Terms of Agreement
David Cawston
Matthew 18:19-20
Introduction:
Have you ever looked at the small print of a contract and read the section that states terms of agreement?
You should! It is what governs your relationship with the parties of that contract!
The small print can kill you!
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The terms of agreement re the most important points of the contract!
God is a God of covenants and agreements.
For He is also a God of law and order.
From the very beginning of the book of Genesis He began to covenant with man.
• With Adam and Eve.
Gen 3:16-19
16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
(NIV)
• With Noah
Gen 9:11-13
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
(NIV)
• With Noah
Gen 12:1-3
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you ...
David Cawston
Matthew 18:19-20
Introduction:
Have you ever looked at the small print of a contract and read the section that states terms of agreement?
You should! It is what governs your relationship with the parties of that contract!
The small print can kill you!
Illus. Credit card 5% interest introductory offer for 3 months
Small print 21% after introductory period over.
The terms of agreement re the most important points of the contract!
God is a God of covenants and agreements.
For He is also a God of law and order.
From the very beginning of the book of Genesis He began to covenant with man.
• With Adam and Eve.
Gen 3:16-19
16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
(NIV)
• With Noah
Gen 9:11-13
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
(NIV)
• With Noah
Gen 12:1-3
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you ...
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