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Ezekiel chapter 16, verses 59 and 60.

For thus says the Lord God, I will deal with you as you have done.

You who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your

youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. These two verses come at the end of a long

chapter that's really hard to read in many ways.

As God describes his love for his people,

his relationship with his people,

like a relationship between a husband and a wife,

a husband who cherishes his wife,

a husband who adorns his wife with beauty and honor. And then his wife turns from him and runs after

all kinds of other lovers. And basically you see this imagery of unfaithfulness and adultery all

throughout this chapter and judgment that flows from that

as God speaks to his people who have run after other idols instead of him and taken all the

grace he has poured out on them all the goodness he's bestowed on them, and used it to run away from him.

And yet here at the end, in this picture of just judgment, do God's people, he says,

yet I will remember my covenant with you. In other words, I will remember my promises to you in the days of your

youth that before you had done this, I promised to love you and to redeem you. I promised to love you. I promised

to love you. And I will establish, God says, for you an everlasting covenant.

In other words, I am going to be faithful to my word.

And this is why when we read the Bible, we have an Old Testament and a New Testament.

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