All men everywhere are at all times in a covenant relationship with God.

To be sure that relationship may be one that is negative.

We may simply live out the liabilities of that contract.

Now as a Christian, I am a member of a covenant group, a covenant community, which we call the church.

Every member of the Christian church participates in the new covenant.

Just as every member in the household of Israel in the Old Testament participated in what we call the Old Covenant.

So Jew and Christian alike are covenant people.

But what about the rest of the world?

What about all of those millions of people on this planet, this day, who are not members of the Christian church,

who are not members of the Jewish community?

Are they in a covenant relationship with God?

Well the answer to that question I think is obvious from our study of Scripture.

The answer is yes.

All men everywhere are at all times.

Participants in a covenant relationship with God.

He said, but wait a minute or see, they never joined the Christian church.

They never joined the Jewish commonwealth.

How can you say that?

Well I say it for this reason.

That God didn't make his first covenant with Abraham or with Moses,

nor is the first covenant in history, the one that Jesus made with his disciples in the upper room.

The first covenant that God made with mankind was made with Adam.

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