Because of our covenant with God, He will never tire in His efforts to help us, and we will never exhaust His merciful patience with us. I have chosen the Bible as my “founding document” because I am a Christian and my entire life is based on the principle that every Word of the Bible is true and inspired by God. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. By this blood sin is canceled; by Jesus' agonies justice is satisfied; by his death the law is honoured; and by that precious blood in all its mediatorial efficacy, and in all its cleansing power, Christ fulfills all that He stipulated to do on the behalf of his people towards God. It is a daily occurrence to find news stories which loudly proclaim that Israel has no right to exist and that Palestine is the true, just and rightful country in the Holy Land.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Sir Michael Caine knows a thing or two about gangs: whether that’s joining one as a kid, or playing them in movies for over 50 years. It is a noble and glorious thought, the very poetry of that old Calvinistic doctrine which we teach, that long ere the day-star knew its place, before God had spoken existence out of nothing, before angel's wing had stirred the unnavigated ether, before a solitary song had distributed the solemnity of the silence in which God reigned supreme, he had entered into solemn council with himself, with his Son, and with his Spirit, and had in that council decreed, determined, proposed, and predestinated the salvation of his people. No, let God be God, and let man shrink into his native nothingness, and if God exalt him, let him not boast as though God found a reason for the deed in man.At the same time, God made it clear that the everlasting covenant would be established through Isaac (see Genesis 17:19). To these will I give a perfect righteousness; these will I adopt and make my sons and daughters, and these shall reign with me through Christ eternally.

Moreover, seven times in the Old Testament the new covenant is referred to as “the everlasting covenant” (Jer.I have sometimes said, if any man were about to build a bridge or a house if he would leave me just one single stone or one timber to put where I liked, I would undertake that his house would fall down.

No motive dictated the election of the individuals, except a motive in himself of love and of divine sovereignty. Covenant keepers who love God and allow Him to prevail over all other things in their lives make Him the most powerful influence in their lives. As Ian finally learns to embrace who he really is, will he also embrace the newfound lover who set him free? However, God promised that He would provide a Savior who would overcome the consequences of the Fall.My purpose here is not to dispute whether the covenant of redemption or the covenant of grace are properly referred to as covenants. Following his remarkable exegesis on the first and second periods of Jesus' genealogy, the best-selling author, in the fifth installment of The History of Redemption series, covers the third and final period, which spans the fourteen generations from the Babylonian exile to Jesus Christ. The phrase “peculiar treasure” was translated from the Hebrew segullah, meaning a highly valued possession—a “treasure. Following his remarkable exegesis on the first and second periods of Jesus' genealogy, the best-selling author Rev. Why, when one is taken up with some grand conceptions of the boundless universe, when with the astronomers we fly through space, when with we find it without end, and the starry hosts without number, does it not seem marvelous that God should give poor insignificant man the preference beyond even the whole universe besides?

But art thou a proud, boastful, free-willer, saying, "I will repent and believe whenever I choose; I have as good a right to be saved as anybody, for I do my duty as well as others, and I shall doubtless get my reward"—if you are claiming a universal atonement, which is to be received at the option of man's will, go and claim it, and you will be disappointed in your claim.The male lead ‘Jack’ (Sol) is just hilarious enough that I get over the inherent physical and information power imbalance between them. Every man and every woman who participates in priesthood ordinances and who makes and keeps covenants with God has direct access to the power of God.