Part 4 God's New Covenant

 

Part 4 God’s New Covenant

According to the Law, as Apostle Paul explained, the only way Israel could be released from their marriage covenant of the Law, was for their husband – God – to die. (The Law and marriage covenant was a binding blood covenant to last as long as the parties lived.)

We know that God is a Spirit that is eternal and cannot die.

The only way God could release His people from their covenant of marriage with Him with the strict justice of the Law was for Him to manifest Himself in the flesh of a human body.

God overshadowed Mary, a virgin, and she conceived. The baby she gave birth to was all human, and at the same time all God. He came in His name of salvation - Jesus – for He would not only release Israel from their marriage covenant and His Law, but He would also die for their sins, bringing His new covenant of grace.

With Israel released from their marriage to God and His covenant of the Law by His death, they would be free to marry God again, only this time with His new blood covenant of grace.

Jesus not only died for the Jews, but also for “all those afar off” - the Gentiles - as God said He would do throughout the Old Testament.

Both Jew and Gentile enter into God’s new covenant by the gospel. It is by the gospel that we become married to God, becoming His wife, the bride of Christ.

It is by the gospel - the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus - that God died to release Israel from their marriage covenant of the Law, and the whole world from the penalty of sin.

It is by obedience to the gospel by repentance, baptism in His name Jesus for the remission of sins and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost that we enter into the new covenant marriage with Jesus.

"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." - Romans 7:4 KJV (Our fruit is our offspring of souls born from water baptism in the name of Jesus by the church - the mother, and Spirit baptism by Jesus - the Father.)

 To be continued…