but isnt there a new covenant now spiritualy which means we can be saved through being born again in Jesus and receiving His holy spirit to help us overcome real sins?
The phrase "New Covenant" is one you hear about a lot in Christian circles - but what does the actual bible say about? Where is it found in the Bible? How is that many people refer to the phrase - but "never quote the New Covenant"??
Answer: Because what the Bible says is the New Covenant is not what most people would have at first imagined.
You should be asking yourself that same question "why do I hear so many Christians talking ABOUT the New Covenant but no one quotes it?".
Well.. here it - right out of scripture -- in the OT where it belongs.
Jeremiah 31:
31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “But
this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord,
“
I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it;
and
I will be their God,
and
they shall be My people.
34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for
they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord,
“for
I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
And we find that in Hebrews 8:6-12 it is "unchanged" - no different in NT or OT
hmmm..I hear someone ask "now why has no one mentioned that before?"
Jeremiah 31 still aplies to us, Israel, as it did back then. the church of gentiles has been grafted into Israel. we are now aprt of that covenant, Jew and Gentile, those who kep Kosher and Sabbath, and those who do not..... we live now by Jesus words and fulfill ALL His commandments by loving Him and others. so yes, same covenant. all the OT was a shadow of what i snow.
Gal 1:6-9 there is only one Gospel
Gal 3:8 - that Gospel was preached to Abraham.
Isaiah 66:23 for all eternity after the cross "
from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL mankind come before Me to worship"
1 Cor 7:19 "
what matters is keeping the commandments of God"
Rev 14:12 "
the saints Keep the commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus"
1 John 5:2-3 "
This IS the Love of God that we KEEP his commandments"
Where His commandments include that unique unit of law where
"the first commandment with a promise" is the 5th commandment - Eph 6:1-2
"
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God" Heb 4
It is the believing gentiles in Acts 13 that ask for more gospel preaching "the next Sabbath"
Acts 13
42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the
Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
In fact "every Sabbath" Acts 18:4
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God condemns no one for the limited amount of truth that we each have -- rather we are judged by what we do with it... by whether we have a love of the truth or we "draw a line with God".
In Matthew 16 Peter was tempted to "draw the line" with God and Jesus responded to him "git thee behind me satan". We must not draw lines on what we will permit God to teach us "next".
