never seen a scripture about a spiritual covenant? Faith and baptism
All believing the same faith revealed by Christ eph 4:5 Jude 1:3 and baptism
Effects of baptism!
Born again / born from above:
Jn 3:5
Out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Light:
1 pet 2:9
New Creation in Christ Jesus / regeneration:
2 cor 5:17 titus 3:5
Sins washed away:
Acts 22:16
Washed in His blood:
1 pet 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Member of Christ, Member of the new covenant church, all professing the same faith:
1 Corinthians 12:13
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Eph 4:5 Jude 1:3
Put on Christ:
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Died with Christ:
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Risen with Christ:
Col2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Sealed by God in the ark of salvation:
God breathed life into Adam, gen 2:7 and we received this life from our fathers!
Christ breathed on the apostles our spiritual fathers, we receive the new covenant life of God’s grace from them thru faith & baptism! Jn 20:21-23 Mk 16:16 acts 8:36-38
St. Paul tells the faithful at Ephesus that they have been “sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.” This is in terms of an indelible character imprinted on the soul in the sacraments of baptism and confirmation. It is not as if this invisible mark is simply decorative. Rather, through it, we are enabled to participate in Christ’s mission and in his offices of priest, prophet, and king. Eph 1:13
Sealed by God eph 1:13 sealed by God (ez 36:25-27) in the ark of salvation by baptism just as Noah was sealed by God in the ark of the flood gen 7:16
1 Pet 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us!
(Ark of Noah a type of the church, member of Christ and his church and salvation by baptism!)
(Outside the ark of Noah none were saved, outside the church (the ark of salvation) none are saved!)