The Newest Covenant

Most of us are accustomed to the term "The New Covenant". I would like to change that. I would like to call it the Newest Covenant. The term "newest Covenant" leaves no room for any other covenant. The New Covenant, leaves room for A Newer Covenant, but the Newest Covenant says that this is the last and greatest covenant that God has made in his quest and zest to redeem fallen humanity.

So concerning Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood, this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Hebrews 9:15

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

The New Testament ensures that sins committed under the first covenant by those who were called, would not prevent them from having eternal inheritance. So the death of Christ and his shed blood had a retroactive effect on sins committed under the old covenant. Hallelujah.

That is mind blowing. God is indeed a marvelous God.

NOW, I understand Romans 3:25  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God

God had to be a great God. Through the forbearance of God ( Forbearance means the ability to endure and tolerate offense for a very long time without recompense. ) sins were passed over pending the death and shed blood of Jesus Christ. But the book was not closed on those sins. In due time God presented, set forth Jesus Christ as a payment for those sins. Sins cannot remain unaccounted for. Unpaid for. God must be righteous. God vindicated his iwn righteousness by giving Jesus Christ to die. What a God!

Let us Examine More closely Old Covenant

Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Deuteronomy 4:13

And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Make no mistake. The Old Covenant was and is primarily the Ten Commandments.

Deut 6:1-25 ²⁵ And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

The Old Covenant promised righteousness and life to all those who kept it. Hear how Moses described the righteousness which is of the Law. Rom. 10:5 The man which doeth these things shall live by them.

But Isaiah said concerning that righteousness, Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

But hear how Jeremiah describes New Covenant righteousness:

Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called The Lord Our Righteousness.

Under the old Covenant the Israelites went about to establish their own righteousness and did not submit to the righteousness of God. Rom. 10:3.

But Christ introduced the New Covenant under which one gets righteousness by faith

luke 22:20 ²⁰ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

Heb 9:15 ¹⁵ And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Rom 3:25 ²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Heb 8:6 ⁶ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

The Essence of the New Covenant

Heb 8:10-12 ¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;

1.      I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:

a.      The laws of God  will not be written on tables of stones as it was written under the old covenant, but it will in their hearts and mind. And

2.      The children of Israel were disowned by God because they broke the covenant he made with them. Hosea 1:9. For ye ae not my people and I will not be your God. Under the New Covenant God said: “I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people”.

3.      ¹¹ And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. Under the New Covenant God promised that all his people will know him from the greatest to the least.

4.      ^12.  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. Under the Old Coevnant, there was no mercy to unrighteousness. He that despised Moses Law died without mercy under 2 or 3 witnesses. Heb. 10:28.

5.      ^12b and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. The sins of sinners under the old covenant was remembered. Heb 9:15 ¹⁵ And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. The transgressions under the Old Covenant under the Frist Covenant were remembered and recalled when Christ died. His blood had a retroactive effect in putting away passed sins. Rom. 3:25. Under the New Covenant, sins and iniquities they are forgiven and remembered no more.

Heb 8:13 ¹³ In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. You are now living under the New Covenant. The Old Covenant is now Obsolete.