1. Covenants Noah’s Covenant The Sign of the Covenant
A Covenant God Genesis 9
Covenants Noah’s Covenant The Sign of the Covenant

2. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Covenants Definition – a promise
Hodge – “a promise suspended upon a condition, and attached to disobedience with a certain penalty.”
Covenant is used for the first time but implied in Adam.

3. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Covenants Two Covenants
Covenant of works – Adam
Covenant of Grace – Jesus (New Covenant)
Two types of Covenants
Conditional
Unconditional

4. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Covenants God’s Covenants are
Unilateral – God establishes (initiates) the covenant with man, never vice versa.
Eternal – God does not begin to do something in one way and then change midstream – 2 Cor. 1:20; (Genesis 8:22).

5. 2 Corinthians 1:20 (ESV)
20  For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

6. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Covenants God’s Covenants are
Unilateral – God establishes (initiates) the covenant with man, never vice versa.
Eternal – God does not begin to do something in one way and then change midstream – 2 Cor. 1:20; (Genesis 8:22).
Established by grace – There was nothing good in any person with whom God established covenants.

7. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Covenants Covenants in Scripture
Adamic Covenant – Commencement (C)
Noahic Covenant – Preservation (U)
Abrahamic Covenant – Promise (U)
Mosaic Covenant – Law (C)
Levitical Covenant – Priesthood (U)
Davidic Covenant – Kingdom (C)
New Covenant – Consummation (U)

8. Hebrews 8 (ESV)
1  Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
2  a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.
3  For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
4  Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.

9. 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things
5  They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”
6  But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

10. 8  For he finds fault with them when he says:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
9  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.

11. 10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.

12. 12  For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
13  In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete.

13. Hebrews 10:1-18 (ESV)
1  For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
2  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
3  But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
4  For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

14. 5  Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,     but a body have you prepared for me;
6  in burnt offerings and sin offerings     you have taken no pleasure.
7  Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

15. 8  When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
9  then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
10  And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11  And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

16. 12  But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13  waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
14  For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

17. 15  And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
16  “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
17  then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
18  Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

18. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Noah’s Covenant Occasion – second beginning
God blesses Noah and his sons.
Basis of blessing was burnt offerings.
Design was same as Adam and Eve – Genesis 3:15.
Scope was people and animals.
Duration was as long as earth remains.

19. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Noah’s Covenant
Source – God as unconditional giver
All of Noah’s offspring benefit
Redemption by representation
Basis of this covenant – Noah’s offering
Jehovah’s response to Gen. 8:20 – 9:1-17
Sacrifice which produces the unconditional
Requirements included not eating blood, retribution for death (capital punishment), and people are to multiply

20. A Covenant God Genesis 9 Noah’s Covenant
Designed as a merciful act to keep people from being afraid of the same thing happening again
Then God gives a sign – the rainbow!

21. The Sign of the Covenant
A Covenant God Genesis 9
The Sign of the Covenant
Noah’s Rainbow – God’s beauty of healing for the scarred
Abraham’s stars – a promise to the lonely
Israel’s Sabbath – rest for the weary
Jacob’s ladder – a bridge for the isolated fugitive
Moses’ burning bush – courage for the defeated
The shepherd’s manger – salvation for those left out