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And we know what the penalty will be if we don’t fulfill the conditions of the contract. Failing to live up to the conditions 1 of our contract with God is sin. And it activates the penalty clause. When God applies the penalty for breaking our contract 2 with him…he is not acting without mercy. He must apply the penalty clause because… Both parties must act and fulfill the 3 agreed upon conditions of the contract. 4 Even God must act according to his covenant promises. Read Psalm 44...not as a prayer...because it is not a prayer...it is a 5 covenant story. And in that psalm the Israelites...politely but firmly...inform God that he has always been quick to fulfill 6 his covenant promises...but now he is slow to perform under the contract...even though the Israelites are holding to their 7 part of the agreement. They ask God why he is asleep...then they demand that he awake and arise and do as he promised. 8

Look at some of the early covenants God made with His people in the Bible: 9

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Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

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Story of Noah and the flood.

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Father Abraham.

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Moses and the Ten Commandments.

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You see all of the elements that define a contract in these covenants. 14

Those who hold fast to the idea that God loves them unconditionally do not know the Scriptures. When the rich man asks 15 Jesus how to obtain eternal life (Mt 19:16ff) Jesus tells him to keep the Commandments. The Commandments are the 16 covenant conditions for getting to heaven and eternal life. 17

The Mosaic Covenant between God and his people underlies the salvation promised in The New Testament. This point is 18 made elaborately in the gospel of John... 19

1. If you love me you will keep my commandments (Jn 14:15 )… 20 2. 21 3. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words (Jn 14:24) 22

Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me (Jn 14:21 )…

No one can read those words and hold that there are no conditions on the loving relationship between God and his people. 23 And the loving part of the contract...the covenant relationship...is that God binds himself to perform as agreed. We can 24 trust him. 25

If people's contracts with God are in default none of their good works will save them (Mt 7:21ff). God has promised. 26 So...those in ministry who help form and direct the spiritual lives of the people always need to ask: 27

"Do you keep the Commandments?"

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Because the very definition of ministry is acting to bring both minister and people closer to God. 29

Attributing unconditional love to God is a Christian heresy because it prevents us from believing ourselves accountable and 30 liable to penalty for disobeying the terms of the covenant between God and his people. Any attempt to separate Christians 31 from the penalties called for under the covenant: 32

1. Turns Jesus essentially into a liability insurance salesman from the wrath of God. 33 2. Turns Christianity into a fire insurance program from the fires of hell. 34 3. Turns tithes into liability insurance premiums. 35

But Peter said to him, “ Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart

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may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity. ”

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Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may

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come upon me.”

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[Acts 8:18-24, Bible, NKJV]

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