The Power Of The Blood Covenant
FOUNDATION
STATEMENT: There’s power in the blood covenant. If we as believers are going to ever see
the power of it working in our lives in fullness, then we must apply the
pressure of faith, relying on it and only it. – Hebrews 9:16
I.
There’s power in this
blood covenant
A. There’s power in the BLC
b/c it is the guarantee that what was promised will be carried out
1. EX: A contract carries
power b/c its the guarantee that you will get what is promised
2. This is a promised
contract
a. God cutting the covenant
didn’t make it more true
b. God cutting the blood
covenant gave us the guarantee & u can stake ur
life on it
3. The blood covenant is
powerful because it enables the believer to reach that place of full persuasion
and single-mindedness
a. It’s 1 thing 4 God 2
promise it; it’s another thing for Him to stand in blood and swear by Himself
b. This blood covenant
enables the believer to stick his neck out on the line with a full persuasion
that He’s okay because he’s got it in blood
B. Abraham was looking for a
guarantee so God stood in blood and swore by Himself, making covenant with
Abraham (Genesis 15)
1. In Abraham’s day a BLC
was the most serious agreement that could be entered into
a. God comes down on the
level of man 2 do something that Abram can understand-Heb 6:16
b. When Abraham asks 4 a
guarantee, God says I’ll cut the blood covenant w/ you
2. It was powerful when God
said it, but now He cut covenant with Abraham & it is really serious; It
takes on a whole new form when God stands in blood
C. God cut the blood
covenant to show us the unchangeableness of his Word (Heb 6:13)
1. He guaranteed the promise
w/ a BLC in which he stood in blood & swore by himself
a. He did this to show us
that neither He nor His word are changing & if we’ll stand on his word
& refuse to change then the circumstances will just have to change
b. He did this in his great
desire for us to get singled minded because then and only then can we receive
from him (James 1:6-8)
2. He came between the
promise that he made and the man that he made it to & made a blood
covenant, acting as the bridge that would enable the man to receive what was
promised
a. This blood covenant is
going 2 act as a bridge that enables man 2 receive the promise
b. It’s going to give birth
to fully persuaded faith and earnest expecting hope
c. It’s going to take me to
a place where I’m single minded and fully persuaded so that I can receive the
promise
D. Have faith in the
covenant
1. Have faith in the fact
that God stood in blood and swore by Himself to show you the unchangeableness
of is Word
II.
To see the power of the
blood covenant, we have to be steadfast in it
A. The only way to see the
strength or power of an object is to put pressure on that object and see just
how much pressure it can hold up under
1. We can put pressure on
chair until it breaks and find out how strong that chair is
a. If that chair breaks
under 401lbs of pressure then that chair has the strength to hold up 400lbs
b. Until we put pressure on
that chair we’ll never see/know the amount of strength the chair has
2. To see the power of this
covenant in our lives we have to begin pressure on this covenant called faith
pressure
a. The more faith pressure
you put on that covenant, the greater the power of that covenant you will see
operating in your life; When you stand in faith you apply pressure to this
covenant
b. When you apply pressure
on this covenant in the area of healing you will see the power of this covenant
to heal
3. How much are you
demanding out of this covenant with your faith
a. The power of the covenant
that is in operation in your life today is a direct result of the amount of
faith pressure that you’re putting on that covenant
B. We’ve got to be faithful,
steadfast, and continue in this covenant (Psalm 78:8-16, 36-42)
1. That act of continuing is
where most believers miss it-John 8, James 1
2. People who aren’t
steadfast in this covenant will turn back in the day of battle
a. People who aren’t
training in this covenant will turn back when it’s time to fight; Faith is a
fight
1)
How
much are u training in this covenant? How much are u reading it, studying it, &
then living it? People who aren’t faithful to continue in it will turn back
when it’s time to fight
2)
David
didn’t turn back in battle b/c he’d been exercising in his covenant
b. A steadfastness in this
word will keep you from turning back in the day of battle
1)
If
you’re not steadfast in the covenant, you’ll turn back in battle & lose
2)
If
you don’t turn back you’ll win (Galatians 6:9)
c. They turned back b/c
their soul’s not anchored, there soul’s not anchored b/c they have no hope,
they have no hope b/c they aren’t conscious of their covenant
3. People who turn back and
compromise limit the power & the ability of this covenant
a. This New Covenant made in
the blood of Jesus has the ability to heal, deliver, prosper but you’ll never
see that ability if you’re turning back in the day of battle
1)
Compromise
works to keep you from God’s best
b. This compromising
attitude came b/c they weren’t steadfast in our covenant
4. The didn’t remember the
covenant that they had
a. They were with God and
had the power to win, but were just like people who didn’t have covenant with
God because they forgot their covenant
b. When u forget your
covenant you operate on the level of natural man w/o God
C. This covenant requires a
selling-out, undying, unending, never compromising, never-wavering commitment
on the part of the believer (James 4:4)
III.
The working power of the
blood covenant
A. The power of the Old
Covenant
1. They put so much faith
pressure on that covenant they saw the greatness of the power of that covenant
to hold them up in any situation
a. EX: Caused a 100 year old
man & a 90 year old woman to have a baby; Caused a 17 year-old average boy
to defeat a warrior specialist; Caused 3 Hebrews to be delivered from a fiery
furnace; A man thrown in the lion’s den & came out safe; Parted the Red Sea
2. Hebrews 8:6 – We
have a better covenant established on better promises
B. This covenant will care for you (Psalm 89:28)
1. Stand fast-Nurse, nurture, care for, be a guardian,
be faithful, be trustworthy, be established, trusty, assurance
a. My covenant will nurse him, nurture him, care for
him, be a guardian for him, be faithful with him, be a trusty assurance for him
b. The covenant will care for it, my job is to put
faith pressure on the covenant
C. The covenant of peace (Isaiah 54:10)
1. The covenant of shalom
(peace, safety, prosperity, well-being, wholeness)
a. This covenant carries the
power to produce nothing missing and nothing broken
b. It will not ever be taken
away from me
2. This is a covenant where
you have everything that you could ever need (Genesis 17:1)
IV.
The power of the blood
Covenant births for me covenant rights
A. We have obtained an
inheritance, we have to receive it-Eph 1:11, 18, Col 1:12, 3:24, 1 Peter 1:4-5
B. We have covenant rights
to this inheritance (Hebrews 9:15-17)
1. A will, testament, or
covenant has no power as long as the person whose will it is lives, but when
that person dies then that will, testament, or covenant gains force, strength,
and power
a. Force – firm,
strength
b. Testament –
covenant, solemn agreement, will, a legal document by which property is
transferred to heirs
2. When somebody wills
something to another person, that person has no right
to those things that have been willed until that person dies. However, when that person dies, that
inheritance has been willed to a person and it is rightfully his, no matter
what anybody says. Because there
was a covenant made that said so and when that person dies that covenant or
will takes force and works to ensure that I get what is rightfully mine.
a. That covenant is working
to ensure that you get the healing, prosperity, deliverance that is rightfully
yours, but you got to work it.
3. This word is not my
privilege to have; it’s my right to have
a. Acts 20:32 (AMP) – And now [brethren], I
commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His
protection and care]. And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the
commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor]. It is able to build
you up and to give you [your
rightful] inheritance among all God’s set-apart ones (those
consecrated, purified, and transformed of soul).
b. That’s why Satan’s a
thief; he’s coming to steal what’s already rightfully yours (John 10:10)
4. Luke 13:11-17 –
Does not this woman have a right to be healed seeing that she is a daughter of
Abraham and the friend of God.
C. We are joint heirs with
Christ (Romans 8:17)
1. Joint-Heirs (Sunekleronomos) – Sun – partnership,
cooperation; Kleros – portion, allotment, part
of something that belongs to a person or to a specific thing for which the
person is responsible --- Two people joined together sharing an inheritance,
co-inheritors
2. Whatever He gets we get
through covenant-Ephesians 1:19, 1 John 4:17, Matthew 28:18