Quotes About Covenant

Covenant community, the hand of God will write

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

If ever you would have a blessed issue of this evil day, so as to stand in judgement before the great God, rest not till thou hast got into a covenant-relation with Christ.

The ark stood in the midst of Jordan, till the whole camp of Israel was safely got over into Canaan, Joshua 3:17, and so doth the covenant, which the ark did but typify. Yea, Christ, covenant and all, stand to secure the saints a safe passage to heaven. If but one believer drowns, the covenant must drown with him; Christ and the saint are put together as co-heirs of the same inheritance

Thou art by nature a covenant-servant to sin and Satan.

It is not the nature of grace, but the salt of covenant, keeps and preserves the purity of it. In

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

This is the meaning of the covenant promise, "I will be the God of your children." The covenant promise does not mean, "I will be the God of your infant children some day, when they grow up, on the condition they believe or have a conversion experience." But the promise means: "I will be the God of your infant children, now, in their infancy, because of my own grace in Jesus Christ and, therefore, some day those who grow up will believe and be converted.

The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.

God's covenant with the church and Israel is unbreakable.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.