The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

62I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, 63in order that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.

For covenant love to be enacted, there must be a death. Jesus did that for our relationship with God; guess who gets to do so in our relationships with others? You and I, of course. A will, or covenant, is powerless until death occurs. If you are going to have a relationship with God—a relationship that has a covenant as its foundation—you are goin

God's lingering work with Abraham succeeded in fulfilling his faith when he so freely trusted his relationship with God that his heart was free to open itself so that nothing within it was hidden from God. Not even his only son, for whom he had waited for over 20 years, stood between God and Abraham.

Holiness is the number one job description for Abraham’s children. The people of God must be holy, as the God whose people they are is holy. If they’re not holy, then what makes them different from any other people? To be holy is to be set apart. It means to be other, different, distinct, unlike the rest. God is holy because there is no one and not