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Covenants,Oaths and Promises,Psalm 64-66
Covenants,Oaths,Vows and Promises
Do we live up to our words or live in Gods word ?
do we take pride in keeping our
word or God in keeping His ?
Do we live up to our own words ?
or do we live in His word ?
Genesis 1 , 1 John 1 LET THERE BE LIGHT
In the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God and The WORD was God
The WORD brought light into the darkness and revelation to the world that was yet unformed and
as the molecules and particles and the atoms and elements stood to attention before THE WORD
and gave an account of their being, they sat into place as commanded and obeyed the will of
THE WORD
The molecules and particles wondered and questioned where they should go in the beginning and
asked what their place might be and what their function and purpose was to be..they never once
said " I will do this " or "I will be that " because creation did not know what tomorrow was to bring
All creation waited for the voice of God , THE WORD, and at the shout of the word all was revealed
and put into place and revelation was brought to creation by the WORD
Bringing order and order upon order and THE WORD became flesh and dwelt amongst us and the WORD
is a living word and His Name is Jesus
Now we approach His throne who is THE WORD and we come through the blood of THE WORD
And we enter in through the veil by the sacrifice of THE WORD
Now we come to Psalms 64,65 And 66 we look to Covenants,Oaths,Vows and Promises
Lord God in Jesus name light your flame in our hearts, let there be light and let us run the race
before us in Jesus name amen
I was seeking about what to bring and I had the picture of the olympic torch being carried by
many athletes across many destinations and countries to its destination before the grand opening
of the olympic games
Now I was reluctant to bring this picture as I thought " No Lord this does'nt really go with this message
and it does'nt sound right "
Well I disgarded this picture and started looking into the message that might come from Psalms 64/
65 and 66 and I was still struggling to find a string to join this message together
So this morning I went to Church and on the projected screen at the front was the image of
a person, the image was darkened and within the image was a flaming torch, burning within the persons image
"mmm maybe I'm wrong Lord and you are right" I thought....
Sooo I looked down and on the Church blog..on the front page was an article abouttttt ?
Yes The Olympics and torch and the runners in the races and how the athletes ran for the prize
mmm okay ..so I thought maybe I should bring this picture after all, so I have
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We can't really relate to sacrifices in this day and age, we might find it even more difficult to relate
to animal sacrifice, we might find it difficult to relate to the cutting in half of animals or a "Covenant"
These things are not really part of our society or culture and relating to these things may be difficult
Even the word "Promise" may not really mean much to us, as promises in this society and age
are not the same as "Promises" in biblical times
So I give you the picture of the Torch bearer, the torch carrier, the athlete who carries the light accross,
the globe and who is not running alone but has many people cheering them on
And the final destination being the torch that iluminates the stadium and all around and can be seen
by all
I give you this picture as we come to Psalms 64/65 and 66
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And in Psalm 64 we see the opposite side of a promise which can be seen as a threat, in human terms
when a person makes a threat against us we take it sometimes with more meaning and we put up
defences against that threat and immediatley close up and defend ourselves
We note that David had many enemies and we note that we have an enemy and his threats are
constant
But we hold onto Gods promises to us and rather than fighting back oursleves we hand over to God
an enemy that is far greater than flesh and blood, knowing that we walk in the new covenant and we are sealed and separated into the eternal promise
For this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people... .In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete."
Hebrews 8:7-13
And as an introduction to this message I need to show you firstly where we are going and where I am
coming from here as you may wonder why and how Psalms 64,65 And 66 relate to the title "Covenants,Oaths and Promises"
As we turn to Psalm 65:4 we read about Gods Holy Temple and how God had chosen "separated"
a group of people to enter this Holy Place
And we see that separation is salvation, for how can you be saved from something unless you are
separated from it !
It like a kind of cutting in half..
And in Psalm 66 we read about the new song of salvation, the song that God puts in our hearts,
a new song, and we see mentioned how the chosen and separated people were taken through
the waters of the red sea in Verse 6
THEN we read in Verse 13 that David mentions a vow ?
Mmm !
I wonder whether Christians should make vows ?
As a child I remember knowing nothing of Church or Christianity or of the bible and a Church
was a place where you went for weddings and funerals and a place that had lots of fancy windows,
with strange images in them !
But I remember having a time when I talked to God and I worshipped Him and I knew of Him
I remember one day in my childlike way I prayed to God that He would help me to find my homework
that was lost and if He helped me then I would always worship Him and serve Him all the days of my
life !
But you know never make a promise...how can we make a promise when we do not know what will
happen tomorrow ?
We don’t know what will happen tomorrow James 4:14
When we make a promise to someone else we just may not being able to hold up to that promise..
When we make a promise to God God might just take us at our word ....
In this day and age and in this society there is much mistrust, words such as promise and oath and
covenant are seldom used, the first being the most used but unheard of
We have so much mistrust of each other and we know that when someone makes a promise to us
we immediately relate to past promises that have been broken and we seldom commit ourselves
to believing a promise
After all when we commit ouselves to believeing a promise we can quite often be let down and the
bump is quite hard at times
In fact the only times I see the word "Promise" in society is when I look at a bank note with the
inscription "I promise to pay the bearer the sum of "
Strange is'nt it ?
strange that the only thing that can be seen as a promise in our societies today
is the promise of money ?
Is it any wonder that money is the central point of the major nations ?
This is the only time we actually relate to the word "promise" without realising it
You would never think of receiving your wages and getting your weekly shopping only to be told
"Your notes are not worth anything " would you ?
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