The Old & the New Part 1

About that Covenant...

The Book of the Covenant is Exodus 20:1-23:19; the code for God’s to live by

Provisions were made by God for a place of worship—where He would meet with His people

The Earthly Place of Holiness: The Tabernacle

Tabernacle=tent; tent of meeting; eventually formed into a permanent temple in Jerusalem

Place where God’s glory dwelled

Let’s talk about holiness...

characteristic of being sacred; set apart for worship; as opposed to something common

…and about that mercy seat

or place of propitiation

NIV, atonement cover

The place where God’s wrath is appeased; where we can be made “at one”

Now....

Galatians 2:20 ESV

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 3:23–25 ESV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Romans 12:1 ESV

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,