COVENANT WITH

SCRIPTURES

CHARACTERISTICS

JESUS IN THE NEW COVENANT

NOAH

Gen.6:6,7,8 then 17,18 (whose idea was this covenant?) then 9:9,11-16.

a rescue from judgment

a new start as a result of God's mercy and Grace

(‘Grace found Noah’) (rainbow=’war-bow’ hung up = end of conflict)

Roms. 5:9 'Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him.'  

1 John 4:16,17 ‘God is love. …so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment’

1 Pet.1:3 'In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope'

ABRAHAM

Gen.12:2,3 then 15:1-7,18. God confirms the covenant in Gen.17:2,6-8.

(‘to be your God’)

a new people 

a new homeland

new life (Isaac) out of death and hopelessness  (Abraham's great age and Sarah's barren womb)

Luke 1:17 'to make ready a people prepared for the Lord'.**

Phil.3:20 'our citizenship is in heaven.  2 Pet.3:13

Eph.2:5 'dead  .... but made us alive even when we were dead in transgressions'

MOSES

Ex.2:24,25 then 6:2-8 then to Mount Sinai 19:5

God's own people

redeemed from slavery

1 Pet.2:10 'but now you are God's people' (Titus 2:14) **  

Roms.8:2 ‘set free’  

Rom.6:6 'no longer slaves to sin' (Rom.8:2)

DAVID

2 Sam.7:1-5 then 11b-14a,16. 

Now Ps.89:3,4 then vs.28,29 and vs.35-37.

(covenant love = ‘steadfast love’ = ‘unfailing love’ Ps.6:4, 13:5; 21:7; 31:16; 32:10)

a new king

with an everlasting kingdom

we will live in security

John 18:37 'you are right in saying that I am a king'

2 Pet.1:11 'into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ'

John 10:28 'no-one can snatch them out of my hand'.

JEREMIAH

Jer.31:31-34 and 32:40

a new covenant

a new relationship

a new understanding

based on the foundation of the forgiveness of sins 'For  I will forgive ..' see also 33:8 (first mention of forgiveness of sins)

Luke 22:20 'my blood of the new covenant'

1 Thess.4:8 'God, who gives you the Holy Spirit.'

1 John 5:20 'The Son of God has given us understanding, so that we know him who is true - '

Col.2:13 'He forgave us all our sins.' (Luke 1:77, 3:3)