In this day and age you are a man who truly listens to the Lord, it is such a relief to read your post. What makes the new covenant new is a new way the Lord has to communicate with us. The Lord had to teach a rather wild bunch coming out of Egypt and he used physical things for them to do in their training. Now God is communicating directly through the holy spirit, but God is saying the same things, giving the same truths.
The question I have is what actions does the Lord still want us to make to obey Him? The feasts are worship and we are told "for all generations". Is this so covered with the new covenant that we do not need to worship with those feasts? We do not need to cut flesh to show we belong to God. We are not making any action at all to achieve salvation, we are acting because of love for the Lord. We still cart a meal to our neighbor when she is sick, that is an action needing doing under both the old and new covenant. How do we know what things we still must do if we love the lord?
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I like the way you write, very sincere, and though we do not have all the answers and might not agree, it is this type of communication that we can learn according the truth of God's words, what God made clear when he first spoke.
Exactly, the new covenant was new in the way God communicated the law with us. Even though I believed for about 7 years that the law was not done away with and that God does not break his commandments, about 3 to 5 months ago, as I was reading Jeremiah 31 the Spirit of God enlighten my mind with the following that God did not break his covenant, the old covenant he made with their fathers, the new covenant he made it with the house of Israel and the house of Judah and what is called the new testament confirms this.
Being that now Gentiles are becoming believers and part of the commonwealth of Israel they should participate in some of the feast that were commanded by God to the Jews who have accepted Yeshua as Messiah, they are brethren, if they don't want to it is up to them. Let's take the Jewish festival Sukkot (
Succoth), this was commanded for the Jews to hold and not the Gentile, but it is nice for both Jewish believers in Messiah and Christians hold it together, being made one in Yeshua. God made a covenant with Abraham to be circumcised, this was a sealed, nothing to do with salvation and though Gentile do not have to be circumcised because God circumcises the heart if Gentiles want to get circumcise to be identified with Abraham the father of faith they can, but remember that circumcision has nothing to do with salvation.
Hope you understand what I am saying, I just put it on the table, my job is not to try making one swallow it, the job of the Spirit of God is to open the eyes of understanding.
Don't be like Blik, in my opinion he is trying to impress with his writing and belittle those who he does not agree with, but notice that he does not substantiates his view with the Scriptures.