What does it mean for you to be in a covenant relationship with God?

Question

What implications does it have for your life?

Answer 1

Good Question!

We entered into a covenant relationship with God when we accepted Jesus. Our covenant is sealed by His blood and sacrifice on the cross, redeeming us to our heavenly Father. By it we have been adopted as children of God. We now share in the same inheritance with God's Son, with certain rights and responsibilities.

Acts 26:18 "to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me."

Heb 9:14-16 "how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it."

Also read Ephesians 1. Through Christ, we now have access to God, our Father, to know and to love the living God. This is why Jesus is the way, truth and life, and that no one can come to God, except through Him. Jesus paid the ultimate price, so that we can experience the ultimate love. We serve Him, not with compulsion, but with passion. Our will, to do His will. Our life is now identified through Him. We are followers of Christ, those who have found the way, by this truth, into a new life in Him. Thanks be to God, who is deserving of all our honor and praise.

Answer 2

A covenant is a promise and the promises that God makes always come true. All of us are in some sort of covenant relationship with God whether we realize it or not. The rainbow is a symbol of one of the covenants that God has with men. The promise of God's Kingdom government under Christ Jesus as it's princely ruler is another one that the blessings could affect all of us. This covenant will do away with all the wickedness on earth. In my life, I try to live in such a way that shows God that I want the blessings that this covenant has to offer. I try to include his will in the things I do every day so he knows I want to be ruled by him rather than by human governments.

Answer 3

An agreement between two or more persons to do or refrain from doing some act; a compact; a contract. Covenants always involved two or more parties. They could be unilateral (where the party on one side was solely responsible to carry out the terms) or bilateral (where parties on both sides had terms to carry out). Besides the covenants in which God is a party, the Bible records the making of covenants between men, and between tribes, nations, or groups of persons. To break a covenant was a grievous sin.—Ezekiel 17:11-20; Romans 1:31, 32.

The term “covenant” is applied to a sure ordinance, such as that concerning the showbread (Leviticus 24:8), or to God’s creation governed by his laws, as the unchangeable succession of day and night (Jerimiah 33:20); it is also used figuratively, as in the expression “covenant with Death.” (Isaiah 28:18) Jehovah also speaks of a covenant in connection with the wild beasts. (Hosea 2:18) The marriage compact is called a covenant. (Malachi 2:14) The expression “owners (masters) of the covenant” has the sense of “confederates,” as at Genesis 14:13.

In effect, any promise made by Jehovah is a covenant; it is certain to be carried out; it can be relied on with confidence for its fulfillment. (Hebrews 6:18) A covenant is in force as long as the terms of it are operative and the obligation to perform rests on one or both parties. The results or the blessings brought about by the covenant may continue, even forever.

Jehovah foretold the new covenant by the prophet Jeremiah in the seventh century B.C.E., stating that it would not be like the Law covenant, which Israel broke. (Jerimiah 31:31-34) On the night before his death, Nisan 14, 33 C.E., when he established the celebration of the Lord’s Evening Meal, Jesus Christ announced the new covenant, to be validated by his sacrifice. (Luke 22:20) On the 50th day from his resurrection and 10 days after he had ascended to his Father, he poured out the holy spirit, which he had received from Jehovah, on his disciples gathered in an upper room in Jerusalem.—Acts 2:1-4, 17, 33; 2Corinthians 3:6, 8, 9; Hebrews 2:3, 4.

The parties to the new covenant are Jehovah, on one side, and “the Israel of God,” the spirit-begotten ones in union with Christ, making up his congregation or body, on the other side. (Hebrews 8:10; 12:22-24; Galatians 6:15, 16; 3:26-28; Romans 2:28, 29) The new covenant is made operative by the shed blood (the sacrifice of the human life) of Jesus Christ, the value of which was presented to Jehovah after Jesus’ ascension to heaven. (Matthew 26:28) When one is selected by God for the heavenly calling (Hebrew 3:1), God brings that one into His covenant over Christ’s sacrifice. (Psalms 50:5; Hebrews 9:14, 15, 26) Jesus Christ is the Mediator of the new covenant (Hebrews 8:6; 9:15) and is the primary Seed of Abraham. (Galatians 3:16) By means of Jesus’ mediatorship of the new covenant, he assists those in the covenant to become part of the real seed of Abraham (Hebrews 2:16; Galatians 3:29) through forgiveness of their sins. Jehovah declares them righteous.—Romans 5:1, 2; 8:33; Hebrews 10:16, 17.

Answer 4

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If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven forgive their sins and heal their land." II Chronicles Chapter 7 verse 14. Implications for me are that if I sin, and I truly regret my sin and don't keep on doing the same over and over, God will forgive me.

Answer 5

It's a two-way promise between me and God, that I feel is very binding and serious. If I don't keep my promise, then God is under no obligation to keep his.