Podcast Summary: "Jesus: The Fulfillment Of Feasts Pt. 2"

Promise of Life Church Podcasts
Host: Promise of Life Church
Speaker: Pastor Craig Field (with contributions from Pastors Angela, Nancy, Edwin, and others)
Date: April 27, 2025
Topic: Deep exploration of Jesus as the fulfillment of the biblical feasts through the blood covenant; practical, theological, and healing implications

Episode Overview

This message, delivered by Pastor Craig Field at a healing service, explores the centrality of the blood covenant in the Christian faith. Building from Old Testament foreshadows to the New Testament reality, Pastor Craig reveals how Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of the feasts through His sacrificial blood. The teaching emphasizes how a true understanding of covenant unlocks intimacy with God and access to the benefits of redemption—salvation, healing, inheritance, and daily victory.

Tone: The message is passionate, revelatory, and pastoral, blending in-depth theology with practical exhortation to apply the power of the blood in everyday life and ministry.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Covenant as the Foundation of Intimacy and Healing

(00:02–07:30)

• The service opens with a prayer for healing and an invitation to focus on the blood of Jesus.
• Pastor Craig shares how God often emphasizes covenant at seasons of new beginnings and dedication (referencing Noah and Solomon).
• Highlights the need to not only know biblical principles but to genuinely know God through intimacy—something unlocked by understanding the covenant.

“If you don’t know Him, you’ve missed the train.” – Pastor Craig (06:36)

• Old Testament priests entered God's presence via incense (worship) and sprinkled blood—symbols of worship and covenant, both needed for true intimacy.

2. Typology: Old Testament Shadows Pointing to Christ

(07:31–10:15)

• Pastor Craig connects the story of Moses lifting the serpent (John 3:14) to Jesus on the cross—the ultimate type and shadow.
• Looking at the "blood covenant" brings healing and victory, just as the Israelites received when looking at the bronze serpent.

“If they looked upon the blood, they would be healed.” (09:30)

3. Covenant-Mindedness Defeats Giants

(10:16–12:30)

• The story of David and Goliath is revisited: David’s confidence stemmed from covenant status, not skill or size.
• Modern believers are urged to adopt a covenant perspective when facing challenges.

“Don’t be impressed with your sickness…you look at your circumstances through the eyeglasses of covenant.” (11:19)

4. The Mechanics and Mystery of the Blood Covenant

(12:31–24:45)

• Detailed walk-through of Genesis 15: God’s covenant with Abraham is explained as a foreshadow of the New Covenant.
  • Crucial point: God did not cut covenant directly with Abraham (or humanity) but with Himself—Father and Son—ensuring the covenant could not be broken by human weakness.
• Abraham’s deep sleep prefigures Christ’s death; God (as the burning lamp and smoking furnace) walked the blood trail, taking the curses of the covenant upon Himself.

“If they break it, let the curse of death not come upon [the people], but let it come upon me.” – Pastor Craig (19:20)

• Jesus fulfills this prophecy, ultimately shedding His own blood as the sinless Lamb.

“He laid it down and they split Him open like those animals…and blood flowed and He walked through His own trail of blood, my God!” (21:24)

• Implications: Through Jesus, all can enter this unbreakable, eternal, and free covenant with God.

5. The Benefits of the New Covenant Through Christ’s Blood

(24:46–42:44) Pastor Craig lists and explains seven blessings (with scriptural references):

1. Eternal Redemption & Salvation – Hebrews 9:12, Revelation 1:5, 5:9

   • Jesus’ blood obtains eternal redemption; Christians are saved and forgiven.

2. Gift of the Holy Spirit – Ephesians 1:13–14

   • The Holy Spirit is the seal (down-payment) of the new covenant.

3. Revelation of God’s Word – Hebrews 8:10

   • The Holy Spirit writes God’s law on believers’ hearts, transforming logos into rhema (personal, living word).

4. Access to God’s Presence – Hebrews 9:12, 4:16

   • By Christ’s blood, believers enter boldly into God’s presence.

5. Cleansing from Sin and a New Identity – Hebrews 9:14, 10:22

   • The blood purges the conscience of dead works; removes past failures and the desire for sin.

   “The power of the blood can remove a desire for sin.” (42:51)

6. Inheritance – Hebrews 9:15, Ephesians 1:18

   • Believers access their inheritance in Christ by remaining conscious of the covenant.

7. Divine Regard – Hebrews 8:9

   • God not only provides for but actively “regards” His covenant people—He sees, cares, and intervenes in their lives as a loving Father.

   “God the Father regards us. God the Father looks at me. He sees my needs and He comes to my aid.” (47:49)

6. The Application and Power of the Blood

(52:35–59:36)

• Pastor Craig testifies of real-life deliverance through confessing the blood, when traditional spiritual warfare tactics were ineffective.
• Emphasizes applying the blood—speaking it, meditating on it, and honoring it daily, not just during communion.

“Everything comes down to this: If you don’t talk about the blood... you will suffer in what the blood can accomplish for you.” (57:40)

• Quotes from Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Hagin underscore the need to develop a “consciousness” of the covenant and practice applying the blood in daily life.

7. The Blood in Practical Healing Application

(66:45–68:45)

• Prayer for those needing healing, urging listeners to see their sicknesses on Jesus and lay claim to healing as a divine right secured by the blood.
• Instructions to reach out, apply the blood, and receive by faith.

8. Corporate Worship and Testimonies

(69:03–86:00 approx.)

• The congregation sings “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power.”
• Laying on of hands and prayers for healing, with repeated declarations of “Be healed in Jesus’ name by the blood.”
• Affirmation of the importance of skillfulness in applying the covenant.
• Pastor Nancy and others exhort listeners to take these messages home and be diligent in using the blood in every sphere—prayer, family, ministry.

“Skill isn’t something that’s on paper. It’s something that’s in action in the doing… Skillful in our covenant.” – Pastor Nancy (86:25)

Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Intimacy and Covenant:
  “You can’t have intimacy if you don’t understand blood. If you don’t understand covenant, you’ll never really understand who you are in Christ.” – Pastor Craig (07:06)

• On Facing Giants:
  “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine? … If he’s not a Covenant boy, I got him.” – Pastor Craig (11:27)

• On Substitution in the Covenant:
  “He is pronouncing the curses of the covenant on himself if humanity fails, knowing humanity will fail.” – Pastor Craig (19:42)

• On the Power of the Blood:
  “The blood of Jesus is very tangible and very real. When you apply it, it works.” – (55:43-56:23) [Testimony of protection]

• On Skillfulness:
  “It’s not enough that Brother Copeland knows it… He brings it so we can be skillful. And this is what we started with. … Skill isn’t something that’s on paper. It’s something that’s in action in the doing.” – Pastor Nancy (86:25)

Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-------------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 00:02 | Opening prayer and foundation of the covenant theme | | 06:36 | “If you don’t know Him, you’ve missed the train.” | | 11:19 | David and Goliath: seeing through the covenant lens | | 17:43 | Explanation of the covenant ritual in Genesis 15 | | 19:20 | Prophetic pronouncement of Jesus’ substitution | | 21:24 | Jesus walking through His own blood – fulfillment | | 24:45 | Three attributes of the new covenant: perfect, eternal, free | | 33:14 | The Holy Spirit as the seal of the covenant | | 38:29 | Power of Word: logos vs. rhema | | 42:51 | The power of the blood removing the desire for sin | | 47:49 | God “regards” us because of the covenant | | 57:40 | “Everything comes down to…honoring the blood” | | 66:59 | Prayer of application: claiming healing by faith | | 69:03 | Worship: “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power” | | 72:35–81:21 | Laying on of hands for healing by the blood | | 86:25 | Skillfulness in the covenant explained by Pastor Nancy |

Action Points for Listeners

• Develop a daily consciousness of the blood covenant: Speak, meditate, and honor it—not just during communion.
• Appropriate its benefits by faith; claim healing, redemption, and protection as divine rights.
• Face every challenge (physical, spiritual, financial) as a “covenant person,” not as a defeated one.
• Share and apply these principles to your family and congregation. Skill in the covenant is demonstrated by use, not merely knowledge.

Closing Affirmation

“I’m kept by the blood.”

The congregation is encouraged to go out with this revelation—not just as hearers, but as skillful practitioners, living in the fullness of the covenant secured by the precious blood of Jesus.

For deeper study:

• Review Genesis 15, Hebrews 6, 8, 9, 10, Ephesians 1, John 3, Revelation 1 & 5, Exodus 12.
• Listen again to teachings by Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, and related series on the blood covenant.

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