What is Covenant?

Yes- we are under the New Covenant. Thank God. Jesus' blood washes away our sins in forgiveness.
We are blessed by the Holy Spirit in us to lead and guide us as we walk in newness of life- as new creatures.

dmdar said:

Hey, something amazing just came to me! I did not understand this before, I had never heard teaching on this before! It is on the topic of covenant.

What is a covenant? I did a study on this-

"A covenant is a formal, binding, and solemn agreement, contract, or promise between two or more parties, often establishing a long-term relationship or specific obligations. It is frequently used in legal (property/finance), religious, or historical contexts, emphasizing a pledge rather than just a simple contract."

In the bible a covenant was an agreement between God and man intended to restore a broken relationship (caused by sin).

The old covenant was based on the law and the remission of sins by blood of animal sacrifices, while the new covenant was based on the complete forgiveness of sins due to the blood of Christ!

At the last supper Christ told his disciples "“This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you” (Luke 22:20)

The scripture also says that the new covenant is better than the old covenant.

I also found this teaching on the internet-

The Old Covenant required blood sacrifices, but it could not provide a final sacrifice for sin. The Old Covenant required repeated, daily sacrifices of animals as a reminder of the people’s sin. But, as Scripture says, “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4). Under the Old Covenant, the same inadequate sacrifices were constantly repeated. For every sin, the process was replicated, day after day, month after month, year after year. The Old Covenant never provided a full, complete sacrifice for sin. “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second” (Hebrews 8:7, ESV).

I think there is more to this that has not come yet, I will let you know if it comes! Let me know if something comes to you!

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I suggest looking up Suzerain vassal covenants in connection with the Bible.

There is a reality that is eternally true about the way to embody God's character traits that was eternally true before God made any covenants with man, that has been revealed through God's covenants, and that is eternally true and cumulatively valid regardless of which covenant someone is under, if any. For example, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalm 119:142), therefore all of God's righteous laws are also eternal (Psalm 119:160) and if the way to embody God's righteousness were to ever change, then God's righteousness would not be eternal. For instance, being a doer a charity was a way to embody God's righteousness before God made any covenants with man, so that is an eternally true way to know God regardless of which covenant someone is under and if someone has the goal of knowing God through embodying His righteousness, then they will consider all instructions that God has given for how to do that to be cumulatively valid.

In Deuteronomy 30, it forms the basis of the New Covenant by prophesying about a time when the Israelites would return from exile, God would circumcise their hearts, and they would return to obedience to His law, which finds its fulfillment in Jeremiah 31:33-34 and Ezekiel 36:26-27, where God will put His law in our minds and write it on our hearts and everyone will know Him from the least to the greatest, and where God will take away our hearts of stone, give us hearts of flesh, and send His Spirit to lead us to obey His law.

New covenants do not nullify the promises of covenants that have already been ratified, so God's covenants are eternally true and cumulatively valid. The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way that it can be replaced by the New Covenant is if it is cumulative with it. One thing can only make another thing obsolete to the extent that it has cumulative functionality, so for example a computer makes a typewriter obsolete but does not make a plow obsolete, which means that if the New Covenant were not cumulative with the Mosaic Covenant, then it could not make it obsolete. So the New Covenant still involves following the Law of God (Hebrews 8:10) plus it is cumulatively based on better promises and has a superior mediator (Hebrews 8:6).

The fault that God found with the Mosaic Covenant was not with His character traits or with His instructions for how to embody His character traits, but rather the fault that God found was with the people for not continuing in their covenant (Hebrews 8:7-9), so the solution to the problem was not for God to do away with His law but to do away with what was hindering us from obeying it. This is why the New Covenant involves God sending His Son to free us from sin to that we might be free to meet the righteous requirement of His law (Romans 8:3-4), God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh, and sending HIs Spirit to lead us in obedience to HIs law (Ezekiel 36:26-27), and God putting HIs law in our minds and writing it on our heart (Jeremiah 31:33).

Jesus spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of God by word and by example and the reason why he established the New Covenant was not in order to nullify anything that he spent his ministry teaching or so that we could continue to have the same lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from and that caused the New Covenant to be needed in the first place, but rather the New Covenant is made with the same God with the same eternal character traits and therefore still involves following the same eternal law, so if someone does not want to obey the Law of God, then they also do not want to come under the New Covenant.

The Mosaic Covenant has always and will always teach us how to point to Christ, so that is not a change.

dmdar said:

Hey, something amazing just came to me! I did not understand this before, I had never heard teaching on this before! It is on the topic of covenant.

What is a covenant? I did a study on this-

"A covenant is a formal, binding, and solemn agreement, contract, or promise between two or more parties, often establishing a long-term relationship or specific obligations. It is frequently used in legal (property/finance), religious, or historical contexts, emphasizing a pledge rather than just a simple contract."

In the bible a covenant was an agreement between God and man intended to restore a broken relationship (caused by sin).

The old covenant was based on the law and the remission of sins by blood of animal sacrifices, while the new covenant was based on the complete forgiveness of sins due to the blood of Christ!

At the last supper Christ told his disciples "“This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you” (Luke 22:20)

The scripture also says that the new covenant is better than the old covenant.

I also found this teaching on the internet-

The Old Covenant required blood sacrifices, but it could not provide a final sacrifice for sin. The Old Covenant required repeated, daily sacrifices of animals as a reminder of the people’s sin. But, as Scripture says, “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4). Under the Old Covenant, the same inadequate sacrifices were constantly repeated. For every sin, the process was replicated, day after day, month after month, year after year. The Old Covenant never provided a full, complete sacrifice for sin. “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second” (Hebrews 8:7, ESV).

I think there is more to this that has not come yet, I will let you know if it comes! Let me know if something comes to you!

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Yes! As it says in Hebrews, because God could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself. God has made many covenants with Himself as the two parties and we the beneficiariies of those covenants.