7a The Covenant: Thoughts to Keep in Mind

 7a The Covenant: Thoughts to Keep in Mind

The Covenant: Thoughts to Keep in Mind

The New and Everlasting Covenant is also the covenant that God made with Adam and Eve, Enoch and his wife, Noah and his wife, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Rachel. We also enter into a relationship of trust with the Lord when we are baptized and when we make further covenants and receive further blessings and promises in the temple.

Abraham 1:2 Like Abraham, if we seek after greater knowledge and righteousness, the Lord is eager to bless us, even with the blessing of the fathers.

Genesis 12:2–3 As recipients of the Abrahamic covenant, we receive great blessings and promises, and also great stewardship and expectations. With the priesthood power and authority God extends to us, we are empowered to be able to bless all of the families of the earth.

Abraham 2:9, 11 It is our privilege to share the gospel with the world, to invite all to come unto Christ, so that we can all enjoy the blessings of the covenant, salvation, and eternal life together. How do we bear the ministry and the priesthood power given us? Are we sharing? Are we inviting?

Are we eager, like Abraham was, to learn the gospel and to share the blessings of it with others?

Abraham 2:12 Thy servant has sought thee earnestly; now I have found thee;

Do we want others to find the Lord?

I am a Child of the Covenant!

Because my parents made covenant with God and with each other, having their marriage sealed in the temple, I was born in the covenant.

But I had to make the covenant myself. I was baptized when I was 8-years-old. And I have renewed that covenant every week in sacrament meeting. My husband and I have made covenants with each other and with the Lord in the Holy Temple, and we renew those covenants each time we are in the temple to extend those blessings to others, and each time we partake of the sacrament.

Our six children were born in the covenant. All five that are living were baptized and also endowed in the temple. Four of those five have made covenants with spouses and the Lord in the temple. The other two still will do so.

The Abrahamic covenant extends from Adam and Eve through their posterity to all generations and to all people through the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of His atonement. We are engaged in bringing those covenant blessings to all who seek them.

[Through these covenants and ordinances, we become God’s people. We are bound to Him “with everlasting ties.” “Once we make a covenant with God,” President Russell M. Nelson has taught, “we leave neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him. In fact, all those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy. … Because of our covenant with God, He will never tire in His efforts to help us, and we will never exhaust His merciful patience with us.” You will see this in the history of God’s covenant people in the Old Testament, and you will see it in your own life as one of His covenant children.]

The Abrahamic Covenant on earth today is part of the great Restoration. The Abrahamic Covenant lets us now that we are promised the blessings of Abraham, and that through us those promises can be extended to our children and to all the families of the earth (both living and dead).

Matthew 5:5; Psalm 37:9, 11 The Lord’s people have always been given a land of promise. We should also look forward to the Celestial Kingdom as a land of promise. (Will we indeed inherit the earth?)

Abraham 2:11 What can I do as a Disciple of Jesus Christ to be a blessing to the families that are around me?