The Everlasting Gospel

ROOT

[sowing]

God’s Everlasting Covenant: The covenant is God’s saving intention as it has always existed in the heart of the Father and the Son from all eternity. God will save all who through faith in Christ’s redemptive work on the cross will come to Him, trusting totally in Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and intercession. The covenant gives us secure identity as children of the Heavenly Father.

Covenant
origins

Salvation
is a gift

Fear God

Give Glory
to Him

 Worship Him who created

Growth

 [growing by knowing Him]

The Response to God’s covenant. Receive and experience the benefits of the everlasting covenant. There are three responses to God’s covenant: (1) Fear God, (2) Give Him glory (3) Worship Him.

Those who fear God need not fear the judgment because they will have full legal representation in the judgment through their Advocate Jesus Christ.

                            [The fear of God is the antidote to all other fears].

Those who give glory to Him need not to search for love in all the wrongs places, because the love of Christ fills their love cup 

[To glorify God is the antidote to the sins of Babylon, pride and self-glory].

Those who worship the Creator give exclusive loyalty to Jesus Christ alone and find in Him their sufficiency for everything. Therefore, they will have no need to worship anyone or anything (beasts) other than Jesus Christ. They become like the One they worship and experience freedom: no need to control or be controlled by others.

[Worship of the Creator is the antidote to idolatry which is covetousness].

Covenant blessings

 Receive

acquittal

love

identity
and significance

as gifts

  Babylon is fallen

judgment

[Satan’s weeds choke out growth]

The judgment on Babylon for her attempts to find personal identity outside God’s covenant by looking for love in all the wrong places.

 Babylon is guilty of covenant unfaithfulness by having other lovers than Jesus Christ.

A Contract:

 pay for what
you get

 [buy and sell]

 Do not worship the beast

death

[Satan’s substitutes kill]

The consequences of beast worship [idolatry], which is seeking personal identity and significance outside God’s covenant, damages self and others. 

 Beast worship is covenant unfaithfulness.

get what you
have coming

Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the command-ments of God and the faithof Jesus.

Fruit

[reaping]

The Results of Living under the Covenant:

Patience - trusting God’s covenant promises, providence and timing while they wait. They do not try to help God out by taking things into their own hands.

Keep the commandments of God - the result of living under the provisions of God’s covenant.

The faith of Jesus - trusting in the covenant-faithfulness of Christ.

Covenant inheritance

trust
rest
peace
contentment