“And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds […]
“At that time the LORD said to Joshua: ‘Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.’…Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.” Joshua 5:2, […]
“At the end of three days the officers went through the camp and commanded the people, ‘As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it. Yet there shall be a distance between […]
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people… for they shall all know me, from the least […]
“And he said to him, ‘I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.’ But he said, ‘O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?’ He said to him, ‘Bring me a heifer…a female goat…a ram…a turtledove, and a […]
“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” Psalm 50:5 No doubt influenced by how God spoke to me yesterday, when I saw this verse this morning, my heart was immediately affected. Covenant is made by sacrifice. What floors me is that the main sacrifice required for our covenant […]
“And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.’” Mark 14:24 I haven’t read in Mark for what feels like a while. So, picking […]
“The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.” Psalm 25:14 The friendship of the Lord is reserved for those who fear Him. It is not held for the powerful or the “important.” He looks to the humble and contrite. He draws near to the […]
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