May 24, 2026 - Pentecost Series (7)
About this episode
Pastor Brett Deal discusses God's faithfulness through the imagery of fire and covenant from the Old Testament to the New Testament.
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. As I’ve been praying and preparing the summer series for our youth, following the repeating imagery of God’s presence in fire, I'm struck afresh by the faithfulness of God to us across the ages. In the Old Testament, at one of Abraham’s lowest moments, God anchored His promise to the patriarch by making a covenant with Abraham; one for which the Lord alone was responsible (Genesis 12.1-4; 15.17). Before His called and chosen servant’s watching eyes, as “a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch,” the Lord’s presence passed through the sacrifice. Through the fire, the Lord was saying to Abraham, we have made a covenant, but I alone am responsible to fulfill my promise. When we consider Moses sharing this story with Abraham’s sons and daughters on their exodus journey out of slavery and into the Promised Land, God’s covenantal faithfulness becomes all the more pronounced! In the wilderness, all these men and women needed do was look up from their dark and dusty feet and fix their eyes on the pillar of fire by night and trust the Lord was faithful to His word (Exodus 13.21-22; Numbers 9.15-23). When we arrive on the other side of salvation…
People in this episode
Host: Pastor Brett Deal
Topics covered
- God's presence
- covenant
- faithfulness
- Old Testament
- New Testament
- Pentecost
- sermon
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Eternity Church
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