Slides supporting a message by Mike Popovich, Freedom Ministries, Church, Colorado Springs, CO. Topic: Jesus - Our Rest, Liberation, and Restoration Date: 8/31/14 Link to Full Message: http://freedomministries.tv/media-library/8-31-14/jesusourrest/

1. The Blood Covenant – God’s
Unbreakable Covenant of
Grace

2.
Psalm 89:34
My covenant I will not break,
Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.

3.
Covenant: Berith – to cut a covenant by the
shedding of of blood and passing between the pieces
of flesh
- Can only be broken by death
- You promise to give your life, love, protection and
resources till death do you part

4.
Luke 24:44 Then He said to them,“These are the
words which I spoke to you while I was still with
you, that all things must be fulfilled which were
written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and
the Psalms concerning Me.” 45 And He opened
their understanding, that they might comprehend the
Scriptures.

5.
Luke 24:46 Then He said to them,“Thus it is
written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to
suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance and remission of sins should
be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem.

6.
The entire Bible is a about God cutting a covenant
with Jesus on man’s behalf.
We are the “sleeping partner.”
Jesus took all of our sins and shame and blessed us
with His righteousness and favor!

7.
Covenant Ceremony
- Exchange Coats or robes
- Exchange weapons and belts
- Cut the covenant – split the animals and walk
between the halves of flesh
- Raise the right arm and mix the blood

8.
Covenant Ceremony
- Exchange Names
- Make a Scar
- Give the Covenant Terms
- Eat Memorial Meal
- Plant a Memorial Tree

9.
Genesis 14:18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem
brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of
God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:
“Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20
And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
And he gave him a tithe of all.

10.
God’s Covenant with Abram
Genesis15:1 After these things the word of the
Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,“Do not be
afraid,Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly
great reward.”
2 But Abram said,“Lord God, what willYou give me,
seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is
Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 Then Abram said,“Look,
You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in
my house is my heir!”

11.
Genesis 15:4 And behold, the word of the Lord
came to him, saying,“This one shall not be your heir,
but one who will come from your own body shall be
your heir.” 5 Then He brought him outside and said,
“Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if
you are able to number them.” And He said to him,
“So shall your descendants be.”
6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it
to him for righteousness.

12.
Genesis 15:7 Then He said to him,“I am the Lord,
who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give
you this land to inherit it.”
8 And he said,“Lord God, how shall I know that I
will inherit it?”

13.
Genesis 15:9 So He said to him,“Bring Me a
three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a
three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young
pigeon.” 10 Then he brought all these to Him and
cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each
piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the
birds in two. 11 And when the vultures came down
on the carcasses,Abram drove them away.

14.
Genesis 15:12 Now when the sun was going
down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold,
horror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then
He said to Abram:“Know certainly that your
descendants will be strangers in a land that is not
theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them
four hundred years.

15.
Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, when the sun
went down and it was dark, that behold, there
appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that
passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day
the Lord made a covenant with Abram

16.
Genesis17 When Abram was ninety-nine years
old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,“I
am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
2 And I will make My covenant between Me and
you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” 3 Then
Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him,
saying:

17.
Genesis 17:4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is
with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but
your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a
father of many nations.

18.
Genesis 17:15 Then God said to Abraham,“As for
Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but
Sarah shall be her name. 16 And I will bless her and
also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and
she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples
shall be from her.”

19.
Genesis 22:2 Then He said,“Take now your son,
your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the
land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt
offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell
you.”

20.
Genesis 22:6 So Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he
took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of
them went together. 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham
his father and said,“My father!”
And he said,“Here I am, my son.”

21.
Genesis 22: 7 Then he said,“Look, the fire and
the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?”
8 And Abraham said,“My son, God will provide for
Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of
them went together.

22.
Genesis 22:13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and
looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a
thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the
ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of
his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the
place,The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day,
“In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

23.
Hebrews 6:13 For when God made a promise to
Abraham, because He could swear by no one
greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying,“Surely
blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply
you.”
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he
obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by
the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them
an end of all dispute.

24.
Hebrews 6:17 Thus God, determining to show
more abundantly to the heirs of promise the
immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,
18 that by two immutable things, in which it is
impossible for God to lie, we might have strong
consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of
the hope set before us.
19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both
sure and steadfast,

25.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel after those days, says
the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write
them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their lawless deeds I will
remember no more.”

26.
Romans 5:17 For if by the one man’s offense
death reigned through the one, much more those
who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness will reign in life through the One,
Jesus Christ

27. I Corinthians 11:24
“Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do
this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He
also took the cup after supper, saying,“This cup is the
new covenant in My blood.This do, as often as you drink
it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
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