Keep His Covenant - Christian Bible Study

Keep His Covenant
by Lori Ramsey

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. - Psalm 103:17-18 KJV

Keep his covenant. What does that mean to a Christian? We are under the new (or second) covenant. So, then, we must keep the new covenant. What exactly does the new covenant entail?

Let’s look at Hebrews 8:6-13 KJV

v6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

v7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

v8. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

v9. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

v10. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

v11. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

v12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

v13. In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

And in Hebrews 12:24 KJV we find that . . . Jesus the mediator of the new covenant . . . and in Hebrews 13:20 KJV . . . Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.

The new covenant is Jesus Christ. He died for our sins. His blood sealed it. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103:12 KJV) And if we confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is the son of God and believe, then are we living under the new covenant? Well, almost.

The full spectrum of salvation is not just confessing and believing but living. Be a living example - Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16-17)

Therefore we are commanded to live - healthy, happy, joyous, peaceful, prosperous and safe lives. These things glorify our Father. He made all the provisions - we are to work toward that by speaking the word of God with our tongues, having faith in God to provide and believe that it is a reality.

How do we first come into salvation? By speaking the Word - and believing what we speak is true. And by having faith in the words we speak. It starts this way and continues this way. We must have faith that what we speak we believe to be true. That’s how it comes about. That’s how God created us! “And God said . . .” Genesis 1:3 KJV.

All of Genesis chapter 1 and 2 God spoke everything into existence.

It’s our Christian duty to live in complete salvation - so that others will want and seek for a piece of what we [Christians] have. This is how we keep His covenant.

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