Covenant theology

doctrine · 19 episodes

221On the Mount of Olives 21 Jul 2025 35:46¶ 118 “To return to “but this is a history podcast,” why is this significant historically? For 4,000 years now God has been dealing in terms…” 36:15¶ 119 “We move on to the Davidic covenant and Solomon’s temple, which is an amplification of all that’s gone before but we throw in some…” 37:06¶ 121 “Each time God had renewed his covenant with his people, the covenant embraces heaven and earth. It always has. Heaven is where God meets…”

182By Faith Abraham 26 Feb 2024 9:17¶ 29 “As I think about the Abrahamic covenant, and covenant in general, I think that’s one of the things I most benefited from learning was…” 5:03¶ 20 “Yes. So initially as those books were starting to come out as I was an early teenager, I was beginning to have my ideas…” 24:19¶ 65 “The promise is intact and has not been fulfilled, so we here. We’ve been called the children of Abraham, we’re part of this process…”

176The Effects of Sin 15 Jan 2024 12:39¶ 38 “We don’t mean magic. Covenant is the word we keep saying until people are sick of it because it is the answer to so…” 13:18¶ 40 “So once they had conceived lust in their heart, the act was inevitable, and yet God waited on the act. God did not punish…” 21:31¶ 64 “On the other hand, this is not the existentialist or nihilist, “Hey, they did their thing. Why does that touch me?” Well, the thing…”

173Retrospective 21 Aug 2023 13:27¶ 51 “So over the last three years we’ve seen the covenant formatting change. We start with patriarchs and relatively small families, and then one of…” 14:03¶ 52 “Then that gets converted into a kingdom with royalty and monarchy and palaces and a standing army, and then eventually a temple, and that…” 40:04¶ 124 “That was the realization I had in 2020-ish. Other theological topics that I’ve studied have also been very pastoral, kind of reclaiming the idea…”

159The Restoration Era 20 Mar 2023 1:26¶ 6 “Because it’s one covenant, and that’s covenantal theology speaking. It’s not broken up dispensations where each one closes and God tries something relatively brand…” 1:47¶ 7 “So as God reveals himself more and more under historical circumstances, at timeS he radically changes the outward structure – not the promise, not…” 1:08¶ 4 “The last covenant was the Davidic covenant. Now, in a sense, all of the covenants keep on going. We find references in Malachi, “Remember…”

129Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 2) - Dispensationalism v. Covenant Theology 1 Aug 2022 1:50¶ 5 “But then what really did in dispensationalism for me was learning about covenant theology and recognizing that dispensationalism isn’t so much an eschatology as…” 3:46¶ 10 “God had a plan in the Old Testament, and now here’s that hermeneutic and covenant theology thing you were talking about. God had this…” 26:11¶ 79 “I keep quoting the verse that Abigail speaks in 1 Samuel – “bound up in a bundle of life with the Lord.” I think…”

113Solomon 11 Apr 2022 11:09¶ 39 “Last night at Bible study, Bryan, we were talking about covenant. I haven’t talked about covenant for a long time, and I asked a…” 11:54¶ 42 “There you go. Freewill screws everything up. Oh but wait, we’re talking about Sovereign Grace Baptists. There’s the rub. It makes more sense for…” 28:54¶ 112 “There are political and sociological and even climatic issues involved here. Weather gets involved. The law said, “I’ll close up heaven.” The heaven is…”

108The Davidic Covenant 7 Mar 2022 48:49¶ 139 “Not in that passage. It does show up in the Psalms, but it’s a later psalmist that uses it. This is the thing. I…” 49:30¶ 141 “And that’s the thing. The word covenant is what we’re bickering about because they say, “Yeah, throughout the whole Old Testament it meant one…” 49:48¶ 142 “It’s a nice way to kind of halt covenant theology, keep it in the Old Testament and not let it get into the New,…”

81Choice and Children 30 Aug 2021 50:10¶ 167 “As I say, it is somewhat remarkable that “my house” still is in there in most of the posters and Christian memes and things,…” 50:43¶ 170 “There’s none of that kind of nonsense. He chooses for his household. Now, does he choose eternal life for all of them? He chooses…” 51:19¶ 172 “It is a Christian family, which in itself rings all kinds of bells. “Can you do that? Can you have a Christian family?” Well,…”

79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 31:35¶ 108 “You just said something that threw something into stark relief for me. I’m going to try to be careful, because we don’t want to…” 32:31¶ 110 “That seems to be plain contradictory to me, now that I think about it. I’m not sure why I haven’t thought about it before,…” 32:46¶ 111 “As Paul was describing Israel’s privileges, he says, “To them belong the covenants of promise.” That isn’t enough. The covenant is in part outward,…”

64The Next Generation 21 Mar 2021 16:28¶ 49 “That’s kind of what Moses is talking about. He does four sermons that correspond roughly to not the first point of the covenant, but…” 38:51¶ 103 “The first sermon is the second point of the covenant. The second sermon is the third point – law stipulations. And the third sermon…” 39:03¶ 104 “It’s here that we come across the blessings and cursings, and also instructions for a formal covenant-cutting ceremony once they get into the land,…”

61Liberty and Responsibility 28 Feb 2021 17:37¶ 47 “For those of you who don’t know what we’re talking about, we’re talking about covenant thinking. Once you’ve established God as the source and…” 17:07¶ 46 “Yeah. I’m looking over my original discussion of this material, and interestingly enough I see that what follows falls into five categories, and this…” 21:09¶ 57 “This is the second part of covenant life. God structures reality and we deal with that.”

47Moved with Passion 22 Nov 2020 40:44¶ 118 “One of those was, “What is the heart of God’s covenant in every age?” and it’s “He shall be to us a God, and…” 39:48¶ 116 “Sometimes, particularly in Calvinistic circles, we kind of forget that because I’m not sure where that falls exactly in the locus of systematic theology.…”

41The Metaphysics of Fatherhood 11 Oct 2020 2:09¶ 9 “Covenantally speaking, it’s the fifth commandment and thus corresponds to the fifth point of a covenant outline, which is continuity, inheritance, succession. Honor the…” 44:05¶ 153 “He doesn’t add to them. He includes these new sons in him so that they are distinct, and yet not identical, and yet they…” 13:28¶ 38 “You posited the question a few minutes ago, if God is this abstract and static field of some sort, how do we relate to…”

32Identity Crisis: Passover, Community, and Freedom 9 Aug 2020 32:34¶ 100 “When we start defining ourselves, we start thinking covenantally, and God highlights this in this whole Passover thing. “Yes, you’re part of the covenant…” 6:52¶ 20 “But before we’re done it moves to, “So you’re the covenant people. You’re descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, you’re circumcised – it’s not…” 2:17¶ 8 “How about Israel? That’s a good part of this. In a sense, Pharaoh is a prop to the story because God’s primary concern is…”

29Prince of Egypt (part 3): Of Liberty and Liberation 19 Jul 2020 28:42¶ 78 “So there’s a lot to be said for covenantal thinking at this point, and covenantal thinking is necessarily historical thinking. The more we understand…” 5:56¶ 14 “The issue here is not Israel’s socioeconomic status. The issue is their covenantal status. God, out of sheer grace, has covenanted with a people…” 9:03¶ 20 “That’s important to understand. This is not God coming to rescue “an oppressed people,” “a poor people.” This is God coming to rescue the…”

20A Bond in Blood 17 May 2020 28:03¶ 101 “We’re talking covenantal thinking. God places a legal claim on these children. They are his. Can they apostatize? Yes, they can, but until that…” 11:27¶ 43 “Then only after that does God say, “Oh, and by the way, since you’re my son and my servant since we’re in covenant together,…” 27:42¶ 100 “We need to steer – to use philosophical terms – away from nominalism on the one hand that says this is just a symbol,…”

16Of One Blood 19 Apr 2020 27:15¶ 70 “Nations are covenantal groups. Kindreds and peoples, that’s extended family. That’s covenant and extended covenant. Tongues is a little more difficult, but when we…” 36:00¶ 103 “All right, getting us back on track here, we’re talking about covenant. Covenant is rooted in the fellowship that is the life of the…” 36:18¶ 104 “It assumes a sovereign God who could tell us what to do because he made us and owns us, but that God is love…”

7Covenant 16 Feb 2020 4:37¶ 24 “People have argued about whether or not you can nail down exactly how many parts or facets or dimensions a covenant has, and I…” 5:52¶ 30 “The words that we’ve used at our school have been lordship, representation, stipulations, oath and blessing or oath and sanction, and continuity/succession/inheritance. You can…” 6:27¶ 31 “We have to be careful of not making them airtight because the psalmist here sure didn’t. The ideas flow one into another. You’re making…”