Covenant Families: Gods Promises to Parents

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Covenant Families Gods Promises to Parents

• The heart of covenant-keeping
• is promise-believing.

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• The Fruit of Her Hands (by Nancy Wilson)
• Reforming Marriage
• Future Men
• Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
• To a Thousand Generations

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Five Biblical Propositions

• 1. God reveals His purpose in nature through the
  family and in His word through language directly
  and indirectly related to the family.
• 2. God develops His plan of salvation through
  covenants with family heads, who represent their
  households and their descendants.
• 3. God holds the head of the household
  responsible for the conduct of his family.
• 4. The spiritual exercise of headship involves
  teaching God's Word.
• 5. Spiritual leadership by a family head requires
  that he be together with his family in
  congregational worship and instruction.

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What is Covenant Theology?
A covenant is a bond in blood sovereignly
administered. O. Palmer Robertson The Christ of
the Covenants
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Old Covenant

• And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
  and between your seed and her Seed Gen 315a
• I will establish My covenant between Me and you
  and your descendants after you in their
  generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be
  God to you and your descendants after you. Gen
  177

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New Covenant

• Jeremiah 3131 " Behold, the days are coming,
  says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
  with the house of Israel and with the house of
  Judah-- 32 "not according to the covenant that
  I made with their fathers in the day that I
  took them by the hand to lead them out of the
  land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,
  though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.
  33 "But this is the covenant that I will make
  with the house of Israel after those days, says
  the Lord I will put My law in their minds, and
  write it on their hearts and I will be their
  God, and they shall be My people. 34 "No more
  shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man
  his brother, saying, Know the Lord,' for they
  all shall know Me, from the least of them to the
  greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will
  forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will
  remember no more."

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New Covenant

• Hebrews 915 And for this reason He Jesus is
  the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of
  death, for the redemption of the transgressions
  under the first covenant, that those who are
  called may receive the promise of the eternal
  inheritance.

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• Unity and Continuity...
• One True Church
• OT/NT Ordinances
• Circumcision/Baptism Passover/Communion
• - administered once - administered repeatedly
• - believers and children - believers only
• - inception of union - maintenance of union
• - recipient passive - recipient active
• Covenant Promises

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Promises

• 1. God covenants with families.
• 2. Children are members of the Kingdom.

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God Covenants with Families I

• The LORD has been witness between you and the
  wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt
  treacherously yet she is your companion and your
  wife by covenant. But did He not make them one,
  having a remnant of the Spirit? Andy why one?
  He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to
  your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with
  the wife of his youth. Malachi 214-15

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God Covenants with Families II

• Psalm 10228 The children of Your servants will
  continue, And their descendants will be
  established before You."
• Deut 79 "Therefore know that the Lord your God,
  He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant
  and mercy for a thousand generations with those
  who love Him and keep His commandments
• Gen 177 "And I will establish My covenant
  between Me and you and your descendants after you
  in their generations, for an everlasting
  covenant, to be God to you and your descendants
  after you. 8 "Also I give to you and your
  descendants after you the land in which you are a
  stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an
  everlasting possession and I will be their God."
  9 And God said to Abraham "As for you, you
  shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants
  after you throughout their generations.

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God Covenants with Families III

• Jer 3238 They shall be My people, and I will
  be their God 39 then I will give them one
  heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever,
  for the good of them and their children after
  them. 40 And I will make an everlasting
  covenant with them, that I will not turn away
  from doing them good but I will put My fear in
  their hearts so that they will not depart from
  Me.
• Is 6523 They shall not labor in vain, Nor
  bring forth children for trouble For they
  shall be the descendants of the blessed of
  the Lord, And their offspring with them.
• Is 5921 "As for Me," says the Lord, "this is
  My covenant with them My Spirit who is upon
  you, and My words which I have put in your mouth,
  shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the
  mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of
  your descendants' descendants," says the Lord,
  "from this time and forevermore."

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God Covenants with Families IV

• Psalm 10317 But the mercy of the Lord is from
  everlasting to everlasting On those who fear
  Him, And His righteousness to children's
  children, 18 To such as keep His covenant, And
  to those who remember His commandments to do
  them.
• Luke 148 For He has regarded the lowly state of
  His maidservant For behold, henceforth all
  generations will call me blessed. 49 For He who
  is mighty has done great things for me, And holy
  is His name. 50 And His mercy is on those
  who fear Him From generation to generation.
• Eph 61 Children, obey your parents in the Lord,
  for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and
  mother," which is the first commandment with
  promise 3 "that it may be well with you and
  you may live long on the earth."
• Acts 237 Now when they heard this, they were
  cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest
  of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall
  we do?" 38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent,
  and let every one of you be baptized in the name
  of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and
  you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  39 "For the promise is to you and to your
  children, and to all who are afar off, as many as
  the Lord our God will call."

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God Covenants with Families V

• 1Cor 116a Yes, I also baptized the household of
  Stephanas.
• Acts 1614b The Lord opened Lydias heart to
  heed the things spoken by Paul. 15 And when she
  and her household were baptized
• Acts 1630 "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
  31 So they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus
  Christ, and you will be saved, you and your
  household." 32 Then they spoke the word of the
  Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33
  And he took them the same hour of the night and
  washed their stripes. And immediately he and
  all his family were baptized. 34 Now when he
  had brought them into his house, he set food
  before them and he rejoiced, having believed in
  God with all his household.

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God Covenants with Families VI

• Luke 117 "He will also go before Him in the
  spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts
  of the fathers to the children,' and the
  disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make
  ready a people prepared for the Lord."
• Heb 86 But now He has obtained a more excellent
  ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a
  better covenant, which was established on better
  promises.

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Children are members of the Kingdom.

• Mat 1914 But Jesus said, "Let the little
  children come to Me, and do not forbid them for
  of such is the kingdom of heaven."
• Luke 1815 Then they also brought infants to Him
  that He might touch them but when the disciples
  saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus
  called them to Him and said, "Let the little
  children come to Me, and do not forbid them for
  of such is the kingdom of God. 17 "Assuredly, I
  say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom
  of God as a little child will by no means enter
  it."
• 1Cor 714 For the unbelieving husband is
  sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife
  is sanctified by the husband otherwise your
  children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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Covenant Families Gods Promises to Parents

• The heart of covenant-keeping is
  promise-believing.
• Psalm 10317 But the mercy of the Lord is from
  everlasting to everlasting On those who fear
  Him, And His righteousness to children's
  children, 18 To such as 1 keep His covenant,
  And to those who 2 remember His commandments to
  3 do them
• Psalm 1005 For the Lord is good His mercy
  is everlasting, And His truth endures to all
  generations.