J. V. Fesko
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The covenant of redemption is the unbreakable, immutable, irrefragable foundation for the covenant of grace.
It's the covenant among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that creates that unbreakable foundation for our salvation.
When we first hear of an eternal covenant among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it might at first strike us as something that goes beyond what the Bible says.
It may strike us as being a little bit speculative.
How do we know what the Trinity was doing before the creation of the world?
When asked what was God doing before the creation of the world, Saint Augustine once responded to a curious person, he was making hell for people who ask questions like that.
Now, some people have dismissed this doctrine as being something of a scholastic sophistry, some kind of peering into the divine mind when we haven't been given such license.
Some have questioned the scriptural basis for this particular doctrine.
But we have to ask the question: what if there is solid biblical evidence?
for an eternal intra-Trinitarian covenant among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
If this is the teaching of Scripture, then of course we have a moral and ethical obligation to believe in this doctrine, as well as to teach it as nothing less than God's revealed truth.
But before we proceed, we want to ask the question: okay, what is the covenant of redemption?
We can say a simple definition for the covenant of redemption is the eternal agreement among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to create and save a people.
An eternal agreement among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to create and to save a people.
More specifically, we can say that within the covenant of redemption, the Father appoints the Son to serve as covenant surety and mediator, the covenant surety and mediator.
And a little bit we'll explain what a surety is.
But then secondly we could also say that the Father and the Son both determined to send the Spirit to apply the Son's work, so that the Spirit can gather and save the elect, those whom God has chosen before the foundations of the world.
So as we think about the covenant of redemption, we want to see that the covenant of redemption is biblically sound and it's a necessary doctrine and it serves as the eternal foundation of the triune God's activity in redemptive history.
But what we'll do as we proceed forward is we're going to look first at a brief historical overview as to the origins of this doctrine.
Secondly, we'll examine its scriptural foundations.
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