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Short Sermon by Pastor Dr Ng Swee Ming during Watch Night Covenant Service
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Covenant
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USES of SALT
A covenant is a contract or agreement between two or more parties.
Covenant is how God has chosen • to communicate with us and • to make His Promises to us
Our Bible is a “covenant document” - The OT NT are really Old & New Covenants.
The Latin word for covenant is "TESTAMENT"
Many different Covenants in the Bible With every COVENANT that God makes He
gives a visible sign or symbol, possibly as a reminder : to man & to Himself
Noahic Covenant (Gen 9:8-17)
With Noah He used a rainbow
Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 12-17)
•Gen 17:9-14
•God gave the sign of circumcision
Mosaic Covenant (Exo 19-34)
•With Moses He gave the 10 Commandments carved on tablets of stone
2 Sam 7 Prophet Nathan & King David A House for the Lord An enduring Kingship
• Read 2 Chronicles 13:1-18 • 2 Chro 13:5 Don't you know that the
Lord, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a COVENANT OF SALT?
• God gave SALT as a sign / symbol.
Covenant of Salt
it is mentioned TWO OTHER times in scripture.
• Lev 2:13“And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.”
Covenant of Salt
• Numbers 18:19“All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD with you and your descendants with you.”
Jesus taught in Matt 5:13
"You are the salt of the
earth.
Mark 9 .... 49 Everyone will be salted with fire. 50 "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness,
how can you make it salty again? (Matt 5:13; Lk 14:34)
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with
each other."
Paul in Col 4:6 Let your conversation be
always full of grace, SEASONED WITH SALT,
so that you may know how to answer everyone.
“New Covenant” Luke 22 - Jesus at the Last Supper
1 Cor 11 – Paul re-iterating...
Heb 9 & 12 - Christ is the mediator
The Sign : Bread & Wine
Jer 31:31 & 3 31 "The time is coming," declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.”
33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Paraphrase Jer 31:31-33 31 “2013 is coming,” declares the Lord, “when I
will make a NEW COVENANT with the house of SSMC.
33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of SSMC for 2013," declares the Lord.“
I will put my LAW in their MINDS and write it on their HEARTS. I will be THEIR GOD, and they will be MY PEOPLE.”
“Covenant of Salt”
“Lord, I renew my COVENANT with you for the coming year, 2013. Help me Lord to be your SALT in the world – • preserving righteousness, peace & love, • giving Godly flavor wherever I am and • causing a Godly thirst to those in need of a
Savior. Lord, season my tongue with SALT to be ever-ready to testify about you to all who will hear. In faith I make this COVENANT, Amen”