One of the things that King David knew intimately well, was that he was in covenant with God, and that his God was a covenant-keeper. We see this in the life of David as early as 1 Samuel 17 when David faced Goliath. He said about Goliath, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
In calling his enemy “uncircumcised”, David wasn’t just insulting the Philistine Goliath; he was, in reality, exposing the weakness of his enemy and revealing the secret of his confidence and strength. David was saying, “Goliath will fall because he has no covenant with the Lord Most High, while I am a son of the covenant-keeping God.”
In Bible times two parties or two people would make a covenant with one another by sacrificing an animal and, skipping a lot of gory details about the covenant ceremony involving the sacrificed animal, both parties would be obligated by the covenant to protect and provide for each other. Because of the covenant, all the resources that one party has becomes available and accessible to provide for and protect the other party and his family. The parties are covenanting with one another, “I will provide for you and protect you as my own, because we are in covenant with one another.”
And in the Bible, we often see a more powerful entity make covenant with a lesser entity. And in cases like this, the benefactor or the winner is obvously the lesser party or the weaker entity.
It’s like if Bill Gates were to make a covenant with you. Bill Gates is not just a multi-millionaire, he is a multi-billionaire. Let’s imagine you’re not a multi-billionaire or a multi-millionaire. In fact, you’re nowhere close. But if Bill Gateswere to make a covenant with you, you too would become a multi-billionaire because the covenant allows for you to unreservedly share in his resources.
You and I are in covenant with Someone infinitely greater than Bill Gates!
We are in covenant with the triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And the sacrifice that ratified and set that covenant in motion was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ at the Cross!
And so I (Ps. Paul) want to encourage you, to take Communion and pray to apply the blood of Jesus over your life, your marriage, your family, and over everything you have authority and ownership of. I encourage you to take Communion everyday this week as we come into the Easter weekend, remind yourself of God’s great covenant promises, and call on your covenant-keeping Father to keep His covenant in your life.
Remember that the application of the blood of Jesus is not some religious or superstitious activity, but it is the act of invoking and standing on and calling forth all the blessings and resources of the New Covenant we have in Christ Jesus.
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