The Covenant of Redemption or the Covenant of Grace.
Part 2
By
Nick Bibile
Before time began, before the
creation of the world God had a covenant with his son (Ps 89:3) to redeem some,
these were called the elect, in other words God elected some to be saved before
the foundations of the world.
Eph 1:4 According as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:
1 Pe
2Ti 1:9 Who hath saved us,
and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the
world began,
These elect of God also fell
into sin at the fall of Adam.
Ro 5:12 Wherefore, as by one
man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned.
We
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Eph 2:3)
The redeemer or the Savior
is Christ.
Lu 2:11 For unto you is born
this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
In the old
testament Christ appeared as a theophany or Christophany but here there was a
real incarnation, he took flesh born of a woman yet without sin as Christ was
born of the Holy Spirit. He was made under the law as he came to represent his
people the elect who have broken the law.
Ga 4:4 But
when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman,
made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
As we saw
in a covenant there is a promise and a condition.
The
Promises made to the Redeemer.
On Son's
accomplishment of work promises were made to him by the Father.
1. A body was
prepared for him, related to Adam yet uncontaminated without sin. Heb 10:5
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.
2. He would
be adorned with the beauty of holiness as the Father gave him the Spirit
without measure. Joh 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God:
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
3. That he would bruise the head of Satan. Ge 3:15 And
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her
seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
4. He would be
delivered from the power of death, will be exalted to his right hand in heaven
and all power and authority to given to him. Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath
highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. Mt 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in
heaven and in earth.
5. He would be the head of the church. Col 1: 18 And he is the head of the
body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in
all things he might have the preeminence.
Mediator of the covenant
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to
the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Romans 5:10 For if , when we were enemies, we were reconciled
to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved
by his life
Christ represented as the mediator of the covenant of grace.
Mediator between God and the elect. Even the elect were fallen from sin,
children of wrath, hostile to God. Christ as a mediator came in between to
reconcile the elect to God. As a mediator Christ answers both for God and man.
To God he fulfilled the conditions of the covenant by his obedience and
sacrifice, his blood was the blood of the covenant. To the believers he is
their surety. Moses was a mediator of the Mosaic covenant, but he was not nor
could he have been a surety for the people. Moses could not satisfy law and
justice for them. Here is where we see another glorious truth that tells us the
kind of mediator our Lord is on our behalf. If He did not pay our debt in full,
then He is a
failure, and we are all
doomed to eternal damnation. He paid the debt we owed to God in full. He is our
surety.
Joh 17:4 1 have glorified
thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Joh 17:9 1 pray for them: I
pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are
thine.
Joh 17:20 Neither pray I for
these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.
If you are an elect of God
you will follow the truth, as Christians we are not perfect as we are in the
world and in this flesh we do fall into sin, when we do sin we realize how
horrible sin is, we do not enjoy the pleasures of sin, the true believer is
convicted of sin and pray for forgiveness. You will hear the word of God and
follow Jesus.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my
hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able
to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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