The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Oke-Aro, Akure Celebrates Men Fellowship, 2024
The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Oke-Aro, Akure has celebrated this year’s Men Fellowship with advice to follow the covenants of God.
In his sermon, the president of Men Fellowship of the Church, Elder Ayodele Ologunola urged the congregation not to deviate from the covenants they made with their God.
He said,” Covenant is a relationship between two partners who make binding promises to each other and work together to reach a common goal.
Covenants define obligations and commitments, but they are different from a contracts because they are relational and personal.
Covenant relationships are found throughout the Bible. There are personal covenants between two individuals, e.g. David and Jonathan. Political covenants between two kings or nations, e.g. King Solomon and King Hiram. Legal covenants with a nation and so forth.
The covenant story began when God created humans in His image to partner with him in spreading goodness throughout the world.
God invited Adam and Eve to be priests, and kings representing His generosity to rule on Earth so that they could enjoy and reproduce blessings of eternal life as they continued to trust and partner with Him. But as God lays out the terms of their relationship, He warns them not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as it would bring the curse of death on humanity.
They ate from the tree, breaking the human-divine relationship and plunging humanity into corruption and death “.
He stated further that there’s no consensus on the exact number of covenants between God and humanity, but there are five fundamental covenants that God made with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David, before establishing the new covenant through Jesus Christ.
” There’s no consensus on the exact number of covenants between God and humanity. But there are five fundamental covenants that God made with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David, before establishing the new covenant through Jesus Christ.
By the time we come to the story of Noah, sin has enveloped the whole world. In response, God sends a flood to destroy the whole world, making way for a restored creation that will begin with Noah and his family, God enters a formal relationship with Noah and all living creatures and promises that despite humanity’s corruption, He will never again flood the earth with water.
God’s covenant with Noah is unconditional and His promise is accompanied with a sign of His faithfulness”.
Ologunola added that God’s rescue plan continues and he calls Abraham into a covenant relationship. God and Abraham, each have a part to play.
God kept his promise to give Abraham a family who would inherit the land and bless the world.
In the land Israelites had been threatening, God heard them and sent Moses to be His instrument of divine power to lead the people out of Egypt and toward the land God promised to Abraham.
After Abraham, God’s covenant with David is left waiting for the great deliverer, the Messiah from David’s line who will make right the broken relationship that began in the garden.
However, the New Testament presents Jesus as the offspring of Abraham who trusted God, even to the point of death and became a blessing to all nations.
” The New Testament presents Jesus as the offspring of Abraham who trusted God, even to the point of death and became a blessing to all nations.
He is the greater Moses, leading us out of bondage and He is the obedient Israelite who perfectly follows the laws of God.
He is the royal son of David who inaugurated God’s Kingdom in His life, death and resurrection, who now sits at God’s right hand forever reigning as the one true King.
Jesus Christ perfectly succeeded at every point where humanity failed. He is the guarantor and mediator of the new and better covenant and now people from every nation, tribe and tongue who trust Jesus can become a part of God’s covenant family “, he said.
In his speech, the presiding Pastor of TREM, Oke-Aro, Pastor (Dr) Marcus Akinduko, enjoined Christians not to break their covenant with God.
“I want to encourage every Christian, no matter the situation they might find themselves in, they should not break their covenant with God. Because God so loved the world and He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”.
He admonished the support the men in the church had been given to him and urged them not to relent.
The event featured a lot of activities, including drama, special songs and thanksgiving.
