COVENANT OF PROMISE

The Greek word translated covenant in the New Testament is diatheke. It primarily signifies a disposition of property by will or otherwise. The New Testament is not a covenant of law but of promise. Rather than a mutual agreement between two parties, each obligating himself

2023 

Bobby Gums    

How was your 2022? Was the “year” good to you? I certainly hope & pray that each of you can truly look back and say that it was a “good time” in your life, meaning that you drew closer to the Lord than ever before, that the fruit of the Spirit is increasing in your life, that you are indeed becoming more & more like Christ Jesus, and all to God’s glory. In the “natural”, I can certainly understand

 

                 SCRIPTURE STUDY: THE MARRIAGE COVENANT                                        

I    THE FOUNDATION

As a mature and fruit-bearing apple tree was fully contained in the seed of its origin, so is the full of

Scripture contained in the Book of Genesis. We may call it the “Seed Book of the Bible.”

So it is with all creation relative to the first verse of Genesis. All that heaven and earth presently are developed from that one seed act:

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

And, so it is that the first marriage sets