Greetings to you my dear friend, I sincerely hope all is well with you and with your children
by the grace of God who never fails us. In Genesis 3:15 the Bible says,
"and I will put enmity between thee and the woman between thy seed and her seed.
It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heal." This is called the Adamic
Covenant, a covenant God made with Adam and through Adam to the whole world. God tells Adam what
He will do. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. In Genesis chapter 9 we have the covenant
God made with Noah, from verse 11. "And I will establish my covenant with you.
Neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be
a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, this is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations. I do
set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it
shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
And I will remember my covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all
flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh". In this covenant God
tells Noah what He will do. He will put a bow in the sky to remind Noah that he would no more
send a flood to destroy the earth. In Genesis 12, we have the Abrahamic covenant, reading from
verse 1, "Now the Lord had said to Abraham, get thee out of thy country and from thy
kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a
great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shall to be a blessing. And I
will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curse thee and in thee shall all families of the earth
be blessed." In this covenant God tells Abraham what he will do. In each of the three
covenants it is God who lays out the items of the covenant. The human being either accepts
through obedience or rejects through disobedience. In Exodus 19 and 20 we have what
may be called the Mozaic covenant in that covenant God, gives the ten commandments and the Israelites
were either to obey or disobey. By the way that covenant is for the entire world because thou shall not
kill applies to the whole world. God gave ten principles. These are the principles He writes on
the heart of a person in the new covenant. By the way the new covenant is the way Abraham was saved,
it's the way Paul was saved because God only has one way to save. When you hear the old covenant
this was on the agreement the Israelites made with God. Not God with them he accepted it but they
made it with him. What am I trying to say?-- when God makes a covenant He decides the details of the covenant.
We accept through obedience or reject through disobedience. The new covenant which saved Abraham,
which saved Adam which saved Paul, which saved anyone who was saved because as I said God only has
one way to save. That covenant is The Law the decalogue, The Ten Commandments ommandments.
We either obey them or we disobey them but it is God who outlines the items of that agreement.
The Ten Commandments which includes the Sabbath. At no time when God makes a covenant
can human being contribute to God's details. God contributes to details we contribute obedience
or disobedience. My friend, as you keep this Sabbath holy remember you are simply saying I accept
the details of God's covenant of salvation which he writes on my heart the ten commandments.
I cannot change them you cannot change them because no human being adds to the details of God's
commandments. May Lord bless you and doubly bless your children as you honor the details of the new
covenant the ten commandments God bless you and Happy Sabbath.