Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

No matter how uncertain life seems, God’s promise of salvation in Christ rests on His unchanging plan for the ages. Today, Nathan W. Bingham is joined by J.V. Fesko to discuss his new book and video teaching series on covenant theology: Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

Get J.V. Fesko’s new book Signed, Sealed, Delivered: An Introduction to Covenant Theology, the companion teaching series on DVD, and lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/4095/donate

Live outside the U.S. and Canada? Request the Signed, Sealed, Delivered ebook and lifetime digital access to the teaching series and study guide with your gift of any amount: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global

Save when you register today for Ligonier’s 2026 National Conference, Crucial Questions: https://www.ligonier.org/2026

Meet Today’s Teacher:

J.V. Fesko is the Harriet Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	What covenant does is it reminds us that we are bound together in a covenantal relationship,
0:06.0	not only with our triune God, but one to another.
0:10.0	And so we are a part of a body as individuals.
0:13.0	We've been sewn into that body, knit into that body,
0:16.0	so that we can be a body together as the Church of Jesus Christ.
0:29.1	Covenants, they are all through the Bible.
0:34.5	You see, throughout history and even eternally, God relates to us through covenants.
0:39.0	And today, on this special edition of renewing your mind, we'll be discussing God's covenants as we're joined by the author and teacher of the book and series, signed,
0:45.6	sealed, delivered. This is the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and I'm so glad you're with us
0:52.0	today. J. V. Fesco is our guest today, and his book and series
0:56.5	are so helpful in outlining what we mean when we speak of covenant theology and making the case
1:02.4	from Scripture. So I do encourage you to respond to today's one-day offer before it ends
1:08.3	at midnight tonight. We'll send you the hardcover book, the DVD set,
1:13.4	and unlock lifetime digital access to all the messages and the study guide when you donate
1:19.1	by calling us at 800-435-4343 or at Renewing Your Mind.org. This offer does end today and won't be repeated tomorrow.
1:30.3	Well, at our national conference, Dr. Fesco, a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi,
1:37.9	stopped by the podcast studio to discuss this new resource,
1:41.0	and I began by asking him about the name, signed, sealed, delivered.
1:48.7	Let's say that a lot of people have a lot of assumptions. They think, okay, it must be the Stevie
1:55.3	Wonder song. It played a small role. The main reason is that as I was thinking about the theme of covenant,
2:02.6	naturally there are signs of the covenant, circumcision baptism.
2:08.6	And as I thought about Romans 411, that circumcision was the sign and seal of the righteousness that Abraham had by faith. I thought, okay, there's signed and they're sealed, and then, okay, Mr. Wonder provided the
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