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old covenant
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new covenant
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| A
remembrance of sin occured once a year: Hebrews
10:1-12. |
We remember what Christ did: 1Corinthians
11:1,25; however most religionists are reminded weekly in church of
their sins. No wonder this. |
| They were afraid of God:.Exodus
20:19. |
Not so in the new:.1John
4:8,16,18 |
| They
wanted a king and not
their Creator to be in
charge:.1Samuel
8:5-22; 10:19. So, God went
and hid. And how did this turn out for he folks?.1Samuel
13:8-14. |
In the new covenant, once
in higher consciousness, we are able to rule ourselves. |
| Law was weak:.Romans
8:3. |
Christ's nature in us is
strong:.Luke
2:40;
John 3:34. |
| Serve
God out of ego.(Genesis
37:4).with
laws, rules and regulations:.Exodus;
Leviticus;
Numbers
and Deuteronomy. |
Serve God out of love in
your heart with reverence
and fear.and
you'll treat others different than the ego approah to life:.Philippians
2:3 "...in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." |
| Psalms
7:11 ".....God is angry with the wicked every day."
Actual translation is."God
judges indignantly".meaning;
God was judging circumstances and does not give an inch as to the law He
has laid down.(Matthew
5:18 "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and Earth pass, one jot.(smallest
bit).or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.".and
then what:.Romans
13:10; Galatians 5:14),
that is, until Christ abrogated
it.(where?).because
its purpose was done. God judges circumstances, but what
about the people in them in this era
of the New
Testament?
In the Old Testament God
would only help them, if they were in line with His law back then. |
But in the new:.Hebrews
8:12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no more."
So much so that:.Hebrews
13:5 ".....for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
In the New Testament God
has already helped all humanity, by doing what He has done and is doing
in Christ. |
| God
was their crutch: Deuteronomy
33:27; Isaiah 41:10. |
In Christ, we are the crutch
for others.(Philippians
2:1,2;
Ephesians 4:32).and
God upholds us, as He always has done for His people: 2Corinthians
1:3,4. |
| Result of the law:.1,
2. |
Result
of faith. |
The
old
covenant contained laws of physical or carnal.(Hebrews
7:16).obedience
with
physical rewards from
the Infinite Conscious Intelligence for performance and severe consequences
for disobedience: Deuteronomy
28:15-68; Leviticus 26:19.
The initial
covenant was made with Abraham:.Genesis
12:2,3. It was expanded to include his posterity:.Genesis
17:7; 22:15-18; Exodus
2:24. Later, the people agreed to Moses' words about it:.Exodus
19:8; 24:3. And all this turned
into what became known as the 'old covenant': Deuteronomy
28:1,2; 29:9-13; 30:19,20.
And even later, the people agreed to the words of a king about it:.2Kings
23:3.
The heart of the Infinite
One is always for the best for humans:.Deuteronomy
5:29. So, severe after effects.were
there as a deterrent
to going their natural way, the way
of the ego that was not good for them:.Romans
7:17. Without that, people could not see something was not right in
their life, the happiness they wanted just never came. If you don't know
something is not the best for you, why would you seek anything better?
The old covenant.(which
included
the commandments).had
a purpose before the Infinite One showed up in the physical world as
Christ. |
New covenant
involves law of love from the heart.(Hebrews
8:10), made possible because of
Emmanuel
the Christ's performance. The new
covenant is better than the defunct
old one:.Hebrews
7:22,28; 8:6. Why?
In the new covenant.(which
you are in if you are a spiritual individual
with God's nature of love in you.{called
a Christian in the
Holy
Bible and called part of spiritual
Israel}).
The blessings, now and forever, do not depend on what you did, now do or
yet may do or avoid doing. They depend only on what Emmanuel has already
accomplished and your belief in His saving
grace in all areas of your life. |
| Under
the old covenant they had to work to impress upon their heart the way to
the good things that they had learned that were against their inborn selfish
natures:.Numbers
15:38-40; Deuteronomy 4:29;
6:6-8;
11:18.
Today it's a thing of the heart.(Deuteronomy
5:29; John 4:23,24),
that is, you must know what you are doing, not just repeat over and over
again a bunch of sayings hoping some of them stick, providing an outcome
for you:.Matthew
6:7. |
A different story under
the new covenant when one is
born again:.John
14:26; 16:13;
2Corinthians
3:3; 1John 2:27. |
| In the Old Testament, people
were expected to compare themselves with the standard of the law God designed
for a physical nation, within the people of such, was lacking the Holy
Spirit:.Deuteronomy
5:29,32; Hebrews 10:16. |
In
the new, we compare.(or
as the original here has it 'to joint
together fitly', 'be in harmony with').spiritual
things with spiritual.(1Corinthians
2:13).as
Christ's
nature is now in us. We avoid 'comparing' ourselves with those not
in the
family
of the Creator yet and thus, not evidencing fruits
of the Holy Nature of the Creator: 2Corinthians
10:12;
6:14. Avoid trying
to reach someone else's level of life. God has a different purpose for
each of us. |
| In
the Old Testament, the Creator put difference between people:.Exodus
11:7. |
In
the New Testament, it was better:.Acts
15:9; Romans 3:22; 10:12;
We learn from this that the Creator makes
up His plan for humanity on this
world stage as things go along, that is, apart from His overall planned
direction which is set
in stone: 1Corinthians
15:24,28; Ephesians 1:23; 3:21. |
