Join Cherri Campbell as she delves into the profound spiritual truth of Our Blood Covenant with God. In this episode, she continues her enlightening series, highlighting the life-changing impact that understanding covenant relationships can have on your faith journey. Cherri explores the profound significance of ancient covenant rituals and how they translate to our spiritual walk today, urging listeners to boldly approach God with a confidence grounded in faith.
00:06:17 Symbols and Rituals in Covenant Ceremonies
00:11:26 The Meaning of Covenant Scar and Name Exchange
00:13:30 Outro and How to Connect with Victorious Faith
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Welcome to Victorious Faith. We believe you will be blessed, encouraged, and receive fresh faith as you listen to today’s message with international missionary and Bible teacher, Cherri Campbell.
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Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. Today I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I’ve been sharing with you over the last couple of broadcasts that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called Our Blood Covenant with God. I believe this message is blessing you and it can impact your life. It can be life-changing as it was for me. So I encourage you now get out your Bible and a pen and paper and join me now in our live service for part three of Our Blood Covenant with God so that’s the power of the communion when you learn to take the communion and say Lord I’m coming to you based on your word and your promise to me now I’m holding you to it in the blood and in the body and that’s not an arrogant thing that’s a confident thing that’s a thing that’s something that you know you are righteous and you rightly belong in his face, but you have that marriage relationship with him. There’s the confidence to approach him and talk like that. Like a wife can get her husband’s face or a husband can get in his wife’s face. I mean, you know, you’ve got a right to do it because of that covenant relationship. And so you’re not being arrogant. It’s not being arrogant. It’s being confident and God loves it. He doesn’t get upset. He says, that’s the way to do it. Good job, son. All right, here we go. That pleases him. Why? Because without faith, it’s impossible to please God. Well, then with faith, what are you doing? You’re pleasing God. So if you’re going to him confidently saying, it’s your blood. I’m reminding you in your blood. And your blood is speaking to you continually day and night. I sleep at night, but the blood never sleeps. And so the blood is talking all night long. Don’t forget Jerry. Don’t forget Kathy. Don’t forget Jacob. Constantly before the Lord. It’s bringing you to him. Amen. Hallelujah. Glory to God. It’s just speaking constantly, moment by moment for all eternity, bringing your name and the promises he’s made to you, especially when you take it in the communion, in the blood and the body of Jesus. That’s what keeps it alive before God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Everybody say praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Well, I wanted to briefly explain the blood covenant ceremony that was practiced in ancient times. And throughout history, even some parts of the world that are still more tribal still practice blood covenant, but you don’t see it very much. But blood BC before Christ, it was practiced in different cultures all over the world. And I just want to quickly go through it because I want to then take it to the New Testament and to the fulfillment. Hallelujah. So first of all, when there is a covenant being made, there is a representative covenant. of two, maybe two tribes, two families that are going to join together. Maybe two families are joining together. Maybe two tribes are joining together. And they agree to come together usually because of considering strengths and weaknesses that each one has. And that one has a strength in one area, but a certain weakness, and the other has a strength in the area where the one had a weakness. For example, let’s say there’s a tribe. They’re all farmers and they farm, farm, farm and produce lots of crops. But not one of them knows how to use a sword. And so when the enemy comes, they always get wiped out. They always get defeated if anybody attacks them. However, there’s another tribe, they’re trained in war and they are the best warriors, but not one of them knows how to plow a field and plant a crop and they don’t have time. So you’ll have the warrior tribe make a covenant with the farming tribe and the warrior tribe says, we’ll fight for you and we’ll protect you and you’ll provide food for our tribe. And so the farmers will provide for the warriors their food. The warriors will protect the farmers. Well, that’s the way it is in a marriage. You know, the man and the woman come together because one has a strength and the other has a weakness in an area, and they meet each other’s need in those areas. I think of it like I see my fingers, strength, and then the low spot, weakness, and the point, strength, weakness, strength, weakness, strength, and then strength, weakness, strength, weakness, strength, weakness, strength. But when they come together, they become a fortified wall. And there is no weakness then. And they’re stronger together than when they are alone. That’s what covenant does. One puts a thousand to flight, two puts 10,000 to flight. So you’re not one plus one equals two. You’re one plus one equals 10,000 kind of. It’s a multiplication of forces that then makes that wall a very strong fortified wall in who you are. And so that’s the reason for coming together together. in covenant and then the representative of each is chosen and then an animal is chosen and the animal is cut down the backbone and split open with the blood able to run to the middle to make a river of blood in the middle between the two halves in the animal and then as they are starting the ceremony They stand facing each other across from over the animal. And then they would first take off the belt of weapons or something that represents what they’re giving to the other person. For example, the warrior would give their weapons. They would have a belt of weapons with a sword and a knife. And they give that to that person saying, now I’m fighting for you. Maybe the other tribe would give him a hoe or a shovel representing what they are giving and contributing to this relationship. And they would trade those. In other words, it is saying my strength now is your strength. My strength will be your strength and I will fight for you or I will feed you. I will take care of you and I give myself to you and my strengths and my abilities. I’m giving myself to you. And then they take off their robe and a cloak of some kind that represents their position or authority. And do you remember when Jacob gave Joseph the coat of many colors and And then Joseph’s brothers were jealous. They weren’t just jealous because he was a favored one and was given a gift that was really nice. I mean, they could have all gotten, they were wealthy. They could have gone and gotten their own beautiful coat. It wasn’t just that. It was actually what the coat represented. It represents authority. The coat or the robe represents authority. So when the father gave the son his robe, he’s saying, I’m passing my authority to you, which means you’re going to be the next chief. So now all the other brothers are jealous. You mean you’re picking this twerp to be the next chief? Yeah, the robe was passing on the mantle. We also call it a mantle of authority and position to him. Like, wait a minute. So it’s not just a pretty coat. This is mantle. This is authority. This is position being passed down and the father selecting the one who is going to take over in his place. And so that’s why that coat was so offensive to the brothers. Not just a pretty coat, because they could have all gone out and made their own pretty coat. But that represents position and authority and rank. And so they would do that. They would exchange in this covenant ceremony, something that represents their position, their rank, their authority. And they would exchange that again, saying, I’m giving myself to you all that I am, who I am, what I have, I give to you. And then they would walk through the blood and they would make a sideways eight. They would walk up the middle through the blood and go around one half of the animal. and then come back to the middle and walk up through the blood again and go around the other half of the animal. And I saw that one time. It’s a sideways eight. Well, you know, in mathematics, the sideways eight means infinity. Infinity. So there’s a symbol of infinity being drawn to that walk of blood, meaning it’s forever. This is an endless relationship now. Praise the Lord. And then they would stop in the middle of the blood. They would make their oaths, their vows, their pledges to each other. their promises of this is what I’m going to do for you. And the blessings of the covenant would be declared. You’ll be blessed with this and blessed with that. And then they cut themselves either in the hand or the wrist, not a small cut, but a big heavy cut to make blood flow freely. But also because that scar needs to remain visible for the rest of their life. And thankfully today in marriage, you don’t cut your finger. You just put a ring on. A ring is the symbol of that. But that ring actually takes the place of the scar. The ring you wear in marriage is taking the place of the actual cutting of the flesh. So that there’s a scar. Now you just wear it. And thankfully, it’s not so painful. Thank you. How would you like to go into the church on wedding day? All right, stick out your hand. Cut and all this bloodshed and call the ambulance. She passed out. Praise the Lord. So then they would make that easily flow because they wanted the scar. And I want to say something else about the scar because after the scar heals, for one thing, that scar is to be a reminder to you that you have a covenant. And that’s why you want to always wear that ring. And it puts you in constant remembrance. I’m in a marriage here, you know, but also it’s to let other people know. Let other people know. For example, let’s say that they are walking through the woods and the farmer is out there alone, no weapons, and the enemy sneaks up and is going to try to attack him, but he sees a cut. Like, it’s going to stop and wait a minute. Who’s this guy in covenant with? Because if I go after him, the covenant partner is going to come after me and I better know if I can deal with that or not. Well, you find out he’s with the warrior tribe. I’m not going to touch that fellow. Yeah. Well, it’s the same way with marriage. Another guy looking at your wife, you want her to be having her ring on because that’s the symbol in our society that she’s married, she’s taken. And it lets other people know that you’re in a covenant and it’s a reminder to yourself that you’re in a covenant. And then that scar then is to be permanent. And then they exchange names or they join names. There can be the hyphenating the two names together. Or in our culture, it’s the lady usually takes the name of her husband. And either way, there’s a name exchange. What you just heard was part three of a message that I preached in one of our victorious faith services called Our Blood Covenant with God. If you want to listen to this message again, you can go to my YouTube channel, which is under my name, Cherri Campbell, C-H-E-R-R-I Campbell, C-A-M-P-B-E-L-L. And there in the top category called Radio Broadcasts, you will see this message called Our Blood Covenant with God. I encourage you to listen to it again and share it with your friends and family. It will bless them as well. Now join me again tomorrow as we will continue this message. And remember, God loves you. You’re blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
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