In this session, Carl explains the terms and benefits of Christ’s New Covenant. Through illustrations, including a story of ignorance and historical covenant practices, Carl emphasizes that ignorance of Christ’s promises prevents believers from accessing their covenant rights. The message explores spiritual authority transferred through Adam, lost to Satan, and restored by Christ, who now grants that authority to believers, through the Gospel (1 Cor 15:1-4). Christians are called to actively enforce their covenant authority through faith, prayer, and resisting the enemy. Join him now…
Here is a complete transcript of the broadcast (below)…
Friend, we’ll go right into the second session live of the Covenants of God. Join me now. So, what are the terms of the Covenant? The Holy Bible and the New Testament in particular reveals the precise terms of the Covenant and benefits of what Jesus, the testator, did for us on the cross. So, the inevitable question is, if you had a parent who passed away and they left some things for you in their will, wouldn’t you want to know what was in it? Wouldn’t you want to know what was in that will? Right? I’ve passed on. My will is here. Well, I want to see what’s in it. And that’s what we need to do with this. This is the last will and testament of Jesus Christ. That is the New Testament. It’s the last will and testament. And so, we need to delve in, amen, and we need to find out what it is. What are the promises for us? How can we grab a hold of them and use them in our own lives? Right? So, a lack of knowledge in particular can really hinder us. And that’s a running theme I’ve said several times, and I’ll keep preaching it to myself, is when you go through the epistles in particular, these promises stand out. And it’s like, wow, that really means something to me. I’m gonna grab a hold of that and stand on it. So, here’s a story. The tragedy of ignorance. Once upon a time, a man was, a poor man, saved all of his money to buy a ticket so he could come to America.
Upon checking in and boarding the ship, he placed his bag in steerage. As the cruise went on, he happily watched all the people on the ship visiting and enjoying themselves. All the while, he stayed in steerage. And that’s an old term for second or third class, if that’s, if you don’t know what that means. He was just watching the people, well, he was eating his cheese and crackers, right? So, he’s eating his cheese and crackers, watching all those people going, wow, look at them. They’re on the buffet. Man, that looks so good. I’m stuck here in steerage. When the ship arrived in America and everyone was leaving the ship, the captain stopped him and said, sir, I noticed that throughout the whole trip, you didn’t participate in any of the activities and you didn’t come and eat in the dining room. Did someone do something to offend you? The man said, oh no, I only had enough money to buy a ticket for passage to America. I didn’t have enough money for all the other stuff. The captain said, sir, didn’t you know your ticket included the room plus all the food and activities? He just didn’t know. This is the price of ignorance, friends. If we don’t know, we cannot enjoy the blessings. Amen? We got to know. We got to know that we’ve got to know the terms and rights of the covenant. We have to understand when we walked between Jesus’s sacrifice and then he exchanged all of our debt for his assets on all the promises and all the things that he wants us to walk in, if we don’t have knowledge of those things, we can’t grab a hold of them for ourselves. Amen?
This is why it says people perish for a lack of knowledge. My people, in fact, Hosea 4:6, very famous verse, and so it’s like this man on the ship. If we’re like staring at everybody else going, wow, they’re having a gay old time, aren’t they? These Christians are having a wonderful time. I’m sitting here, where’s the stuff? Well, it’s time to reach your hands in the air and say, Lord, I want to partake of the stuff that these other people are enjoying. Amen? And be strong about it. Have zeal and say, Lord, I want that stuff, okay? We’ve got to ask, friend. We’ve got to ask. God honors that. Amen? He wants us to ask. So this is a true story. This isn’t like fantasy or whatever. The story of the covenant of Stanley and the chief. Now, you may or may not have heard of this, but Henry Stanley and David Livingstone traveled to Africa in the late 1800s. So they’re trying to evangelize. They’re doing several other things at the same time, but they’re trying to spread the gospel. Stanley had trouble with several African American tribes, okay? Woo, back up. Stanley had trouble with several African tribes, although I’ve met a lot of great African people, and they’re very nice. Amen? No offense, okay? This is one incident, Michael. Just, it’s in the past. It’s in the past.
All right, so Stanley urged, sorry, Stanley’s guide urged Stanley to make a blood covenant with the tribal chief for protection. He said, look, if you cut covenant with this guy, you’ll have safe passage, not only in the region, but you’ll be able to go all over the nation, and you’ll be fine. He’s like, wow, that sounds like a great idea. It’s gonna cost, because it’s gonna hurt. He’s gonna have to cut himself, but Stanley participated in the ceremony, okay? They slit their wrists, they bled into a cup, and they both drank from that intermingled blood, okay? They were now blood brothers, and a threat to Stanley was a threat to the chief himself. See the power of the covenant, amen? If someone threatens you, they’re threatening Jesus, right? Because you’re the body and he’s the head. You’re in covenant with Jesus Christ. If the enemy wants to pick with you, he’s picking with Jesus, and that’s not gonna end well for him, amen? And that’s what you do, is remind the enemy of your relationship, your binding relationship with Christ. That’s your job, is to say, no, I’m a part of the body of Christ, and I stand, and having done all, I stand with my armor in tow, amen? Praying always with all supplication in the Spirit, and I am covered in my armor and ready to go and confront the enemy, amen? So typically, whenever covenant was cut, there would be an exchange of gifts to memorialize the event.
So Stanley’s traveling around Africa, and he has a bad stomach. He just can’t seem to, you know, cope with all the food and all the things and the bacteria and stuff, and he’s got a really agitated stomach. And he has this goat, this white goat, that he would bring with him. And I’m telling you right now, this guy had lost, what, several pounds? He was hurting, and he was worried, man, if anything happened to this goat, he was gonna go the same way as the goat, because the milk from the goat is all he was surviving on, all right? So check this out. The chief is here. They cut covenant. The chief has got his big spear in his hand, and he gives this big spear to Stanley. He says, wherever you take this spear, you will have safe passage. People recognize the feathers on the spear. You’ll be fine all over Africa. He’s like, yes. He says, what do you want, chief? He says, I want that little goat. I want that little goat. Stanley’s like, uh-oh, I’m dead. But he gave the goat, okay? And somehow God brought him through it, all right? Because they survived the ordeal. But in that exchange, there was protection.
There was protection for him in the nation of Africa. And in the exchange of the covenant, there’s a protection for us, amen? How many are standing on Psalm 91? You can say, Lord, there are angels around about me. I will stand on that covenant, amen? We have to verbalize it. We have to remind the Lord of the truth, amen? So, the earth lease, okay? Now, this teaching is true. But not many denominations will actually recognize this teaching. When Adam and Eve fell in the garden, at the beginning, God said, you have dominion over the earth. I’m giving dominion to you. The trouble is, after that, Adam and Eve joined with Satan or a serpent, whatever you want to call him, and fell into sin. The trouble is, once they did that, there was a transfer of dominion in measure to the enemy. And the fact of that is, when Satan tempted Jesus, he said, the kingdoms of this world are in my possession. Bow down and give me homage, and I will give them to you. Now, the fact that it’s a real temptation means that he truly did have the kingdoms in his hand. In the book of Revelation, it says, the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord, meaning that they are not fully yet in his total possession.
That’s why we have all these bad things, friends, occurring in the world right now. In the millennial reign of Christ, there will come a time when God has total dominion, and there will be no more sin, and there will be no more murder, and there will be no more of these heinous acts, okay? But until that time, we are living by faith in God’s kingdom, amen? We are living by faith. So God, through a series of covenants, introduced himself through humanity, so he could get into the Davidic covenant finally, and then he could bring the Messiah into the world, amen? Because God honors will. He honors the dominion that he gave man in the first place, right? Right? That’s why God’s not just coming in and intervening all the time and stopping all these terrible things in the world, because it requires prayer to get him involved many times to do things in the earth. I know this is a tough message, friend, but it’s true. If we were praying people more, we would see God move more. I’m telling you right now, it’s the truth, because he honors our will, and he honors our prayer life, amen? And so, a lot of denominations and doctrines want to put everything in God’s hands and say, well, it’s all up to him. You know, he’s in charge after all. What? Is he in charge? He’s in charge of everything? Are you kidding me? I mean, look at what is going on, all right? He is in charge of elements, yes.
He’s in charge of the rotation of the earth and the order of things, that means set in motion, but we also need to intervene with prayer as well. It’s a two-sided coin, right? Amen? So, Psalm 115 and 16 says, “the heavens are the Lord’s, but the earth has he given to the children of men.” So, that’s another verse reinforcing the authority that man possesses in the earth, but through a series of covenants and mutual binding relationships through Noah and through David and all these people, he reintroduced himself to finally get the Messiah through so that he could be born on earth of supernatural conception to give himself as a man and walk in the gifts of the Spirit as a man because he laid aside his deity and then go to the cross for us. Thank God for Jesus, amen? I can’t preach it any better. I’m not preaching it particularly well because it’s so hard to get our heads wrapped around, amen? Here’s God, couldn’t find a good picture. Here’s Adam, here’s Satan, here’s Jesus, here’s you. Now, look at the transfer. God had dominion. He gave it to Adam. Adam partaking sin with Satan. Jesus then stripped Satan of his dominion at the cross, right? It says that. And then he gave the authority back to you. See the authority transfer. It’s gone from God through this to you. You have it in your possession, amen?
Because of what Jesus did, alright? Dominion means ownership or total authority over the earth. Adam relinquished some of his ruling authority when he fell to Satan. Satan had the kingdoms of the earth in his possession when he tempted Christ, but then it says in Colossians 2:15 and Hebrews 8 that Jesus stripped Satan of his power for those in Christ Jesus, amen? For those who don’t know Jesus, it’s as good as he’s never done it because they don’t have knowledge and they’re not in the kingdom of God. That’s why it’s so important that we preach and share the gospel, right? So we can get people into the kingdom, amen? So Ephesians chapter was 1 and 3. Great chapters. I advise you to read it sometime. Ephesians 1 and 3 spend a lot of detail on how he stripped Lucifer of his power and transformed us into the body of Christ and then set us far above principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and the spiritually wicked in high places, amen? We’re above that right now because we’re joined to Christ. Therefore, we enforce our authority with our words, okay? And we enforce our authority by reminding the Lord of his promises and by binding the enemy in our lives.
Matthew 18:19, famous verse, “whatever things you bind on earth, it’ll be bound in heaven.” The power of binding and loosing is on the earth. It’s not in heaven because again God is honoring the will of the person, right? And so we need to be cognizant of spiritual things. We need to be cognizant if we’re getting spiritually oppressed. We shouldn’t just put up with it, unquote. We should resist it, amen? Come on now, there’s a bunch of fighters in here. They’re being quiet tonight. I found that if I’m passive in the fight, I lose. And some people are passive and they need to stop being passive. And I’m talking about spiritually. You can’t be passive, friend, and be victorious at the same time. We have to stand our ground, submit to God, and resist the devil. Praise the Lord. But Colossians and Hebrews are just great books. They spend a lot of time about stripping the enemy. And you know whenever a king was conquered in the old days, they put him in a cage and then they drag him around the entire kingdom. They throw tomatoes at him and rotten eggs and whatever else. And they would make a show of him openly before everybody, as if to say this king is nothing in our sight. And that’s what Jesus did. That’s what Colossians did, okay? So read the book, it’s awesome. So what is our mandate while we are covenant men and women? Friend, we’ll discuss that mandate tomorrow in part 3. Until tomorrow, good night, God bless, and remember to spread the good news.
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Title: The covenants of God: Part 2 (LIVE)
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Six Frequently Asked Questions:
1. What does it mean that the New Testament is the “last will and testament” of Jesus Christ?
The New Testament is considered the “last will and testament” of Jesus Christ because it contains the final promises and instructions that Jesus left for His followers before His death. Just like a person’s will outlines what will happen to their possessions after their passing, Jesus’ testament reveals the promises, benefits, and rights available to believers as a result of His sacrifice on the cross. To fully understand and receive these promises, believers must explore and know what’s written in the “will.”
2. Why is knowledge of the Covenant essential for Christians?
Knowledge of the Covenant is crucial because it reveals the promises and rights believers have through Christ. Without understanding the terms of the Covenant, Christians may miss out on the benefits that are already theirs. The Bible tells us that people “perish for a lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). In the same way, a person on a ship who didn’t know their ticket covered meals and activities would miss out on the benefits, believers can miss out if they don’t understand the full scope of their spiritual inheritance.
3. What is the story of Stanley and the chief, and how does it relate to the Covenant?
The story of Henry Stanley and the African chief illustrates the power of a blood covenant. After Stanley made a covenant with the tribal chief by mingling their blood, Stanley was guaranteed protection and safe passage throughout the region. In the same way, when believers enter into covenant with God through Jesus Christ, they are assured divine protection and authority. Just as a threat to Stanley became a threat to the chief, any threat against believers is a threat to Christ, who is the head of the body. Christians are called to stand firm in this covenant authority.
4. What is the significance of the earth lease and dominion?
After Adam and Eve fell, they forfeited part of their dominion over the earth to Satan, who temporarily gained control over the kingdoms of this world (Luke 4:6). However, Jesus’ death and resurrection stripped Satan of his power (Colossians 2:15), and believers are now restored to authority through Christ. While we still see sin and suffering in the world today, Christians have the authority to stand in faith, resist the enemy, and declare God’s kingdom rule over their lives. God gave man dominion over the earth (Psalm 115:16), and now through Christ, believers can walk in that authority.
5. What role does prayer play in the covenant relationship with God?
Prayer is essential in the covenant relationship because it aligns believers with God’s will and activates His promises in their lives. God honors the free will He has given to mankind, meaning that many of His actions in the earth require human participation, including prayer. Through prayer, believers can enforce the authority they have in Christ, stand on the promises of the Covenant, and resist the works of the enemy. Without prayer, believers may miss out on the full benefits and protection that God has provided.
6. What is our mandate as covenant men and women?
As covenant partners with God, our mandate is to stand firm in the authority and promises we have in Christ. This means enforcing the power of the Covenant by resisting the devil, proclaiming God’s promises, and living in the fullness of the blessings He has provided. Christians are not to passively accept spiritual oppression but actively resist it through prayer, the Word, and the authority of the Holy Spirit. By walking in faith, we fulfill our role as God’s representatives on earth, enforcing His Kingdom through our actions and prayers.
