The Covenant of Redemption
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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.
What a glorious, comforting truth. Our salvation does not depend upon us. It rests entirely in the sovereign, unchangeable purpose of God. Welcome to Renewing Your Mind this Tuesday. We're exploring biblical covenants this week with Dr. J. V. Fesco from his series Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Dr. Fesco has also written a wonderful introduction to Reformed Covenant Theology by the same title. You can get both the ebook edition of this resource along with streaming access to his six-part series and a digital study guide to help you work through the teaching. Visit renewingyourmind.org to make a donation in support of this program, and we'll send you all four of these resources. But now, here's Dr. Fesco.
Why is the covenant of redemption more than theological speculation?
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.
And then third and finally, we'll set forth the basic parameters of the doctrine. So a brief historical overview of its historical origins. We'll look at its scriptural foundations and then we'll set forth the doctrine.
How did Reformed theologians develop the doctrine of the covenant of redemption?
So let's first take a little examination here to look at the historical origins of the covenant of redemption. And that sometimes first impressions can be misleading, but upon closer examination things can become clearer, and I think such is the case with the historical origins of the covenant of redemption.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:36
2
Why is the covenant of redemption more than theological speculation?
1:36–4:49
3
How did Reformed theologians develop the doctrine of the covenant of redemption?
4:49–10:22
4
What biblical passages support an eternal covenant between the Father and the Son?
10:22–14:30
5
What does it mean for Jesus to be the surety of the covenant?
14:30–17:39
6
What did the Son have to do to accomplish salvation in the covenant of redemption?
17:39–19:57
7
What promises did the Father make to the Son in the covenant of redemption?
19:57–22:04
8
Why are the elect and the church Christ’s reward?
22:04–26:18