Raynette K. Weiss Ministries would like you to understand that we broke this down in two parts because we realize people do not have a whole lot of time to read a lot at one time. This is just an overview of the new covenant like we mentioned. Monday and Tuesday will be an overview of the New covenant, and the rest of the week will be a deeper study so you can become stronger. We have a lot to study about the new covenant, so please learn and rejoice in Jesus’s word, and get a deeper understanding so you can have a relationship with Jesus and the Heavenly Father, and have joy and peace all the time down here on earth, it is a lovely feeling. Now to our lesson.
The New Covenant (or New Testament) is the promise that God makes with humanity that He will forgive sin and restore fellowship with those whose hearts are turned toward Him. Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant, and His death on the cross is the basis of the promise (Luke 22:20). The New Covenant was predicted while the Old Covenant was still in effect—the prophets Moses, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all allude to the New Covenant.
The Old Covenant that God had established with His people required strict obedience to the Mosaic Law. Because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), the Law required that Israel perform daily sacrifices in order to atone for sin. But Moses, through whom God established the Old Covenant, also anticipated the New Covenant. In one of his final addresses to the nation of Israel, Moses looks forward to a time when Israel would be given “a heart to understand” (Deuteronomy 29:4, ESV). Moses predicts that Israel would fail in keeping the Old Covenant (verses 22–28), but he then sees a time of restoration (30:1–5). At that time, Moses says, “The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live” (verse 6). The New Covenant involves a total change of heart so that God’s people are naturally pleasing to Him.
The prophet Jeremiah also predicted the New Covenant. “‘The day will come,’ says the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. . . . But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,’ says the Lord. ‘I will put my law in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people’” (Jeremiah 31:31, 33). Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Law of Moses (Matthew 5:17) and to establish the New Covenant between God and His people. The Old Covenant was written in stone, but the New Covenant is written on our hearts. Entering the New Covenant is made possible only by faith in Christ, who shed His blood to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Luke 22:20 relates how Jesus, at the Last Supper, takes the cup and says, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood” (ESV).
The New Covenant is also mentioned in Ezekiel 36:26–27, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.”
Luke 22:20
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20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, k“This cup that is poured out for you is lthe new mcovenant in my blood.3
Romans 6:23
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23 dFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Deuteronomy 29:4
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4 But to this day gthe Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
Jeremiah 31:31
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The New Covenant
31 o“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make pa new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
Matthew 5:17
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Christ Came to Fulfill the Law
17 p“Do not think that I have come to abolish qthe Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but rto fulfill them.
Ezekiel 36:26–27
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26 And I will give you ia new heart, and ia new spirit I will put within you. iAnd I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 jAnd I will put my Spirit within you, iand cause you to walk in my statutes and kbe careful to obey my rules.1
Closing prayer; Heavenly Father we thank you for the New Covenant and we know once we are a child of yours, unless we sin horribly against you, we will be your child forever in eternal life with you and Jesus. We thank you for all the guidance you give people and the joy and peace you give as long as they believe in you. We also pray that for people that read this know how important it is to become a child of yours, and you give a lot of Grace and love when people make mistakes. We pray that Jesus can help these people on earth that are your children to become stronger and believe. We also pray that anyone who has been reading our online ministry who has sinned and finally came to you about it, that you will give them grace and love, and pray that it will keep them from sinning again. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.
For those who wish to become a child of our heavenly Lord, or strengthen thier faith, please pray the following prayer below.
Dear Heavenly Father, I want to be a part of your family. You said in Your Word that if I acknowledge that You raised Jesus from the dead, and that I accept Him as my Lord and Savior, I would be saved. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for forgiving me, saving me, and giving me eternal life with You. Amen!”
By saying this prayer, we believe you are born again.
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