COVENANT: NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Covenant 

a) "Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, because he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is based on better promises" (Hebrews 8:6-8).

b) “What sort of covenant was this new and better one?” To answer that question, we need to consider the kind of covenant.

2. Negotiated Agreement

a) We sometimes hear the word "covenant" defined as an "agreement" — meaning a formal negotiated agreement. This is correct for some covenants.

b) For examaple, Abraham and Abimelech...

i) As a Bible example, a covenant by negotiated agreement was made between Abraham and Abimelech. It involved peaceful co-existence and Abraham’s right to draw water from a well which Abimelech’s servants had seized (Genesis 21:22-34).

"...So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant... So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines." (Genesis 21:27,).

c) Is the new covenant of Jesus Christ an agreement negotiated between man and God? No, it is not. 

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