And beside that, it was MAN who didn't keep the covenant.
Not exact matches
You will have the assets, receivables, and inventory, but the bank still may
not increase your line of credit because your equity base is insufficient to
keep your leverage ratio within the bank
covenant.
Sinful man was
not capable of
keeping a
covenant with a Holy God.
LaBella, I certainly agree that the second
covenant was necessary because virtually no one could
keep all of the laws in thier own human strength, just as we can
not even today.
Regarding your second fold, God Himself is unchanging; it is out of His Grace that He
kept renewing His
Covenants with man who could
not keep and broke them until He (God) made the «Ultimate Provision» for our redemption by the «Ultimate Sacrifice» of His only begotten Son, the «Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ,» the «New Covenant,» the «Good News» — Salvation, hence, the method of redemption is what changed.
The same thing followed throughout Biblical times, man tried earning redemption by own merits and efforts / works but could
not keep God's
Covenants & Law, man's efforts were
not sufficient.
It is man who did
not conform to God's
covenants, so He God out of His Grace
kept easing off the yoke and ending with the «Ultimate Provision» for our Salvation through the Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, the New Covenant.
«It is man who did
not conform to God's
covenants, so He God out of His Grace
kept easing off the yoke and ending with the «Ultimate Provision»»
Thus says the Lord [v. 17]... the men who transgressed my
covenant and did
not keep the terms of the
covenant which they made before me, I will make like the calf which they cut in two and passed between its parts...
Nevertheless, such sin did
not keep God from promising to remember His
covenant with the people of Israel and provide atonement for them (Ezek 16:60 - 63).
For thus says the LORD, «To the eunuchs who
keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My
covenant, To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will
not be cut off.
Nevertheless, the people did
not keep their side of the
covenant.
@mila
keep your head up and I understand What you are saying.religion has never help but hurt more.I never heard a woman say too her husband I religion you.she says I love You that's a relationship
covenant not Religion
There is now set before us life and good, death and evil, in that we are commanded this day to love the Lord our God, to walk in His ways and to
keep His laws and the articles of our
covenant with Him, that we may live and be multiplied, and that the Lord our God may bless us in the land whither we go to possess it: but if our hearts shall turn away so that we will
not obey, but shall be seduced and worship... other gods, our pleasures and profits, and serve them, it is propounded unto us this day, we shall surely perish out of the good land whither we pass over this vast sea to possess it.
If we
keep the
covenant — preserve the global common good — we will flourish; if we do
not, we and the world will perish.
«The Church can
not therefore be understood as the mystical body of Christ, as the sign of man's
covenant with God in Christ, or as the universal sacrament of salvation unless we
keep in mind the «great mystery» involved in the creation of man as male and female and the vocation to conjugal love, to fatherhood and to motherhood.»
The Bible is
not about conveying divine principles for starting and managing a Christian business — but is instead about Christ on the cross triumphing over all principalities and powers and so radically transforming everything we consider to be our business... Scripture then ceases to about teaching about biblical manhood and womanhood or biblical motherhood and fatherhood — and becomes instead the story of how a
covenant - making and promise -
keeping God took on full human personhood in Jesus Christ in order to reconcile this alienated and wrecked world to the eternally gracious Father.»
4 For thus says the Lord: «To the eunuchs who
keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my
covenant, 5 I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall
not be cut off.
6 «And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who
keeps the Sabbath and does
not profane it, and holds fast my
covenant — 7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.»
I have a finite amount to invest and although my personal
covenant is good, I don't understand how I can
keep building a portfolio when my equity is exhausted.
Remember dignity and respect; understanding;
not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to
keep a
covenant — in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.»