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SHE MARRIED WITH GRACE - SARAH

Pastor Seth Asare Ofei Badu The most desirable wife in the Bible is doubtlessly Sarah. She was the only woman named as a standard mother and wife, in both the Old and New Testaments: Look to Abraham your father,  And to Sarah who bore you;  for I called him alone, and blessed him and increased him.  Isaiah 51:2 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.   Do not let your adornment be merely outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel--rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,   as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters

THE SHINING COVENANT

THE SHINING COVENANT Matthew 5: 13-16, Hebrews 2:1-4 Blessings flow from God’s relationship with man. God’s relationship with man has always been regulated by a covenant so that man’s free agency is always kept under God’s will. The Old Covenant was a Shadows Covenant because it was bereft of real power to live right, and those who kept it strictly only succeeded in becoming whitewashed tombs (Matt. 23:27)! The New Covenant of Eternal Life in Christ Jesus is as a Shining Covenant because it gives real power to live a life-saving life. If those who failed to uphold the shadows were kicked out, so will those who fail to shine be kicked out of the entirety of the benefits of the shining one. All the Earlier Covenants were essentially a “Cover Your Weak Nature” Covenant. The New Covenant is a “Show God’s Power which is in you” Covenant: The Old Covenants were “Don’t, If You do...”, But the New Covenant is “Do, if You Don’t ...” Adam: “Be fruitful and multiply, work the Garden, but