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If we confess to be part of the Covenant of God, we must live in a way that shows this. The doctrine of the covenant is not complete without the doctrine of the antithesis. Covenant education allows students to walk the antithetical life. In the Covenant, God called us apart from the world. “Love no
And, this covenant is a bond of blessed friendship and fellowship between God and His people. As friends, not only, but as adopted children of God, we have learned that we must live in holiness with our Father in heaven and in thankful obedience. We have learned that, and by the grace of God have be
It is a covenant that brings you no earthly profits and that secures for you no sensual pleasures. It is a bond of peace that demands that we serve the Lord our God together, that we walk together, and that we bear each other’s burdens, for we are fellow pilgrims to a better fatherland.
Over against notions of the covenant as a pact or agreement between God and men or of the essence of the covenant being a general conditional promise, our churches have set forth the Scriptural truth of Gods covenant as the gracious relation of living fellowship and friendship between God and His pe
The covenant is not a contract between God and man, but is a living fellowship between them. God alone establishes his covenant with us. The second part of the covenant is the fruit of the establishment or new obedience. Hence God establishes His covenant and He adopts us as heirs through Jesus Chri
God has fellowship with His people as the body of Christ. God makes it clear to us that our covenantal life with one another is covenantal life with God.
On every hand, the covenant is now being described as a bond, as fellowship, as a living relationship of love. Indeed, some Reformed theologians have lately begun to trace the covenant to the triune life of God. The language of contract has virtually disappeared from the vocabulary of the covenant.
Does this mean anything to you? The heart of this doctrine of the covenant is not so difficult to grasp. The covenant may be defined as the living, concrete relation of fellowship and friendship between God and His people in Jesus Christ. FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD—therein lies the chief idea of the coven
according to him, is an act of friendship (Gem. Gratie, I, 287). Whether now the essential idea of the covenant must be sought in the friendship out of which the alliance arises, or in the alliance in which the friendship takes form against the mutual enemy, is less obvious. According to this histor
Believing parents are to educate the children of the covenant in obedience to the demands of God’s covenant. The covenant is defined as “the relationship of friendship between God and his people in Jesus Christ. It is a vibrant relationship of mutual knowledge and love, represented in Scripture not