Welcome to the Congregational Church of Salem. This will be our Elders Bible Reading blog! We can't wait to be able to share more with you.
Good morning faithful readers, The finish line is in sight!!! One of the themes of scripture is that God is a covenant keeping God. There are many between God and man. Adam, Noah, David are examples. Covenants are more than promises. They are made between a superior and inferior with conditions for each side and blessing and penalties based on keeping the conditions. These are covenants of works which fallen man was unable to keep. Thanks be to God that the Father made a covenant of grace with Christ, the second Adam, which he fully kept. Blessings, Jeff The promise in v8 was made to David when he had planned to build the temple and God promised to build him a house forever. (2 Sam 7:10). Seems like there are only two possibilities about Manasseh's disobedience. Either he knew of this covenant that God had made with his 13th great grandfather and chose to disregard it, or he didn't know of it and was unaware of the penalty. Let's con...
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