OLD AND NEW COVENANT To where my whole personal relationship with Christus throughout the time of being christian is leading, is that the law of Moses, the old covenant, doesn’t differ from the new covenant when understanding both covenants through spiritual eyes and ears. Only when absorbing the law of Moses in the literal context, old and new covenant appears to be totally different. Then God the Father of the Old Testament appears to have a quite different attitude then God, the Son of the New Testament. But in my personal relationship with Christus, the Son showed the Father and I saw He reflected Christus too, like a spiritual twin to express it hopefully understandable enough I saw Christus, the Son and Christus, the Father or if you prefer God, the Son and God, the Father. John 5:19 ‘So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise’. God, the Father never changes. He is the same yesterday, today as tomorrow. Since Christ does all what the Father does, Christ is also the same yesterday, today as tomorrow. Since the Son has grace to offer, so has the Father also grace to offer. Luke 23:34 ‘And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments’. Christ asked the Father to forgive them, to show grace, and what is forgiven is for God out of mind, forgotten. It was not a plea in the hope the Father would answer the plea, it was said in the full faith the Father would do so for the Son knows the Father and the Father knows the Son and the faith in each other is flawless. 1 Timothy 1:2 ‘To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord’. Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and the same grace, mercy and peace from Christ Jesus, the Lord. My whole personal relationship with God as Father, Son and Spirit tells me the Old Covenant contained the same grace as the New Covenant. Christ didn’t came to abolish the law, to swap one Covenant for a completly different Covenant, and Christ neither came to ADD grace to the Old Covenant, making with the addition of grace a New Covenant. For the grace had allways been there from Old Testament to New Testament. Matthew 5:17 ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them’. The son came to fulfill. Fulfill means not making perfect, making complete by adding something that was missing, by adding grace to the law of Moses. To fulfill means to bring into realisation, to bring into effect. The Jews didn’t saw the grace but saw a bunch of laws in their relationship with God : accomplishements to achieve in own strenght given by God to earn a room in Heaven and good standing with God. In their relationship with God the focus wasn’t upon the relationship itself, for if it had, they would have known God better and see the grace. They saw but the Law and understood them with the ears and eyes given by the world since birth. The son came to make the grace visible since mankind didn’t saw, realised what had allways been there : grace. That grace had allways been there before Jesus came in the flesh and died on the Cross because God stands above time and space. What in the physical world had still to take place since it is subjected to timelaws, experiencing a before, a now, and a thereafter, had allready been taken place before the creation of the world in the eyes of God, the father, for Christ was from the beginning with God. God had brought salvation allready before Adam and Eve and all children coming after Adam and Eve commited sin. Only, the human didn’t realised that because we think within the law of time. The tree of life couldn’t be present in the Garden of Eden if Christ couldn’t offer allready the way from death to life, which includes the Son had allready taken all sin of the world upon His shoulders. For the world it had yet to happen, but not so for the Heavenly Realms : there it was allready a done fact, being complelty fulfilled. Of course, as human living within the concept of time, a human cannot know but the Spirit of God could make it know that what is not happened yet in our world had allready happened in the eyes of God. Mark 2:25-26 ‘And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the show bread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?’ David of the Bible knew in his relationship with God, Father and Son. For the Old Covenant differ not from the New Covenant when seeing through ears and eyes not from this world. The Law had allways included the grace mankind so needed for salvation. For the commandment of the Old Covenant is the same as the commandment of the New Covenant : Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Love not coming from our own strenght for God loved us first. Through grace we can see the love of God for us and build a strong relationship with Him so that we can receive His love which the world cannot provide to live according to His ways. His ways which our acting in our best interests and at the same time gloryfing God. The New Covenant differs but from the the Old Covenant in that more understanding is given of the very same Law : To make clear, to let see the only way, the only narrow path to enter the gates of Heaven. Matthew 26:28 ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins’. How could David of the Bible do what wasn’t considered within the law given by God in his time, what was ‘blasphemy’, if the spilled blood of the Lamb (which had yet to happen for the eyes of the physical world) was not allready accepted by the Father who stands above the concept of time ? David was for God considered clean, purified, wearing the white cloth drown in the blood of the Lamb, he was ‘beloved’, he was justified in Christ. If the Old Covenant missed something that only the New Covenant contained, grace, then the biblical David would have done something ‘devilish’ in that action : going straight against the will of God, ignoring God’s law and doing the opposite. Would Christ who act only within the will of God praise openly a man who acted outside the will of God ?
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:11:44 +0000
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