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Covenant People I
- David Brown
- Apr 19, 2009
- Series: Covenant People
Passage: Joshua 1:1-6
Covenant People 1
Joshua 1:1-6
After more than 400 years of exile and slavery in Egypt, God miraculously delivered the Hebrews (or Israelites) and led them back to Canaan, the land that He had promised Abraham. It was to be their land…their inheritance…their home…and their possession!
Canaan was occupied by various tribes, one of the strongest and most warlike being the Hittites who controlled the Southern highlands! The Hittites prayed to as many as a thousand Gods and lived perversely sinful lives as did all the tribes of Canaan.
God said that He was going to give to the Hebrews all the land of the Hittites! [Wow! It really stunk to be a Hittite didn’t it?]
Why was God giving the land of the Hittites to the Hebrews?
What was the difference between the Hittites and the Hebrews?
The Hebrews had a covenant with God!
The Hittites did not.
The Hebrews were Covenant People.
God blesses Covenant People!
God blesses Covenant People above and beyond people who have no covenant with Him!
God will give Covenant People access to the possessions of people who have no covenant!
(Proverbs 13:22 “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.”)
What is a covenant?
A covenant is a binding, legal agreement or contract between two or more parties for the purpose of mutual benefit.
In Hebrew…“Covenant” = a cutting, a cut where
blood flows. A compact, league, confederacy,
made by passing between pieces of flesh.
(translated, league, confederate, covenant,
testament)
The History of Blood Covenants.
The purpose of a blood covenant.
How a blood covenant was negotiated and initiated.
The agreement of a blood covenant.
The covenant partners made three vows to one another.
-Loyalty for as long as they lived.
-Protection with all of their power.
-Provision to the exhaustion of their resources.
The significance of a blood covenant.
To break a blood covenant was punishable by death.
Covenants between people are often mentioned in Scripture.
Abraham was in covenant (confederate) with Mamre, Eshcol and Aner who no doubt helped him in the “slaughter of the Kings” when he defeated the five tribes who kidnapped Lot and his family.
The men of Gibeah made a covenant with Joshua after hearing of his defeat of Ai and Jericho and became servants of the Jews rather than being defeated by them.
Abner and David
David and Jonathan
Marriage is a covenant
Abraham’s Covenant with God
Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
Genesis 17:1-13
The New Covenant
Matthew 26:26-28
We are Covenant People!
Abraham was in blood covenant with God.
Abraham and the Hebrews often broke their covenant.
Jesus has cut a new blood covenant with God.
The covenant is between God the Father and Jesus.
Jesus has never and will never break the covenant.
We are included in the covenant by faith in Jesus!