I Promise, Part 2

Humanity, as the pinnacle of God’s creation, holds a unique role in God’s story, symbolized by the Covenant with Creation. Despite humanity’s betrayal, leading to separation from God, there remains hope in God’s promise to overcome the consequences through a future Savior who will restore the covenants and defeat evil.

Praise
Brandon Lake

Fountains
Josh Baldwin

You Keep Your Promises
Charity Gayle

At the center of the covenants is relationship.

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Covenant
When two parties bind themselves together and make permanent and serious commitments of faithful, loyal love, obedience, and trust to one another.

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Genesis 1:1
God created…

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Genesis 1:3
God said, “Let there be light…”

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Genesis 1:4
And God separated the light from darkness…

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Genesis 1:5
God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.

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Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

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Gentry and Wellum, Kingdom through Covenant
“In the ancient Near East, since the king is the living statue of the god, he represents the god on earth. He makes the power of god a present reality. To sum up, the term, ‘the image of god’ in the culture and language of the ancient Near East in the fifteenth century BC would have communicated two main ideas, (1) rulership and (2) sonship.”

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Psalm 8:4-6
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet…

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Genesis 2:17
“…but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.”

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Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned…

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Genesis 3:16-19
To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

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Genesis 3:23
…So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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Genesis 3:15
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

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Protoevangelium
The first gospel.

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Romans 5:6-8
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Romans 5:15
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

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