What Is a Covenant?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Bible reveals God's plan of salvation. To trace this unfolding plan and find our place in it, Christians must give attention to God's covenant promises. Today, J.V. Fesko introduces the study of covenant theology.
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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 media 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 | Israel, as we know, there at the foot of Sinai was a faithless bride. She broke her covenant. |
| 0:06.6 | And so God sent his son, Jesus, and Christ entered into this covenantal marriage with his bride to redeem us, to redeem his church. |
| 0:27.6 | If you have been listening to renewing your mind for some time, you will have heard our teachers speak of covenant theology. |
| 0:30.6 | You might have questions about that, and perhaps you're even wondering about one of the |
| 0:34.9 | fundamental questions. |
| 0:36.9 | What is a covenant? Welcome to this Thursday |
| 0:40.2 | edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. And today, you'll be hearing from a guest |
| 0:45.6 | teacher, J.V. Fesco. Dr. Fesco is the featured teacher in a series titled Signed, Sealed, |
| 0:53.3 | Delivered. It's a six-part introduction to Covenant Theology. |
| 0:57.8 | And if you'd like to own this series on DVD, along with a hardcover copy of the companion book |
| 1:03.8 | and digital access to the messages and study guide, simply make a year-end donation at |
| 1:09.7 | renewingyourmind.org before midnight tonight, |
| 1:13.2 | or when you call us at 800, 435-4343, and this resource bundle will be yours as our way of saying |
| 1:20.9 | thank you. Well, to wet your appetite for this series and to answer the question, what is a covenant? Here is the Harriet |
| 1:29.4 | Barber professor of systematic and historical theology at Reform Theological Seminary in Jackson, |
| 1:35.9 | Mississippi, J.V. Fesco. The Bible closes with a beautiful picture of the marriage supper of the Lamb. |
| 1:45.6 | We read in Revelation chapter 19, verse 7, |
| 1:48.4 | Let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of the lamb has come. |
| 1:53.8 | We see the bride decked in fine linen, bright and pure, according to Revelation 198, |
| 1:59.9 | and John's angelic guide tells him that all who are |
| 2:03.6 | invited to the supper are blessed. While it may not immediately strike us as such, this is a passage |
| 2:10.5 | that is steeped in the doctrine of the covenants. When the prophet Malachi, for example, rebuked |
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