 of the things that really always kind of tested my consistency as it related to my hermeneutics was in dealing with these covenants and sometimes it's easy to want to supplant sometimes what the scriptures say or as we would say another word I sujeat what the scriptures say based on any preconceived notions how we've been taught how we've been brought up what we've heard others say and so I have and let me just say this again I have a hermeneutic that that calls for me to have a literal rheumatical historical hermeneutic what does that mean that means I take the bible literally as much as I can that does not mean that there's no such thing as metaphors and idioms and semiles and so forth figures of speech we take that into account as well for example when you see in the bible when it says that Moses for example was speaking to God face to face or or the Hebrew alpene before his face it's the same as saying if someone was speaking before the face of the mountain what we understand that the mountain doesn't have a face it's just a figure of speech meaning that it is to be taken as in front of before in his presence and then we'll see the same phrase is me mepani which is from his presence or away from him so we take that into account when we're looking at the actual scriptures if we're having a literal part to our hermeneutic then there's a grammatical part of the hermeneutic which is take new account the language is the syntax and so forth context and how this thing is put together all the all the grammar when I communicate to you and you communicate to me there are rules to our communication are you with me meaning if I say something to you I mean for you to understand it if you say something to me you mean for me to understand even if you speak in a allegorized way if you use figures of speech there is no such community ever in the history of the world of mankind that has ever solely relied on communication through poetry figures of speech okay even when the king james version was written there was no they had a they had a normal way of speaking and so but now the the the king james version was kind of written more in a poetic style but there's no one that had a poetic style solely of speaking or a figurative or an allegorized way of speaking you mean to understand what I'm saying I mean what you're saying and so there are rules and principles the way we speak when we say things if I say man you are sure ugly you're not going to take that as a compliment because you understand what the words mean and I'm saying you but I cannot turn around and say no no that's a compliment you well no it's not a compliment because you understand how English works and what these words mean same thing we have a grammatical hermeneutic we want to make sure that we understand the words what they mean and so forth then we have a historical element I have a historical element to this hermeneutic which is I take things that that are written that are given to us in the scriptures in their historical context seeing how scriptures are unfolded are you with me the reason why I have I have adopted this particular hermeneutic is because it's the only one that I've seen to be consistent the problem is and I would I would imagine I would venture to say that everybody wants to have a consistent hermeneutic they want to be consistent in how they read things and understand things meaning how you read Genesis is the way that you want to read Exodus it's the way that you want to read first and second Samuel it's the way that you want to read Habakkuk it's the way that you want to read same way as you get to the Gospels and then Paul's writings are you with me you want to kind of keep that same style if you read it one way and then another way then there's no consistency in what ends up happening is that anybody can then become the interpreter of the scriptures I think it this way I feel it's that I fit well then how do we understand let me give you all example matter of fact can I give you all a football example if I say because I've had this conversation I've used this with in a men's group when we're talking about reading the scriptures to try to try to give them something to how to understand what I'm saying if I say this guy is the best quarterback ever and they say no this guy's the best quarterback ever and they say well why because well he has more championships he has more Super Bowl rings okay so then is that what determines who's the best quarterback who who's better whether guy with the more rings okay then I'll throw a name out some of you guys may know the name the name Dan Marino is this other guy Phil Sims who has two Super Bowl rings one is the starter when he was injured and didn't start he has two rings is he better than Dan Marino who has none well no well wait a second you said that the guy with the most rings is the the the better quarterback well not in this case wait a second so now we're going off of opinions you're not being consistent in your argument and if you cannot be consistent in what you say then all your offering is an opinion that's it are you with me I'm just using that example whether you agree or not but use that example if you cannot be consistent then there's no way that we can have a communication there's no way we can have a conversation because how am I to take what you're saying if I don't if I don't know that you're going to be the same way all the way or how do I speak to you if I'm not sure if you're going to always understand what I'm saying now that being the case we want to apply that and you all will see that as we go through the Bible starting from beginning to the end and so you'll see me try to be as consistent as possible I want you to be consistent as possible that way we can kind of be on the same plane we can see eye to eye we could understand and then if there's some areas wait a second core you shouldn't take that literally okay let's say oh you know what you're right I shouldn't take that literally or maybe I should or hey that's an idiom and something you'll know when there's there's an idiom or figures of speech because take it literally just doesn't make sense are you with me so now that being stated I want to go ahead and jump into it I've got this setup I'm using this other device here to try to you try to utilize these these slides rather than putting it on here it's one it's easier this way but it is one more way to go about doing things so that being the case let me see if I if I've got this straight I want to start off with what an actual covenant is a covenant it is from the Hebrew word better see which is an agreement it is a binding now what's interesting is what the word literally means what it entails it literally entails a cutting a shedding of blood a passing through let me put it back on the screen there's a cutting a shedding of blood passing through a flesh now what I want you to think about again this is this is a children's show so to speak but this is really for adults for mature audiences and so when you think about this you think about a marriage not marriages today but the way marriages were intended where this man who was a virgin marries this woman who is a virgin and so there is what we say think about these words in the sense of a marriage also being a covenant it's an agreement it's a binding agreement at that there's a cutting a shedding of blood a passing through a flesh which is symbolized on the marriage bed especially that night and so that's what happened when he takes his virgin and so forth it kind of symbolizes whole thing are you with me but that's what a covenant is I want to I want to be kind of I want to be clear on that now there are only a few named covenants that God has are you with me there's only a few covenants that God has made with people anybody can make a covenant you and I can make a covenant as a matter of fact we see in the bible where two groups two people two nations make a covenant we see that the issue with Jacob and his boys they make a they make a covenant it's a false covenant and they lied because their sister was defiled in their eyes they said let's make us let's make a covenant and they have these men to get circumcised well they were lying all the time but again you can have a covenant which is why by the way why Jacob was upset why he was why he was hot at his son's because you made a covenant and covenants are not to be taken lightly now I want you to also understand something else as well a covenant is always with the party involved it is there's got to be a representative of the covenant we don't know of a covenant made with someone who has no idea about the covenant at their least should be somebody who's representative are you with me so if I say to to my children I'm making a covenant but let's say I have one of my children there then that's okay I do not make a covenant with my children and none of my children are present that's just that it that is not how nor has it ever been how covenants work now because we're going to name the five named covenants there are other covenants people say that there are also covenants as well they may or may not be but these are the ones for sure that are definite covenants why because God has made this covenant someone might say well is a is a covenant the same as God making a promise well with God it is ultimately with God it is thank you Michael I appreciate the super chat thank you so much sir ultimately with God is you know why because his word is his bond it's not it's not as though that he's going to say something and then go back on it okay but we're going to look at the different types of covenants the different named covenants you might notice that there are some covenants that you may think of that aren't mentioned so this is why they're not because it's not mentioned as a covenant for example we have the no way covenant we have the Abrahamic covenant we have the old or the mosaic covenant we have the Davidic covenant and we have the new covenant somebody might say well hey wait a minute what happened to the Adamic covenant and you could I guess I I don't have a problem with someone saying that that is a covenant also in Genesis 315 well 315 going for where he says what he's going to do with mankind and that specifically 315 that he is going to crush the head of Satan bruises head and that that that his seed will bruise her seed her seeds heal I don't have a problem if someone wants to name that as a covenant the only deal is the only issue is that it's not a name covenant it's not a covenant that God says is my I'm making this covenant are you with me uh liberating truth church from the man thank you so much as well for the super chat I appreciate that if God calls it a covenant then it's a covenant there's probably a little bit more to it I won't flesh out all the differences between his promises and a covenant but they but in in practicality they do what is my evening uh smart christian channel at gmail they do work uh the same way as far as God is concerned uh as with a covenant now his covenant uh versus his promise you're going to see his covenants uh being brought up a lot the reason why you're going to see this covenant is brought up because he means for his covenant to be on the mind of the people with whom he's made his covenant with or obviously their their living is not very long so he wants it also to be on the mind of his that person's descendants are with me so if I make a covenant with this person then it also should be remembered with this person's descendants or with this nation with the descendants of the people's nations the sons and the grandsons and the great grandsons of that particular nation are with me and so going back to those different covenants we have the no way covenant that is the very first covenant that we see named in the bible where God makes a covenant and calls it a covenant and then we have obviously the Abrahamic old that Davidic and new for some reason we don't talk a lot about the Davidic covenant but it's an important covenant we'll talk about that matter of fact let me just ask you guys a question before we get there have have you all spent much time covering or talking about the Davidic covenant very important covenant and maybe we don't think about how important it is because we go from the we think about that about the no way covenant obviously with the rainbow and so forth as a sign his bow in the sky that he won't he won't destroy the world again with water then we know about the Abrahamic covenant we talk about we know about the old covenant the new covenant even the the disagreements with that but we don't talk a lot about the Davidic we'll cover a little bit of that today as well but so I also want to talk about the the types of covenants there are different types of covenants as well the different elements or things that relate to the covenant so let's go back to it the types of cover you have what's called a unilateral covenant a unilateral covenant is one person is responsible for the terms and conditions of that particular covenant then you have a bilateral covenant where the covenant is between two parties or multiple parties and they are all responsible for maintaining of the covenant the terms and conditions then we have speaking of conditions we have what's called a I'm sorry I pushed a wrong button close that we have what's called a conditional covenant and a conditional covenant it is based on set of conditions and when I say conditional covenant I mean this I mean if then if you do this then I'll do that are you with me and that young thank you so much for the super child I appreciate that as well guys I really do appreciate those then we have let's go back to it we have what's called an unconditional covenant I'll flesh these out a little bit more as we go an unconditional covenant is just like it sounds without any conditions not based on any conditions this is really more or less what we would see as a promise though it might not be named and so we'll look and see at look at the different covenants and see how how there's really only one conditional covenant so let's pull those up we have a no a covenant it is a unilateral covenant when I say unilateral covenant it is a covenant made by just one person this is God saying I'm going to do this now there are there are some that makes it it's bilateral which is fine the more important part is that it is an unconditional covenant God did not say to Noah that if you guys do this then I promise never to destroy the earth again with water I'm going to now he didn't know this but the earth will be destroyed again but not with water and that was the whole promise and you will see my water bow my rainbow in the sky as a sign of because obviously that's been co-opted to a large degree but still we understand we see that we should think of him it's kind of sad though when we see a rainbow or think of a rainbow we don't think anything nice about it anymore it's it's gotten to the point where we see a rainbow excuse me if we see a rainbow on someone's jacket or their shirt our first thought is this person is affirming the LGBTQ community and it shouldn't be that it should be our first thought should be that God has decided to preserve the world the world and there is a reason why we're going to see that these covenants they flow harmoniously they flow harmoniously which is very important I'll cover that as we go again but then the next one is excuse me Abrahamic covenant it is a unilateral covenant and is also unconditional meaning that there is no condition set on Abraham or the world in terms of what he's going to do we'll cover that as well and then the same thing with the the mosaic covenant it is bilateral there are two parties that come together and make this agreement and in this case it is conditional and if you notice it's the only covenant that is conditional meaning if you do this then I'll do that that part is very important if you do this then I'll do that if you do what what you're supposed to do then I'll do what I promise to do for you I'll bless you now if you don't do it then there's also consequences if you don't do what you're supposed to do there are some results that will that you will incur as a result so it is truly if then on the positive and the negative side but then we have the Davidic covenant without questioning unilateral and it is unconditional God's promise to what he's going to do with this descendant of David actually with two descendants of David as a matter of fact then we go back to the new covenant it is unilateral and it is also unconditional now I really want you guys to focus on the conditional versus the unconditional that is extremely important think about this guys if God doesn't if God says I am putting myself in this binding agreement with you and there's nothing that you have to do well then there's something you have to do it's going to occur now because the covenant is made does not necessarily mean that you are either a beneficiary of it or not a beneficiary of it as a matter of fact there's not one covenant that's made that doesn't even affect the parties that aren't involved there's not one let me say it again there's miss action thank you so much for super chat as well there's not one covenant that's made that does not affect the people who are not involved in that covenant for example who are not named in the no way covenant God didn't have this conversation with you or I neither you nor I did he have this conversation with but does it affect us well yeah it does everybody's ever lived and breathed since the flood should be thankful for this covenant we have all benefited greatly from that come so let's do this let's go to the no way covenant and let's just at least put on the screen so we can see chapter 9 of Genesis verse 8 then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him saying behold now behold I myself will establish or I myself do establish my covenant there he is he's naming it my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living creature that is with you the birds the cattle and every beast of the earth with you of all that comes out of the ark even every beast of the earth and he had to say that because obviously every animal that was that survived the covenant or survived the flood was not in the ark we've got some fish that weren't in the ark he says verse 11 I establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth God said this is the sign of the covenant which I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you for for all successive generations well amen god bless you god so to speak thank you lord I really do appreciate you doing that god just uh just the ability to live and breathe thank you as a result of that now you need to understand flat bush 21 thank you as well you need to understand what is this covenant for the purpose sometimes we might see how the covenant is going to be carried out sometimes we don't know we don't know how god is is going to he's not saying what he's going to do in the meantime we just know he's not going to destroy the earth with water but the purpose of this covenant may not be fully understood except to allow us to live people to live after that but he's going to do something after that why matter of fact let me ask you guys this question since there has to be a an actual end a purpose a reason a rationale for each covenant god just doesn't do anything haphazardly what is what do you all think is the purpose that ends the reason for this covenant the the no way of covenant why does he name this covenant well he's going to destroy the world everybody and except noah and his family but god also said something previously didn't he he said something previous to him saying that he's going to destroy the earth with water and after that he won't do it again well what did he previously say and that's why I don't have a problem with someone bringing up what they call the Adamic covenant he stated that God or that the seed of this woman we know is going to be Jesus is going to get victory that they don't understand the whole point behind this in Genesis 3 15 there's no way they did and so God is not destroying the entire world because because of what he stated in Genesis 3 15 something else you also need to remember since God we say that God well I'll come nashon nashon said thank you for switching also he says what about the land covenant in Deuteronomy 31 and 10 well this land come people call the the Palestinian Covenant sometimes it is part of what this is why it's not it's not an actual named covenant you can call that if you want to people call the land covenant or the Palestinian covenant this land the reason why is because it's already in matter of fact it's actually named in two covenants we'll see that that element that component come up in the old covenant as well as the Abrahamic covenant which tells us something that he that he might not necessarily build on but he'll build through these covenants relate to each other these covenants and the subsequent covenants after that mean to bring about the same ends as the previous covenants are you with me and say that again the covenants mean to bring about the same or subsequent or the same ends as the subsequent covenant so what so let's say let's say there actually is a named Adamic covenant I don't have a problem with that if it is well the no egg covenant is is meant to bring about an end so that not an end to finish it but to bring it about so too is the new covenant interestingly enough and we'll see this so too is the old covenant as well to bring about a means of the new co I mean the Abrahamic covenant coming to fruition same thing with the Davidic covenant and the new covenant we'll look at those it's not like that they're not in competition and you would think that when we talk about the old covenant versus the new covenant that they're in competition they really are not they bring about the the greater ends the the intended purpose so I want to keep that fresh in your mind I want you all to think about that as we're moving forward uh sat and thank you as well for the super chat as well sat and said thank you I say thank you back uh Ian Burton thank you also for the super chat so now we looked at the no egg covenant let me ask you guys a question do you all remember when Moses I'm jumping ahead of myself because I don't want to forget this point but when God makes a statement he's testing Moses he makes a statement about uh or to Moses about destroying the the world and starting over with him do you all recall that do you all think that God means to do that the problem is if God means to do that uh because we take this as this is being opposed as a question just not I'm defending this is not I'm definitely going to do that most like well you can't well here's the reason why God cannot and will not do that because God has already limited himself to saying a couple things one the scepter shall not depart from Judah Moses is not out of that tribe so he could not the sea ultimately is not going to come out of Judah are you with me and so it's just these little things you think about and they relate to previous elements or elements of a previous covenant we need to all which means which tells me we need to be always mindful of God and his covenants and what he is doing are you with me uh Ricky Boala did I say that right Boal yeah Boal yeah Boal yeah I'm sorry I'm saying it wrong Ricky thank you also for super chat so we need to be mindful of that same thing to you uh Bertina praise God for you guys I thank you guys so much so now we've got the no way covenant and again I don't have a problem if a person wants to bring up the Adamic covenant and if you also want to include the the land covenant or the Palestinian covenant I have no problem with that whatsoever I really don't so now let's go to now remember what a covenant is though it is an agreement there's got to be a party representative there God didn't make he somebody might benefit from the covenant but the covenant is made specifically with the person that he's having this agreement with and we want to be consistent I'm saying this because I want I want to challenge you guys it challenged me as well later on so let's go to the next covenant the next covenant is one we call the Abrahamic covenant I want to go to not the actual covenant itself but an introduction to the covenant that is in Genesis 12 I said guys this is one of the most important statements that you're going to see in the Bible it is not I can't say it's the most there's no I wouldn't never say that is the most important but is one of the most important statements that you're ever going to find in the Bible and from this we begin to see salvation to the world unfold okay so Genesis 12 let's start it let you know starting verse one he says to Abram now go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your father's house to a land that I will show you now this is this is why we can say that this land covenant this palatine covenant the elements of that of the land portion is found here the beginning of it and then we'll see it reiterate it again or I should say I'm sorry the correct the correct term is not reiterate it's iterate we'll see it iterate it again in the old covenant the mosaic but really it finds its genesis no pun intended in Genesis 12 and now I said thank you so much as well sweetheart let's go back to what he says verse two and I will make you a great nation I want you to think about the implication of what he's saying I will make you a great nation I don't know why my mind just went to someone there's someone I guess there's someone in the chat's name acacia I don't know why I just cut my eye uh someone to thank you acacia because acacia is mine what did you mean oh okay you meant okay you meant um or is it in acacia I just got that I just got that is it in acacia or in acia the reason why I said question because my daughter's middle name is acacia so anyway I'm messing up it just caught my eye because I was thinking it's my daughter in the chat anyway I'm sorry guys but notice the implications that are being made what he's saying he says I will make you a great nation and the word that's used here for nation is the word going let's go back let's go to it going a great nation this is singular so this is I'm sorry not going this is going the Hebrew word for nation is going I'm going to make you a great nation well how's that going to be well uh Abraham didn't have any kids so in order to be a great nation somebody got to have a child somebody's got to do some birthing and so he looks over to sarah sarah you get sarah you need to get busy uh woman you need to get the popping out seeds and she's probably looking at him with you need to do something too mr again this is a we have children here so I want to get too too graphic but this necessarily means that there have to be some people and if there's going there's got to be a land for the people which we see earlier to a land that I will show you so this is also kind of incorporated there's a land for these people now he's not giving all of the details god uh for their part they don't get all of what god is trying to do but then also they got to see some things that we haven't seen could you imagine god speaking you and telling you to do this like wow yep I don't I don't know where we're going but because you said it from heaven I'm gone I can imagine Abraham's family saying where you're going Abe bye he didn't the door was still swinging like one of those old western style saloon uh swinging doors as he was gone he's gone anybody seen abram no last time I saw him he was headed that way he was headed over yonder says something about god told him and something like that I don't know what he was talking about so he's going to make him a great nation that means people and that means land but it also means something else guys that also implies there's got to be some sort of rule some sort of government we don't see that fleshed out until we get a little further on in the description but those are the three elements that are part of this covenant he says that I will bless you and make your name great meaning and when he says that it's the same thing that he's going to say that god is going to say to Hagar in terms of multiplying making them large pletiful make your name great uh and you shall be a blessing look what he says and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you anyone that curses you they'll be cursed anyone that blesses you they'll be blessed I think one of the one of the two saving graces for America not that we're that great but the two saving graces for us is one how much we pushed the gospel out by missionaries now that can be changed any nation can do that but we just have to do a lot of here we have a lot of folks that that uh take it upon themselves we've got one one young lady at our church who's going on a mission trip to somewhere in South America I don't know where she's going but we do that a lot here in this country but the other saving grace is this we bless Israel now there are those that want to take that away that they would rather us to not treat Israel a certain way uh and because we have and it's true as a nation our nation does not have a particular theology but if they did they have it we have a dispensational theology where we treat Israel different than other nations we do amen why guys is our bless of the bless you and curse those that curse you they're not strategic anymore um them being our partners um but we still favor amen let's keep doing it he says then he says here's the important one right here the more important also not more important but just as important one of you also be paying attention to he says and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed now paul picks his point up in galatians three so so it's clear that he's speaking about through him through abraham through his descendants through the jews specifically through the jews through this one jewish person who's coming to the tribe of judah jesus all the nations of the world all the families of the earth should be blessed it is and he returned for this is cold mishpa cost all which is cold and then the next word beside it is mishpa cope what does that mean all of the families that's where so these people who are he brazilites want to say that it's just for the jews and so forth no it's not because literally where you get your marching orders comes from here so all the families of the earth all the distinct families should be blessed now what's interesting also is that when he changes his name from abraham to abraham a lot of the jews don't don't catch this you should because it literally means father of nations this is where it goes from goi to goi well israel is one nation so in order for it to be a plurality which is three or more it necessarily means other nations granted at the time god doesn't seem to be as friendly with the other nations as he is with israel well he's trying to prove something tommy jake thank you so much super child i appreciate that as well and so remember keeping in mind everything that i said thus far dog gone at this thing went off i knew that was gonna happen i knew that was gonna happen let's see if it pops back up on my screen again okay let me put let me push this back up and make sure this shows back up okay cool the doggone thing died on me it didn't die on but i've got something set to where it just goes off i don't use it long enough so let me just move it a little bit so it can so to know that i'm still here anyway so this is the abrahamic covenant right wrong this is not the abrahamic covenant this is not the abraham what do you mean of course not the abrahamic covenant did were you all led to believe that this is the abrahamic covenant how how many of you all thought that genesis 12 one two and three was the abrahamic covenant i used to think that made sense here's god saying what he's going to do with abraham no this is not a covenant what is it let's go back to it again let's put back on the screen let's find it again here is what a covenant is a covenant is an agreement of binding it is a cutting shedding of blood a passing through of flesh well we don't have that here what we do have what we do have is god making abraham privy to some of the details of this covenant that is going to happen well when does god make this covenant with abraham since it is a covenant well here it is not very far off a few pages over not genesis 12 but genesis 15 let's go to genesis 15 let's start in verse 12 he says now when the sun was going down a great a deep sleep fell upon abraham and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him god said to abraham know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in land that is not theirs this is abraham's fault this is abraham's fault you know why it's abraham's fault let's go back to verse one and see the rest of the story abraham should have just been quiet but remember god tends to want to have these signs of the particular covenants so here it is starting verse one after these things after these things the word of the lord came to abraham in a vision saying do not fear abraham i am with i am a shield to you your reward shall be very great abraham said oh lord god what will you give me since i am childless and the air of my house is la's are of Damascus and what's going on with Damascus la's are of Damascus and then paul is going to meet somebody on the road of Damascus anyway he says since you have given me no offspring to me one born in my house is my air then behold the word of the lord came to him saying this man will not be your air but one who comes forth from you your own body he shall be your air and he took him us outside and said now look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are an if you are able to count them and he said to him so shall your descendants be then he believed in the lord and he reckoned he reckoned it to him as righteousness so then when abraham believed right there that's the point that god said i'm gonna i'm gonna count that as you be i'm gonna treat you as righteous because remember there is no law given at the time there is no no code of conduct that abraham is supposed to follow as of yet it's just that now he's counted as righteous why because at that moment by the way notice what he also says he says that your descendants should be as numerous as these stars ask yourself a question how numerous is israel how numerous is israel well we know israel is not that that large that great because god even says i didn't choose you because you were great um or because no matter of fact real because you were the fewest amongst many there was nothing really significant about you i chose you amongst all the other people because i'm going to show my greatness in you and so if he's going to have a numerous amount of descendants it cannot be just israel now they're not thinking about this yet because oftentimes you tell somebody something then as it goes on they forget about it what god has told israel what he's told told these people there it's going to come to them in their mind front and center uh in due course are you with but let's keep reading and this is where abraham kind of abraham messes up he says then he believed in the lord and he reckoned it to him as righteous then he believed to the lord and he reckoned to him as righteous and he said to him i am the lord who brought you out of ur of the cow deans to give you this land to possess it so when my brother was talking about uh the palestinian covenant or the land covenant well he's already he's already mentioned it early in gents as well and he's bringing it up again here this is where he's making he's actually going to make the covenant tonight on this day but there's something that abraham needs to have or the jews and everyone else needs to have as a sign as a reminder now the previous covenant the no egg covenant was what this rainbow we're going to need another sign for this abraham covenant he says he said oh lord how may i know that i will possess it pretty strange for abraham to say that or abraham to say that it's pretty strange for abraham to say how i know that i would possess it when he just said that abraham believed the lord and then at that moment the lord counted or credited his faith or him believing him counted that as righteousness towards abraham and then he turns around and says but how would i know kind of funny huh which tells us that at least then their belief kind of ebbed and flow now god is asking or telling him something pretty big the one thing abraham knows is his body abraham knows or abraham keep on calling abraham but abraham knows something about his body which is what he's old he's up there he knows something else his wife is old she's up there not quite as old as him but hey listen they're not going to the club anymore they're not heading out to party him but they're not they're not running track of it they're not doing crossfit anymore they're not working out anymore they're not running okay they walk to where they want to go to and so abraham's like how will i know that i mean come on god it's getting late in the inning here it is how will i know that i may possess so what does god say so he said to him bring me a three-year-old heifer now by the way why is he doing this because what did i say a covenant was let's look again here it is a covenant is an agreement a binding a cutting a shedding of blood passing through of flesh so what is god getting ready to do he's about to do just what that covenant is because in those days you would take pieces of flesh cut it in half you will signify that we are in agreement with this covenant all the part is involved by walking through it by passing through it okay that's why god is having him to bring this these animals and cut them in half so he said bring to me a three-year-old heifer and the three-year-old female goat and a three-year-old ram and a turtle dove and a young pigeon then he brought all these to him and cut them into and laid each half opposite the other but he did not cut the birds the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses and abram drove them away now when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon abram and behold a tear of great darkness fell upon him god said to abram know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs where they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years abram you want to know how you will know that's how that's going to be your sign that your children your descendants not obviously abram won't be around to see that and then they those who are in the middle of there like why does it have to happen to us though i i didn't ask god i didn't doubt you abram was the one that i the doubted he was the one that asked but this is their sign the sign that they were going to bondage and be brought out of bondage it is a biblical fact it is also a historical fact that this happened let's go back to it he says for 400 years but i will also judge the nation whom they will serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions and so when they come out with many possessions they can look back ways and we've got all this this new acquired wealth just like god said as for you you shall go to your fathers in peace and you will be buried at a good old age then uh then in the fourth generation they will return here for the iniquity of the amorite is not yet compete here it is it came about when the sun had said that it was very dark and behold there appeared a smoking oven this fire and a flaming torch which passed between the pieces on that day the lord made a covenant with abram saying to your descendants i have given this land from the river of egypt as far as the great river the river euphrates uh the kenai and the kenozites and the cadmites and the hittites and the parasites and the refium and the amorites and the kenozites and the gegersites and the gibriesites so he's given him this land by the way interestingly enough israel has never occupied all of the land that god has promised them they will they just have not done so yet they they've never enjoyed all of the blessings of the land they would have but they messed up but they messed up now notice this is this is not a conditional covenant this is unconditional he didn't say abram i will bless you if you do this i will bless your descendants if they know he says this is going to happen and this is going to happen and he didn't put conditions on it sometimes we do that a lot of times when we read scriptures we put conditions on things that god didn't just a little side note let's not put any conditions on the wordings that god didn't let's just try to read it for his plain understanding and glean from it if there comes a point in time we have to try to figure things out or guess things out well let's wait let's cross that bridge we get there because if we hold back on guessing what god is doing or thinking we we might find out that we may never get to that bridge i wonder how we look at this or look at that it was hard for me to do so but as i've done so i thought you know what yeah i i i don't come to a lot of passages where i have to try to read into it and guess at least things that that that have a large um a magnified effect on the scriptures haven't had that yet if i just let the scriptures say what it says okay now this is the new this is the abrahamic covenant the abrahamic covenant does not violate but it works in harmony in concert with the no way covenant to bring about a particular means in this case they don't know it but we know it's going to bring about a means for all of humanity not everybody but i want i want you to ask this question ask you guys this question who and i want to just you all tell me in the chats who is this covenant going to benefit that's the part i need to ask you who is this covenant going to benefit is this only going to benefit just abraham's physical descendants well no it's going to uh bless more than just his own um physical defend uh uh descendants because he says in you all of the families of the earth shall be blessed so therefore that's that's right ct 25 16 all of the families shall be blessed everybody as nijan said or somebody might say everybody everyone in the future says everybody will be blessed not everybody individually but every kind of family every family will find blessing in this we don't know just yet how because all we're here is just in genesis 15 now we know the end of the story so i won't hold you just genesis but now let's go to the next covenant the next covenant is what we call the mosaic covenant or the oh it becomes the old covenant the mosaic covenant or the law this particular covenant let's go back to uh the types of covenants this particular covenant is a conditional covenant as well as a bilateral covenant why because it's made between multiple parties and both parties god and who he's making this covenant with in this case israel are responsible for maintaining this covenant and it's conditional meaning that if israel does this then god will do that if they don't then god won't matter of fact not even not even that basically it would be good for israel if they didn't do their part then god didn't bless them but no if they don't do their part then god is also going to punish them let's go to this passage uh you can also find in exes 19 seven this is where um moses brings what god has told them to take to your elders and then he goes to the elders and says well this is what god wants so they say yes we are we are on board tell god amen god moses goes back to god and then god gives them instructions and so forth and then we go to uh exes 24 3 and look what he says then moses came and recounted to all the people all the words of the lord and all the ordinances and all the people answered with one voice and said all the words which the lord has spoken we will do now previously they hadn't gotten everything now they're getting it now they're getting it and what do they say all that the lord says we will do whatever you say god we're with you we're rocking with you we listen we're with you as much as anybody can be with anybody now obviously we know obviously we know that yeah you guys aren't as faithful and committed as you say you are but there is a point and a purpose to this let's continue first four moses wrote down all the words of the lord then he rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with 12 pillars for 12 tribes of israel he sent young men on the son i'm sorry young men the sons of israel and they offer burnt offerings and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the lord moses took half of the blood and put on the base you know i won't i won't read all that this is him having this the ceremony in response to this and so this this covenant is made and this is an conditional if then question who is this covenant made with this is pretty easy he has made this covenant with all of the sons of israel with israel does he make this covenant with anybody other than israel no it is not it's just with israel but is anybody other than israel affected what do you got to say do you think that israel is the only one is the only nation that is affected by this covenant well the obvious answer is no even in a negative way because if god is going to give them this land and so forth because at this point in time they have not they have not gone into the land they're going to well there are some people in the land already and so they certainly are going to be affected but also we should understand that these nations have also already in the past currently and will continue to reject god there will be people who are not part of abraham's physical lineage who will also be blessed in this who will in themselves become jewish become israel are with me Caleb we've come as before whose Hebrew name Caleb means dog he is not physically of that lineage his his his his ancestry is from is an edomite are with me so you don't necessarily have to be physically from the net there are certain blessings that you're just not going to get but anyone who places their faith in god or like abraham anyone who trusts in god anyone who trusts in god can then have this righteousness a credit to them they can be blessed can i give you an example how about rahab we know her story how she hit the spies she's clearly not israel but she's blessed exactly uh ruth was a moabite and so we constantly see god blessing folks who are not who don't happen to be israel i saw i'm sorry monkey monkey moves in the same thing as well so we see others who aren't always um of israel or israel descent who are also blessed why because one thing we're going to see throughout this entire walk with god from genesis all the way to the end is that by walking and trusting god there are blessings regardless of your family ancestry are with me but clearly this covenant is with israel the problem is israel is disobedient now god understands this this covenant is also in concert and harmonious with the abrahamic covenant doesn't violate anything god is going to matter of fact as a matter of fact think about how this covenant starts off this covenant this this mosaic covenant starts off as a result of what them coming out of bondage remember moses is leading them out of bondage why are they in bondage in the very first place because abraham because abraham so this is flowing from the abrahamic covenant to the old covenant so the reason why this is all taking place in the first place because they find themselves in bondage they come out with this great wealth and now there are these stipulations these rules and so forth to keep them to guide them towards walking with god as a matter of fact even while in israel oftentimes they find themselves kind of being beholden or or falling after which which happens when you're when you're around other people who are not your people you end up adopting their customs it just it just is what it is so they've got this old covenant now god has said that he's going to punish him i won't go into all the different things about what's happening in this in this covenant in this law but god tells him that they're not going to make the fact they're not going to be successful they're going to fail but the point of this is pointing them somewhere are you with me the point of this is pointing them somewhere where is it pointing them it's pointing them to the next covenant in line which is the davidic covenant we don't talk very much about the davidic covenant let's go a little bit and cover the davidic covenant let's go to second samuel chapter seven he says now this is when david is wanting to build a temple for the lord a house for the god he says now it came about when the king lived in his house and the lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies which he promised to do the king said to nathan the prophet see now i dwell in the house of cedar but the art of god dwells in within tent curtains nathan said go to the king go do all that is in your mind for the lord is with you but in the same night the word of the lord came to nathan saying go go and say to my servant david thus says the lord are you the one who should build me a house dwell in for i have not dwelt in the house since the day i brought you up out your sons of israel from egypt even to this day but i have been moving about in a tent even in a tabernacle wherever i have gone with all the sons of israel that i speak a word with one of the tribes of israel which i command to shepherd my people in israel saying why have you not built me a house of cedar now therefore thus you shall say to the my servant david thus says the lord of hosts i took you from the pastors from the fall from fallen sheep to be ruled over my people i have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you and i will make you a great name like the names of great men who are on the earth reminisce of what he said with abraham making him a great name i will also appoint a place for my people israel and will plant them that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again this is also an element of this divinity coming out they're going to be put in a place they will not be disturbed again this is foretelling now wait a second but aren't we in our land well yeah but this them not being disturbed again is not happening now this is going to happen in the future to be taken out of the land brought back and even still then we're still going to have this issue where this debate this divinity coming is going to be fully appreciated but he says verse 11 even from that day that i commanded judges to be over my people of israel and i will give you rest from all your enemies the lord declares to you that the lord will make a house for you when your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers i will raise up your descendant after you here it is who will come forth from you and i will establish his kingdom well obviously who's he speaking of he's obviously speaking of in this case salomon why do we know he's speaking about solemnly says he shall build a house for my name and i will establish the throne of his kingdom forever now i will establish the throne of his kingdom forever well who is that well this is clearly jesus he's going back and forth between not just jesus and salomon but he says something about it let's let's continue reading i will be a father to him and he will be a son to me what now how do we know he's talking about abraham abraham salomon right here he says i will be a father to him and he will be a son to me when he commits iniquity i will correct him with the right of men and the strokes of the son of men that's not jesus that is salomon but my love and kindness shall not depart from him as i took it away from sal whom i remove from before you your house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever your throne shall be established forever in accordance with all these words and all this vision so nathan spoke to david now david's not fully sure of how all this will happen he knows um but this is going to relate to salomon he'll find this out even more so later but this this throne forever he does not know about jesus just yet he didn't have that yet are you with me now how do we know this is a covenant with david well let's go to second sanio chapter 23 verse 5 and he'll tell us that this is a covenant with this david speaking says truly is not my house so with god for he has made an everlasting covenant with me there it is ordering all things insecure for all my salvation and all my desire will he not indeed make it grow so here we see clearly the covenant that he's having is with david question what is the purpose and the means what's the reason for this particular covenant well the point the purpose the reason for this covenant by the way is still flowing harmoniously in the abrahamic covenant in the old covenant as well there's remember they're still under the law they're still under the old covenant so what is god promising they've had these issues having the fight and so forth because of sin because the covenant they're under is a conditional covenant and the good part about god his loving kindness his graciousness is that even though they've done things to deserve to be utterly destroyed he has not do you all know why he has not destroyed israel even though the condition of the covenant that they violated requires them to be punished do you know why god has not taken his hand off israel there's a big reason why why because of the abrahamic covenant he is still going to as a matter of fact as we look through the old covenant and see israel constantly messing up we see it in an exodus we see it in leviticus we see the numbers we see it in do the run we see it in joshua we see the judges god keeps making this one statement about even when he's punishing israel he says but because of my covenant that i made with your father abraham as you can take it he says i will remember that covenant i will remember that covenant though you guys keep messing up israel you keep messing up now what's the point of this covenant this covenant matter of fact let me just let you guys say so why do you what do you think the importance of this covenant is the davidic covenant very important which is why i think we need to spend more time talking about it more but there's something extremely important with this particular covenant what is so important about this covenant is let's go back to the mosaic covenant let's go back to the abrahamic covenant remember the abrahamic covenant he says that in you all the nations of the earth should be blessed and if we go to paul paul will tell us that he's speaking about jesus if this is why i don't have a problem with someone even bringing up the adamic covenant because in genesis 3 15 he said he speaks of the seed of woman he speaks of the seed of woman in the mosaic covenant this prophecy comes out that the scepter should not depart from judah well who's coming through the through judah through the line of judah that's jesus who is david descended from from judah not like sol who was a benjaminite but david is from judah so to a solemn we find our way down the road we're going to find a woman named mary and even a man named joseph the legal right and the genetic right for this savior this messiah to say that he is from the line of david however anyone however anybody want to look at it both of these people are from the tribe of judah and so what god is doing he's setting up this kingdom not just here on earth but even going further because what did he say how long did he say that this kingdom will last forever which is why jesus uses this imagery in in the bible in the gospels about the kingdom of heaven kingdom of god kingdom of heaven kingdom of god this is this might be foreign to other nationalities but it's not to the jews this kingdom that they harken back they remember well they don't remember but they if they read their their books if they read from the law if they read their histories they know that they used to be under this kingdom but they were conquered because of sin and the reason for their conquering been put out because they disobey the lord specifically with the savvests on the land and so forth so god put him out now so we've got what he said to adam which wasn't a name covenant but if you want to call it a covenant that's fine but the first name covenant we have to know a covenant where he's not going to destroy the world again but he's going to do something to remembering what he said he was going to do with adam and this seed of woman then we see the abrahamic covenant where he says not just you but all the nations of the world shall be blessed we know it's going to be jesus how's it going to happen they don't know then because abraham wondered how am i going to know this is going to be true well i tell you i'm going to put your people in bondage for 400 years when they come out they'll have possession and when they come out he gives them a new covenant this is the only conditional covenant and they violate it even in their violation of covenant god has still promised the sovereign god to bless us through this king that's going to come the seed that's going to come through david through juda that's jesus but then there's another covenant coming there's one more covenant coming because the problem with israel is that yeah i got i've made all these covenants with you but you guys just don't do right you guys want to act right so i'm gonna fix this i'm gonna i'm gonna fix your little red wagon not because of you but because of the covenant the promise that i made with your father abraham with your father isaac your father jacob who by the way they were something else too just not as bad as you guys and so he promises a new covenant this is where it gets controversial because again we're this now you might not but i will i am going to stay consistent i'm going to stay consistent this is where a lot of folks don't and they get mad at me but hey i can't i can't help how you were talking in jeremiah 231 verse 27 he says he says behold days are coming declares the lord when i will sow the house of israel and the house of juda with the seed of man and with the seed of beast as i have watched over them to pluck up to break down to overthrow to destroy and to bring disaster so i will watch over them to build and to plant declares the lord now this is where it gets tricky i'm gonna ask you guys a question some of you guys might want to get upset with me house and thank you so much for the super sticker some of you guys might want to get upset i've asked a question on each other the previous covenants who does he say he's making this covenant with this is where some folks like yeah you know what i see where you're going but my heart my mind says israel and the house of juda my heart says with everybody my mind my eyes because i can read says israel let's go back to it he says in those days between nine uh they will not say again the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge we've covered this before that there was this proverb it's a true proverb that says the children's teeth are set on edge are messed up because the father's eaten sour grape but he says going forward no longer will the sins of the children will the sins of the father be accounted or revisited on to the children going forward you'll be accounted for your own sin look what he says he says now this is going forward but everyone will die for his own iniquity each man who eats the sour grapes his teeth will be set on edge behold here it is days are coming declares the lord that when i will make a new covenant and look he says it's with with the house of israel and with the house of juda not like the covenant which i made with their forefathers in the day that i took them by hand to bring them out of the land of egypt my covenant which they broke although i was a husband to them i was a husband to them by the way let me just stop for a second because i've i've heard people who who just sometimes just want to argue for the sake of arguing uh say that we can't use the word lord because the word lord means bail the word by al is it it there's different uses this word husband that's used here is literally the word bail by al it's that word matter of fact let's put it back on the screen he says i was a husband and this is the word bail and it's by tea what is about tea which is husband so it's the same it's the same word bail it can mean lord it can be master it can mean husband if it's your god a foreign god then that's a bail which by law will cover bail on next week that being said let's let's continue though oh before i go back to it who did he just say he's making this covenant with with israel not like the one that i made with your forefathers who are also israel but a new covenant i'm making with you israel and the house of june there's a reason why because there's this separation in the kingdoms because at this time we've got a northern kingdom and we've got a southern kingdom but so far it's with israel but my heart wants to tell me that it's made with the gentiles problem is we have no other covenant that's made with a part of its absence but we also know that a covenant though it's not made with you you could also reap the benefits we absolutely do reap the benefits now this is one of the reasons why it's hard to call me a dispensationalist because dispensations will say that we are as gentiles are not under the abrahamic covenant but i think we are i would say that we're under the abrahamic covenant because i said well where's our covenant well first of all you don't need a covenant to be saved all you need is faith in the lord a covenant is not what does it it's the action that's promised by the covenant are you with me if i make a covenant with let's say chess champ and i say i i make a covenant uh that if chess champ is here tomorrow then i'm going to buy him a new chess board uh a gold plated chess board won't be real gold though i don't have that kind of money that doesn't mean that i don't i cannot also give a uh a chess board to to jeff i can't give a chess board to carol i don't know if they played chess or not chess champ does it's the name chess champ right with me because i made him a promise does not mean that i can't give someone else a blessing also well he makes a promise with abraham and in that he says specifically that all the rest of the world shall shall be blessed where's our covenant found in the abrahamic covenant are you are you following this new covenant is to replace the old covenant that was broken by the people well did the gentiles break it no we did not yeah court but there are some problematic passages that seem to indicate that the gentiles are part of the new covenant no no they're not no because we see the word we do this thing that sometimes that that people don't read the bible well do or that muslims do we see a word like oh that word must mean no because as a pastor aren't we servants or ministers of the new covenant well first of all uh it's likely that he's speaking of paul him and his cohorts but even if we were to say that we as gentiles are ministers of the new covenant that i mean that we are uh who the new covenant was made for we are just ministers of it jenay where can i get that shirt you'll be able to get that shirt this shirt within the next two weeks you'll be able to get it at smart christians dot org that's where you'll be able to get this shirt but that's a whole other story which by the way i like this little shirt whatever god says i don't care what the government says i don't care what china says i don't care what biden or trump says whatever god i don't care what your mother says ever god says i don't care what your denomination says whatever god which is what we're doing whatever god says who did he say his covenants with israel let's continue look and then look what he says look what he says he says my covenant which they broke although i was a husband to then declare the lord but this is the covenant which i will make with the house of israel after those days of clear as the lord look what he says i will put my law within them and on their heart i will write it and i will be their god and they shall be my people now in this case he says that he is going he's been saying that he's going to circumcise their heart he's going to put his law on their heart he's going to put his spirit in their heart so far all we know is god is going to put his spirit in whose heart now just israel we would need passages to tell us that he's going to put his spirit in the hearts of the gentiles do we have such a passage what sure we do hosea brings us as a matter of fact we quote this in um in roman's nine when he's speaking about israel but he also says that these people who are not my people i'll call my people and he's going to guide us too so we already know what he's going to do with our hearts as well because it's not that israel was the only one who who's just hardheaded rebellious horrible nasty we can know we all are but in this case what is the old law doing what is the law doing it's pointing them to who is why it's also in harmonious uh relationship with the davidic covenant the davidic covenant is to bring about who jesus who does paul say this old covenant has pointed israel to to jesus it was a tutor a school master point them to christ amen y'all do y'all see how this is kind of coming together it's not that god just puts this up together let me just throw some stuff to the wall and see see what sticks no there's an order to this and if we remain consistent with our reading we get there we get there so now the issue though is that these these jews ain't doing right they're just jews it's just us too they're not doing right so what am i going to do i'm going to fix their heart i'm also going to fix the heart of of the gentiles as well jesus even makes his point as well when he says when he's talking about the sheep because he also says when he's speaking to the jews about the sheep the jewish sheep he also says i've got sheep of another flock and it's not just jews we find out that this sheep of other flock that happened to be the the samaritans also happens to be the gentiles so he there literally are scriptures to cover what he's doing with israel but there are no scriptures to say that this new covenant is with gentiles it doesn't have to be we get so caught up because we've heard this this term before we are a new covenant church and so forth whatever in this new covenant that we're okay fine but you don't have a scripture that's the only that's the one thing about us as christians that we tend to do for the most part sometimes it's easy for us to fall back on our old tried and true things we've heard now where's the scripture there just is none it's not a bad thing it's not a bad thing at all when i when i when i some of you guys guys remember when i first started talking about this people like up in arms what in the world is he how in the world is he going to say that i had people call me a heretic that does your does your church know what you're preaching i wouldn't care if they knew or didn't know if they gave tax approval they don't they don't run me the bible does how about that and we'll come to that cindy lou about uh uh who's grafted in because when paul is talking about being grafted in he's not talking about being grafted into a covenant he's talking about being grafted into this branch this olive tree are you with me it's just a god made a covenant with the olive tree as well we'll cover that by the way that also relates to us being ministers we'll come to that in just a little bit but he's making this covenant with israel there are some though that want to say that israel has been replaced by the church here's how we won't say that let's continue reading he says i will put my law within there within them and on their heart i will write it and i will be their god and they shall be my people again where have we seen this we see it in hosea as well when he says that i will call on people who are not my people i will be their god and they will be my people so we see this before we'll see this again verse 34 they will not teach again each man his neighbor and each man his brother saying know the lord for they all will know me from the least the greatest declares the lord out for i will forgive them their iniquity and their sin i will remember no more again this is in complete harmony with the davidic covenant complete harmony with even with the old covenant complete harmony with the abrahamic covenant it's pointing to jesus and their sins will be remembered no more why is that what under the old covenant they've got the atonement that their sins are not remembered for one year but after this we're going to have a new mediator we're going to have a new scapegoat we're going to have a new blood sacrifice a new perpetuation and this time once and for all and we're done now let's continue verse 35 thus says the lord who gives the sun for light by day now follow what he's saying this is how we know israel has not ceased they have not been replaced follow what he says thus says the lord who gives the sun for light by day can i ask you guys a question i don't know if it was cloudy or not but did y'all happen to notice if anyone said the sun has gone away has the sun been destroyed no it's still there it's it's still there he says and fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night are the moon and the star is still there they're still there who stirs up the sea so as it weighs roar the lord of host is his name the seas are even even if you live in arizona even if you live in a desert desert even if you live in in ohio uh kentucky the the seas the oceans are still there i'm going to Lake Michigan they're still they're still there why is that important look what he says he says if this fixed order departs from before me declares the lord then the offspring of israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever so we still got those who guess what israel is still a nation before the lord is what will always be a nation before the lord forever that's what he say so he has not forgotten about it now someone bring away saying did he say i divorced israel but then what about judo and then he turns around and brings him right back so no he hasn't divorced him he has not replaced him he doesn't need to replace them are with me what he's going to do is he's going to bring about his church his church will be made up of two peoples not too not it's not two different tracks of salvation it's not that the jews get saved one way and the gentiles get saved a different way no we all are saved by the cross faith in the cross now our histories are different if anyone wants to disagree with that that the jewish history and the gentile history with god is different then you're not reading your bible they are different we weren't gentiles weren't put in bondage gentiles weren't led out of egypt by a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day that wasn't that what that was just that was the jews so our histories are different but our salvation is the same and he's going to do the same thing in each person's heart whether they be jew or gentile now there is a question and i've been asked this question before so i'll go ahead and answer this question i want you all by the way you don't you don't get this kind of stuff um at other channels i want you all to see something someone says well quarry doesn't this passage refer to wrong wrong one i'll come back to 49 and eight ty remember remind me to go to jerry my i said remind me to go to verses 49 and eight remind me to go to 49 and eight and just a little i gotta go to verses 42 and six because someone asked me this question he says quarry what is this passage referring to in terms of a covenant doesn't this doesn't this prove that the the new covenant is going to be for gentiles let's see what it says by the way we're not getting ready to jump into some greek we're getting ready to jump into some hebrew head first y'all ready for some hebrew he says i am the lord i have called you into righteousness i will take you by the hand and keep you i will give you as a covenant for the people as a light for the nation and some are going to ask well quarry is that saying that he's going to give this covenant to uh the gentiles no now there's a couple ways you can read this and so for that reason i want to go to the go to my handy dandy little side uh bar here whatever you call this little thing and i want to read this to you in hebrew and i have just below it i have the i've got the english translation so if you look on the screen you see where it says um the first portion remember we we are reading from right to left the first thing is why it is the first word is from the time hebrew shifts the the valves and so forth and so which is why i the one thing i don't mind reading hebrew or greek i just hate pronouncing it i really do but anyway he says hey tenka why tenka which is and i will give you that's how you read the first one the second one is li bereeth li is two or four a covenant um is a people li or or the or is two or four a light and this next one is going which is nation or people so how we read this and i will give you either to a covenant or for a covenant a people to a light or for a light nations or people that was kind of clunky and hard to understand so let me just give you the three ways that this could possibly be read in english okay the three ways one way to be read is and i give you to a covenant people to light nations it it could be read that way in hebrew problem is if you read it that way it doesn't make sense why because if we're talking about giving the jews to a covenant people the gentiles weren't covenant people they weren't covenant people that god is so no it can't be it can't be option number one let's look at option number two and i give to you a covenant people a light to nations it can't be that again because again we're talking about a covenant people and these these gentiles are not a covenant people and they certainly are not a light to nations option three is the only one that can fit and i give you as a covenant to a people as a light to nations amen i give to you i give you you jews israel juda i give to you i give as a covenant to the people as a light to the nations speaking about them and messiah as well are you with me so this passage is not speaking of the gentiles also themselves also being part of the new covenant that's not what it's saying i feel like something is i thought my phone was vibrating i guess something else maybe we're having a really really really really tiny fast earthquake because i feel like something's vibrating right here but it's not my phone so i'm sorry just threw me off now is that disastrous for your faith it should not be it should not be disastrous for your faith because you are saved you are saved you're saved by the very same thing that israel saved by the church is made up of two people israel and the gentiles israel can be part of the church but the church can never be part of israel all the church is is the gathering the assembly the congress the people of the believers israel can be both israel and the church that's it the only ones that can do that we are just either oh i'm sorry i did say 498 let me go to 49 because it's it's a similar passage i'm thank you tyra it's a similar passage as well starting in verse 6 he says uh it it is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise of the tribe of jaco and to bring back the preserved of israel i will make you as a light for the nations he's not speaking of gentiles that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth wonderful passage this helps us to see how this new covenant that will be in israel will be a benefit to the gentiles but it's going to reverse in just a little bit but see how they will be a light this covenant that israel has will become a light to the nations look what he says he says i will make you as a light to the nations that my salvation may reach to the end which is funny because the jews just stopped thinking about the fact that god has a plan also not just for them but for the rest of the world that's what paul brings us up talks about that this this mystery is being revealed he didn't even fully get it and he is a scribe of scribe of Pharisees of Pharisees he knew the law he knew the word which was the problem again Jesus never committed these people forever knowing the word of god remember he says to nicodemus you a teacher of israel you don't know this it's it's literally right in front of you written down in the scrolls he says dust says the lord the redeemer of israel and his holy one the one deeply despised abhorred by the nation the servant of rulers king shall see and arrive princes and they shall prostrate themselves because the lord who was faithful the holy one of israel who has chosen you he's also bringing it he's also bringing in jesus it wonderful and look what he says he says dust says verse eight says the lord in a time of favor i have answered you in a day of salvation i have helped you i will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people to establish the land to apportion the desolate the desolate heritages saying to the prisoners come out to those who are in darkness appear they shall feed along the ways on all bear heights shall be their passion i won't continue but he's literally talking about how he's going to use israel this cover that he's made with them to bring about salvation to the rest of the world as well so yeah we didn't have to have a new covenant to be saved now again this is keeping in with the abrahamic covenant he made a covenant that's going to bless gentiles are with me i want to go to read something in glacial three six he says even so paul says even so abraham believed god and it was reckoned to him as righteousness therefore be sure that it is those who are of faith who are the sons of god the scriptures foreseeing that god would justify the gentiles by faith preach the gospel beforehand to abraham all the nations will be blessed in you so those who are of faith are blessed with abraham now he didn't say that they are part of the new covenant as a matter of fact he's not even speaking of the new covenant what is he speaking of what is he speaking of with regards to abraham he's speaking of the abrahamic covenant and this is the gospel the good news has preached to abraham not that abraham knew of jesus coming and so forth in his death very well he didn't know of that but he knew that all the world would be blessed not just jews we blessed through him and the descendants heck there weren't no there weren't any jews at the time but all the rest of the world would also be blessed that's the good news that was preached not knowing the whole thing but what is the ultimate good news the ultimate good news is that salvation not that salvation's come to israel the ultimate good news is not that salvation has come to the world nope the good news that salvation's come to the world permanently why has that happened because he's going to put his law his teaching put his spirit in our hearts cause us to walk in his teachings and as he says in jeremiah never to depart this is why i just don't understand why people i feel like my calling sometimes is to preach about salvation and i'm speaking specifically about eternal security i am so looking forward hopefully this this deal happens with myself and dr brown dr michael brown because i just don't see you getting over these these passages i i just don't i just don't make maybe i'm in for a rude awakening maybe i'm in for a rude awakening but i don't think so it's not like that the words on the screen on the screen or the bible going to just change all of a sudden so so guys i want that i want just to kind of put that out there that these are the covenants when we say something as a covenant it's made with a particular party and with that party there's a representative of that group in that party and all of the covenants flow harmoniously they don't violate or fight against each other the old covenant does not do it is not messed up by the new covenant he's just advocating it he's bringing about a new covenant if you want to keep the old covenant you want to keep the law fine go ahead keep the law if you want to but you are under all the the constraints of the law by the way the problem with that is there's got to be this yearly atonement if you want to keep the law there's got to be a yearly atonement problem is the yearly atonement the sacrifice of the offerings it's gone the high priest offering the the perpetuation the blood and the scapegoat it's gone what what are you going to do again the point that paul says is that it points you to it's a tutor pointing you to christ so and the good thing about these covenants god is so wonderful but now even though the covenant isn't made specifically with a particular group others end up getting blessed by it and so we'll go further in depth with all of these different covenants as we as we especially as we start into our into our bible study later someone asked where will the bible study be do you have to you don't have to sign up for the bible study you just show up the bible study will be and and we're going to do it a couple ways we're going to have the bible study where it's going to be kind of just bam bam bam and then afterwards we'll have a q and a the uploaded part will not have the q and a it'll be a separate video and then you can go to the website and look at all of the the classes as well and there'll be lessons and so forth and so you're gonna have a good time going to have a good time we're going to hold ourselves to the scriptures and the thing is this is where this is where i told you guys before in prison you got people just like us who have different opinions different views different opinions different views the problem is in prison you got a lot of men who don't always play nicely with others and sometimes can be a little bit violent sometimes they can want to do some stuff each other that happens and guys get upset about their god they get upset about their god about they get upset about their jesus now in the world people mock jesus in the world in prison you better be careful who you mock jesus or christian in front of because there's some guys who aren't as saved as you and i are and will beat you up can you imagine getting beat up in jesus name there's some guy i mean like a physical beating there are guys that would do that and so what we did though is all these different people we hit listen we had one this pentacostals we had charismatic we had cathets and children we had a lot of people all we said was listen because they were going to talk about the trend we're going to talk about this we went about that nope we're going to start in genesis one and work our way through the very first day we are knocking out preconceived notions and we're going to hold you to one rule we'll cover that and it's amazing how over time you start seeing these differences come together because we're going to hold everybody to a particular hermeneutic and we're going to find out that your home hermeneutic it is different it doesn't really fit i've got a chrysocentric hermeneutic there's no such thing there's no such thing you you made that term up chrysocentric that's you saying i see i see jesus in the scriptures okay well anybody can say that catholics say that mournman say that what does that mean i need to see how you're going to read this thing are you with me so anyway i'm looking forward to that um guys against brawling yeah i know he's against brawling but some of these guys didn't know that i had a guy in prison this is funny named fred fred bald guy too he's one of those guys that looked scary he's one of those he's one of those guys that looked scary um bald head guy he didn't have much he had a neck but you just couldn't see it broad shoulders he had fists about this big and one day i'll never get someone i can't even what it was they they they said something offensive to me and he just pounded his fists on the table and got up he said man you want to go beat him up no we can't we can't do that we can't do that for us i'm i'm sick of him saying that fred was gonna beat him up the fred was ready to go no fred no fred we're trying to grow in christ don't do that fred so yeah you had that you had that in prison a lot guys guys were growing nashawn says cori what covenant did abram oh did adam break hosea six seven let's go to it oh i see what you're saying but like adam they have transgressed the covenant there they have dealt treacherously against me there's two ways you can take this whether it be grammatical just and just regular look just plain looking there's two ways you can take this only two there's only two ways you can take it one he's saying they have transgressed just like adam did they transgressed the covenant just like adam was a transgressor because we don't have a name covenant we couldn't even call the adamic covenant because we don't have the adamic covenant or another way is that there was a covenant that god made with adam that he just didn't tell us that could be it could be that god made a covenant with adam and we don't know i mean he did say if you the day you eat of this fruit you shall surely die maybe that's what it is clearly adam was a transgressor at the time we don't know how adam's life was at the end we don't know we don't know if adam is in heaven when the bible speaks of this great hall of faith hall of fame faith people adam's names i mentioned ables is but adam's i mentioned we don't we we just don't know we just don't we don't know if we're gonna see adam in heaven or not so there's two ways you can take this either that there was a covenant that adam broke or adam was a transgressor just like everybody else who broke the covenant that's the only way that you can take that no listen i wouldn't i wouldn't fight you just like that i no severs i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't go at people like that now i when i walk you knew that listen i'm not playing i'm not playing with this you know i'm not trying to fight you but if it's a fight you want well doggone it but i would sometimes had to talk tough to just you know but you also had to make sure guys that guys knew i'll never forget i'll never forget guys my emotions were up one day this was probably my probably my second year in prison yeah yeah second year in prison and i had my my study books out and a guy came and took one of my books he wanted to check it out well if you simply would have asked for it i may have helped you i may have let you look at it but he came and took it i give back no i'm actually in the middle of studying something i need to back now i was still getting getting accustomed to being in prison away from my family i'm still thinking i got 17 18 more years left so i'm i'm i'm struggling i'm trying to cope i was frustrated lord what are you doing why am i here and this guy took my took my uh of all things uh a biblical book and he said my he said i'll get back what i'm ready to give back okay i'll put it this way i had him he was hemmed up up against that locker he eventually gave my book back i went back and apologized to him because that was no way for me to behave but at that time i was going to beat him i was going to beat him and get my book back and we were the nice little confine air no one would have saw so uh god listen the one thing god did was broke me down bible thumper hey man that's what i said yeah when god it's better to be on the other side of being broken than to not yet have been broken that's why i i have such a a heart for people who i see headed for a crash who seem like they love the lord but are just kind of just going 100 miles an hour into the wall i know what it's like and i'm grateful to be on this side uh yeah vance i listen i'll never forget i was walking the courtyard lord you got all these people here let me focus a killer somebody's focused on crazy people why am i here with him why do you have me in the worst and and this was just a prison this was the worst this was one of the worst prisons in the b.o.p boat mine is known it's called bloody boat mine more murders are at boat mine than any other prison in the b.o.p and it's not club fed anymore i want you to know it's not club fed anymore and i'm like lord what's happening why am i here with all these people and then the lord just put it upon me because this is where you're supposed to be this is where you're supposed to be this is where i got fed this is where i found peace because after all that fighting it's kind of like the law points you to something about yourself all the fighting that i might want to do i couldn't i couldn't fight them i couldn't fight my way out of this and so this was a situation where it's just me and the lord and i'm i'm calm now i'm restrained i'm breathing all right lord what you got for me and then he began to just speak to me in a way that i could that i just wouldn't allow him to speak to me before i went to prison yeah i'm not the same quarry that went in as i am coming out so i i'm i'm completely different that stuff doesn't phase anymore i don't want to go back i i'm so grateful for what it taught me i wouldn't change it for the world i don't want to go back but i would not change what has done for me for the world i am better and bless the things that i that i need god seems to bless me for or bless you know provide for me not rich not wealth and by no means whatsoever but and things will happen the hot water here go out the a c will go out this will go out the plumbing all it's just something after something you know what okay fine and some kind of way back there it is god takes care of it either with money or hills or someone will say you know what i got this for you i got this for a matter of fact i do it for free it just it just happens that way um because i've learned how to be content then putting you you all can talk about and there's that song that mary mary had take the shackles off my feet so i can praise him yeah that sounded meaning to you like it does to a person who's actually had the shackles on their feet yeah and then you praise it so it's hard to get me bent out of shape now i don't mean that i won't i won't be forceful but okay i can i can sleep at night why because he's taken me through he's taken me through and seen me out of it and so for that reason i'm content lord had i told you when is when this peace this calm came over me at the hardest part my mother had just passed away hurt me uh they threw me in the shoe hadn't done anything i literally hadn't done anything threw me in the shoe and then the federal courts denied my appeal so i had no way of getting out but at that moment just peace calm i'll say like they say it in church won't he do it because for me he did so thank you guys i want to thank you all for bearing with me uh thank you for just being with me in this time as we cover these covenants will go more in depth uh in the future so thank you for the super sticker i appreciate that and thank the rest of you as well guys be blessed and i will see you on tomorrow