A Psalm of David when he fled from the face of Absalom his son 1. Yahweh, how my adversaries increase! Many are those who rise against me! 2. Many are those who say about my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah 3. And you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, My…
God's made his covenant with Noah after the flood in response to Noah's sacrifice. That sacrifice shows us the necessity of the shedding of blood for the covenant of God to be fulfilled.
1. Why do nations rage, And peoples meditate vanity? 2. Kings of earth take a stand, And rulers take counsel together Against Yahweh and against his anointed: 3. “Let us break their bonds, And cast off from us their cords.” 4. He who sits in the heavens will laugh. Yahweh will deride them. 5. Then…
1. Blest the man who does not walk in the counsel of wicked ones, and in the way of sinners does not stand, and in the seat of scoffers does not sit. 2. But in the law of Yahweh is his delight, And in his law will he meditate day and night. 3. And he…
The promise of God to Adam after the fall, implicit in his words to the serpent in Genesis 3:15, is the mother of all the promises of God in Old and New Testaments and the acorn from which grows the mighty oak tree of God's covenant with his people maintained and enriched throughout all of…
Though the Scriptures do not tell us directly that God's relationship with Adam was covenantal, there was a promise implicit in his threat of death for eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is best not to call this a covenant of works.