The Cost of the Covenant

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The Cost of the Covenant

The Church was built on covenant

January 12, 2017 • Benham Brothers

* When God made a covenant with Abraham He required Abraham to honor it.
* It was going to cost Abraham something in order to enter the covenant.
* For him, he had to cut his junk.
* He had to remove the needless skin from his unit.
* Can you imagine this? He was 99 years old at this time.
* The first blessing from God to man was procreation.
* Now, the sign of the covenant required pain to enter it.
* If Abe didn’t want the pain he didn’t get the covenant.
* For us, to be in covenant with God it cost Jesus His life.
* The price we have to pay is the same - to give up our lives.
* But to remain in the covenant we have to endure the pain.
* Are you willing to pay that price?

The Foundations of Church

January 15, 2013 • Benham Brothers

* Covenant with Noah (8:20) * Covenant with Abe (Gen 12) * Description of Covenant (Gen 15) 15 years later he had Isaac 1000 years later Moses came 2000 years later Jesus came Gen 9 - Civil Govt Gen 9:20-24 - Covering Nakedness * Ham - cursed because he didn't cover Noah (father of Canaanites) * Shem - father of Israelites * Japheth - father of Gentiles Gen 12 - First thing's first * The first thing Abe did when he came into a land was build an altar to show honor to the maker of the Covenant * When Abe told Sarah to lie he had not yet built the altar - he failed to do it first!

Huddle Up

January 10, 2014 • Benham Brothers

God's command was to multiply and fill the earth, but the people wanted to huddle up God's plan was for us to possess and take dominion, and we can't do that in a crowd They also wanted to build something that would make their names memorable They wanted to build something so tall they couldn't be flooded out again God confused their language, which was the opposite thing He did on Pentacost God waited until they spent a lot of time and money before He busted it up - He gave them time to repent Our natural tendency will be to huddle in a comfortable group and not go into all the world (our neighborhood)

Hero Worship

February 9, 2017 • Benham Brothers

* The people revolted when Moses left - this proves they held him in too high esteem. * They wanted someone / something to look at, so they made a golden calf. * God knew this was in their hearts so He removed their leader. * Moses had become their hero and their enemy. * When things were good he was the hero. When bad their enemy. * When you’re worshipping a person and that person fails to live up to your expectations you will find someone or something to replace them with. * Churches today have a tendency to elevate their leaders to be heroes. * vs 6 - Their hero manifested itself in their desire to party. * Two observations: * 1) In their minds the golden calf represented God. * This was breaking the second commandment to have no graven image. * 2) In the same place the law was given it was transgressed. * This showed the imperfection of the law. * This is why Jesus HAD to come to earth and leave us the Holy Spirit.