A covenant can be a disposition (e.g. a last will/testament) or a compact.
Yes, a compact still is an agreement between two parties.
The "last will/testament" was not listed as one of the definition of covenant. See below.
Any Bible verse to support your definition?
Gen 9:12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
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BDB Definition:
1) covenant, alliance, pledge
1a) between men
1a1) treaty, alliance, league (man to man)
1a2) constitution, ordinance (monarch to subjects)
1a3) agreement, pledge (man to man)
1a4) alliance (of friendship)
1a5) alliance (of marriage)
1b) between God and man
1b1) alliance (of friendship)
1b2) covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges)
2) (phrases)
2a) covenant making
2b) covenant keeping
2c) covenant violation
Jesus himself, even during his earthly ministry, changed some of what the law said (e.g. instead of an eye for an eye, he told us to turn the other cheek).
Those are judgements, not included in the Ten Commandments or God's Law.
The New Covenant is not a set of rules and regulations, but life in the Holy Spirit, being led by him.
Yes, as God's Laws written in our heart, the ministry of the Spirit is more glorious. (2Cor 3:3,8 Heb 8:8-13))
2Co 3:3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2Co 3:8 how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?
The law is the ministry of death, as 2 Cor. 3:7 says (and you quoted it), because it reveals and stirs up sin, then shows everyone under it to be guilty.
The ten commandments were written in stone, by the hand of God. They are the ministry of death and condemnation, as the Bible states.
Is it wrong to call the old covenant the ministry of death? No, because that is what the law does to us: It slays us as guilty sinners before God so that we can be resurrected by the new covenant. It isn’t that the problem was with the law, but with us: The sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. (Rom 7:5)
Rom 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
Trying to live by the ministry of death and condemnation is not good works; it is dead works, from which we need to repent. It is attempting to produce one's own righteousness,by works of the law; rather than looking away to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, and walking in step with the Holy Spirit.
Yes, when we always follow the guidance of the Spirit without opting on our own, we'll be free from the Law, means freed from sinning and became slaves of righteousness. (Rom 7:6, Rom 6:18)
The word "released" in Romans 7:6, bears Strong#G2673, in Greek "καταργέω katargeō" defined by Bible Lexicon specifically from the text mentioned as means - to free from, etc.
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καταργέω katargeō
27x: to render useless or unproductive, occupy unprofitable, Luk_13:7; to render powerless, Rom_6:6; to make empty and unmeaning, Rom_4:14; to render null, to abrogate, cancel, Rom_3:3; Rom_3:31; Eph_2:15; to bring to an end, 1Co_2:6; 1Co_13:8; 1Co_15:24; 1Co_15:26; 2Co_3:7; to destroy, annihilate, 2Th_2:8; Heb_2:14; to free from, dissever from, Rom_7:2; Rom_7:6; Gal_5:4.
Rom 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Trying to be righteous, by works of the law, will not keep anyone from the second death. We are kept from the second death by God's unmerited favour, through faith in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit leads us to bear good fruit (love, joy, peace, etc.).
No one will become righteous by our own works, as we always fall short to the glory of God.
If we want to be spared from the second death, the Bible records that the "saints" being spared from the lake of fire, the second death persevered on keeping the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. (Rev 14:12 Rev 20:9,10,14))
As faith should be shown by our works, through loving Jesus and the Father. (John 15:10)
Rev 14:12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
John 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
God works in Christians to will and to do of his good pleasure. It is in this way that we keep his commandments, not by trying to do the works of the law.
Yes, by God's grace we are saved through our faith, it is in that way that we keep His commandments being the result of being saved, not to be save.
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