Wichita eagle., 1886-10-16
CAMP MEETING.

: The sermon at the camp meeting of las
/ night was delivered by Elder J. II. Cook, o
+ Fort Scott, upon the two covenants, from
a the text Exodus 1915, (Now therefore If yoi
/ will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
f covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar traas
+ ure unto me above all people, for all tbs
earth is mine)
The Elder here remarked it is needful te
: note, what is ment by the word covenant.
Webster thas defines it:
l. a mutual consent or agreement OF two
or more persons to do or forbear some act.
. 3 The writing which contains the agree
nent
Two ideas are thus particularized: First,
an agreement between parties; second, the
; writing containing terms of the agreement.
} Let US now note the steps by which God
and Israel entered into covenant First, at
the time verse / was the third month when
the children of Israel were gone forth out Of
the land of Egypt; second, God called Moses
UP to the Mt Siner and makes the PROPOSE
ton commanding Moses to take it and lay it
before Israel.
| w stISc 6. aIOSco uCto Slo tOtii4tiehuASu.
| az Verse s, ''All the people answered to-
gether and said all that the Lord hath spoken
we viii do.
| o. Moses returned their words to the
Lord.
(D Verses 1926, God charges concerning
| the preparation to hear his voice
a Chapter 20:1-l7, God utters the ten
| commandments; his covenant. Dcut. 4:13
and 5:22, which they had covenanted to
obey.
q The people answered by the Divine
power desire Noses to hear God and to re-
peat to them, who acceeds to their request.
CD Chapter; 81, ~ and % are spoken to
Moses alone.
QO Now God proceeds to confirm the cove
nant.
on He now sends Noses to tho people
again, Ex. 24:1-3, to see if they will now
stand to their part of the covenant.
Q9 Moses goes down and tells the people
all Gods words to him. Verse g.
Now the people havo chance to retract
and refuse to close the covenant.
Observe their answer, ali with one voice,
''All the words which thu Lord hath said
will we do"
We might suppose this final, but not so the !
Lord. 1t must be firmly ratified and put in |
writing, the entire conenant or agreement.
Moses now reads what he has written, calls |
it the covenant God had made with them
containing all these words
Now Israef has one more final opportunity |
to recede from their covenant and refusing !
to enter into so solemn an obligation.
C3) And they said, all that the Lord hath
said will we do
Thus the people close their part of the
covenant. Gods most solemn act of ratifica-
tion quickly follows.
Thus we have the first covenant antire and
can see it consists of solemn contract Or
agreement between God and Israel.
Nov God tells Moses to Come up to me
in the mount, and be there: and l will give
thee tables Of stone and a lav, and com
which have written"
Moses goes up into the mount ard remains
forty days, during which time Israel falls
into idolatry, and at the expiration of that
tine Moses comes down and seeing their sin,
breaks the tables to show them they have a.
ready broken the covenant.
After a season OF reDroof AMI Isrears repent
,nce, another forty days is consumed in y
second writing of the law of God. Moses at
ast returns and places the law il the ark,
previously prepared as its receptacle. al
which ne nearly or quite three months had
al 81; ,ft IL, ~
covenant, before they had seen copy Of the
en commandments. Henca the ten com
nsndnents are not AMI cannot be the o.i
covenant. ,
Now, Paul, in speaking Of this matter in ,
ial :l5, says: Though it be but a mans S
covenant, yet if it be continued no man dis q
.nulleth 1t or aCi,leth thereto Now to have +
.ided the tenn commandments to this SOL :
nnly confirmed covenant would have been j
n offence 70 less grave than that OF an al
eulpt to break the will OF u man now three
months deceased
Dow Daniel, 9:31, says of Christ that he e
would confirm the new covenant with his a
isciples one week, and in the midst of the {
week be cut OF for their sins. Thus He did
rst his own obedience as indicated in Ps.
):S. Second by His teachings, MAI. 5:lT.
Think not | AN come TO destroy the law OF
he prophet, | an not com To destroy but 10 q
uliIl,n Ex 1917 IF thol will enter into life L
eep the commandments.
Having spent his life il thus laying down Il
he pi-incipies entering with the new cove u
a 1t, He dies, thus closing it up, and sealing !.
with his blood.
Now i is complete nothing more can enter u
lto it or be taken away. Mat5. 2o:2),
earching them to observe all things what
oever have commanded you, are his solemn
artlng words after his resurrection "
Now no change could possibly be made i'll
De new Covenent, and we find the disciples q =
I'LL keeping the Sabbath Of the command
lent Luke 1855. TO have changed III the
bServance OF the Sabbath after the new
ovenant was thus sealed would be once VI
lore to break the will Of the deceased, a1d
! this case it would be not mans covenant,
ut that OF he "only beyotten Son OF God l.
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