Covenant

Fab, far back in eternity the Magna Charta of the saints was written by the hand of God, and it needed one signature to make it valid, the signature of the Son of God. Methinks I see him now, as my imagination pictures the lofty Son of God grasping the pen. See how his fingers write the name; and there it stands in everlasting letters — THE SON! Oh, sacred ratification of the treaty; it is stamped and sealed with the great seal of our Father in heaven.

God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee, my soul; that God who spake the world into existence by a word, who holds it, like an Atlas, upon his shoulders, who poises the destiny of all creation upon his finger; that God, stooping from his majesty, takes hold of thy hand and makes a covenant with thee.

We cannot call anything “sure” on earth; the only place where we can write that word is on the covenant, which is “ordered in all things and swre.”

Wherever you read of the God of Jacob in the Bible, you may know that that respects God’s covenant with Jacob. I love a covenant salvation — a covenant not made with my fathers, not between me and God, but between Christ and God.

Brother, you have lost your rolL Well, let me tell you, though you have lost your roll, the covenant is not lost, for all that. You never had the covenant in your hands yet; you had only a copy of it. The covenant itself where is it? It is under the throne of God; it is in the archives of heaven, in the ark of the covenant; it is in Jesu’s breast, it is on his hands, on his heart — it is there. Oh! if God were to put my salvation in my hands, I should be lost in ten minutes; but my salvation is not there — it is in Christ’s hands.

Take the Bible as it stands, and if you do not see everlasting love there, there is some fault in your eyes, and it is a case rather for the Ophthalmic Hospital than for me. If you cannot see everlasting, eternal security, blood-bought righteousness, there, I am hopeless altogether of your conversion to the truth, while you read it with your present prejudices.

The Prince of the kings of the earth, the Shaddai, the Lord of all flesh, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting Elohim, “He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.”

Oh! how sweet it is to look from the dulness of earth to the brilliancy of heaven! How glorious it is to leap from the ever tempest-tossed bark of this world, and stand upon the terra firma of the covenant!

Our Father’s covenant is drawn up according to the strictest rules of justice. There are the technical terms of heaven’s court; there is the great seal at the bottom, and there is the signature of Jesus, written in his own blood.

Christ made the covenant to pay a price, and God made the covenant that he should have the people. Christ has paid the price, and ratified the covenant, and I am quite sure that God will fulfil his part of it, by giving every elect vessel of mercy into the hands of Jesus.

Covenant mercies, covenant grace, covenant promises, covenant blessings, covenant help, covenant everything, the Christian must receive if he would enter into heaven.

The word “now,” in God’s dictionary, means everlasting. Tell me that God has now pardoned my sins; — it means, that he always has, for his acts are eternal acts. Oh how sweet to know an everlasting covenant!