COVENANT Teaching 2

We had a couple of cold and rainy days here in Cape Town but this morning we have a lovely sunshine day. Our one son is visiting us for the week from Pretoria and we are having such a great time with him. Children are a sure blessing from YAHUWAH.

Now that we have established the basis for the introduction to the Covenant of YAH let us now start by dissecting His Covenant piece by piece so we can get the full knowledge of what this very important Covenant teaches.

A Covenant is always between two parties. YAHUWAH and ………… (a person’s name) is the most important covenant for us as His created people also made possible by His Blood and sealed by His RUWach (Spirit). Then there is another blood Covenant between a YAish (Man of YAH) and an ishAH (Women of YAH) a Covenant Marriage.

So in a Covenant, like any contract on earth, you will find listed the two parties making the agreement. In the case of a Covenant with YAHUWAH it is a “Pledge” you make or enter into.

The Introduction

In every Covenant you find right in the beginning being introduced to the parties involved with the Covenant or contract. This Covenant is not different.

It starts with the words: “YAHUWAH I am, The Almighty Eternal Loving YAH creating His People,….”

Now we know exactly who is one of the most important members of this Covenant or Agreement. The other party to the agreement is left open!!! It is a clear indication that His invitation to this Covenant is available to whoever wishes to go into Covenant with Him.

No prescription to WHO it should and shouldn’t be. He introduces Himself as “YAHUWAH I am”

"For YAHUWAH so loved the world that He gave His One Eternal Beloved Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have Eternal Life." YAHUWchanon 3:16. (John)

“There is Salvation in no other name. For there is no other name, under heaven, given among men, by which we can be saved.” MaasAH MalakiYA 4:12. (Acts)

“How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be worthy of, who has trodden underfoot The Sacrificial Love of The Son of Almighty Loving YA of All Creation and has counted His Blood of The Covenant with which He was sanctified like a filthy thing, insulting YAHUW’s RUWach of Chanon (Covenant Forgiveness)?” AbraYAHUW 10:29.

I don’t think it can be made clearer than this, WHOEVER! If you or I choose to follow Him, your name gets written in as the other person to the Covenant. Into the book of Life!!

  

Who do you Covenant with?

Now it is important that we get one thing straight here!!! In this Covenant you Covenant to YAHUWAH, and YAHUWAH alone. There are only two parties in His Covenant!

You cannot be in Covenant with Him and at the same time any other pagan god (elohim) or yourself.

In the word of YAH this is spelled out right from the word go and it is made clear that trying to be involved in any other relationship and fooling yourself that you are also in Covenant with Him just doesn’t exist. You are either in Covenant with Him or someone or something else. There’s a signboard on our highways that reads “Don’t fool yourself, speed kills” Well I want to tell you not to; “Fool yourself, you are either in Covenant with YAHUWAH or not”!

A modern day movement and actually if you go back into history you find this one fundamental lie being propagated that “All roads lead to God.” Whether you are Buddhist, Hindu, Islam or whatever. It is also very prominent again in the day and age we live in. In the first teaching I quoted the verse that tells us clearly that you cannot serve two masters. It is so important that we get this basic principle. Choose who you follow and go full out!

If you want to be a Hindu, go full out and be a proper Hindu. But in the same breath if you want to be a YAHUWan then also be one full out!! There is no grey area, no common ground and no compromise, don’t fool yourself. We are not deceived by this lie!

Covenant / Contract Principles

Any Covenant or contract has three basic principles.

1       Who is in Covenant?

2    Ownership

3     Liabilities and promises

I’m not a legal expert of any note but I think this should help us understand the basics.

Who is in Covenant?

We have already touched on this subject above. There have to be two basic parties to a make it a Covenant. In this case we are talking about YAHUWAH who comes to you and me and presents us with His Covenant. For the first principle to be in place we see that there needs to be two. So if you want to be or already are in Covenant with Him you sit down and you pick up His covenant presented to you and read what it is all about. Just as you would in an attorney’s office if you were to buy a house, a car, a business agreement, partnership, ext.

Your name and the person or party you enter into agreement would be typed on the contract. You would both sign the last page and every page of the contract to indicate that you and the other party are in agreement with the whole contract.

The Contract is normally presented from the person with the highest authority, for example if you lend money from a bank they would compile the contract and not yourself. Same here YAHUWAH compiled the Covenant and not us. One great thing I love about His Covenant is that it is short, precise and straight with no hidden small print. Signed and sealed in the Blood of His Son. That was His signature to the Covenant, now you need to sign from your side that is when you pledge yourself to His Covenant. You can basically also sign at every “commandment” as your commitment to adhere and keep your part of the agreement.

“Brothers, speaking in human terms about only man's covenants (contracts), yet when it has been signed and confirmed by witnesses, no one can make it void, or can add to it by himself alone.” GalatiYAns 3:15.

  

“However Almighty Loving YA of All Creation’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, "YAHUWAH knows those who are His,” and, "Let everyone who worships The Name of YAHUWAH separate himself from those who are not seeking His Word."

II TimotheUW 2:19.

Can you break a Covenant? Yes just like some people do every day. The theory of once saved always saved has a strict requirement: You have to stay in Him and His Covenant to the end. If you so wish to climb out of the Covenant along the way, it is your choice and free decision. YAHUWAH has and never will force anybody to love and serve Him! AhabiYA (Unselfish love of YAH) has as its basis freedom to choose. YAHUWAH is not into forced Covenants, arranged marriages ext. You choose to follow Him or not. Just as a Man ought to present to his potential wife his covenant and she is to accept it by free will and then if she does accept it they are to stay in Covenant. Infidelity is not part of His will. We will discuss that later when we get to that Covenant requirement.

“Not according to The Partial Covenant that I made with their fathers, in the YAom that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitseri, for they did not continue in My Covenant and therefore I had to discard most of them as My witnesses,” says YAHUWAH The Master.” AbraYAHUW 8:9. (Hebrews)

“Remain in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in Me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in Me and I in Him, the same bears much fruit, for separate from Me you can do nothing forever.

If a man does not remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered and they gather them, throw them into the fire and they cease to be.” YAHUWchanon 15:4-6.

Ownership

Every Covenant or contract details the ownership involved. You pay all the payments for the car and after you paid the last payment ownership of the car is transferred to you. Clear principle and generally understood and applied in practice, unless you are a wordless person that is a Covenant breaker. Ownership has to do with someone buying something and paid for it. Only then is ownership established, otherwise it is called stealing when you don’t pay the price agreed for it.

So in YAHUWAH’s Covenant there is also a transaction involved. You and I needed to be BOUGHT at a price set by Him. His Son YAHUW came and paid the full price to make His and Your contract legal and to establish ownership! Provided that you Covenant with Him, if your signature (pledge) is not on the Covenant there exists no Covenant, simple as that.

“for you were bought with a price. Therefore exalt Almighty Loving YA of All Creation in your body and in your spirit, which are The Almighty El YAH’s.” I CorinthiYAns 6:20.

“You were bought with a price, so do not become bondservants of men. You are to be a free man, as hwhy has redeemed you to be.” I CorinthiYAns 7:23.

“But to as many as did receive Him, to them He gave the power to become ‘sons of El YAH,’ that is to those who believe in His Name.” YAHUWchanon 1:12.

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world’s system, since I chose you to come out of the world’s system, therefore the world hates you.” YAHUWchanon 15:19.

Liabilities and promises

In an agreement of any sort there are liabilities and promises (agreements) made. If you pay R500 000 for the flat it becomes yours. IF you don’t then it is taken back and it doesn’t become yours.

YAHUWAH stated His Promises clearly. If you Love Him, Call upon His Name, Keep your Covenant (pledge, follow) His commandments and do everything through His AhabiYA (unselfish love of YAH then He gives certain promises.

Firstly: All your sins are forgiven and forgotten. (Paid for in full)

Secondly: He will give you His RUWach as a seal and deposit of,

Thirdly: Eternal Life!

If you don’t Covenant with Him, that is of cause your decision He also determined that you are not part of His ownership therefore part of Shatans ownership and you then don’t qualify for His Covenant promises, forgiveness, RUWach and eternal Life. Is that unjust? Definitely not! You have a FREE choice to accept His Covenant or not. You can’t have your bread buttered both sides my friend it is either or. You are either in Covenant with Him or you are not. I’m just recording the basic Covenant promises here that are important to our salvation. There are plenty more, “My peace I give to you”, freedom, happiness, joy, love ext.

In our day and age and especially the western populations have a serious misunderstanding of the basic fundamental principles of an agreement. We very easily break an agreement and don’t think a thing about the complications it has. You see parents walking out on marriages, walking out on their responsibilities to care and raise their children, pay their bills and then blaming it on someone else. Not honouring their agreement.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing and perfect will of YAHUWAH for you.” RomaniYA 12:2.

“You adulterers and adulteresses. Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Almighty Loving YA of All Creation? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of EL YAH of All Creation.” YA’acob 4:4 (James)

“Blessed are those who will forgive others for they shall obtain forgiveness for themselves.” I MoshAH 2:17. (Genesis)

I think we have covered enough for one day, now let us think through these principles and understand their implications.

Next time we go further and explore the rest of His Covenant.

May you have a fabulous day!

Theuns