"Two In Covenant - The Power of Two, Part 3" - Preached by Jonhn Hagee, Cornerstone Church - Sermon Notes by AJSktrgl

Genesis 15:17-21 (New King James Version)
17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying:
"To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates- 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."[www.biblegateway.com]

• Covenant is the most important word in scriptures.


• God made a covenant with Noah; The covenant was in the form of a rainbow, which was God's billboard stating that He will not destroy the earth by flood ever again.


• God made a covenant with Abraham and the Jewish people - the sign of the covenant was in the form of circumcision.


• God made a covenant with David


• GOD IS A COVENANT GOD - God will not do anything significant and permanent with man without a covenant.


• No other religion presents a covenant existing between God and man


• God wants to enter in a covenant with you


• In the bible covenant breakers were considered the lowest of the low.
  If you make promises and break them you are registered with the lowest of the lowest according to God.
  


• When you get married, both of you have to die to who you are. A covenant relationship is where two individual 'wills' die and one is born.


• You cannot have a casual covenant. A covenant is designed to be binding.


• We are bound together by the blood of Jesus Christ. By the same blood that makes every demon tremble. By the blood covenant, we are one with other believers in Christ. Once you receive the communion (of the cross), we are blood brothers/sisters in Christ. We are the church indivisible. The communion itself represents the new covenant (as a result of the shed blood of Christ that took place at Calvary) between God and those who have accepted Christ as their savior.


• As professing Christians, we have become heartless/ruthless towards one another. How can you say you are under the blood covenant of Jesus Christ but you won't associate with another Christian? (In other words, you allow strife to exist between yourself and other Christian brothers and sisters. This strife can come as a result of gossiping, slandering other Christians, etc.)


• Breaking covenant brings judgment.


• Keeping covenant brings God's protection.


• Keeping covenant brings the miracle working power of God.

Joshua 9:14-16 (New King James Version)
14 Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions; but they did not ask counsel of the LORD. 15 So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
16 And it happened at the end of three days, after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors who dwelt near them. [www.biblegateway.com]

• As indicated in Joshua 9, the Gibeonites were the next people to be conquered by Joshua


• Joshua hastily and stupidly entered in a quick covenant with Gibeonites.


• The Gibeonites lied to get into the covenant (Becareful who you get into covenant with!). God never breaks covenant and he told Joshua he was not to break covenant, even if he stupidly entered in one. Joshua had to go and defend the Gibeonites


• When you make covenant and you live in the covenant God will send the blessing to help you supernaturally be able to continue to live in covenant.


• America was born in covenant (Mayflower Compact).


• Mayflower Compact did not include two men or two women marrying together. The Mayflower Compact did not include teaching teenagers how to put a condom on. They did not have to worry about those problems. They chose to live in covenant with God.


• It is time for the America to renew their covenant with God. We need to become one nation under God without apology.


• In making of the covenant, the sacrifice is split in half. The Hebrew word for covenant is to cut. Gentiles today enter into covenant through baptism and cutting themselves from the rest of the world after getting saved.


• When you take communion in church you say you are bound to every believer in Christ by the blood of Jesus Christ.

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