Tucson Protestant
Reformed Fellowship
"The idea of the covenant of grace concerns the deepest and
most intimate relation between God and man. The real covenant-relation
governs every other relation." The relationship with God that is the covenant consists of friendship:
"The covenant causes God and man to live together as friends.
In this the covenant-idea is completely realized"
. The ultimate origin of the covenant as a relationship of friendship
is the triune life of God. The covenant rests in the holy Trinity. God is the God of the
covenant. He is such, not merely according to the counsel of His
will in His relation to the creature but first of all in Himself,
by virtue of His own nature. The "inner life of God"
is a covenant of friendship among Father, Son, and Holy Ghost....
The absolute covenant-idea lies hidden in the family life of the
holy Trinity. At its core, the history of revelation is the development of the
covenant of grace. "The beginning of the realization of the
covenant-idea we find already in the earthly paradise. The relationship
between God and man was one of friendship already in the state
of rectitude." Man's fall did not annul the covenant of God.God wills the covenant. Therefore, according to God's good pleasure,
Christ, God's Companion, stood behind Adam when he became apostate
and in Him the Lord's covenant of friendship with man was firmly
established. God realizes His covenant of friendship with man
by grace in Christ . . . so that he becomes God's covenant companion
and friend everlastingly. The present history of the world centers in the covenant of God
with His people in Christ. "According to God's decree, all
things work together for the realization of this idea of the covenant
of grace.... The history of all things is the development of the
covenant of friendship of our God."
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Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
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Tucson Protestant Reformed
a mission fellowship of the
Protestant Reformed Churches
Ephesians 4:11-20 (New King James Version)
11 And He Himself gave some
to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
13
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ;
14
that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the
cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
16
from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint
supplies, according to the effective
http://www.tucsonprotestantreformed.org/tucson_protestant_reformed_fellowship_006.htmworking by which every part does
its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love