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What are the terms of the New Covenant?
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
OK, we are talking about the New Covenant here...
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Why did He need to make a New Covenant? Were the terms and conditions of the Old Covenant wrong. Did God make a mistake? Did He foul up the Old Covenant? Was there something inherently wrong with the Covenant itself?
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
The problem was not the Covenant nor was it the terms and conditions of it, the problem was with the people...
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
So, to rectify this situation, what is God doing?
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Now what Laws? Same Laws or different Laws? The scripture nowhere says there is anything wrong with God's Law, it says there is something wrong with us. Paul explains that...
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
To quote Pogo (I am telling my age here)...
"We have met the enemy... and he is us"
So what does God do? Throw out a Law that is spiritual, that is holy and just and good? Or does He change us so that we may live by His Law?
Eze 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Eze 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
Notice what happens? The Law is not thrown out, but rather we are given a heart to obey and God forgives our sins and iniquities by the remission of sin through the Sacrifice of Christ.
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
OK, we are talking about the New Covenant here...
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Why did He need to make a New Covenant? Were the terms and conditions of the Old Covenant wrong. Did God make a mistake? Did He foul up the Old Covenant? Was there something inherently wrong with the Covenant itself?
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
The problem was not the Covenant nor was it the terms and conditions of it, the problem was with the people...
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
So, to rectify this situation, what is God doing?
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Now what Laws? Same Laws or different Laws? The scripture nowhere says there is anything wrong with God's Law, it says there is something wrong with us. Paul explains that...
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
To quote Pogo (I am telling my age here)...
"We have met the enemy... and he is us"
So what does God do? Throw out a Law that is spiritual, that is holy and just and good? Or does He change us so that we may live by His Law?
Eze 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Eze 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
Notice what happens? The Law is not thrown out, but rather we are given a heart to obey and God forgives our sins and iniquities by the remission of sin through the Sacrifice of Christ.
It's safe to put old wine into new skins, but it's a disaster to put new wine into old skins. This is common sense for those who desire the Old Covenant to be void of anything good because of the new.
Leviticus 26:10 And ye shall eat old store , and bring forth the old because of the new.
1 John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
Leviticus 26:10 And ye shall eat old store , and bring forth the old because of the new.
1 John 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
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if we take the definition of Law in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which speaks
of the New Covenant, the word Law is translated in Strong's #H8451 is Torah,
some of the definitions are, instruction-direction-or the Mosaic Law....
other scriptures speak of the -statutes and judgments-,
so we have the Torah, Statutes, and Judgments written upon our hearts.
(the Book of Hebrews quotes the above scriptures almost word for word.)
the answer to the opening post is found in Deuteronomy 5:16.
'Honor your father and your mother, as The Lord your God
has commanded you, that your days may be long, and
that it may be well with you in the land which
The Lord your God is giving you.'
if we accept the New Covenant written upon our hearts, (understood),
as the whole of the Torah plus the statutes and judgments,
we should have a clear understanding.
if we OBEY, it will go well with us or as it says in another place,
Deut. 10:13.
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and His statutes,
which I command thee this day for thy good?
Lev.19:3.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my Sabbaths:
I am the LORD your God.
we notice that these 2 are coupled -
what is the connection?.....
for my wife and myself, when we know in our hearts that we are
obeying our Father out of love, it brings us so close to Him
and we have so much joy.
as you all know, I'm speaking to those who love their Creator,
when we feel that intimate connection with Him,
we can't help ourselves, we just have to have more,
we just have to get as close as we can for nothing
in this world can compare.
if we take the definition of Law in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which speaks
of the New Covenant, the word Law is translated in Strong's #H8451 is Torah,
some of the definitions are, instruction-direction-or the Mosaic Law....
other scriptures speak of the -statutes and judgments-,
so we have the Torah, Statutes, and Judgments written upon our hearts.
(the Book of Hebrews quotes the above scriptures almost word for word.)
the answer to the opening post is found in Deuteronomy 5:16.
'Honor your father and your mother, as The Lord your God
has commanded you, that your days may be long, and
that it may be well with you in the land which
The Lord your God is giving you.'
if we accept the New Covenant written upon our hearts, (understood),
as the whole of the Torah plus the statutes and judgments,
we should have a clear understanding.
if we OBEY, it will go well with us or as it says in another place,
Deut. 10:13.
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and His statutes,
which I command thee this day for thy good?
Lev.19:3.
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my Sabbaths:
I am the LORD your God.
we notice that these 2 are coupled -
what is the connection?.....
for my wife and myself, when we know in our hearts that we are
obeying our Father out of love, it brings us so close to Him
and we have so much joy.
as you all know, I'm speaking to those who love their Creator,
when we feel that intimate connection with Him,
we can't help ourselves, we just have to have more,
we just have to get as close as we can for nothing
in this world can compare.
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The OT scriptures have a testimony as to what sin is and the NT scriptures have the answer as to what Christ has done to that sin. The law has no answer for sin only dictates and mandates. Christ sacrificed his life and shed his blood for the remission of all sin. The law did not provide the answer to sin, it only exposed sin by legislation and condemned the sinner. This is why we have the declaration that came in (John 1:16,17), the law came and was given by Moses, but now that Christ has come we have grace and truth and it is of Christ fulness that we have received, grace for grace without being under the law.
The Word, the same Word that created all things and holds all things together, was made flesh and dwelt among man and man beheld the glory of the only begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth, not the law. Under Moses the people could only behold the law with a veil over his face but under Christ, the vail has been taken away and we behold the face of Christ, full of grace and truth, and we are changed into the same image. If you folks want to be changed into the image of the law of Moses by keeping it, go right ahead, but what you forfeit is being changed into the same image of Christ through the Spirit from glory to glory. With the law there is no way that any man can go from glory to glory, for it takes the law of the Spirit of life in the face of Jesus Christ to do that through grace and truth.
To be under the keeping of the law will limit a man from experiencing the fulness of God and they will only know Christ after the flesh and not the Spirit. We are no longer to know Christ after the flesh nor are we to know one another after the flesh for that profits nothing under the law. But we are to know Christ after the Spirit that profits all things for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. There is no liberty under the law to be led by the Spirit for if the Spirit would lead contrary to the law it would be considered an evil thing by those under the law and that is a dangerous place to be in your understanding under the new covenant of grace and truth.
The Word, the same Word that created all things and holds all things together, was made flesh and dwelt among man and man beheld the glory of the only begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth, not the law. Under Moses the people could only behold the law with a veil over his face but under Christ, the vail has been taken away and we behold the face of Christ, full of grace and truth, and we are changed into the same image. If you folks want to be changed into the image of the law of Moses by keeping it, go right ahead, but what you forfeit is being changed into the same image of Christ through the Spirit from glory to glory. With the law there is no way that any man can go from glory to glory, for it takes the law of the Spirit of life in the face of Jesus Christ to do that through grace and truth.
To be under the keeping of the law will limit a man from experiencing the fulness of God and they will only know Christ after the flesh and not the Spirit. We are no longer to know Christ after the flesh nor are we to know one another after the flesh for that profits nothing under the law. But we are to know Christ after the Spirit that profits all things for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. There is no liberty under the law to be led by the Spirit for if the Spirit would lead contrary to the law it would be considered an evil thing by those under the law and that is a dangerous place to be in your understanding under the new covenant of grace and truth.
Don't you feel convicted ignoring this...
Romans 14:4-6 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Romans 14:4-6 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
This is underlining scripture, and your commentary on scripture is explaining without distortion, adding, or taking away.
One more point needs to be brought out. In eternal time, Christ and what He did was from the beginning, and even from the beginning the sacrifice of Christ was so powerful that the symbolic use of His blood brought atonement, just as His real blood brings salvation! The Levi High Priest was used by God for atonement and was powerful to put them before the Lord as a symbol of Christ even, Christ was that powerful.
One more point needs to be brought out. In eternal time, Christ and what He did was from the beginning, and even from the beginning the sacrifice of Christ was so powerful that the symbolic use of His blood brought atonement, just as His real blood brings salvation! The Levi High Priest was used by God for atonement and was powerful to put them before the Lord as a symbol of Christ even, Christ was that powerful.
OK, since you think I'm a jumper-inner...
Didn't really want to do this but, this shows a complete lack of understanding for the reason of these Laws...
What was the purpose for fringes?
Num 15:38 "Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.
Num 15:39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,
Num 15:40 and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.
Num 15:41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."
A physical pneumonic to remind people of God's Law. This was given to people who did not have or even have access to the Holy Spirit.
Joh 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
The fringes were a shadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. When one has the Holy Spirit, he no longer needs a physical reminder, the Holy Spirit calls the Law to remembrance.
Do I eat shell fish? No I do not. I sincerely believe that the designer and creator of the human body knows more about what fuel to run it on than I do...
Lev 11:46 'This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
Lev 11:47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.' "
God loves us enough to tell us what we should eat and what we should not.
What is the restriction on clothing?
Lev 19:19 'You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.
First of all, it applies to a garment of linen and wool. It is not about mixed fabrics but only two fabrics.
"Why Wearing Clothes of Mixed Fabrics (Lev. 19:19) Was Wrong
Posted on Jan 24, 2013 by Tom Gilson
Unbelievers love to bring forth unreasonable commands from the Bible to prove that it’s wrong. Leviticus 19:19 is one of their favorites:
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Now, that certainly seems odd, doesn’t it? But Jonathan Morrow explains it all clearly enough in Think Christianly. On page 166 he quotes Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart:
These and other prohibitions were designed to forbid the Israelites to engage in fertility cult practices of the Canaanites. The Canaanites believed in sympathetic magic, the idea that symbolic actions can influence the gods and nature…. Mixing animal breeds, seeds, or materials was thought to “marry” them” so as magically to produce “offspring,” that is, agricultural bounty in the future."
Notice I did not post a website for you Crossnote. Since you seem to take great umbrage with anyone who would dare to teach anything you do not agree with.
Please show me a passage about shaving in the scripture, it does not exist. What is there is this...
Lev 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Ever wonder why?
What does it mean to round the corners of your head? Shaving a circle on your head in honor of Ra the sun-god. So, do you shave a circle on your head so that you can show honor to Ra?
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Same with the beard, it was done during pagan practices to honor their gods...
Deu 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deu 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Hmmm, so are you engaged in pagan practices? I would hope not.
Didn't really want to do this but, this shows a complete lack of understanding for the reason of these Laws...
What was the purpose for fringes?
Num 15:38 "Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.
Num 15:39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,
Num 15:40 and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.
Num 15:41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."
A physical pneumonic to remind people of God's Law. This was given to people who did not have or even have access to the Holy Spirit.
Joh 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
The fringes were a shadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. When one has the Holy Spirit, he no longer needs a physical reminder, the Holy Spirit calls the Law to remembrance.
Do I eat shell fish? No I do not. I sincerely believe that the designer and creator of the human body knows more about what fuel to run it on than I do...
Lev 11:46 'This is the law of the animals and the birds and every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
Lev 11:47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.' "
God loves us enough to tell us what we should eat and what we should not.
What is the restriction on clothing?
Lev 19:19 'You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.
First of all, it applies to a garment of linen and wool. It is not about mixed fabrics but only two fabrics.
"Why Wearing Clothes of Mixed Fabrics (Lev. 19:19) Was Wrong
Posted on Jan 24, 2013 by Tom Gilson
Unbelievers love to bring forth unreasonable commands from the Bible to prove that it’s wrong. Leviticus 19:19 is one of their favorites:
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Now, that certainly seems odd, doesn’t it? But Jonathan Morrow explains it all clearly enough in Think Christianly. On page 166 he quotes Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart:
These and other prohibitions were designed to forbid the Israelites to engage in fertility cult practices of the Canaanites. The Canaanites believed in sympathetic magic, the idea that symbolic actions can influence the gods and nature…. Mixing animal breeds, seeds, or materials was thought to “marry” them” so as magically to produce “offspring,” that is, agricultural bounty in the future."
Notice I did not post a website for you Crossnote. Since you seem to take great umbrage with anyone who would dare to teach anything you do not agree with.
Please show me a passage about shaving in the scripture, it does not exist. What is there is this...
Lev 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Ever wonder why?
What does it mean to round the corners of your head? Shaving a circle on your head in honor of Ra the sun-god. So, do you shave a circle on your head so that you can show honor to Ra?
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Same with the beard, it was done during pagan practices to honor their gods...
Deu 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deu 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Hmmm, so are you engaged in pagan practices? I would hope not.