Life in the Covenant - A. Janse

Translated by Rev. Richard Stienstra With the preaching concerning the judgment of an apostate covenantal people, such as with Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, there must be reference to the covenant, otherwise in spite of the most severe words it is much too gentle. And thus also God’s people who heartily love Him can really only be truly comforted in all sorrow and prosecution, when it is done with the words of the covenant. Especially when the theology dialectically speaks of yes and no, and the experiencing of the personality of the people is placed before the truth and faithfulness of God, and when everywhere the religiousness of the people increases and at the same time faith in God’s Word decreases, then most certainly it is the first requirement of the church of this time that she again understands God’s covenant. It is not that she must come to live with a ‘covenant concept,’ or constantly has to apply the word covenant, but rather, that she envisions the word LORD and Kurios with every Word of God.

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