1' A covenant is a legally binding relationship

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 1. A covenant is a legally binding relationship

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 1. A covenant is a legally binding relationship

A. A relationship of persons
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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 1. A covenant is a legally binding relationship

A. A relationship of persons B. A relationship
of blessing
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• When you enter into a covenant with God, it is so
  that you may prosper in all that you do. Deut.
  299

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 1. A covenant is a legally binding relationship

A. A relationship of persons B. A relationship
of blessing C. A relationship of blood
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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 2. A covenant is God-ordained

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 3. A covenant is hierarchical

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• Now I want you to realize that the head of every
  man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God.
• 1 Corinthians 113

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• The unbelieving husband is sanctified through
  his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified
  through her believing husband for otherwise your
  children are unclean, but now they are holy.
• 1 Cor. 714

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• in Adam all die.
• 1 Corinthians 1522

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 4. A covenant is ethical

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• The Lord God took the man and put him in the
  Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
  And the Lord God commanded the man, You are free
  to eat from any tree in the garden but you must
  not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
  and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely
  die.
• Genesis 215-17

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 5. A covenant is attached to a pledge

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The Biblical mechanism by which God runs His
alternative program is a covenant.

• 6. A covenant has repercussions

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• God said He would pass the iniquity on to the
  third and the fourth generations of those who
  hate Me.
• Exod. 205

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• Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for
  this is right. Honor your father and mother . .,
  that it may be well with you, and that you may
  live long on the earth.
• Eph. 61-3

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• Do not be deceived, God is not mocked for
  whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
  Gal. 67

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