Covenant
Love
Week of 8-29-2010
by Dr. Dennis Prutow
Covenants
are solemn binding agreements. Pieces of property are often bound
by covenants that permit or disallow certain activities. The
Bible speaks of God’s covenant. God permits and disallows
certain activity in His world.
God’s Covenant has privileges. “I will make My
dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you. I will also walk
among you and be your God, and you shall be My people” (Leviticus
26:11-12). Heaven fulfills this covenant. “I heard a
loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of
God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His
people, and God Himself will be among them’” (Revelation
21:3).
God’s Covenant has requirements. Moses said to the people
regarding God, “He declared to you His covenant which He
commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote
them on two tablets of stone” (Deuteronomy 4:13). God
extended this covenant to His New Testament people. God promised,
“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”
(Jeremiah 31:33).
You live in covenant with God when you love Him and keep His
commandments. “This is the love of God, that we keep His
commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John
5:3).
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