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Psalm 25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Hebrew: beri^yth: (in the sense of cutting ; a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh):
Steps of Covenant
- When one enters into a covenant one is never free
Cost Counting - the only part not binding
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down, first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Covenants done publicly
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Take off outer garments and exchange them
Phillippians 2:5 (1063) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
2Peter 1:4 Whereby, are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Exchange of belts that held weapons - your enemies are now His and His enemies are now yours.
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his s word, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Walk of Death - passing through flesh and saying
"May God do this to me and more if I ever fail to fulfill my part of the covenant and may God subject my family to those curses." Covenant continued for four generations, God did the walk of death for us and Jesus became the slain animal for us.
Gen 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Gen 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this) land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Jeremiah 34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Traditional Old Testament Jewish practice - Cut wrists and rubbed something in it so it would heal with a mark. When raising hands in prayer the one in covenant was asking God to judge him according to how he had kept the covenant.
Covenant meal - this was not in public.
Blood from the killed animal was put in a cup but the Jews used wine as they were forbidden blood.
Bread was broken and words said "this is my body broken for you. This is my blood"
John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up the last day.
John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me,and I in him.
It was not because they did not understand what Jesus was saying.
They left because they did understand the cost of covenant.
John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
Blessing to those who keep it and the penalty of breaking covenant is discipline and curses Deuteronomy 28,29,30
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