The Covenant of Grace

August 26, 2010

THE COVENANT OF GRACE

-       Martyn Lloyd-Jones (WALKING WITH GOD)

Exodus 6:7

English Standard Version (ESV)

⁷ I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God.

God has made certain promises. So what is the  great central promises that He has made in the covenant of grace? He has promised to a GOD UNTO MAN. That is the great promise: “I will be to you a God.” Do you see the importance and significance of this? God had been the God of Adam, but Adam sinned against Him and fell, he became the slave of Satan and broke the connection with God. And the remarkable and the astounding thing is that God turned to man and assured him in the covenant of grace that He had a way whereby He could still be a God to man, “I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God.”

Make a note of that because as you go through the Scriptures you will find that this great promise is repeated time and time again. You will find it in Jeremiah 31:33. 32:38-40. You will find it in Ezekiel 34:23-25, 36: 25-28, 37:26-27. You will find in in 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 and in Hebrews 8:10, and in a marvelous way, in Revelation 21:3 where we read

Revelation 21:3

English Standard Version (ESV)

³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place^[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,^[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.^[c]

That is the final state. So you see that is the very essence of God’s promise in the covenant of grace- that what had been broken by sin and the Fall was going to be restored. And the supreme blessing therefore, the ultimate blessing, the blessing of blessings, is that GOD IS MY GOD AND THAT I HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY “MY GOD”. And that whole salvation is included in that.

How often do we tend to define salvation in terms other than that? Yet the greatest thing a human being can ever say since Fall is this: “GOD IS MY GOD”.

Cannot help but to be awed.. amazed… silenced.. by this wonderful truth.. YOU ARE MY GOD!

What a wonderful privilege that You are my God. That I am Yours.. I am Your child, You are my Father, my God! Amen and amen!

Praise be to You my God!

Amazing! Wonderful! Powerful! Omnipotent! Omniscient! Omnipresent! Magnificent! Indescribable GOD!

All I can do is to praise You, worship You, adore You.

I am speechless by Your love.. by WHO YOU ARE!