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How could an everlasting covenant be that? It’s the end itself that God had in mind from all eternity. God is from everlasting to everlasting and remembers His everlasting covenant forever (Psalm 111:9). It’s then not merely a way to salvation, but salvation itself. So Christ was given “for a covena
November 2014 45 God’s Covenant of Grace and Marriage Then comes the beautiful description of an eternal, unbreakable covenant (28): “My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.” God explains that if the children of His Son (those given to Christ eternally)
Yet I feel that the argument of these two questions, however valid it may be, approaches the subject rather indirectly. I would prefer to approach the subject directly and from the viewpoint of the very nature of the covenant of grace. And then I would point out that this question is closely related
From this follows that it is very really God's covenant. It is entirely in harmony with Scripture to speak of God's covenant, for God Himself repeatedly refers to it as "My covenant," To mention a few places, see Gen. 6:18; 9:9; 17:2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 19; Ps. 89:34. In other passages it is referred to a
The text also clearly proves that to be in God's covenant today is to be in that covenant forever. One in the covenant is not a recipient of resistible grace. If he were, then it would be possible for him to resist it and to fall out of the covenant. But this passage clearly states that those in God
covenant is centrally established with Christ and through Christ with the elect. But Christ did not come until some 4000 years after the fall. And so, in that peripd before the coming of Christ, the covenant was administered in a typical way. I shall try to make clear what this means. There are seve
Secondly, the covenant is everlasting because it is rooted in God's own eternal being. God's covenantal love is without beginning because it is found in the relationship that eternally exists between the first and second persons of the Trinity, and also in the relationship of triune God to the Son o
The covenant must be unilateral or it would never last. We would break it immediately after we entered into it. Finally we have the assurance that our lives in the world to come will be forever. God, unlike corporations today, will not go out of business and leave His guarantee no better than the pa
My concluding quotation will be from Rev. Irons' sermon on "The Covenant of Grace," 2 Sam. 28:5: "Now according to this order, let us, first of all look at the charter of grace: 'An everlasting covenant.' "What is it? Can there be anything uncertain in it? Is 'an everlasting covenant' anything like
Hanko entitled “God’s Everlasting Covenant of Grace.” I had spent about four years prior to this studying the covenant because I believed that I had been taught wrongly in that it was a conditional covenant. I was thrilled, to say the least, to find there were others who believed the same on the cov