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Noahic to New Covenant


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The sermon teaches that God's covenant with Noah is a gracious, universal promise to preserve life and the created order until His greater redemptive plan is fulfilled in Christ. As a new Adam on a renewed earth, Noah receives once again the mandate to be fruitful, multiply, and exercise dominion, while God expands His provision by permitting the eating of animals, yet preserving the sanctity of life by requiring respect for blood and establishing capital punishment because every human being bears the image of God. The Noahic Covenant is presented as an unconditional covenant of common grace, guaranteeing that God will never again destroy the earth by a worldwide flood despite humanity's continuing sinfulness, thereby preserving the world for the coming of the promised Redeemer. The rainbow, God's covenant sign, is explained as His "bow" hung in the heavens—a symbol that His judgment has been restrained and His mercy triumphs over wrath, reflecting the very radiance of His glory. The sermon concludes by showing that while the Noahic Covenant preserves temporal life, the New Covenant infinitely surpasses it through Jesus Christ, whose sacrificial death satisfies God's demand for justice, secures eternal forgiveness, removes the curse, and guarantees an everlasting inheritance in the new creation where God's glorious presence will forever replace every covenant sign.
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