Hey gloggers, great to have you back this week.
Sunday September 27, 2009 I will speak on God Chases: Covenant.
There are 6 covenants in Scripture: Adam -Genesis 1.26, Noah- Genesis 9.8, Abraham -Genesis 12.1, Moses -Exodus 19.5, David- 2 Samuel 7.8, and Jesus- Matthew 16.17; 26.28.
All six connect ending with the fulfillment of covenant in Jesus and his church…you.
The Hebrew word for covenant is berith…this means literally to cut. Blood is shed and the members of the covenant make a loyalty pact that if they break the boundaries of the agreement their own blood is to be shed.
When I consider this aspect of covenant, I think…serious. This is no game.
I also think of loyalty. The primary Hebrew word attached to the word covenant is hesed, community love and loyalty.
Hesed speaks to affection, choice, passion, loyalty, and community. This is no individualistic program. Covenant speaks about a community relationship of loving loyalty locked into a serious commitment.
I like to say that covenant is the deepest word for love in the Bible. When I look at marriages which fail I see serial selfishness and a void of covenant.
I also see the angst of aloneness in the reflections of my single friends. How cool is it to have a friend who will be loyal to the point of shedding their own blood for you?
You are a student in school…do you ever wonder if you truly belong to anyone?
I think this is groundbreaking for your local faith community and your market place or school. Covenant love runs deep…I have a sense of solid connection to Jesus, my wife, and children.
I have this picture in my brain of Charleton Heston as Pres of the NRA raising his rifle above his head and exclaiming to cheering NRAers “from my cold dead hands!!!!” I am not sure about all that but I love his passion and commitment to something.
Glog to me your heart about covenant…I wonder if this is the love our culture seeks. What do you think?
Hope Experience 
I feel like our country is breaking our covenant with God lately. Someone on Facebook was saying how they are angered because we are the only country in the world where health care is a “business”. I can't remember her words exactly but that was the gist. I answered, “Is it because we are capitalists?” And another person wrote, “I was thinking idiots.” It got me to thinking about the difference, the huge difference now between how the two sides differ. I feel that what made our country work before was that men had integrity and a FEAR OF GOD and it stopped them from letting things go to hell in a handbasket. Now many people laugh at God and His promises…and have no fear…It's very scary to me….yet God will not break His covenant with those who love Him. Time for revival…do you think it can still happen?
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