Sermon by Bruce McCallum - 18 March 2018 - Mosaic and Palestinian Covenant

2. Covenant with Moses

3. Here’s a few things you
need to know about this
covenant with Moses

4. 1. It’s Complicated

5. 2. Here’s why God made this
Covenant

6. The schoolmaster
• Sets out the standard of righteousness
• Gives a clear external definition of sin because of
the inadequacy of man’s conscience
• Shows Israel’s exceeding sinfulness
• Exposes to all men their guilt before God
• Protects Israel from total corruption by other
nations
• Shut’s up Israel ‘in custody’ under a schoolmaster
to prepare them for Christ’s coming

7. • Shows how God deals with man: Law and
Grace
• Shows us grace and redemption in the law
• Provides temporary atonement for sin so Israel
could approach God in worship
• Shows what actually takes place in a Covenant
• Shows the world that none can be made
righteous by law but only through grace and
faith
• To show that law could not give life – but Jesus
can

8. Galatians 3:15-19 (NIV)
15 Brothers, let me take an example from
everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add
to a human covenant that has been duly
established, so it is in this case. 16 The promises
were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The
Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning
many people, but "and to your seed," meaning
one person, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this:
The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set
aside the covenant previously established by God
and thus do away with the promise.

9. Galatians 3:15-19 (NIV)
18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then
it no longer depends on a promise; but God in His
grace gave it to Abraham through a promise. 19
What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was
added because of transgressions until the Seed to
whom the promise referred had come. The law
was put into effect through angels by a mediator.

10. Hebrews 9:10 (NIV)
10 They are only a matter of food and drink and
various ceremonial washings - external
regulations applying until the time of the new
order.

11. 3. Moses Covenant was made up of 3
parts
•MORAL LAW – 10 Commandments
•CIVIL LAW – Moral law applied to civic
life
•CEREMONIAL LAW – laws governing
sacrifices etc

12. 4. Palestinian covenant
•Amplifies the Covenant with Moses

13. The schoolmaster
informs you of
what will steal
your FREEDOM
to be fully human
and alive in a
rapidly shifting
world

14. 1. Imagining idols are unique to other
cultures – and you don’t have any 
“Idolatry happens when we turn good
things into ultimate things” Tim Keller

15. 6 … 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
Repent! Turn from your idols and
renounce all your detestable practices!

16. 2. Thinking the 10 commandments are
irrelevant to our lives and our society

17. 3. Fantasizing that sin is OK
Romans 3:23 (NIV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God
Romans 7:18 (NIV)
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is,
in my sinful nature. For I have the
what is good, but I cannot carry it

18. 4. Bungee jumping without a rope
Romans 6:1-2 (NIV)
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on
sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no
means!
Titus 2:11-12 (NIV)
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has
appeared to all men. 12 It teaches us to say
"No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and
to live self-controlled, upright and
this present age,

19. 5. Failing to spot Jesus in the Old
Testament