God of Promise Quotes

“Jesus became not only the faithful speaker, but the faithful hearer and doer of the Word of God. He not only commanded as the Lord of the covenant, but answered back faithfully as the Servant of the covenant—in our place. No wonder Christ is everything in this new covenant relationship!”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“We were not just created and then given a covenant; we were created as covenant creatures—partners not in deity, to be sure, but in the drama that was about to unfold in history.”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“So we begin the story with one creation, one covenant, one people, one mandate, one city. Then after the fall, there is a covenant of creation (with its cultural mandate still in effect for all people, with the law of that covenant universally inscribed on the conscience) and a covenant of grace (with its gospel publicly announced to transgressors), a City of Man (secular but even in its rejection of God, upheld by God’s gracious hand for the time being) and a City of God (holy but even in its acceptance by God, sharing in the common curse of a fallen world). Just as the failure to distinguish law covenant from promise covenant leads to manifold confusions in our understanding of salvation, tremendous problems arise when we fail to distinguish adequately between God’s general care for the secular order and his special concern for the redemption of his people.”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“In light especially of Hebrews 9: 20 we can see that the reference to “covenant” (diath  k ) in Jesus’s words of institution do not have a last will and testament as their backdrop but rather the sprinkling of blood in Exodus 24 that enacts or inaugurates a covenant.”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“And when it is said of the blood as exponential of the death that it is huper poll  n, “on behalf of many,” this yields a thought utterly incongruous of testament, for a testator does not die in behalf of or with the intent of benefiting his heirs, whereas the benevolent intent of the death of a person fits admirably into the circle of sacrificial ideas.”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“Reformed theology at least attempts to interpret the whole counsel of God in view of the principle that Scripture interprets Scripture. In other words, that which is clearest and is treated with the greatest significance in Scripture interprets those passages that are more difficult and less central to the biblical message.”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology

“God’s very existence is covenantal: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit live in unceasing devotion to each other, reaching outward beyond the Godhead to create a community of creatures serving as a giant analogy of the Godhead’s relationship.”
― Michael S. Horton, Introducing Covenant Theology