Ten Certainties for Uncertain Times, Part 6

Ten Certainties for Uncertain Times, Part 6
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

You are under the New Covenant bought by the blood of Jesus Christ.

The New Covenant is a covenant that has been sealed by God’s promise and His oath. It is an eternal agreement that God has made with you through His Son. He sent Him from heaven to earth to establish this covenant with you. When Jesus came, He came to save you, cleanse you, forgive you, and deliver you from your sins. He lived a sinless life so that He could offer Himself upon the cross as your substitute.  He was the sacrificial lamb who made atonement for your sin. What was incomplete in the old covenant became perfect in the new; what was temporary in the old covenant became permanent in the new; what was insufficient in the old covenant became a completed work in the new.  The blood covenant of Jesus Christ is a perfect work.

The new covenant is a covenant of grace because He has given you what you didn’t deserve, and it is a covenant of mercy because He has not given you what you did deserve. Because of this covenant, you are not your own but have been bought with the price of His blood. You are His and His alone. He is your Redeemer, and He has taken full responsibility for your life since the day you gave your heart to Him. Because of the blood covenant your future is secure, your inheritance is guaranteed, and your destiny is certain.

But when God found fault with the people, he said: “The day is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain faithful to my covenant, so I turned my back on them, says the Lord. But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already. And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”

When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear (Hebrews 8:8-13 NLT).

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel (Hebrews 12:22-24 NKJV).

Now the God of peace…brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant (Hebrews 13:20 KJV).

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