Sermon Tone Analysis

Covenant 101

What is a Covenant?

Definition - a binding agreement; a special deal with promises and laws or requirements

Types of Covenant:

Relationship (marriage, deal - )

Treaty

Will and Testament

Bible as Covenant

ANE pattern: Preamble / ID, Laws, Penalties

OT: History, Lev/Deut, Prophets

NT: Gospels, Letters, Revelation

Works and Grace

1st Adam = works; do and live

2nd Adam = grace; live and do

Old v New

What is the New Covenant?

Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, New ()

Hebrews 31:31-34

Old Covenant = Mosaic / nation of Israel

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.

33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.

And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.

For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

heb 9:

New Covenant = Jesus

1cor 11:

The Great Mediation

God as the conquering King

Our Great Need

Our Continuing Need

Covenant Blood

Marriage - blood

blood oaths / blood brothers

treaty sacrifices

last will and testament - death

Moses and the blood

heb 9:18

Jesus and His Blood

We thank God for the ministry of Jesus in His role as Mediator of the New Covenant; saving to the uttermost for now and eternity all who draw near to God, believing the gospel.