Our God is a Covenant Keeping God!

Through out the Bible, God relates to His people by way of a Covenant of Grace. Covenant theology provides the basic framework for rightly interpreting the Bible. Covenant theology is about continuity.

1. Continuity of the Covenant of Grace. The Bible teaches one and the same way of salvation in both Old and New Testaments, despite some some different outward requirements. The Covenant of Grace refers to God's general covenantal plan to redeem sinful people to Himself, a plan born in the eternal counsel of the Trinity. This one covenant extends through out the the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

2. Continuity of the People of God. Since there is one covenant of grace between God and man, there is one continuous people of God (The Church) in the Old and New Testaments.

3. Continuity of Covenant Signs. Baptism is the sign of the covenant in the New Testament, just as circumcision was the sign of the covenant in the Old Testament.

4. Continuity of Households. Whole households are included in God's Redemptive Covenant in both the Old and New Testaments.

So then, with Covenant Theology there is continuity in the Biblical message of Redemption.

Dispensationalism, on the other hand, does not see this continuity, and in the words of John H. Gerstner:

--John Gerstner, A Primer on Dispensationalism (page 35).

Yes Shelly--Covenant Theology is very important.

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk