Msg#2533 The Noahic and Abrahamic Covenants

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

After 1,650 years of stewardship testing under the Adamic covenant, man failed horribly, and God sent a world flood saying, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth” (Gen.6). After the flood God made a covenant with Noah which amended the Adamic covenant. Now man would govern himself to rein-in the great wickedness in man’s heart (Gen.9). The flagrant arrogance of man in that dispensation brought the confusion of languages as God divided the earth into many nations. God specifically chose the family line of Shem to have a peculiar relationship with him (Gen.9:26-27); from Shem’s great-grandson, Eber, came the Hebrews, and their seventh generation was Abram. With Abram, God set up another covenant with seven distinct parts; God said, Abram, I will 1) make of thee a great nation, 2) bless thee, and 3) make thy name great, 4) thou shalt be a blessing, 5) I will bless them that bless thee, 6) curse them that curse thee, and 7) in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. This Abrahamic covenant secures the “thy-seed” line that is to bring God’s anointed, the Messiah, the Christ, and it initiates the assurance of the promised land to belong to the Hebrews “for ever” (Gen 12:7,13:15, 15:18,17:18). It assured that through Isaac would come God’s chosen nation, Israel, the nation that would one day rule all the nations of the world. The Abrahamic covenant is the first of four covenants focusing on the Hebrew people, being God’s chosen nation, a peculiar people placed in a promised land. The next three covenants, the Mosaic Covenant, the Promised-Land Covenant, and the Davidic Covenant, deal directly with this nation of Hebrews, called Israelites. After their Babylonian captivity the children of Judah, were often called the Jews.

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Published May 10, 2024

Msg #1324 Are You Just IN the Light?

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Msg #1324 Are You Just IN the Light?

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

”No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 aptly expresses the conflict of all ages. The two kinds of fruit in 7:20 and the two types of foundations of 7:26 equally come to bear on all ages but are much more applicable to this age of grace that we now operate in. In this dispensation we experience a completely different economy of righteousness. The New Covenant, that the Lord initiated, is different from anything ever seen in this world. The two masters, two fruits, and two foundations have always been in contrast and conflict, the one contrary to the other. They have been illustrated as oil and water, iron and clay, and light and darkness. But in this new economy of righteousness “Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: … Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.” (Eph5:8,10) Christians are proving what light is. It is not that you were in darkness, but now you are in the light. No, no, it says you WERE darkness, but now you ARE light. Under the Old Covenant when you stood in that light and did right, you received blessing for it. Under this New Covenant, in Christ, you ARE that light, and when you let that light shine on your neighbor, you need to expect hatred and persecution for it. Those who refuse dispensational truth, and think we are all under one grand covenant, cannot rightly divide the word of truth. They stumble on this concept. In the last of the last-days expect this to get worse before it gets better.

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