the devil [James 4:7]
* Flee from temptations & seek righteousness[2 Timothy 2:22]
* Better to lose one part of your body than for the whole body to be thrown to hell[Matthew 5:29-30]
* Resist & be firm in your faith [1 Peter 5:9]
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