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The Bible is divided, quite literally, into two covenants. With this understanding we should be intent to understand the idea of covenant and its implications for us as believers. David examines the theology of covenant in a way that confirms the consistency of the Scriptures. With a greater revelation of covenant comes a worldview that empowers and informs our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Holiness entails faithfulness to God’s covenant requirements, and, as we shall see, it is itself one of the blessings of the covenant. When believers are summoned, using the language of the Old Testament, ‘Therefore come out from them and be separate.… Touch no unclean thing and I will receive you’ (2 Cor. 6:17), the context is one of God’s covenant with his people and the ‘therefore’ of verse 17 refers to the covenant promise of verse 16: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be
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