Under the New Covenant, we become born again, new creations in Christ Jesus - and as these Scriptures tell us, God puts his perfect law of love and the law of liberty in Christ into our minds and writes them in our hearts. When that happens, God becomes a personal God to us and we become His children - we come to know Him through that born again experience, not through any works on our part.
Under the Old Covenant of the Law (the ten commandments written and engraved on stones), we did not know God and had no way of knowing Him, because of our sin in not keeping the Law fully. As a result, that sin created a guilty, shamed, and condemned heart, which is a barrier to knowing a perfect and holy God.
But PRAISE GOD, under the New Covenant, we have received mercy and our sins and iniquities are remembered no more! They were all placed on the body of Jesus Christ and have been put away forever! Therefore, guilt is gone, condemnation is gone, shame is gone! We have a new, clean heart and mind, because we are under a New Covenant. The old is old and is ready to vanish away. God is done with the Old Covenant and is now under the New Covenant because of what His Son Jesus did on the cross. Jesus isn't hanging on the cross anymore, He isn't dead - He's alive, resurrected, glorified, and seated at the Father's right hand. We have His righteousness, we are no longer sinners.
Under the Old Covenant of the Law (the ten commandments written and engraved on stones), we did not know God and had no way of knowing Him, because of our sin in not keeping the Law fully. As a result, that sin created a guilty, shamed, and condemned heart, which is a barrier to knowing a perfect and holy God.
But PRAISE GOD, under the New Covenant, we have received mercy and our sins and iniquities are remembered no more! They were all placed on the body of Jesus Christ and have been put away forever! Therefore, guilt is gone, condemnation is gone, shame is gone! We have a new, clean heart and mind, because we are under a New Covenant. The old is old and is ready to vanish away. God is done with the Old Covenant and is now under the New Covenant because of what His Son Jesus did on the cross. Jesus isn't hanging on the cross anymore, He isn't dead - He's alive, resurrected, glorified, and seated at the Father's right hand. We have His righteousness, we are no longer sinners.
If that is the case, then why do many of us continue to hear sermons in our local churches every week telling us we are sinners, reminding us of our sins, and warning us to ask God for forgiveness of our sins? Sins have been put away forever - the Father remembers them no more - and yet sin is still the number one topic of discussion in some of our churches. Yes, grace is preached, but it is being poured into the old wineskin of sin and the Old Covenant, nullifying and frustrating the wonderful grace God has given us in Christ Jesus.
Old Covenant teachings confuse the New Testament believer - they bring back guilt and condemnation that weakens our faith. Stop listening to Old Covenant sermons and start listening to the truth of the New Covenant. Sure, you can read and study from the Old Testament scriptures, but see the New Covenant truths of righteousness in Christ and the blessing of Abraham hidden there, not Old Covenant realities of sin, death, and destruction!
Old Covenant teachings confuse the New Testament believer - they bring back guilt and condemnation that weakens our faith. Stop listening to Old Covenant sermons and start listening to the truth of the New Covenant. Sure, you can read and study from the Old Testament scriptures, but see the New Covenant truths of righteousness in Christ and the blessing of Abraham hidden there, not Old Covenant realities of sin, death, and destruction!
Get excited about living in this wonderful New Covenant Jesus died to give us!
