Covenant Of Sovereign Grace Ministry


A Ministry Of Exegetically Revealing Fulfilled Prophecies Of Christ



STUDY LINKS

Theophanies Of The Trinity Recorded Throughout The Scriptures new

Christ's Accomplished Prophetic Word Of His Everlasting Covenant Of Sovereign Grace

Covenant Of Sovereign Grace Reflected At Christ's Transfiguration

The Mount Of Olives Split - Spread Out Like A Carpet

Majestic Pillars Of God's Covenant Of Sovereign Grace

Newness Of Life Within God's Covenant Of Sovereign Grace

Celebrating God's Covenant Of Sovereign Grace

Covenant Of Sovereign Grace Full Of Righteoused Glory

Eternal Peaceful Rest Through God's Covenant Of Sovereign Grace newly revised

Our High Calling In Christ Jesus Because Of His Sovereign Grace

Whosoever Desiring To Be Saved In The Here And Now

The Biblical Meaning Of "Being Saved"

Beseeching God Within His Will And Word

QuadStar Graphics Of First Century Authenticity Depicting Unity In Diversity

Notes On Christ's Fulfilled Prophecies

The Fulfilling Of God's New Testament Covenant Of Sovereign Grace

The Messiah's Fulfillment Of All Prophecy

Christ In The Book Of Psalms

An Atheist Discovers The Power Of Prayer

A Typology Of Christ Revealed In The Life Of Joseph

Unbelief With Seven Others That Are Worse

Honoring All USA Military, Veterans And National Guard

The Calf Path

Pastoral Counsel

eBooks

Confronting The Altruistic Values Of Christ To The Seventh-day Adventist Church While Recovering From Their Delusive Power Strugglings Of Falsified Teachings newly revised fourth edition

Christ's Spiritual Blessings To You

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Other Relevant Websites

What Is The Preterist View of Bible Prophecy? - International Preterist Association

Preterist Questions And Answers - International Preterist Association

Personal Study Books And Media - International Preterist Assocation to help you think through the personal choices available for each and every one; the authors of which speak with attuned compassionate awareness and write from a position of strength in Truth


Sitting Together With Christ In Heavenly Places

Covenant Of Sovereign Grace was founded to promote personal spiritual growth thus helping our students, readers, and viewers to presently understand some sorted previous misunderstandings, so that the formerly misunderstood shall become the knowledgeable composites to be understood, even in today's world [age or generation]. We "do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Colossians 1:9, 10).

On the other hand, no finite person knows enough to reach the complete understanding which God has of every single soul - as He even knows the very number of hairs on one's head, and can separate the marrow and bone of each individual. So we attempt not to split hairs or manufacture answers like the priests did in Old Testament times when they couldn't find a valid solution within their 613 laws. We do not pretend, by any means, that we or the scholarly analysis of careful-complex-issues which we are concerned with are any indication of having arrived to every cause; nor do we claim to have the final word. We simply represent a fortified-best-effort to listen as objectively as we can to those scholars who and which take careful approaches to Altruism in all its complexities, and probe the outcome to be adequate to inter-relate with readers' pains and gains in mind! Whenever we have failed to do this, we hope others might find the most excellent of themselves to gracefully correct us. God is never finished pruning or preening His Sons and Daughters as long as they live, even in our New Testament times (ages or generations) of His Sovereign Grace, as [their] fortification.

We express our strong value of community by seeking to reach out and connect with a diversity of people. We want to be personal and caring in a world that is increasingly fragmented and impersonal. We believe our spirituality fulfills rather than denies our humanity, and we believe this approach strengthens community. God's Love recognizes diversity among Christians in non-essential areas; and we do not press for uniformity in these areas, but rather encourage people to search the Scriptures, seeking balance, mutual understanding, humility and love. Additionally, we seek to respect one another's differences without a quarrelsome, arrogant or divisive spirit, and to return continually to the great commandment, to love God and one another. The message we present is one of Fulfilled Eschatology - a sublet of Theology; synchronizing and extrapolating a choreographical essentiality of The Spiritual Truth Of Jesus Christ in the full reciprocal fellowship containments God offers all Believer-Doers within and throughout Biblical Sola Scriptura, Sola Historia, Contextual Theology, Meaningful Hermeneutics, and Salvational Soteriology, and in many instances Biblical Cosmology as connectivities between the spirit world (unseen) and the physical world (seen) all about us. Our goal of this message is not to tell our readers what to think, but give our readers some matters of import and opportunity to think more intelligently and, of course, always more deeply. This in itself brings about New Horizons - both broad and wide - and as is the case with anyone digging for gold [they] also will come to perceive and realize that In Christ Jesus each is to God more precious than fine gold (Isaiah 13:12), which is the highest attainment or high calling! This means a New Position - not how one has lived or done; or do or not do now; for salvation is absolutely a Free Sovereign Grace Of Jehovah God! In the New Testament, Christ states no words of ambiguous-derogatory-condemnation to all accepting Him as a Sacrificial Offering for their sin-life throughout their entire sanctifying Life-Anew. Every word comes forth as building-blocks of Himself, of any age to any people who study to have more, unto more of much, into much more of most, onto most of the entirety, and finally the whole entirety of Christ. This is God's Word as spiritually growing-up onto one's soul (will, mind or intelligence, and emotions) within the body-temple of each adducing his/her witness of becoming and being likened to Christ - the inner-person! For the old-person (as one's self and all others will always recognize as the body-flesh anyways or any hows as it looks physically, but not necessarily spiritually), see Romans 13:14. But Scripture says: "We ought to obey God [being onto Jesus' Words] rather than men [their fables that allude towards only good behavior of outward look-alike-conventions]" (Acts 5:29). In which the latter may be professed - but still not be a Confessed Christian in the Spiritual-Sense.

For a frontal conclusion of this boxed inset of the Old and New Covenant comparisons, consider and apply the following written by Athanasius (296-373 AD) Incarnation, ch. 4: "Have no fears then. Now that the common Savior of all has died on our behalf, we who believe in Christ no longer die, as men died afore time, in fulfillment of the threat of the law. The condemnation has come to an end; and how that, by the grace of resurrection, corruption has been banished and done away..."

We conserve all four schools of thought concerning the meaningfulness(es) of the diverse and differing attributives of the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) according each Christian's will and view. The four interpretations being: (1) Preterist (contemporary-historical); (2) Historicist; (3) Futurist (eschatological); and (4) Idealist (timeless). In each and every aspect of these diversions, we do not divest any free moral individual's right of his/her own choice to remain in the dignity of [their] respected belief and adherence of [their] particular definitives concerning [their] "lives for the living," and [their] inspirational conceptualization(s) of "life after death." There remains many peculiarities concerning God that will never be fathomed in, of, within, and throughout anyone's life of the believing as well as that of non-believers. Job 11:7 asks the question: "Canst thou by searching find out God? However, in acknowledging all of the above, we more fully believe there are implicit and explicit qualifications and demands of problematic proportions curtailing subjective co-dependence correspondingly; just as there are implicit and explicit liberating qualifications in positive proportions alleviating problematical subjectives onto a fuller acknowledgeable objective credibility towards more opportunistic evaluations. Our primary adducer to accepting and becoming Preterists - meaning past fulfillment - was/is the Biblical unfortifications of inconsistencies comprising nominal-Christianity. Christ meant ALL of what He said to His disciples in the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24 by the terminology and understanding of His contemporaneous age in history of the exegetical sequence of His revealings and the manner of envisioning the metaphoric diorama constituted within His particular time frame. He had a greater nascent meaning than any other prophetic voice in history beings He brought The Kingdom/Church/Body Of Believers unto Himself at AD 70 and forever following - generation after generation. If anyone can perceive, conceive and receive the following statement of metaphoric Spiritual Truth, he/she is well on their way to understanding the Preterist View, or approach, in all things pertaining to Christ's Kingdom, Way, Truth, and Life: "Love sees with the heart, thinks with the soul, and grows greater as it is given away!"

We do not solicit or accept funds as our service is a free gift to one and all to further volunteer to uphold world peace, especially freedom of believing as one wishes such as within the United States of America. In the physical pragmatic sense, a volunteer-army such as the United States presently has, is both fit and proper to fight enemies of aggression towards peaceful co-existence; but what is more so for the volunteer-army of Christianity is peaceful prosperity of souls for God's Praise, Honor and Glory!

Our Beliefs

Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God, does the making, the saving, the paying, and the working; by His Accomplished Mission, by the Sovereign Grace of His death, His burial, His resurrecting; and according to the corrected Biblical standarization of what is the preeminence of His successive regenerational power of those responding resplendantly to His proposed, purposeful Life of Reform given:

  • OF Theology (Biblical study about God)
  • WITH Escatology (Biblical study about last-day events)
  • HOW - through Soteriology (Biblical study about Salvational qualities)
  • WHEN - within Cosmology (Biblical study of Seen and Unseen of relationships to physical and heavenly interjunctions and/or confluence)
  • WHO - any whosoever called
  • WHERE - the place called to be His - Our Body Temple
  • PRAYING to be made like they have not been, to the likes of Him in characterizations - praying the things that are not as though they become - and towards staying in His Will for Christ's Sake, also - praying that the things that should not be in their submissive lives to Him actually never become - Amen!!

Furthermore, we adhere to the same beliefs of other Full Preterists, as stated by M & L Nichols Ministry, P.O. Box 992, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270-0992. Used by permission:

"We believe the Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God's truth and is infallible, sufficient and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice."
"We believe in the Holy Trinity. There is one God, who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
"We believe that all people are sinners and are totally unable to save themselves from God's displeasure."
"We believe that salvation is by God alone and He has sovereignly elected and chosen all those He will save from among all classes of people and throughout the world among all nations. We believe His choice is based on His grace, not on any human individual merit, or foreseen faith."
"We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. He is fully man and fully God in one Person. Jesus was virgin born, lived a perfect sinless life, was crucified as a sacrifice to atone for our sins, and was raised from the dead as the firstfruit of the rest of the dead who were raised at His second coming."
"We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells God's people and gives them the strength and wisdom to trust Christ and follow Him."
"We believe that Jesus returned to establish His Kingdom in the first century generation, while some of His original disciples were still alive, and He then judged the living and the dead, His elect going to heaven and His non-elect go to hell."
"We believe in one universal body of believers, both visible and invisible, which is the Church."
"We believe in the continuing observance of water baptism and the Lord's Supper. We believe that all aspects of our lives are to be lived to the glory of God under the Lordship of Jesus Christ."
The Power Of Prayer As God Desires

"Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known unto God, and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7).

"Mark the grand characteristic of true prayer - 'In the Holy Ghost' (Jude 20). The seed of acceptable devotion must come from Heaven's Storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord's arrows back to Him. That desire which He writes upon our heart will move His heart and bring down a blessing, but the desires of the flesh have no power with Him. Praying in the Holy Ghost is praying in fervency. Cold prayers ask the Lord not to hear them. Those who do not plead with fervency, plead not at all. As well speak of lukewarm fire as of lukewarm prayer - it is essential that it be red hot. It is praying perseveringly. The true suppliant gathers force as he proceeds, and grows more fervent when God delays to answer. The longer the gate is closed, the more vehemently does he use the knocker, and the longer the angel lingers the more resolved is he that he will never let him go without the blessing. Beautiful in God's sight is tearful, agonizing unconquerable importunity. It means praying humbly, for the Holy Spirit never puffs us up with pride. It is His office to convince of sin, and so to bow us down in contrition and brokenness of spirit. We shall never sing Gloria in excelsis except we pray to God De profundis: out of the depths must we cry, or we shall never behold glory in the highest. It is loving prayer.... Moreover, it must be a prayer full of faith. A man prevails only as he believes. The Holy Spirit is the author of faith, and strengthens it, so that we pray believing God's promise. O that this blessed combination of excellent graces, priceless and sweet as the spices of the merchant, might be fragrant within us because the Holy Ghost is in our hearts! Most blessed Comforter, exert Thy Mighty Power within us, helping our infirmities in prayer." - C. H. Spurgeon. Also read Christ's Prayer recorded in John 17.

A study room in our home is dedicated for the benefit of those living in our locale to meet together for Christian fellowship, prayer and the study of God's Written Word in relationship to the Completed Work Of Redemption By Jesus Christ In AD 70. A variety of books, DVDs and audio CDs are available for in-house study. If you live nearby, or pass through this way while traveling, both you and us will certainly be blessed as we sit together with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).

Serving Internationally Via The World Wide Web, Particularly The United States, And Specifically The State Of Ohio: whose motto is: With God All Things Are Possible. We hope and pray that you, dear reader, will personally adopt this motto for yourself as you believe and adhere to the complete wholeness of God's Infallible Word. In a few words: confide and abide in Him!

L. Phillip Schmidt, Ordained Evangel Gospel Minister, D.D., Pastoral Counseling By Appointment

Esther Schmidt, Ordained Evangel Gospel Minister


Covenant Of Sovereign Grace Ministry
472 McKinley Avenue
Newcomerstown, OH 43832 U.S.A.
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Author's Disclaimer. Spiritual things are spiritually understood, so we advocate our readers to allow the Holy Spirit to be their Teacher (1 John 2:27). Also we "...let [allow] every man [woman] prove his [her] own work, and then shall he [she] have rejoicing in himself [herself] alone [not attempting to please everyone], and not in another [who teaches differently or in another style]" (Gal. 6:4). "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [matured comprehension of ongoing Biblical Spiritual matters], be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall [without any lack] reveal even this unto you [directly]" (Phil. 3:15). Furthermore, we believe that God, through the Holy Spirit, does the compurgation of His people; therefore we do not knowingly use compulsory compunction that can or may lead to false-guilt that possibly becomes worse than conscienced guilt of flawed integrity (outside of orthodox theology), and leads so many to flagulate themselves unwarrantably. All timings, because of unmoveable seasons - even in individual lives - are fully God ordained! Just because some do not respond to our first invitation to learn of Christ, or more of Christ; we in no way, form or measure take it to mean disrespect or a lack of caring towards us. We have learned from experience with former legalized affiliations that we are not to push, pull, twist, or wrest anyone towards ourselves as in compulsory compunction - but to point each one to Christ - and inevitably leave the Holy Spirit to guide in His Abiding Presence to reach every "called" person in His Own - and their own time (1 Corinthians 15:23); thus bringing together those that mutually can benefit resplendent Sisterhood and Brotherhood under the Christian Banner.

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