The Blood Covenant #11

Blood Covenant Overview

In this eleventh installment of the Blood Covenant series, the Pastor of NTC Ministries delivers a powerful teaching on Jesus Christ as our Covenant Head. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 1:7-12, Ephesians 4:15, Colossians 1:12-14, Joshua 5:13-15, John 15:5, and Daniel 11:32, the message unfolds the biblical meaning of headship as a covenant term signifying responsibility, provision, protection, sustenance, and support. The Pastor explains how sin corrupted Adam’s bloodline and how Jesus, through His shed blood, established an unbreakable covenant that restores eternal life, healing, and inheritance to all who receive Him. The account of David and Goliath is explored in depth as a vivid example of covenant confidence in action, contrasting David’s bold faith with the fear of Saul’s army. A personal testimony about acquiring the church’s property illustrates how stepping out in covenant faith yields supernatural results. The message closes with a call to speak covenant truths boldly, work alongside Jesus, and partake in the communion that seals this living relationship with the Covenant Head.

Blood Covenant Outline

• 00:00 – Opening and Communion Invitation: The Pastor encourages listeners to prepare communion elements and frames the session as an opportunity to apply covenant truth to daily life.
• 04:30 – Defining the Covenant Head: An examination of 1 Corinthians 11:3 reveals that headship is a covenant term meaning to be responsible, to provide, to protect, to sustain, and to support.
• 13:00 – Sin, Corrupted Blood, and the Need for Christ: The Pastor traces how Adam’s fall polluted the bloodline of humanity and explains how receiving Christ functions as a spiritual blood transfusion that restores eternal life.
• 22:00 – Christ as Head Over the Church: Ephesians 1:22-23 and Ephesians 4:15 establish Jesus as the covenant head over all things given to the Church, calling believers to grow up into Him through truth spoken in love.
• 31:00 – Joshua, Jericho, and the Pre-Incarnate Christ: Joshua 5:13-15 presents the pre-incarnate Christ appearing with a drawn sword before Jericho, showing the covenant head arriving to provide, protect, and deliver His people.
• 40:00 – Our Inheritance Through the Blood Covenant: Ephesians 1:7-12 and Colossians 1:12-14 detail the redemption, forgiveness, and inheritance believers receive through Christ’s blood, translated out of darkness into His kingdom.
• 49:00 – David and Goliath as Covenant Confidence: The story of David in 1 Samuel 17 illustrates that covenant knowledge produces boldness. David’s challenge rested entirely on recognizing Goliath as uncircumcised and therefore outside covenant protection.
• 57:00 – Daniel 11:32 and Doing Exploits: The Pastor applies Daniel 11:32 to the present day, declaring that those who know their God will be strong and display strength, take action, and prevail regardless of opposition.
• 1:03:00 – Personal Testimony of Property and Provision: The Pastor shares how covenant faith led to acquiring the church’s ten-and-a-half-acre property and how the landowner came to salvation just weeks before his passing.
• 1:07:00 – Communion and Closing Declaration: Believers are led in a covenant declaration and communion, affirming that the blood of Jesus brings life, victory, and prosperity in everything they put their hands to do.

Scripture References

1 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 1:7-12, Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 4:15, Colossians 1:12-14, Joshua 5:13-15, John 15:5, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:31-33, 1 Samuel 17:36-37, Daniel 11:32, Philippians 1:6, Jeremiah 29:11

Key Takeaways

• Jesus Christ is the Covenant Head who is personally responsible to provide, protect, sustain, and support every believer who has entered into relationship with Him through His blood.
• The corruption of Adam’s blood through sin is the root of death and decay in all humanity, and receiving Christ reverses that corruption by imparting eternal life to the spirit.
• Covenant knowledge is the source of supernatural courage, just as David’s confidence against Goliath came entirely from recognizing that the Philistines stood outside the covenant with God.
• The mystery of the Church is only revealed from the inside, meaning that genuine born-again relationship with Christ unlocks revelation, inheritance, and the power of God that religion alone can never access.
• Believers are called to actively work with Jesus, speaking what He says and doing what He instructs, because obedient partnership with the Covenant Head is the path to inheriting every promise.
• The blood of Jesus has already delivered believers from the power of darkness and translated them into the kingdom of God, leaving no grounds for fear of demonic opposition.
• Grace is not a license for passivity but the divine empowerment that teaches believers how to live godly lives within the covenant, producing good works and bearing fruit for the kingdom.

Blood Covenant Notes

The Covenant Head Defined Biblically

The word translated as head in 1 Corinthians 11:3 carries a rich covenant meaning that goes far beyond simple authority. It means to take hold of, to seize, and to be fully responsible. When the Father gave Jesus to be head over all things to the Church, He appointed Him as the one who initiates, provides, protects, sustains, and supports every member of the covenant community. This is not a headship of domination but of self-giving responsibility, which stands in sharp contrast to the imposing will that characterizes corrupt governments, absent fathers, and the agenda of the enemy.

Adam’s Fall and the Blood Solution

The life of the flesh is in the blood, and when Adam sinned, his blood became corrupted instantly. Spiritual death came first, and physical death followed 930 years later as the process worked outward. Every descendant inherited this corrupted bloodline, which is why the Latin root of the word human points toward the reality of mortality. Jesus came in a body prepared by the Father, shed His sinless blood, and cut an unbreakable covenant with God on behalf of all humanity. Receiving Christ is therefore like a divine blood transfusion that introduces eternal life into the believer’s innermost being, changing their nature permanently.

Joshua’s Encounter at Jericho Explained

Before Israel took a single step toward Jericho, the pre-incarnate Christ appeared to Joshua with a drawn sword, identifying Himself as the Prince of the Lord’s host. Joshua worshiped Him without correction, confirming this was not an angel but the Lord Himself. The significance is clear: Israel had just renewed the blood covenant through circumcision, and the Covenant Head showed up immediately to provide, protect, and lead them into their inheritance. This is a type and shadow of the new covenant reality, where Christ’s presence is guaranteed to every believer who walks in covenant faithfulness.

David’s Confidence Rooted in Covenant Knowledge

What distinguished seventeen-year-old David from the entire army of Israel was not physical size or military training but covenant revelation. When David asked who this uncircumcised Philistine was, he was making a theological statement: Goliath had no covenant with God, and Israel did. That single truth dismantled every argument for fear. Daniel 11:32 confirms this principle across centuries, declaring that the people who know their God will be strong and do exploits. Covenant knowledge does not produce arrogance but produces settled, fearless confidence in the faithfulness of the One who stands behind the agreement.

Practical Testimony of Stepping Out in Faith

The Pastor’s account of acquiring the church property illustrates covenant faith in action. With only a fraction of the asking price, he walked the land each week, declared God’s promise over it, and spoke honestly to the landowner when the moment came. The result was not only the provision of ten and a half acres at a price that defied the surrounding market but also the salvation of the landowner himself, who came to Christ through his son just two weeks before he passed away. This testimony demonstrates that obedience to the voice of the Covenant Head releases outcomes that benefit eternity, not just the immediate situation.

The Call to Speak Covenant Truths Boldly

The closing exhortation of this message is a direct challenge to stop using language that suggests uncertainty about God’s commitment. Phrases like I hope the Lord is with me contradict the reality of a sealed blood covenant. Believers are urged instead to declare that the blood of Jesus stands against the enemy, that they shall live and not die, and that everything they put their hands to prospers because their Covenant Head is Jesus Christ. Speaking these truths is not presumption but faithfulness to the terms of an eternal agreement ratified by the death, burial, and resurrection of the Son of God.

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