Have You Read Your Contract With God and Do You Know The Terms?

From the teaching 12/31/2011

Have You Read Your Contract With God

and Do You Know The Terms?

Bible (defined):

1. The Book
2. The sacred volume in which are contained the Revelations of God,
   the Promises of God, the principles of Christian Faith, and the rules

rules of practice. It consists of 2 parts called The Old Testament and

The New Testament.

Testament (defined):

1. Contract
2. Covenant

Contract (defined):

1. An agreement between two or more people to do something, especially one set forth, in writing and enforceable by law.

God's First Contract: His first contract was everlasting and for perpetual generations. To Noah, His Seed, Beasts, and Perpetual Generations.

Gen. 9:8: And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

 9And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;



 10And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.



 11And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.



 12And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
 13I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.



 14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:



 15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.



 16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

God's Healing Covenant

Ex. 15:26: And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

The Fiery Serpents

Num. 21:5:And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

 6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.



 7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.



 8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.



 9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.



A. The brazen serpent was a symbol of Christ being bearing the sins
and sicknesses of all men.
B. The serpent itself was a symbol of sin, Christ was made sin for us that
we might be free from sin.



II Corth. 5:21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.



John 3:14:And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:



 15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.



 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.



God's contract was with the whole world



Mt. 26:27:And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;



John 12:32: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.



Luke 24:49:And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

But, you for your part, stay right here in the city.

Endued (defined):

• clothed with
• invested with
• armed with

Acts 1:4: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

Acts 2:1: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.



 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.



 3And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
 4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.



 5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.



Dwelling(defined): To be settled, or live in a place.



 6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.



 7And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?



 8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?



 9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,



 10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,



 11Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.



Acts. 1:8: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.



John 14:16: And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

 17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

And...

:26: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.



John 15:26:But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
 27And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.