The New Man and The New Covenant
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Hebrews
Background
Background
Covenant - an agreement between 2 or more parties
God established covenant between Himself and humans. Under
During the time of Moses, God established a covenant based on His laws and ordinances at Mount Sinai. This became the “Law” covenant, or the “Old Testament” as we know it now.
The Law Covenant was the basis or foundation of what the Jewish people believed and continues to believe up to the present time.
God prophesied in Jeremiah that He was going to make a “New Covenant”
Jesus established the New Covenant in His last supper with His disciples
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Luke 22.19-20
Paul declares that the New Covenant is now in effect.
God has “found fault” in the old covenant
By declaring the New Covenant, God has made the old covenant “obsolete”.
Questions
Why did God establish a covenant with Israel knowing it will not meet the righteousness and perfection He would require?
Why establish this “new” covenant?
Main Points
The New Covenant was established for God’s new creation
God’s New Man lives by the principles of the New Covenant
The life of the New Man is described by the characteristics of the New Covenant
The New Covenant was Designed for the New Man
The New Covenant was Designed for the New Man
Jesus Christ - the first of the New Creation - initiated/established the New Covenant with His own blood!
And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Luke 22.20
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9.13-15
Hebrews 9.11-15
Mediator - the negotiator between 2 parties based on an
agreement; Jesus as Mediator is putting into effect the New Covenant between God and men
The New Covenant was designed to bring out, to produce, to make possible the creation of, the New Man.
The new man required a "progenitor” - an ancestor, source - that not of this old human race.
only the Word fit the bill
The old covenant cannot produce a new creation.
Galatians 3.21
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
The Law (covenant) cannot give life.
Galatians 3.19-
But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
Galatians 3.22-23
The Law (covenant) served as God’s “containment” for Israel so that the Christ may come through Israel.
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3.24-28
The Law (covenant) served as a the “Guardian” (Grk. paidagogos)
The Law (covenant) cannot produce a “son of God”
Sons of God are produced only in Christ!
The New Man - sons and daughters of God - are born into the New Covenant!
The old man cannot receive the new covenant. In order to become a partaker of the New Covenant, one must die to the old man and be born by the Word of God.
The New Man Lives by the Principles of the New Covenant
The New Man Lives by the Principles of the New Covenant
The New Covenant is the guiding principles of the New Man.
He was born in it. He lives and breathes the New Covenant. Nothing else.
The worldly life is foreign to the New Man. The works of the flesh is foreign to the New Man.
The laws of God are written in their hearts and minds.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews 8.10
In the Old Covenant, the laws of God were written in tablets of stones.
The 2 tablets of stone were stored in the Ark to serve as a “memorial”
The New Covenant is written by the Spirit of God in “tablets of human hearts”
who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Cor 3.
Everyone born in the New Covenant “knows the Lord”!
And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
In the Old Covenant, many Jews “did not know” the Lord.
Examples
- a generation of Israelites did not know the Lord!
- priests who did not know the Lord!
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Oh that I had in the desert a travelers’ lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9.1-
- God laments over Israel’s sins and ignorance of their God
The New Man knows His God, because he/she is born with the Spirit of God!
The knowledge of God is already built in the New Man, and the desire to know more of God only grows as the New Man grows.
Everyone born in the New Covenant have their “old, sinful, past life” erased in God’s “memory”!
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
In the Old Covenant, the sins of the people are remembered every year, which was the reason God provided the feast called Day of Atonement.
Under the New Covenant, the “old man is “remembered no more”!
The New Man begins a brand new life without fear of rejection, guilt, punishment, or ban because of a “past life”.
The New Man knows only one kind of life - life under the New Covenant.
He was born in it. He lives and breathes the New Covenant. Nothing else.
The worldly life is foreign to the New Man. The works of the flesh is foreign to the New Man.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The New Man knows only one kind of life - life under the New Covenant.
He was born in it. He lives and breathes the New Covenant. Nothing else.
The worldly life is foreign to the New Man. The works of the flesh is foreign to the New Man.
The New Man knows only one purpose of life - to serve God and to be with God!
Life under the New Covenant is designed to honor and glorify God!
Conclusion
The New Man does not live to reach for his/her own ambition or self-fulfillment.
The New Man lives only to serve God and to be with God!
THAT IS YOUR LIFE, CHURCH!
THAT IS YOUR LIFE, PEOPLE OF GOD!
SONGS
I was Made for You
The Earth Shall Be Filled