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17:1-27 I GENESIS
To summarize: “The covenant plays an important
role in Abraham’s experience, Note the successive revelations
of God after the initial promise to which Abraham responded
in obedience. As God enlarged this promise, Abraham
exercised faith which was reckoned to him as righteousness
(Gen. 1 j ). In this covenant the land of Canaan
was specificially pledged to the descendants of Abraham.
With the promise of the son, circumcision was made the
sign of the covenant (Gen. .17). This covenant promise
was finally sealed in Abraham’s act of obedience wheq he
demonstrated his willingness to sacrifice his only son Isaac
(Gen. 22) ” (Schultz, OTS, 34).
FOR MIDITATION AND SERMONIZING
The Two Covenants, or From Sinai to Cdwary
John 1:17, Gal. 3:23-29, Heb. 8, 2 Cor. 3.
. Every student of the Bible knows that it consists of
two general divisions or parts: what is known as the Old
Testament or Covenant, and what is known as the New
Testament or Covenant (the Testaments being the stereo-
typed records of the respective Covenants) ; what is known
as the Law before the Cross, and what is known as the
Since the Cross; what is known as the ‘‘letter” on
the other side of the Cross, and what is known as the
on this side; what is called the ministration of
n the other side, and what is called. “the minis
n this side; what is known as “the ministra-
on the other side, and what is
known as “th on of righteousness” on this side.
Calvary is the dividing line. When Jesus died on the
Cross, the Partition Veil, i.e., the curtain between the Holy
Place and the y of Holies, of the Temple, was rent in
twain (Matt. 27:,l1), thus, symbolizing the point of de-
marcation between the Covenants and signifying that for
the first time since man’s fall, the way into heaven itself,