UNBREAKABLE PROMISE - PART 3 - THE NEW COVENANT IS FAR BETTER!
TODAY’S PREACHING
PROMISES, PROMISES?
GUARANTEES?
GOOD INTENTIONS?
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HEBREWS 8:6 NKJV … (Jesus Christ) is also Mediator of a BETTER COVENANT, which was established on BETTER PROMISES.
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BIBLICAL PROMISES = ESTABLISHED FACTS
(Not future GOOD INTENTIONS or MYTHICAL FANTASIES)
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31,173 Scriptures / 30,000+ Promises? / 8810 Promises
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WHAT IS A COVENANT
A covenant is a binding agreement between two parties, based in both intimacy and law, promising blessing and cursing; and even death to the one who breaks it.
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A COVENANT IS MORE THAN A CONTRACT
Agree to terms
Select representatives
Cut Blood
Exchange Clothes (Robes - Identity)
Exchange Belts and Weapons (Strength)
Walk unto Death (Sacrificial Animals)
Pronounce Blessings / Cursings (Oaths/Vows)
Seal of Covenant (Most Prized Possessions)
Exchange Names
Commemorate by a Memorial Sign (Piling stones, Planting Trees, Rainbows)
Have a Covenant Meal Together (Ingest Food = Ingest Me)
Exchange of Oldest Male Child
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OLD COVENANT – NEW COVENANT
HEBREWS 8:6 NKJV … (Jesus Christ) is also Mediator of a BETTER COVENANT, which was established on BETTER PROMISES.
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OLD COVENANT
Protection
Reward
Great Name
Financially Prosperous
Legacy
Health
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HEBREWS 8:9-10 NLT This COVENANT will not be like the ONE I MADE WITH THEIR ANCESTORS when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of EGYPT. …10 But this is the NEW COVENANT I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS in their MINDS, and I will write them on their HEARTS. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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NEW COVENANT (BETTER)
Forgiveness
Born again
Complete righteousness
Eternal life
God inside us
God’s laws inside
Mind of Christ
Sons & daughters of God
Joint heirs with Christ
Jesus’ spiritual authority
Baptism/filled with Spirit
Do the works of Jesus (greater)
No more animal sacrifices
No more circumcision
One law of love
Saved by grace/faith
Protection
Reward
Great Name
Financially Prosperous
Legacy
Health
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PSALM 89:34 NKJV My COVENANT I will NOT BREAK, nor alter the WORD (PROMISE) that has gone out of My lips.
HEBREWS 6:12-20 NKJV … imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the PROMISES. 13 For when God made a PROMISE to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, HE SWORE BY HIMSELF, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." …17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of PROMISE the immutability of His counsel, confirmed [it] by an OATH, 18 that by TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS, in which it [is] IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the HOPE set before [us]. 19 This [HOPE] we have as an ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, both sure and steadfast…