What Is Covenant Theology? | Theocast

What Is Covenant Theology? The Reformed tradition teaches two major covenants to help us understand the flow of the Bible. The covenant of works and the covenant of grace.
Justin Perdue helps explain how reformed theology is centered on covenant theology.

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[boogaardy]

Thank you! Short, yet very clear and informative.

[exploringtheologychannel]

Covenant theology is how God’s plan of redemption has unfolded.

[savedwretch]

This is such a beautiful truth or I should say the main truth that we are to look for and follow,
I love you guys, you guys are right on!

[MrYourup]

Okay, Paul was to bring about the obedience of faith. Romans 1:5 This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent. John 6:28-29 So should we have difficulty with faith we must focus upon our obedience to Him. In the book of James 2:18 I will show you my faith by my works i.e. obedience. Now we are saved by grace but let us not lose track of our following Him lest our faith become diminished.

[rubykendagor]

Any updates on Covenant theology. Thanks. Ruby

[chriscomis]

Also, every covenant God has cut or renewed with mankind is a covenant of works in the sense that every covenant God establishes with us comes with lawful demands on His part that we must obey. And if we obey, then we are blessed; but if we disobey, then we are cursed, This was the case in the Garden, and this remains the case since the Garden. And this will even remain the case long after the consummation of all things. We will never stop obeying our Lord, but eventually we will no longer be bound by these fleshly bodies to do evil. We will have new resurrection bodies that will only want to do good.

[FruitfulPerspectives]

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[chriscomis]

You also need to distinguish between an unconditional covenant and an unmeritorious covenant. A covenant can have conditions attached to it (which all covenants do) and yet still be non-meritorious. Just as saving faith and good works should be considered as conditions of the new covenant, even though neither of these brings any merit whatsoever to the “scales of justification” before God. So while all the covenants God has established with mankind, from the first Adam to the last Adam, have both conditional and unconditional aspects to them all — not one of these covenants has righteous human merit included as establishing the ground or basis for our righteous relationship with God. Merit only plays a role in our condemnation and eternal death. But also, Christ’s righteous merit saves us from all of our demerit.

[tuloaanisekoioane]

hi, pls provide a link for a written version of this short clip about the Covenant Theology

[chriscomis]

The covenant of redemption must also include the eternal pactum with the Holy Spirit as well. The Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son is specifically the person of the Trinity tasked with applying all that the Father eternally decreed, along with all that the Son eternally accomplished, to the people of God in time and space. Salvation doesn’t come from a biune God, but from the only triune God.

[XxlightxX]

Okay I can agree to that but I wonder if theirs more to this that might be false still trying to figure out what's wrong with dispensationalism

[mattrasmussen]

Any book recommendations on covenant theology?

[chriscomis]

The original so-called covenant of works had nothing at all to do with earning or meriting God’s undeserved grace in the Garden. Adam was not the original Pelagius who just couldn’t quite get his act together and thereby merit God’s eternal favor and access to the tree of life. Adam’s very formation out of the dust of the adamah was itself an act of unmerited and undeserved grace. And everything God gave him in the garden was also an act of undeserved grace. When sin entered at the Fall, Adam and his fallen race now needed demerited grace and not just unmerited grace. We now need grace in spite of our sinfulness, which Adam didn’t need before the Fall. Also, there was no prohibition against eating of the tree of life, only against eating of the tree of judgment. But even this was a temporary prohibition since God promised both the man and the woman eventual access to the tree of judgment in Gen 1:29, where he tells them that “they shall eat of EVERY fruit bearing tree.” This would include the tree of judgment.

[SpotterVideo]

Why is the term "New Covenant" not found in the man-made confessions of Reformed Covenant Theology. That term is found in the Bible.

New Covenant Whole Gospel:

Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him.
He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14.
Awaken Church to this truth.

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by
husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis?

Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart.

Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36)

Watch the YouTube video “The New Covenant” by Bob George.

[OckertvdW]

What is the theological source of these three divisions, particularly the 'covenant of redemption'?

[danc.]

I like some parts of it but one cannot add a measure to his salvation and it was fully done by Christ ...to say Adam had conditions is irrelevant in the example used because Adam demonstrated man was always going to fall not like if only Adam listened...I mean this as a question not as a dig against covenant theology as I'm interested in it

[aquilaapologetics]

This is a much more accurate framework than the clear false framework of dispensationalism