What is covenant theology?
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- How do the covenants found in the Bible shape our theology? From our 2022 National Conference, Sinclair Ferguson demonstrates how covenant theology can give Christians a framework for understanding all of Scripture.
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This is so good. As a card-carrying Evangelical/Pentecostal, I have seen personally the limitations of our present dispensationalist view. Covenant Theology is a much more clear way of understanding the Scriptures.
Thank you for the helpful explanation. Can always rely on Sinclair Ferguson.
Totally agree!
Everything that happened in the Garden of Eden had to happen and that goes for everything that is happening now and future events, It's all God's plan..
It's all so Beautiful, I love you my
Heavenly Father ✝️ ❤️
Thanks for sharing
The first promise wasn't to men it was to the serpent in the garden. God said he would put enmity, hatred between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. God had to put it there because it wasn't there. It is here that God first devides humanity into those who are the children of the devil and those who are the adopted children of God. And then he told the serpent the seed (singular) of the woman would crush the head of the serpent but would get his heal crushed in the process. The first prophecy of Christ death on the cross.
No actually the first promise was - eat the fruit and you will die.
I would agree that the promise was to serpent, but in that promise, man (by faith) could hope that this evil serpent would be once for all crushed by the seed of the woman. Both are true.
That's pretty good... But still not the first.. 🙏...
"In the day you eat of it...."
I wouldn't say New Covenant I would say Fulfilled Covenant. New to me would mean that God done away with the old covenant which isn't true by the cross he fulfilled the Covenant.
As long as fulfilled doesn't mean... "It is over" 😂... 🙏
how come noone ever talks about the eternal covenant? the covenant between the father and the son which is the most important one of all. all things work out for the glory of God. God the father gave the son a gift of the elect human race. all that the father has given the son will come to him by the means of the applicator namely the Holy Spirit.
“And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. “ Genesis 15
Do covenantalists believe that God created everything in six literal days or do they believe Genesis is symbolic?
Keep the fourth commandment.... Be obedient for about a month... The Revelation should come to you by then... If it hasn't, you may need a remedial course on "calendars"(sorry I couldn't resist 😜)... Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man... (He was quoting the 4th Commandment)... So that we would remember the one who was able to build it as quickly as he desired... But took six days... To give us the time period we know as the "week"...
Encyclopedia Britannica has it thus... "The 7-Day week is from earliest antiquity... No one knows when it came into being" 👍... Anyway... Looks like I wandered off.. again 😂... I guess the point is it doesn't matter what churches or seminaries believe... It's what you & I believe that matters at our judgment... "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy... 4 in 6 days the Lord created heaven & Earth... And on the seventh day he rested (as an example... Not because he was weary) 🙏 fare well brother.. please allow me to encourage you to read the whole Bible... It's not near as complicated as they make it out to be 👍
Does the interpretation of the text affect your personal walk with God? Literal or symbolic, it doesn’t matter at the end of the day because it’s true. God’s word is true and extends past our human language which tries to diminish and make it fit in our worldview. Take the passage for what it is. If it isn’t clear, then you use Scripture to enlighten you further. If it still isn’t clear to you, then why not leave it to mystery?
You wrote a big answer but it didn’t answer the question at all.
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Silliness... My life is already filled with the ambiguity of other humans invading my space every day 😭😭
At what point should I be motivated to serve any ambiguous god...
(An act which the Word of God expressly condemns)
What does this have to do with covenantal theology? I believe in a literal interpretation.
It is the blinding dark
what, an allegorical view of the text, of Genesis, and the Church replacing Israel.....did I miss, anything...
Every TH-cam preacher I've ever found gets so far off of the text it's difficult to determine... The text of the Bible, however seems to be pretty straight forward... 🙏👍
What’s people’s understanding of the Abrahamic covenant being in affect today. ? (In its new covenant form)
Did God break his Covenant with Abraham?...
@@jimhughes1070 no.
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👍... Exactly...
But what about God’s promises to restore ethnic Israel to their land which are so numerous especially in the prophetic books of the Bible? Are all those simply nullified? What happened to God’s faithfulness in keeping His promises? For me the basic problem with covenant theology is not soteriology but hermeneutics. Israel is not the Church and the Church is not Israel. That’s all. I feel that this is the only major point of disagreement between covenant theology and dispensational theology.
The church is Israel. Read Isaiah 65, John 10, Romans 9, the covenant made to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, mentioned in Romans 11, Hebrews 8 and 10, is the covenant we've been grafted into through faith in Jesus. Ephesians 2 and Galatians 4.
I think New Covenant Theology, held by people like Douglas Moo and D. A. Carson (although Carson doesn't like the label 'New Covenant Theology'), is a lot more convincing than Covenant Theology.
That sounds interesting. What’s the difference?
That's because Moo is a Lutheran and Carson is a Baptist. Neither of them are Reformed (with a capital R) theologians.
More convincing to someone who doesn’t understand scriptures. New Covenant theology is nothing more than Dispensationalism heresy repackaged
I kind of like the Bible, myself... Since God is not a religion... A theology,... Or simply an idea....
And he invented words and languages,... Seems like he should be able to express Himself...
He probably included some warnings "against" confusing believers by using his words improperly...
The articles of the Covenant are given to every human being on the planet ... And all are free to choose...
@@jimhughes1070 Everyone, including every Christian, misinterprets the Bible at times. So discussions about what the Bible actually teaches and doesn't teach are extremely important.
In order to have these discussions, labels are sometimes needed. 'Theology' essentially means 'issues to do with God'. There is obviously nothing wrong with the concept underlying this term, so the term itself should be regarded as unobjectionable.
Personally I don't like the labels 'Covenant Theology' or 'New Covenant Theology'. But sometimes we have to use terms that already exist in order to be part of a discussion.
You seem to be implying that I have confused people by using words improperly. What exactly do you have in mind?
If you mean that I have used words that are not found in the Bible, the Bible itself never says that we should only use words that it uses. If Scripture doesn't forbid something, then we shouldn't forbid it either.
The new covenant of importance is totally dependent upon God
We all depend on God….believers and unbelievers (Acts 17:28)
@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 we are speaking of covenant
The covenant is with believers only
We see through all the covenants, that sinful man is unable to keep God's word and trust in His promises, and it points us to God to provide a means to be in a covenant relationship with Him, the fulfillment of His promise for a seed, to bring about redemption, reconciliation and regeneration, all found in Christ and fulfilled in the new covenant relationship we have God through Him, our means of salvation, saving us from our total helplessness to keep the covenant, by His keeping the covenant for us and Him now working in us by His Holy Spirit applying the word to our hearts to keep the covenant.
@@jessyjonas4988 The covenant is made with truly converted Christians, not "believers". And no, they are not the same thing. That's precisely why Jesus warned that deceivers would use His name to teach falsehoods. Believing in God is not the same thing as being called by God, chosen by God, and being faithful to God. A whole lot of ppl believe God exists, but Satan knows He exists.
@@theeternalsbeliever1779 Amen
Romans 5:18-20
Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
colossians1:20
and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
2 Corinthians 5 :19
that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation
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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Titus3:5
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
Romans1:17
For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “ The righteous will live by faith.”
Romans 4:5
But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
Romans 4:6
And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Romans 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
psalm103:10
He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
John3:15-17
everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.…
Good stuff. Some covenants are everlasting, such as God's covenant with Israel (an unconditional covenant). Some are contingent upon our behavior. Salvation is like this. Some may disagree, but salvation is a promise (a conditional covenant) that is not fulfilled until we see him face to face. This is why we are implored to endure to the end.
BUT….it’s God Himself that keeps us faithful…we cannot lose our salvation
When you say “contingent” on our behavior, if you mean “our autonomous will” to behave correctly, you couldn’t be more wrong
We all have a choice to be faithful until death, or not.@@rpavich
Well said Christian... Don't hear that very much!! 🙏🙏
Dispensationalism is the way to go!
Dispensationalism teaches that Israel is separate from the Church in God’s program. The problem with that view is:
God promised Abraham and His descendants does not include all of Isreal only the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’s descendants. Those are the descendants of the promise. That leaves out a large portion of Israel. Not all of isreal are of Israel. God also grafted in a remnant of Gentiles into the body of Christ. Both the descendants of Abraham and the grafted in Gentiles make up the church.
Isreal is like the visible church and the invisible church. Not in the church will go to heaven.
Yes, IF we recognize the dispensation we are in today: the dispensation of GENTILE grace that began after Israel was cast away in Acts 28:28-31 and all unsaved mankind became pagans in the eyes of God so he could deal with via the offer of the free gift of Ephesians 2:8&9 KJV!
Nah. Darby came up with this 150 years ago. Very new, Biblically speaking ….
@@toolegittoquit_001 By any name, the scriptures obviously have different types of administrations in them.
@@toolegittoquit_001 Papias of Hierapolis embraced premillennialism in the 2nd century.