The New Covenant - Observations |
Was established by Jesus blood
sacrifice on the cross
1 Corinthians
Includes only saved people (those
who know the Lord):
Jeremiah 31:31,34 "The time is
coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Is made up of members of the body
of Christ, members of the (universal) church
Matthew 16:18b - You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome
it.
Ephesians 5:23b - Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which he is the Savior
Is characterized by the Holy Spirit
indwelling the hearts of all
of Gods people.
2 Corinthians 3:6 - He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant-- not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit
gives life.
Acts
2 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 12:13 - For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-- whether Jews or Greeks,
slave or free-- and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
Includes Jews and Gentiles on an
Equal Basis Before God
Ephesians 2:11-18 - Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles
by birth and called
"uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the
circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--
12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and
foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you
who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. 14 For he
himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier,
the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its
commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new
man out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God
through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and
preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have
access to the Father by one Spirit.
Believers in the New Covenant Are
Under the Law of Christ
1 Corinthians
Galatians 6:2 Carry each other's burdens,
and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.