Covenantal Love and God's Promises
Explore the concept of covenantal love in the context of God's promises and our response to His love. Discover the depth of God's love and grace, and how we can become part of His treasured possessions through faith and obedience.
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Gods Love and Justice Lesson 2 Covenantal Love
Memory Text John 14:23 NKJV Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. What is the first promise of this text? What is the second promise of this text? What is the third promise of this text?
Overview God s love extends to everyone, but not everyone responds to it and returns love to God. God has a special covenantal love for those who do respond to His love in Christ and become His treasured possession. Covenantal Love Rejecting His Love Responding to Forgiveness Summary
Covenantal Love What is God s desire for His fallen creation? (1 Tim 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9) Why did God choose Israel as His covenant people? (Deut 7:6-8) What choice did the individual Israelites have in their response to the God of the covenants? (Deut 7:9-11) What did Jesus say about how sin affects our relationship with Him? (John 15:14)
Rejecting His Love What did Hosea describe how the Lord would treat the evil and idolatrous Israelites in the northern kingdom? (Hosea 9:15) What was God willing to do for the northern tribes if they would repent and return? (Hosea 14:1-4) How did Paul remind the Gentiles of their need to be faithful to God in order to reap the benefits of His love? (Rom 11:21-22)
Responding to Forgiveness Recall Jesus parable of the two debtors in Matt 18:24-30. How much is 100 denarii? How much is 10,000 talents? What happened to the unmerciful servant who refused to forgive the smaller debt? (Matt 18:33-34) What is the punch line of the parable? (Matt 18:35) What is the lesson of this parable for us?
Summary God s love and grace are available to all through the sacrifice of Christ for the sins of the world. The potential of God s saving love is therefore available to all. But only those who receive God s love by responding in love and obedience to Him become part of the redeemed who are saved by faith and become recipients of Gods covenantal love and promises. In the everlasting covenant, it is Jesus who keeps all the covenant obligations of obedience and dispenses all the covenant promises to us by faith in Him. We become God s treasured possessions, receiving God s grace and His steadfast love by faith in Christ.
Summary Both Moses and Jesus connect the love of God with the manifestation of that love: keeping His commandments. The mechanism of this connection is more evident in the NT: We fall in love with Jesus when we hear the gospel, trust Him as Savior and Lord, confess our sins and are justified, sanctified, and baptized and receive the Holy Spirit who gives us the new birth and leads us to obedience. The OT is similar: because of God s goodness they were commanded to love Him with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength. That love led them to respect His commandments and , when they fell short, to ask for forgiveness trusting the Substitute that God would provide by grace for their forgiveness.
Summary In the parable of the two debtors, Jesus makes the point that God has forgiven us a debt we could never repay. When we realize how much we have been forgiven, we must forgive others for their much less significant trespasses against us. Refusing forgiveness to our brothers and sisters from our hearts will block God s forgiveness of us. If we truly love God we will also love those who are His children. Will you seek this week to love the Lord with all your heart and keep His commandments that you may enjoy His steadfast love as His treasured possession forever.
1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9 ESV 1 Timothy 2:4 ESV - [God] who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Peter 3:9 ESV - 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. [R]
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 ESV "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [R]
Deuteronomy 7:9-11 ESV Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. [R]
John 15:14 ESV You are my friends if you do what I command you. [R]
Hosea 9:15 ESV Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels. [R]
Hosea 14:1-4 NIV Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall! 2Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips. 3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion." 4"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them. [R]
Romans 11:21-22 ESV For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. [R]
Matthew 18:24, 26-30 ESV When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. ... 26 So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.' 27 And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. 28 But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.' 29 So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.' 30 He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. [R]
Matthew 18:33-34 ESV And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?' 34And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. [R]
Matthew 18:35 ESV So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. [R]
