The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Spurgeon works through the Everlasting Covenant systematically — identifying the contracting parties as the three persons of the Trinity (not God and man), the stipulations as the Father promising to give his elect to the Son and the Spirit promising to quicken and preserve them, the Son promising to live, die, rise, and intercede until every one is safely delivered — and insists that its "everlasting" character means it is older than creation, surer than any human structure, immutable rather than a revolving door of the believer going in and out of grace, and guaranteed to run on into eternity since it promises the endless happiness of all its objects. He then traces the fourfold relationship of Christ's blood to this covenant: it is Christ's fulfillment of his side of the agreement, it is the bond that now legally obliges the Father to keep every promise he made, it is the evidence by which individual sinners may know they are included (for whoever trusts the blood is thereby proved to be in the covenant), and it is the shared glory of Father, Son, and sinner alike. He closes by insisting that while the decree is particular, the gospel call is as wide as the world, and he invites every trembling sinner to simply trust the blood and not worry about election in the abstract — for if you have chosen Christ it is proof that he has long since chosen you, and any heart that genuinely clings to the cross is thereby marked as one of those for whom the Everlasting Covenant was made.Sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon on September 4th, 1859.