The New Covenant – A New Marriage

God, as Husband to the Jewish people, promised them a new covenant. This new covenant would be one in which their iniquities would be forgiven, and their sin no longer remembered. Because God was forgiving their iniquity, they could receive the infilling of His Spirit. With the infilling of His Spirit, there would be a close relationship between God and His people. This is how we can know Him. (Acts 2:38).

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." - Acts 2:38 KJV

"And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." - Jeremiah 31:34 KJV

It was necessary that God robe Himself in a flesh and blood human body so that He could release the Jewish people from their marriage covenant of the Law from Mount Sinai. God came to die for His wife. By His death, they were free to marry Him in His new covenant of the Gospel. God came in His name Jesus, His name of salvation which is above every name, which brings mercy and grace.

The Church is God’s wife through His new covenant. (Acts 2:38).

"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." - Acts 20:28 KJV

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." - Ephesians 5:25-27 KJV [“word:” Thayer’s - others take ῤήματι here as equivalent to 'the gospel,']