The Invitation to Covenant
Jessica Santiago Burke
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Exodus 19:4 (NIV)
‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
Exodus 19:5-6 (NIV)
Now if you obey Me fully and keep My covenant, then out of all nations you will be My treasured possession. Although the whole earth is Mine, you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
Exodus 19:8 (NIV)
The people all responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.
Exodus 19:10-12 (NIV)
And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death.
Exodus 20:18-19 (NIV)
When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Exodus 19:6 (NIV)
you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
1 Peter 2:5 (NIV)
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
Jeremiah 31:31, 33 (NIV)
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put My law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
Haggai 2:5 (NIV)
‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And My Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’
Hebrews 12:22-24 (NIV)
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
