In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

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Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. There's a new covenant. It's the only saving covenant.

Yes and amen a thousand times. The church, not America, but the church replaces Israel, only the church. It's a holy nation.

Entrance into this covenant is faith alone? Yes and amen a thousand times. And are there other

covenants? Yes. Can you start a business? And even in your bylaws with the business have

Christian language, even quoting scripture,

this business exists for the glory of God, and start each day with your employees with a word

and prayer and practice Christian principles of integrity and say, this exists to the glory of God. And will God

recognize that? Will God bless that? Yeah, I think so. Ordinarily, as a guarantee, no, but ordinarily

as a general principle that more often than not rings true, yes. Let me give you a couple other examples.

I'm laboring this point because we are anemic on this theological area. Another example

would be children. The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6, he restates the command and he restates

without equivocation, the promise. And he behaves, now remember the

timeline, this is after the life, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Apostle Paul behaves, he assumes, as though both the commandment and its promise regarding children is just as good

as it was in the Old Testament, the command that he's actually quoting.

In the Old Testament, in the Decalogue, Exodus chapter 20,

the fifth commandment is that children should honor their father and mother.

And this is the first commandment with a promise

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