By Rev. Ray R. Sutton
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When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abraham and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless [righteous] .... I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you .... This is My covenant (Italics mine) which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you ....
For this reason, it is said in another psalm: "Remember me, 0 Jehovah, with favor toward thy people; visit me with salvation: that I may see the well-doing of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may be glad with thine inheritance [Ps. 106:4-5; cf. Ps. ]. By these words God's fatherly favor and the es- Introduction 25 pecial witness of spiritual life are limited to his flock, so that it is always disastrous to leave the church. 9 Novel interpretations about anything, let alone the Sacrament of Baptism, should be avoided.
A person received an oath taken by another, namely the Lord Almighty. You could say that God co-signs our oath to make it good with His own. God takes this kind of oath when He calls for Abram, the Patriarch, to slay and sever animals on the ground (Genesis 15). This was the tradi1 Meredith Kline, By Oath Consigned (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1968). Sacrament: Covenantal Grace 31 tional way of entering a covenant arrangement. Normally the two parties would walk between the animals and burn them afterwards as a seal to a self-maledictory oath.