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I. WHAT IS THIS COVENANT? If you go to a lawyer, and inquire how a deed runs, he may reply, "I can give you an abstract, but I had better read it to you." He can tell you the sum and substance of it; but if you want to be very accurate, and it is a very important business, you will say, "I should like to hear it read." We will now read certain passages of Scripture which contain the covenant of grace, or an abstract of it (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 11:19, 20; Ezekiel 36:25, etc.). Let us just go a little into detail about this. God has made a covenant with certain people that He will do all this for them, and in each case it is of pure grace. He will take away their stony hearts: it is clear from this promise that when He began with them they had stony hearts. He will forgive their iniquities: when He began with them they had many iniquities. He will give them a heart of flesh: when He began with them they had not a heart of flesh. He will turn them to keep His statutes: when He began with them they did not keep His statutes. They were a sinful, wilful, wicked, degenerate people, and He called to them many times to come to Him and repent, but they would not. Here He speaks like a king, and no longer pleads, but decrees. He says, I will do this and that to you, and you shall be this and that in return. Oh, blessed covenant! Oh, mighty, sovereign grace!

II. HAVE I ANY PORTION IN IT?

1. Are you in Christ? If so, you are saved in Him.

2. Have you faith? This is the mark, the seal, the badge of His chosen.

3. Have you been born again? Is the life that is in you a life given by God? The true life is not of the will of man, nor of blood, nor of natural excellence; but it comes by the working of the eternal Spirit, and is of God. If you have this life you are in the covenant, for it is written, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called." The children of the promise, these are counted for the seed.

III. If indeed we can believe upon the good evidence of God's Word that we are of the seed with whom the covenant was made in Christ Jesus, then EVERY BLESSING OF THE COVENANT WILL COME TO US. I will put it a little more personally — every blessing of the covenant will come to you.

1. God cannot lie, cannot deny Himself.

2. God made the covenant freely. If He had not meant to keep it, He would not have made it.

3. On the covenant document there is a seal — the blood of the Son of God.

4. God delights in the covenant, so we are sure He will not run back from it.

5. God has sealed the covenant with an oath (Hebrews 6:18).

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

WEB: He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.