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Pastors Notes:
Tim Hall
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2/18, 2/25 & 3/4/2007
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"Washed Clean by COVENANT"
March 4, 2007
February 18, 2007
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All Scriptures are Amplified Version unless otherwise stated.
Ephesians 2:4-7 But God - so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, 5Even when we were dead (slain) by {our own} shortcomings and trespasses. He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; {He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for}it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation). 6And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together {giving us joint seating with Him} in the heavenly sphere {by virtue of our being} in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 7He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in{His} kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.
What is a covenant?
The binding together of two parties for life and death. The terms and conditions of the covenant would be kept even if it killed you to keep them. There is no exit here, not like our western promises or contracts - not something you could just quit.
Proverbs 18:24 The man of many friends {a friend of all the world} will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
The covenant between the human race and God the Father was settled before you were ever born. You were in Jesus - Your Representative. Guaranteed by the blood of Jesus and faithfulness of Father. From a distance, Father has loved you and accepted you. He doesn't want to be at a distance - accept the covenant, accept Jesus as Lord of your life and the covenant becomes active in your life.
February 25, 2007
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See I Samuel 8- 2 Samuel 9 for the complete reference.
Psalm 106:15 And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their souls and [thinned their numbers by] disease and death.
Israel rejected God as king and demanded a king like other nations. God called it evil and let them have their desire, but it was leanness to their soul = Trouble This happens today!
Soon King Saul joined the people and gives his vote of no to God. He said, I will do it my way = Iniquity.
Jonathan - He is a man that reaches out to God. He had a good heart, not like his father. He is in the family but not of the family. Jonathan's life message - you can be a transition generation.
David - He is a man of God's favor. He waited on the Lord and trusted God's timing! David never once tried to take the throne by force. * Don't create an Israel.
In the providence of God, David meets Jonathan. They recognize a common heart and goal in life. They share a deep desire for God. There is a bond between them and they recognize that it is to be sealed with a covenant. David is the representative of his unborn family. In David was his family. His future family is there in his loins. In Jonathan is his unborn children. They enter into a blood covenant.
Fact - The enemy can use people:
 you love
 you respect
 your authority
 Godly people
To launch a campaign to destroy you. With…negative words, hurtful words, lies.
A lie often told is soon believed.
How to respond to a campaign against you. Do as David did:
 Trust God; He is still in charge.
 Don't raise your hand or voice against them.
 Don't start a defense campaign.
Let your lifestyle silence your critics (Love)
JOHN 3:16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
Mephibosheth didn't know he was heir to the covenant.
We need to spread the good news of the covenant between the human race and God the Father. It was settled before we were ever born! You were in Jesus - Your representative - guaranteed by the Blood of Jesus and the Faithfulness of Father. From a distance, Father has loved you and accepted you. He doesn't want to be at a distance - accept the covenant, accept Jesus as Lord of your life and the covenant becomes active in your life.
March 4, 2007
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