UNBREAKABLE PROMISE - PART 1 - WHAT IS A COVENANT?
UNBREAKABLE PROMISE - NEW PREACHING SERIES
What is your promise for life and eternity?
What does God think about you?
Does God change in moods and seasons?
In UNBREAKABLE PROMISE we discover the power of a COVENANT. While contemporary ideas of a “promise” express future intentions, God has taken us back to the Cross of Christ where He swore by Himself. What that means is God isn’t bolstering hope around what He intends to do; He has committed His entire being and existence in what He has already done. For God to change His mind about you - about your future, or your daily nurture, or your freedom – He would have to self-destruct.
The power of this COVENANT, that Jesus has invited us into, is that we never have to question God’s will for our protection, health, strength, prosperity and contentment. The CALL on our lives will lead us to uncomfortable and inconvenient places, often surrounded with sufferings in obedience to God. However, the COVENANT has forever established our welfare as we fulfill the CALL. This series will change the way you think of God, yourself and the provisions He has generously provided!
TODAY’S PREACHING
PROMISES, PROMISES?
GUARANTEES?
GOOD INTENTIONS?
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MODERN USE OF PROMISE
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FOCUS ON THE FUTURE
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GOD’S PROMISES
31,173 SCRIPTURES
30,000+ PROMISES ???
8810 PROMISES
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EXAMPLE PROMISES FROM GOD
FORGIVENESS - 1 JOHN 1:9 NKJV If we confess our SINS, He is faithful and just to FORGIVE us [our] sins and to CLEANSE US from all unrighteousness.
WISDOM - JAMES 1:5 NKJV If any of you lacks WISDOM, let him ask of God, who GIVES TO ALL LIBERALLY and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
PROVISION - PHILIPPIANS 4:19 NKJV And my God shall supply ALL YOUR NEED according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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WHERE ARE PROMISES ROOTED?
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…
2 THINGS: The PROMISE and the OATH (COVENANT)
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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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3 KINDS OF COVENANTS
Business Contract
Power-Downward Agreement
Unconditional One-sided Oath
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REASONS TO COVENANT
Protection for Weaker Tribe
Business Partnership
Devoted Affection/Friendship
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COVENANT PROMISES – UNBREAKABLE PROMISES
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…
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WHAT A PROMISE REALLY IS!
PROMISES ESTABLISHED BY OATH
IMPOSSIBLE TO LIE
VOW OF DEATH
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COVENANT USE OF PROMISE
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FOCUS ON THE PAST
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1 JOHN 1:9 NKJV If we confess our SINS, He is faithful and just to FORGIVE us [our] sins and to CLEANSE US from all unrighteousness.
JAMES 1:5 NKJV If any of you lacks WISDOM, let him ask of God, who GIVES TO ALL LIBERALLY and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
PHILIPPIANS 4:19 NKJV And my God shall supply ALL YOUR NEED according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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