8/2 AGAPE life

I will make an Everlasting Covenant:
The Unbreakable Promise of God
(ISAIAH 61:8-11)
 
Pause & Reflect
 
8 For I the Lord love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

 

1. What does the LORD love and what does He hate?
2. How has the LORD been robbed by the devil?
3. What does the LORD do to reclaim what belongs to Him?
4. If God was a tightrope walker across the Niagara Falls, walking across with a wheelbarrow like the late Charles Blondin was, would you get in if He asked you to? How is living in covenant like this?

 
9 Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

 

1. If God gave you a promised blessing that was physically impossible – like He did with Abraham to give him offspring as countless as the stars in the heaven (GENESIS 15:5-6) – how would you respond?
2. How do you already have that blessing (EPHESIANS 1:3)?
3. How can others see, acknowledge, and know you as an “offspring the Lord has blessed”?

 
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
    and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.

 

1. How is living in God’s covenant like your wedding day (putting on the beautiful garments) or your harvest day (seeing what is sown sprout up and ready to be collected)?
2. What makes your soul “greatly rejoice”?
3. What are your covenant roles as singles, as family members, as workers in the marketplace, as covenant partners of His church?
4. Are you living in covenant or with a contract before the LORD and others? In view of His covenant with you, how can you be a covenant child, covenant servant, covenant gospel partner with Christ?

 
*Spend a moment with the holy Spirit praying for yourself and one another, to live into His covenant for you.

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