The Covenant God
Understanding the Heart of God through His Covenants
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Over time my heart became deeply troubled as I began to wonder if I would ever come to an understanding of the nature of God. I wrestled greatly over this conflict during one fitful night of tossing and turning, and awoke in the middle of the night sweating, out of breath, and exhausted. I am not one to recall anything from my dreams, but at this moment and since, I distinctly remember a tumultuous struggle that night over my heart’s desire to know God more intimately. I was involved in a great argument, whether within myself or with God I cannot say, but what is clear is that immediately prior to awakening I had an image of myself yelling into a great expanse and declaring that I could not have an intimate relationship with a book (i.e., referring to the Bible). Until that point the only answer that I received was to study the Bible to know God, and my heart was simply unwilling to accept this answer because intellectual knowledge will never satisfy the needs of the heart. The final response to my demand for an answer, and the answer commanded was to “Study the Covenants”. I awoke with one burning question and that being “What is a covenant?” because I did not understand how critically important the covenant concept is to the central theme of all of Christianity. I now understand the answer given after that fitful night where I wrestled with God to have been an epiphany, resulting in subsequent studies that forever changed my perception and understanding of the heart of God.
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The Biblical record reveals that God has pursued a relationship with humanity through covenants since our beginning. In fact, covenants establish the central organizing principle of the Bible and provide the basis and context to understand every Christian doctrine. To understand the covenants is to understand the meaning of faith and purpose of our existence. Unfortunately, modern society has lost much of our historical knowledge of covenant customs, so this book considers both Biblical and secular sources to fully understand the five basic tenets of a covenant. God has revealed his true heart for humankind through the Biblical covenants, so we will review every major covenant that God has made with humanity to properly understand God’s heart. We will study those topics often avoided to better understand Biblical encounters from God’s perspective. We seek to understand why God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, the purpose of blood in the covenant, predestination, judgment, and the nature of the Trinity. We will meditate on our discoveries to instill deeper trust in our hearts as a solid foundation for a faithful covenant relationship with Him. Our objective is to actively train our hearts because faith is a matter of the heart, and God is interested in an intimate love relationship from the heart. To know Him is to love Him.
About the Author
Paul Allan Gibbs is a husband, father, engineer, entrepreneur, deacon of benevolence, and author—but most importantly, he has a heart-felt desire to know God and to one day gaze upon Him in all His glory. Gibbs’ testimony is based on nearly twenty years of research into covenants, Biblical study, and prayer in pursuit of a true understanding of God’s heart as a foundation for his own faith.