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0:00now we continue this evening you
0:02remember with our consideration of the
0:04biblical doctrine of redemption or the
0:07biblical doctrine of
0:11salvation we reminded one another last
0:13week that uh men having failed to keep
0:18God's La commandment had fallen and had
0:21become the slave of Satan and dead in
0:24trespasses and in sins and that had he
0:27been left to himself his condition would
0:29have been entirely hopeless but God in
0:32his infinite grace and love and
0:35mercy had looked upon men in
0:37pity and had informed him of this great
0:41plan and purpose of Salvation and of
0:44redemption and last Friday evening we
0:47considered the characters and
0:49characteristics of this great Plan of
0:51Redemption in
0:53general I ended by saying that God had
0:57revealed this plan of Redemption and of
1:00Salvation to
1:02men in the form of a a covenant that he
1:06had made with
1:07men and this is commonly called The
1:11Covenant of redemption or the Covenant
1:15of
1:16Salvation and that is to be our special
1:19theme this evening the way in which God
1:23has made known to men and has revealed
1:25to men this gracious purpose of his to
1:29save
1:31men from his guilt and from his
1:35pollution which have resulted from Men's
1:38listening to the suggestion of Satan and
1:41thereby leading to the
1:44fall now the great word we've got to
1:47consider tonight is this word
1:50covenant you noticed that God used it in
1:52his speaking to Abram as we found it
1:56there in the 17th chapter of the Book of
1:58Genesis what is a
2:01covenant well a covenant can be defined
2:04as
2:05a an agreement or a
2:08PCT which is entered into by two
2:13parties uh the two parties being more or
2:18less on an equal footing that is the
2:21normal customary definition of a
2:24covenant you can make a covenant today
2:27people do make covenants they make
2:29Covenants
2:30with respect to giving gifts towards
2:32good
2:33causes there's such a thing as the
2:35Covenant of the League of Nations the
2:37Covenant of the United
2:39Nations it means an agreement or a PCT
2:43entered into by two parties which
2:46normally and generally are more or less
2:48on an equal footing and of an equal
2:52standing a covenant is generally
2:54confirmed by some kind of solemn
2:58ceremony
3:00as in the presence of God you either
3:03take a earth or there is a religious
3:06service or something to that effect it
3:09is confirmed in some shape or form in
3:12this most solemn way in the presence of
3:16God and in the Covenant each party of
3:18course binds himself to the Fulfillment
3:22of certain
3:24promises on the basis of certain
3:28conditions that's a good Rough and Ready
3:31definition of a
3:34covenant but obviously when you come to
3:37speak of a covenant between God and
3:40man you uh have to realize that there
3:43are certain
3:44modifications of that customary idea of
3:47the word covenant now in the Bible you
3:49will find covenants made between men
3:51David and Jonathan you remember made a
3:53covenant and they were doing it on this
3:56basis of equality but when you come to
3:58God and Men C
4:01there is of necessity a
4:04difference and this difference appears
4:08especially in the authorized version of
4:11the Bible in this
4:13way that the word is sometimes
4:15translated as Testament and not as
4:19Covenant so you find out talking about
4:21the Old Testament and the New
4:24Testament and in other places you will
4:26find the word testament you will find it
4:29here for instance in The Second Epistle
4:30to the Corinthians and in the third
4:33chapter now it is generally agreed that
4:36this word which stands for this
4:40idea should always be translated as
4:44Covenant except in one instance and the
4:47one exception is Hebrews
4:509
4:51uh: 16 and
4:5417 where clearly it must be translated
4:57as Testament
4:59for it refers to a person dying and as
5:02it were making a will it's last it is
5:04his last will and
5:06testament but apart from that one
5:09instance uh in Hebrews 9:16 and
5:1317 you will find that the other
5:16translations the this uh much advertised
5:19revised Standard Version does translated
5:23always as
5:24Covenant rather than as Testament except
5:27in this one
5:28instance but in the authorized version
5:31you will find Testament sometimes
5:33Covenant at other times now I'm
5:36referring to that for this
5:38reason the translators of the authorized
5:40version had a very definite object in
5:42view when they used this word
5:45testament they did so of course to
5:48emphasize the priority of God when God
5:52makes a covenant with men it isn't to
5:54equal Partners meeting it is God giving
5:58as it were his Covenant to men so they
6:01thought well now that's more like a
6:02testament than a covenant so they chose
6:05to use the word testament strictly
6:08speaking they were wrong in doing so but
6:10they certainly did emphasize this idea
6:13of the priority of God as over against
6:17men as an
6:18equal they did it also of course because
6:22they could see very clearly that in that
6:24case in Hebrews 9 it is a
6:26testament and as it can be argued that
6:29ultimately
6:30all the blessings that do come to us
6:32under God's Covenant of Grace with men
6:35come as the result of the death of the
6:37Lord Jesus Christ there is a sense in
6:41which we do inherit everything as the
6:43result of his last Testament so there
6:46was that much A din it to be said for
6:49them and then no doubt they were partly
6:51influenced by the fact that the Latin
6:53word for all this is
6:55testimonial and they were dependent
6:57partly upon the Latin translation
7:00of the scriptures
7:02however the thing then that we must keep
7:05in mind is
7:06that the priority of God is to be
7:09emphasized it is a gift from God which
7:12has been ushered in by the death of
7:14Christ and because it comes from God it
7:17is something which is certain and
7:20inviolable and
7:23unbreakable and yet we must hold on to
7:26this idea of a
7:28covenant because God in his wonderful
7:31love and grace and
7:33condescension has chosen to reveal his
7:36purposes in this particular way he calls
7:40men to him and he chooses to make an
7:42agreement with men God needn't have done
7:45that but he has done so in spite of
7:48man's rebellion and his sin and his
7:50arrogance God as it where us called him
7:53in and have said I want to make an
7:54agreement with you there is nothing
7:57therefore in a way that ch displays the
8:00wonderful love and grace and kindness
8:04and condescension of God so much as this
8:07teaching in the Bible with regard to his
8:09making covenants with men now we've
8:14already
8:15seen that God originally made a covenant
8:18with
8:19Adam you remember that he put him in the
8:22garden and he told him that if he did
8:23certain things he would have a certain
8:26reward now that is called the Covenant
8:29of
8:30works because
8:32Adam's inheritance of This Promise God
8:35made to him was entirely dependent upon
8:37his Works upon what he
8:40did but you remember we've seen that
8:43Adam broke the Covenant he fell and
8:47landed himself and his posterity in the
8:50terrible plight that we have been
8:52describing now from there
8:56on God has made a new covenant and it is
9:00this Covenant of
9:02Grace clearly God could not make another
9:05Covenant of works with men if men in an
9:08ideal position and while perfect
9:11couldn't keep the Covenant of
9:13Works what is the object of making
9:15another Covenant of works with men it's
9:18clearly Impossible by
9:20definition and the Bible tells us that
9:23God has not made another Covenant of
9:24works but he has made what is called
9:27this Covenant
9:30of
9:31Grace and yet in the Covenant of Grace
9:35God has introduced certain
9:38conditions he has made his
9:41promises he has told us what he is
9:43making possible for us but he does make
9:47a demand upon us he tells us that we are
9:50only going to receive and enjoy these
9:52promises un certain
9:55condition and that is the condition of
9:57faith and men has to accept these
10:00conditions voluntarily before he will
10:02enjoy the
10:04blessings but
10:07furthermore God has also told us in the
10:10Covenant of Grace that he himself is
10:14going to do something which makes it
10:16possible for us to derive these benefits
10:20and that is why it is called the
10:21Covenant of
10:24Grace now then let me divide that up a
10:27little
10:29God is say has made certain promises
10:32what is the Great Central promise that
10:34God has made to men in the Covenant of
10:37Grace well you know it really can be put
10:39in this way he has promised to be a god
10:43unto
10:44men that's the great promise I will be a
10:48god unto
10:49thee now you see the importance and the
10:52significance of
10:54this God had been the god of Adam but
10:59here Adam sins against him and
11:02Falls becomes the slave of Satan breaks
11:06the connection with
11:07God and the remarkable and astounding
11:10thing is that God turns to men and
11:12assures him in the Covenant of Grace
11:15that he is going to find a way that he
11:17has a way whereby he can still be a God
11:22to men I will be to thee a God and they
11:25shall be to me a people now make a note
11:28of that because as you go through your
11:31scriptures you will find that that is
11:33the great promise that is repeated time
11:36and time and time again you'll find it
11:38in Jeremiah 31 you'll find it again in
11:42Jeremiah 32 you'll find it in Ezekiel 34
11:45and 36 you'll find it in 2 Corinthians 6
11:50you'll find it in Hebrews 8 and in verse
11:5310 and in the most marvelous way in
11:56Revelations 21 and the 3rd verse you
11:59read read
12:00this the Tabernacle of God is with men
12:05and he will dwell with them that's in
12:09the final
12:11state so you see that that is the very
12:14essence of God's promise to men in the
12:17Covenant of
12:18Grace that what had become broken by sin
12:21and the
12:22fall is going to be
12:24restored and the Supreme blessing
12:27therefore the ultimate blessing the
12:31blessing of blessings is that God is my
12:35God and that I have a right to say my
12:39God now the whole of Salvation is
12:42included in
12:43that I mustn't turn aside to emphasize
12:46that tonight but how often do we forget
12:49that how often do we tend to Define
12:52salvation in other terms rather than
12:54that but the greatest thing a human
12:57being can ever say since the fall
13:01is this God is my God my God and that
13:07you know for certain that God is saying
13:09to you I am thy God I will be to thee a
13:15God there is nothing greater than that
13:18it is the greatest blessing of all that
13:20is what God has promised but it also
13:23includes certain other things God has
13:26promised certain temporal blessings as
13:28well well as spiritual
13:30blessings he promised those especially
13:33under the old dispensation and let us
13:35never forget that the temporal blessings
13:38are meant to be pictures of and to
13:40symbolize the spiritual blessings he has
13:43also promised obviously a way of
13:46justification God cannot be my God and I
13:49cannot say my God unless I'm Justified
13:51unless my sin is
13:53Forgiven unless my sin is removed unless
13:57I am adopted and made a child of God
13:59it's all implicit in the promise that
14:02God is to be my
14:04God indeed it includes the promise of
14:06life
14:07eternal it obviously includes the giving
14:10of the spirit and the full application
14:13and working out of redemption in me in
14:16the matter of sanctification and my
14:18ultimate
14:21glorification so that the promises you
14:23see in the Covenant of Grace rarely
14:27include everything
14:30and man is called upon to respond to
14:32this by
14:34Faith by the desire for all this and by
14:38his faithfulness and obedience to God in
14:41these new
14:42conditions shall I try to give you an
14:46Omnibus definition of what we mean then
14:48by the Covenant of Grace we can put it
14:51like
14:52this the Covenant of
14:54Grace is that
14:57Arrangement between the Triune
15:01God and his
15:03people whereby God carries out his
15:07eternal purpose and decree of
15:10redemption by promising his
15:14friendship
15:16hence he promises full and free
15:20salvation to his
15:22people upon the basis of the vicarious
15:26atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ
15:29Christ who is the mediator of the
15:32Covenant and his people accept this
15:36salvation by faith that's it it includes
15:40all that it is the promise of God's
15:43friendship is being our God that we can
15:46enter into intimate relationships with
15:48him and know him and it is all made
15:51possible by Jesus Christ who is the
15:54mediator of this
15:56Covenant and we enter into it by faith
16:00now that's the Covenant of Grace the
16:02Covenant if you like of
16:05redemption as worked out for
16:09men now the thing I want to spend my
16:12time on tonight is
16:14this this great
16:17Covenant which God has made with men
16:20this Covenant of
16:22Grace can be divided up into two
16:27dispensations or if you prefer it two
16:31administrations this one great Covenant
16:34of
16:35Grace is administered and has been
16:38administered in two main different ways
16:42the way that is described in the Old
16:44Testament the way that is described in
16:46the New
16:47Testament you notice what I'm saying I
16:51am saying that there is only one
16:52Covenant of Grace I hope before I finish
16:55tonight to prove that to you I'm simply
16:57saying it at the moment
16:59there is only one Covenant of Grace but
17:02it has been
17:03administered in two main ways two main
17:08dispensations of the one Covenant the
17:11old and the new now let us glance at
17:16these what are the ways in which the
17:18Covenant of Grace has been
17:21dispensed under the old
17:24dispensation well you've go first of all
17:27to Genesis
17:303150 I mentioned it last Friday evening
17:33if you're interested in the technical
17:35term it is generally called the pro
17:38Evangel p r o t Evangel one word the pro
17:45Evangel in other words there is a kind
17:48of uh foreshadowing of the whole gospel
17:52in Genesis
17:543:15 now this really is to me one of the
17:58most fascinating and thrilling things a
18:01men can ever encounter here's this great
18:03book which we divide up and we call it
18:06the Old Testament and the New Testament
18:09well we all know what we mean by that
18:11but you know if we were to be strictly
18:13accurate we would not describe it in
18:15that
18:18way the real division of the Bible is
18:23this everything you get from Genesis
18:271:1 to Genesis
18:29314 that's one division of the
18:32Bible from Genesis 3:15 to the very
18:38end is the remainder that's the true
18:42division what you've got up until
18:44Genesis
18:463:14 is the account of the creation and
18:49of God's original Covenant of works with
18:51men and of how that failed because men
18:53broke
18:54it beginning with Genesis
18:573:15 you get the announcement of the
19:00Gospel the Covenant of Grace the way of
19:02Salvation and it's the whole theme of
19:04The Bible until you come to the last
19:06verse of the Book of
19:08Revelations that in a
19:10sense is the real
19:13division of the Bible but of course we
19:17to talk about Old Testament and New
19:20Testament because we want to
19:23emphasize the two main different ways in
19:26which this one great Covenant of Grace
19:28has been administered but here it is
19:30beginning in Genesis 3:15 and I will put
19:33enmity between thee and the woman and
19:36between uh her thy seed and her seed it
19:41shall bruise thy head and thy it shall
19:45bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise
19:49his heat now the whole of the Gospel is
19:53there it's there in this almost cryptic
19:56form in this very immature form but the
20:00whole of the Gospel is there let me work
20:02it out with you what does that tell
20:05us well God tells us first of all that
20:08he's going to put enity between The
20:09Serpent and the woman and her
20:12se you see hither to there had been no
20:15enmity between them but the serpent had
20:18beguiled Eve and they were very friendly
20:21together and the woman was now under the
20:24Dominion of the devil and had God done
20:27nothing that would have been the
20:28remainder of the store but God comes in
20:30and he says no I'm going to break that
20:34friendship you were meant for friendship
20:36with me not with the devil so I'm going
20:39to put enmity between you and the devil
20:42and between the devil and you that's the
20:44first announcement of
20:46Salvation because man can't be saved
20:49while he's a Friend of the Devil and an
20:50enemy of God he must be a friend of God
20:53therefore he must become an enemy of the
20:54devil God says he's going to do
20:57that the the second thing therefore that
20:59is implied is this that God is going to
21:02give men power and Grace to fight the
21:05Devil he's already been defeated by him
21:08and he is his slave he must have help
21:10and strength God promises it indeed God
21:13obviously promises to be on man's side
21:16in this fight and in this quarrel
21:18against the
21:20enemy he applies the promise also to the
21:23sea to thee and to thy sea that is most
21:27important it wasn't a temporary promise
21:30given there in Eden it is to continue
21:33until it has achieved its ultimate
21:35purpose you notice also that he says
21:38that the quarrel is to go on not only
21:41between the woman and her seed and the
21:43devil but also between the seed of the
21:46woman and the seed of the
21:49serpent in other words mankind is here
21:52divided into two
21:54sections those who do not belong to
21:56Christ belong to the devil they are the
21:59children of the devil they are the seed
22:00of the devil so Humanity can be divided
22:04into the seed of Garden of Christ and
22:07the seed of the devil and there is a
22:10fight and a quarrel between them all
22:12announced in Genesis
22:143:15 then you notice that we are given
22:16the promise there of the certainty of
22:19the Triumph of God and his way the
22:22serpent is going to be bruised his head
22:25is going to be bruised he's going to be
22:27destroyed can't you see there a
22:29prefiguring of Calvary it was there he
22:32was put to an open shame it was there he
22:34was defeated all promised in the Pro
22:37Evangel and ultimately there is this
22:41idea which we can see so clearly in the
22:43light of subsequent scripture that the
22:45real seed of the woman is none other
22:48finally than the Lord Jesus Christ
22:51himself now there is the first
22:54announcement of this
22:55Covenant he doesn't call it a covenant
22:58at that point but it is a foreshadowing
23:00of the Covenant that later was made more
23:04explicit but let us come secondly to the
23:07covenant made with no you'll find that
23:10described in the ninth chapter of the
23:12Book of
23:13Genesis After the
23:15flood what do we find here well God
23:18promises here that he will never destroy
23:20the Earth again and All Flesh by means
23:23of
23:24water he promises there will never be a
23:26return of such a flood which will
23:28destroy the earth and its
23:31peoples he furthermore guarantees and
23:33promises that there shall always be a
23:36succession of seed time and harvest cold
23:39and heat summer and winter day and
23:43night God promised that that should
23:46continue come what
23:48may he also there promised that the
23:50forces of nature should be brighted and
23:54controlled in other words the effects
23:56and results of sin and the fall are are
23:58given a certain check they're held in in
24:01the promise in the covenant made with
24:04Noah in the same way the powers of evil
24:07are put under a greater
24:10restraint man uh is not allowed to be as
24:14violent as he had been and as he'd like
24:17to be against other men man is protected
24:20against the violence both of men himself
24:22and of
24:23beasts you read it for yourselves in
24:26Genesis 9 and it was all confirmed and
24:29sealed by the sign of the rainbow in the
24:35cloud now the thing I want to emphasize
24:37here is this the covenant made with
24:42Noah is not a New Covenant of
24:46Grace the Covenant of Grace is there
24:49adumbrated in Genesis 3:15 this doesn't
24:52interfere with it at all it simply
24:54introduces certain subsidiary promises
24:57and legisl
24:59it isn't a New Covenant in the ultimate
25:01sense of Grace and of
25:03redemption it is simply a temporary
25:06legislation what is sometimes called
25:09even common Grace as distinct from the
25:12special Grace which ures our spiritual
25:16salvation but let me hurry on to the
25:18third which is the Covenant as made with
25:21Abraham now that's what you find in
25:23Genesis 17 and which we read at the
25:26beginning now it is here that God first
25:32explicitly and clearly states his
25:36purposes of redemption in the exact form
25:39of a
25:40covenant he made that Covenant with
25:43Abram what do we find
25:45here well we find that here for the
25:48first time in any definite
25:51manner you get the beginning of a kind
25:53of
25:54church there is a separation as between
25:58the church the people who belong to God
26:00and those who belong to the
26:03world there had been a kind of family
26:06worship before and in men's house houses
26:08and so on but there's something new
26:11introduced in the Covenant with Abram he
26:14chooses a particular man a particular
26:16family and he makes a promise to Abram
26:19and his descendants in particular and to
26:22nobody
26:23else there is this separation there is
26:26the formation of a unique body
26:28as special people of God most
26:32important you noticed also the emphasis
26:35that was placed upon Abraham's faith
26:38upon his
26:39response it is by his faith he enters
26:42into the Covenant and begins to receive
26:44the benefits and the
26:46blessings and you notice the spiritual
26:49character of the blessings that were
26:51promised him over and above the promise
26:54concerning the land
26:56Etc there is this great promise of a
26:59spiritual seed that all the nations of
27:01the world are finally going to be
27:03blessed in him now if you want to work
27:06that out you just read Romans chapters 3
27:104 and 5 the epistle to the Romans
27:13chapters 3 4 and 5 and the third chapter
27:16of the epistle to the Galatians which
27:18I'm going to quote in a moment you see
27:20that there God was really giving Abram
27:24justification we are told in the epistle
27:26to the Romans that Abram was justified
27:29by his faith justified in a spiritual
27:32sense and became the father of all the
27:34faithful and the father of all believers
27:38he was justified from sin he was
27:39forgiven he was adopted into God's
27:42family and thus he becomes the father of
27:44all who believe all was there promised
27:47to him by
27:49Covenant and then I say that in addition
27:51there were those temporal blessings
27:56also now we can never place too much
28:01emphasis upon the covenant made with
28:03Abram you keep your eye on the
28:05references back to that in the
28:07subsequent parts of the Bible you'll
28:10find that it's absolutely crucial it is
28:13the great explicit original promise
28:16which God made hinted at Adam brated in
28:19Genesis 3 and 15 but here stated
28:23explicitly in Covenant form then I must
28:27hurry on of course
28:28to the Covenant which was made of sin
28:31the sintic
28:32Covenant the Covenant that was made
28:34through
28:35Moses which you will find in Exodus
28:38chapters 19 and
28:41following now this is most
28:44important what do we find
28:47here well here the emphasis is placed
28:51especially upon the fact that this
28:53Covenant is a national
28:56Covenant from here on the church and the
28:59nation become
29:01one and to belong to the nation of
29:03Israel means to belong to the church and
29:06you couldn't be put out of the church
29:07without be putting out of the nation a
29:09man who transgressed the law was put to
29:12death he wasn't merely punished in a
29:14spiritual sense he was literally put out
29:17of put to death put out of existence put
29:19out of the nation as
29:22well then of course great prominence is
29:25given here to the giving of the law
29:29but I do want to make this very plain
29:30and clear that the giving of the Lord
29:33does not mean in any sense whatsoever
29:36that God is establishing a covenant of
29:39works with men
29:40again I've already pointed out to you
29:43that that becomes a sure
29:45impossibility what is the point I ask
29:47again of making a covenant of works of
29:50telling a man that he can save himself
29:52if he does certain things when men had
29:54failed to do that in Paradise no the
29:57giving of the Lord La does not mean a
29:59return to a covenant of works the
30:01children of Israel made the terrible
30:03mistake of thinking it did but that was
30:05their error it doesn't mean that it was
30:08simply given in order that the life of
30:10the nation should be regulated in
30:14certain respects and also for certain
30:16other reasons which I'm about to
30:19mention we had introduced here also the
30:23ceremonial and all the typical
30:26sacrifices and is in connection with the
30:30temple the burnt offerings and the
30:32various other offerings the appointment
30:35of a separated
30:37priesthood certain people set apart as
30:41priests and we have also the uh
30:44promulgation of the fact that the gospel
30:47the great Covenant of Grace is to be
30:49preached now in symbols and in
30:53types and these are meant to show us the
30:56demands of God upon us
30:58and also at the same time to remind us
31:01of God's Great promise of forgiveness
31:04and of
31:07Salvation and the law is a rule of life
31:11you can divide in a three-fold manner
31:12the moral
31:14law the civil law and the ceremonial
31:18law the certain great fixed principles
31:22of
31:22morality the special legislation for the
31:25life of the nation and the laws
31:28governing the ceremonies and the
31:31ritual now here's the thing I want to
31:35emphasize the making of This subsidiary
31:38Covenant with Moses on behalf of the
31:41children of Israel at
31:43sin in no way
31:46whatsoever interferes with the Covenant
31:49of Grace that had already been given to
31:53Abram and that had previously been
31:55hinted at in the Garden of Eden now let
31:57me prove that because there are some
32:00people who regard this as an entirely
32:02New Covenant but it isn't and I prove it
32:05in this way listen to Romans
32:10413 for the promise that he should be
32:14the heir of the world was not made to
32:18Abram or to his seed through the
32:22law but through the righteousness of
32:25Faith most important Romans
32:284:13 it wasn't made through the law but
32:31through faith listen to Galatians
32:343:17 Galatians
32:373:17 and this I say that the Covenant
32:41that was confirmed before of God in
32:45Christ the law which was 430 years after
32:50cannot dis anel that it should make the
32:53promise of none
32:55effect in other words Paul's great great
32:58argument in Romans and Galatians is this
33:01that the covenant made the subsidiary
33:03covenant made with Moses at Mount sin
33:06doesn't interfere in any way or to the
33:09slightest extent with the great Covenant
33:12of promise and of Grace that God had
33:15made with Abraham that's the fundamental
33:18thing this doesn't change it in any way
33:20at all but ask say someone what about
33:22Galatians
33:244:21 where we read this tell me ye that
33:27desire to be under the law do we not
33:29hear the law for it is written that
33:31Abram had two sons the one by a bond
33:34made the other by a free woman and where
33:36he goes on to say that this is an
33:38allegory for these are two covenants Etc
33:41doesn't there teach there someone that
33:43there is a subsidiary Covenant to which
33:46the answer is
33:47this it cannot mean that because if it
33:50did it would mean that Paul in chapter 4
33:53was contradicting his own great argument
33:55in chapter 3 and what he' said in the
33:57epistle to the Romans in chapter 4 but
34:00quite apart from that the context surely
34:03makes it quite clear his only purpose in
34:06Galatians 4 is to differentiate between
34:09the natural Israel and the spiritual
34:12Israel it's his way of denouncing this
34:16wrong understanding of the Jew who
34:18argued that to belong to Israel in the
34:20flesh meant that of necessity you belong
34:22to the true seed of Abram no it
34:25doesn't there is a kind of Earth the
34:28agreement there is a Heavenly agreement
34:30and it is the Heavenly part of the
34:32agreement that said after all the
34:34promise God made to Abram in a sense
34:36included ishma didn't it Esau was in a
34:39sense included all these people were
34:41circumcised yes but they're not the
34:43children of Faith they're not the true
34:45Children Of Promise they belong to the
34:48realm of the flesh God explains that to
34:51Abram you remember even in Genesis
34:5517 very well then I say the made through
34:58Moses when the law was
35:00given does not in any way interfere with
35:03the Covenant of Grace it simply was
35:05meant to do two things here here they
35:08are the first
35:09is it was meant to increase the
35:13consciousness of
35:16sin it wasn't meant primarily to do that
35:19moreover says Paul the promise entered
35:23that the
35:24offense might abound that's what he says
35:28in Romans 5 and 20 he's argued the same
35:30in Romans
35:324:15 listen to him in Galatians 3:17
35:36which reads like this and this I say
35:40that the Covenant that was confirmed
35:41before of God in Christ the law which
35:44was 430 years after cannot disel that it
35:47should make the promise of none
35:50effect and then he puts it like this
35:53wherefore or this this is subsequent now
35:55that's the first great argument that the
35:57law is
35:59given in order to show the exceeding
36:02sinfulness of
36:03sin in order to convict the nation and
36:07all others of the utter hopelessness of
36:10a men dealing with his own
36:13sinfulness so the second purpose of the
36:16law we can put as Galatians 3:24 puts it
36:19which is this wherefor the law was our
36:23school Master to bring us an Christ that
36:28we might be justified by
36:31faith you see the original Covenant is
36:34the Covenant which teaches justification
36:36by
36:37faith that is the Covenant God made with
36:40Abraham and he seated that's the
36:42fundamental thing what's the point of
36:44the law well the point of the law is to
36:47bring us to that to act as a kind of
36:50teacher to act as a pedagog to act as a
36:53coach a teacher something that shows us
36:57our absolute need of Christ the utter
36:59necessity of Christ it was never meant
37:02to save people the law was never given
37:05in order that people might be saved you
37:08noticed that I'm emphasizing this and
37:10speaking with considerable feeling about
37:12it and I do so for this reason that you
37:14will find certain Bibles and certain
37:16books on the Bible which um would teach
37:20you that God told the children of Israel
37:22that they could save themselves if they
37:24kept the law that he gave them the law
37:26in order to give them another way of
37:27saving themselves which is an utter
37:31contradiction of the teaching of
37:33scripture the law is not meant to
37:36interfere in any
37:37way with the fundamental Covenant of
37:41Grace the promise given to AB the law
37:44was added 430 years afterwards in
37:48reality in order to make the people
37:50realize their
37:52sinfulness the utter impossibility of
37:54their saving themselves and the absolute
37:58need of God providing a way of Salvation
38:02himself which he did ultimately in and
38:05through the Lord Jesus Christ very well
38:08now there we've been dealing
38:11with the ways in which the great
38:14Covenant of
38:16Grace was
38:18administered and revealed and shown to
38:21the
38:22people under the old
38:26dispensation that is an account of the
38:29old
38:31dispensation of the Covenant of
38:34Grace and that leads on of course to the
38:38new
38:40dispensation which is the way that God
38:43has revealed and perfected and reified
38:48and fulfilled the promise and all that
38:50is contained in the Covenant of Grace in
38:54and through his son our Lord and Savior
38:58Jesus Christ my time has
39:01gone I'd thought of going on also to
39:04tell you
39:05tonight something of the New Covenant of
39:08the new Administration the new
39:10dispensation of the
39:12Covenant and also to show you how there
39:14is indeed only one Covenant and to show
39:17you the differences between the two
39:19administrations but I can't do that it
39:21would be very wrong I think you'll all
39:23agree to rush it in a last few final
39:26moments shall we then hold that over
39:31until God willing we meet together next
39:34Friday evening when I hope to commence
39:38our consideration of this great matter
39:40by dealing with that let me try to
39:42summarize for you therefore what we've
39:45been looking at tonight look at it like
39:48this first of all God made with men men
39:52perfect men made in the image and
39:54likeness of God a covenant of
39:58Works he was to inherit that eternal
40:03life without possibility of end with God
40:06if he kept the Commandment the
40:10law man fa broke it sin and the fall and
40:15the pollution and the degradation
40:18follow now the thing I want to emphasize
40:20is that God since
40:23them has only made one fundamental
40:26Covenant with with men it is the
40:29Covenant of
40:32Grace and he has revealed that great
40:36Covenant of
40:38Grace in the ways that I've been
40:40describing in the Old
40:41Testament you see having stated the
40:44thing itself he makes it explicit in his
40:47Covenant with
40:49Abram and then he goes on to show it
40:53still more fully by the Covenant that he
40:56uh makes with
40:59Moses but the Covenant with Moses in no
41:02way modifies the Covenant of
41:05Grace it simply shows men is not our
41:08absolute need of the Covenant of Grace
41:11the law was our school Master to bring
41:14us to Christ it wasn't meant to do more
41:16than that it wasn't the way of Salvation
41:18in and of itself it never was that it
41:21isn't that it never can be
41:23that there is only one way of salvation
41:27and I hope to give you the proofs of
41:30that contention and of that statement
41:33next Friday night now I think we've all
41:36probably learned one thing and I trust
41:38have seen it more clearly than we've
41:40ever seen it before Christian people
41:42have often expressed surprise that um
41:45the early church decided to incorporate
41:47the Old Testament with its new
41:49literature and they say I don't see
41:51really as a Christian why I need to be
41:53bothered about the Old Testament well if
41:56anybody goes out of this service still
41:58feeling that I have failed and failed
42:00lamentably because I've tried to show
42:03you that the same great fundamental in
42:07the old as in the
42:09new that there it is in the old as in
42:12the
42:13new that there is this great unity and
42:17if we want to know about God's Great
42:18purpose we must Delight in tracing it
42:22from the very beginning In the Garden of
42:25Eden right away through until we come to
42:28our Lord the Old Testament the New
42:32Testament the old administration of the
42:35Covenant of Grace the new administration
42:37of the same Covenant of Grace The
42:40Marvelous plan of God unfolded the
42:44gospel
42:45begins not in Matthew
42:481:1 but in Genesis
42:513:15 let's never forget that so let us
42:55go to our Old Testaments and look for
42:56the gospel in it you will find it there
42:59almost everywhere in a most amazing and
43:02astounding Manner and it is your
43:04business and mind as well as our
43:06privilege to seek it and to rejoice in
43:10it as we find it in the Old Testament

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