Being a Covenant Man
Ps Shane Baxter
Consider the cost of being a Covenant Man
- Jesus paid the price
- Man up
- Suck it up and be the man
Let His kingdom come in marriages, families, churches, communities, the State
Men, we need to go to another level of Kingdom life
How?
Joshua 1:
No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not FAIL YOU or ABANDON YOU.
Does your family, wife, friends have confidence:
- that you have their back …
- they are safe …
The Spirit of love and commitment.
In a fallen world, we live under a Spirit of Abandonment
Men abandon people cause they are only interested in their own wellbeing.
Abandonment …
Young men
- abandon their parents …
- abandon their wives …
- abandon their children …
The Spirit of the World
- don’t like the wife … leave
- don’t like the church … leave
- pastors abandon churches
- people abandon pastors
From the family unit to the PMs office is the Spirit of abandonment …
The Labor Party abandons the Prime Minister twice …
Spirit of Abandonment is part of the world … you don’t like it, you just leave …
But it is not the Spirit of Christ
Our challenge is to follow the example of Jesus:
The Heart and Spirit of Covenant
I will be with you …
When a man finds Christ and a calling and position.
Be a covenant man …
Not led by the Spirit of abandonment but of covenant …
I will not fail you …
Grab your wives … I will not fail you … I will not turn my back on them …
I will not abandon my Pastor …
Selah … think on that
Scriptural examples:
2 Samuel 15:2
I vow by The Lord and by your own life that I will go wherever my lord the King goes, no matter what happens – whether it means life or death.
Eli the Gittite … to David …
You are with the people you are meant to be with …
Jonathon’s armour bearer
1 Samuel 14:7 do what you think is best, I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.
Ruth 1:16-17
Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Where you go, I will go; whereever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you did, I will die, and there I will be buried. May The Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to seperate us.”
Men, let us make a commitment before God and man, we will be Covenant Men and not live by the Spirit of Abandonment.