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for this. Now, if you want to do your own thing, and you don’t want to serve God, I’m sorry, but
this is not for you. People don’t like that, but that’s how it is.
Covenant is serious business with God. If you’ve studied it, you know it. Covenant is serious.
You know the Bible has been labeled “Old Testament” and “New Testament.” “Testament” is a
Latin word that replaced “covenant.” Really, the better word is “covenant.” Sometimes the same
people who translated it “covenant” translated the same word “testament” in the New Testament,
but there’s really no reason to do it like that. It’s covenant: Old Covenant, New Covenant.
Covenant is serious with God.
What is a covenant? Let me give you some definitions. One of the best words I can use to
describe it is just to say “binding.” A covenant is a bond. One English definition says “a formal,
solemn, and binding agreement,” binding.
When I think of covenant, I think of the word “commitment.” Committed. A few decades ago, if
a man looked you in the eye, shook your hand, and told you he would do something, that was it.
But, nowadays, you can have a 98-page contract and 5 lawyers and still not get it done, because
people do not have integrity in their word, and they have no concept of covenant. When you’re
in covenant, you’re committed, you’re bound. There’s no saying “forget this,” and no getting
upset and breaking it off. “Well, we’re tired of this.” No, it’s a covenant. With God, a covenant is
everlasting.
Is there a covenant of healing? Did God establish something? Did He reveal Himself and
mention that there are two parts to covenant? There’s your part, and there’s His part. Should you
be committed to your part? Should you not change? Should you be faithful to your part? What
about God? Can you count on Him? Will He be faithful to keep His part of the covenant? Will
He bind Himself and hold Himself to it? Yes! If you do what He told you to do, He’s bound, too.
If you don’t, then no. You cannot expect Him to do something whether you keep the covenant or
not. It just doesn’t work that way.
If you’ve read the Old Testament, you know that. In Deuteronomy, He said, “If you obey Me all
these blessings will come on you.” (11:27) What if you don’t? All these blessings will come on
you anyway? No, they won’t. What if you rebel against God, and you do your own thing? What
if you don’t care what He thinks or what He wants, and you’re going to do what you want to
do—forget everybody else, and forget God? Then all of these curses will come on you, and you
don’t get the blessing. (11:28) There are a lot of folks who don’t want to keep the covenant, but
they want the blessing. It doesn’t work that way. You want to keep the covenant. This is the only
good life there is, keeping the covenant life.
We’re sure it’s God’s will for all of to be healed
today because of the covenant of healing.
He said, “I Am Jehovah-Rapha. I Am the Lord Who heals you, Who mends you, Who restores
you to normal.” I like just hearing that. It came right out of the Bible. “I Am,” He says. Do you
suppose He still is? Has He changed? No, He does not change. People change, but He does not
change. “I Am the Lord Who heals you.” Some translate it, “The Lord, your Physician.”