When God makes a promise, he fulfills it, and he does so in real time and space.

When Paul announces the gospel in his letters or the preaching in the book of Acts,

they talk about how Jesus was born according to the scriptures in the fullness of time,

that God had prepared that throughout all of history, everything in Old Testament history before the

birth of Christ, was moving towards that moment.

God makes promises throughout the Bible. His covenant with Abraham, for example, establishes

the nation of Israel. His covenant with Moses brings about the law and the new covenant. Through

Jesus, brings salvation to all who believe. I'm glad you're joining us today for renewing

your mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. God's fulfillment of covenants

is critical to the message of both the Old and the New Testaments. So here's R.C. Sprawl

to continue his series, The Promise Keeper, the God of the Covenants. In our first session, I mentioned to you that the basic role of the covenant is that

it is the structure of God's revelation in history.

And I've used this term more than once, the history of redemption or redemptive history, because

history is the context in which God works out his plan of redemption.

And that idea became very controversial in the middle of the 20th century, again with

higher critical scholars, chiefly in Germany, people like Rudolf Boltmann, who made

a distinction between what he called Hausgeshichter or Salvation History, and History.

And what he meant by Howes-Ghichita was something that took place not on the horizontal

plane of world history, but something that took place above history in sort of some super temporal realm.

Boltman, you know, embracing an existential form of philosophy, believed that salvation is not

something that happens on this level, but it happens vertically, or what he said punctilierly,

Zencricht von Oben, immediately and directly from above, sort of a mystical thing when a person has a crisis experience of faith.

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