#198 — Covenant Love

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue with the story in Exodus by looking at Exodus 2:23-25.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What has gotten us to this point?
• Why is this moment significant?
• When it says God “remembered?” Does that mean God forgot?
• How does this connect the theme of “crying”?
• What is covenant?
• How are covenants shown throughout the rest of the story of scripture?
• Is there a covenant made in the Garden of Eden?
• How does the Mosaic covenant fit in if the Abrahamic covenant is always in play?

Helpful Definitions:

• Covenant: A promise in which God obligates himself to his people. Through divine initiative, God breaks into human history to reveal himself and to enter relationship in the terms of an oath, with his people.
  • Unilateral Covenant: One party obligates themselves to another party (or parties) in a way that doesn’t presume any conditions on the other party.
  • Bilateral Covenant: Some level of mutuality or mutual exchange in the agreement.
• Pactum Salutis: Also known as the eternal covenant or covenant of grace. Begins in the eternal fellowship of God (the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) by which He makes a covenant to save for Himself a people.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• Exodus 2:23-25, Genesis 1-3, Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 3:15, Genesis 12, 15, 17, 22, Matthew 1:1, Exodus 19

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