New Covenant

Good Morning!

I never knew what a covenant was before I began to study God’s Word in earnest. A covenant from a Biblical perspective is a promise God makes between Himself and mankind. If one is a student of Dr. Schofield, one quickly learns there have bee seven covenants issued to man … but that the most important covenant is the “New Covenant”. Here’s what the writer of Hebrews writes about the New Covenant:

Hebrews 10:15-18 (New International Version)
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”[a]
17 Then he adds:
“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”[b]
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
Footnotes:
a. Hebrews 10:16 Jer. 31:33
b. Hebrews 10:17 Jer. 31:34

The problem with the Covenants that preceded the New Covenant was that the older covenants were all external: agreements written in books and subject to interpretation. God resolves this problem by writing the New Covenant in our hearts. Sounds like the indwelling of the Holy Spirit – God taking up residence in my old dirty body – and doing a little house cleaning along the way.

I am glad we have the New Covenant. The old Covenant (a.k.a the Mosaic Covenant) was about rules and regulations. The New Covenant is about relationship – our relationship with God. And that’s good because our relationship with God is much more important than a bunch of rules and regulations that we resent. I like to think of the relationship with God as a child with a Father. My relationship with my earthly father was nonexistent – but my relationship with my Father, God, has been fantastic. And fantastic is what I wish for your good day today.


Agape’


Mr. Jim