The Covenants: Toward A Biblical Understanding

[PreciousRubi]

I tried to determine what is required of a Christian in the New Covenant compared to what was required in the Old Covenant.

Tell me if you think I left anything out.

What commandments must be kept by New Testament Christians, compared to the Old Testament Jewish laws that don't need to be kept anymore in the New Covenant.

There are something like 1,500 commandments given to the body of Christ in the New Testament. Plenty to keep us busy!!

Wouldn't that be considered legalism?

[Guest shiloh357]

I tried to determine what is required of a Christian in the New Covenant compared to what was required in the Old Covenant.

Tell me if you think I left anything out.

What commandments must be kept by New Testament Christians, compared to the Old Testament Jewish laws that don't need to be kept anymore in the New Covenant.

There are something like 1,500 commandments given to the body of Christ in the New Testament. Plenty to keep us busy!!

Wouldn't that be considered legalism?

No, it would not be considered legalism. Legalism, properly understood is a perversion of the law of God into a system of works-based salvation. Legalism amounts to misusing the commandments of to earn God's favor and/or salvation.

[PreciousRubi]

I tried to determine what is required of a Christian in the New Covenant compared to what was required in the Old Covenant.

Tell me if you think I left anything out.

What commandments must be kept by New Testament Christians, compared to the Old Testament Jewish laws that don't need to be kept anymore in the New Covenant.

There are something like 1,500 commandments given to the body of Christ in the New Testament. Plenty to keep us busy!!

Wouldn't that be considered legalism?

No, it would not be considered legalism. Legalism, properly understood is a perversion of the law of God into a system of works-based salvation. Legalism amounts to misusing the commandments of to earn God's favor and/or salvation.

Thanks for the clarification....Not all other's think that way about legalism and people like me who choose to obey Torah.

Anyhow....continue on.....Sorry for the interruption

PR

[Guest pastorteacher]

I tried to determine what is required of a Christian in the New Covenant compared to what was required in the Old Covenant.

Tell me if you think I left anything out.

What commandments must be kept by New Testament Christians, compared to the Old Testament Jewish laws that don't need to be kept anymore in the New Covenant.

There are something like 1,500 commandments given to the body of Christ in the New Testament. Plenty to keep us busy!!

Wouldn't that be considered legalism?

No, it would not be considered legalism. Legalism, properly understood is a perversion of the law of God into a system of works-based salvation. Legalism amounts to misusing the commandments of to earn God's favor and/or salvation.

[TM75]

I tried to determine what is required of a Christian in the New Covenant compared to what was required in the Old Covenant.

Tell me if you think I left anything out.

What commandments must be kept by New Testament Christians, compared to the Old Testament Jewish laws that don't need to be kept anymore in the New Covenant.

There are something like 1,500 commandments given to the body of Christ in the New Testament. Plenty to keep us busy!!

Wouldn't that be considered legalism?

No, it would not be considered legalism. Legalism, properly understood is a perversion of the law of God into a system of works-based salvation. Legalism amounts to misusing the commandments of to earn God's favor and/or salvation.

Thanks for the clarification....Not all other's think that way about legalism and people like me who choose to obey Torah.

Anyhow....continue on.....Sorry for the interruption

PR

TO study the New Testament without blinders is a must, if you are to be a Christian. Be like Joshua who said choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served or the gods the amorites served, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. It is the same teaching from Moses, turn ye from strange gods and Jeremiah really picked up on that one. I hope this is considered as truth and that neither be ye idolaters, is for today, that Paul carried on the teaching about idols, holding back no truths from the Old Testament, neither shrinking from God's law, yet putting aside that which was against us, blotting it out. I use this reformation bible, because it is better reading and you can get more truth out of it, then corrupt modern bibles, or the addings and deletings of the King James bible. Does thou hatest to be reformed and cast God's word behind thee?

Jeremiah 9:12 (faithofGod.net 1537 O.T)

What man is so wise, as to understand this? Or to whom hath the LORD spoken by mouth, that he may shew this, and say: O thou land, why perishest thou so? Wherefore art thou so brent up, and like a wilderness, that no man goeth thorow?

9:13

Yea the LORD himself told the same unto them, that forsook his law, and kept not the thing that he gave them in commandment, neither lived thereafter:

9:14

but followed the wickedness of their own hearts, and served strange gods, as their fathers taught them.

9:15

Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them gall to drink.

The New Testament contains a good look into the law of the Prophets, in that covetousness is the root of all evil and those that think that lucre is godliness, from such seperate thyself. In the 1526 N.T, Tyndale took great pain in translating it, and is uncorrupted, yet you still can find weakness therin. (don't shy away from it) Read without be blinded by the doctrine of this world.

2 Timothy 2 19

[Guest pastorteacher]

It is real important to understand the New Covenant, particularily in relation to not only PROPHECY, but also and more importantly in relation to Christ, who fulfilled God' plan of salvation. FIRST, you must read very carefully JEREMIAH 31:31-34, which speak of God's Laws being placed into our MINDS , and WRITE them on our HEARTS, of which took place on PENTECOST. Peter refered to JOEL'S prophecy in Joel 2:28-32, ( ACTS 2:14-21 ).

Now of course Joel's prophecy refers to Israel, which was fulfilled with 3000 Jewish people accepting Christ that very day.

(ACTS 2:36-41) The book of HEBREWS quotes JEREMIAH in 8:8-12, to verify this New Covenant.

Now as far as the COMMANDMENTS are concerned, ALL are included in the words ( LAWS) mentioned in both Jeremiah and Hebrews.

We as believers in Christ are saved by GRACE, as is said in Ephesians 2:8-9, AND NOT BY WORKS, but, we are all called to OBEDIENCE, which can only be acceptable with a LOVE for Him ( JOHN 14:15).

Now I know this will probably generate more questions, and that's OK, because I myself went through this when I was first told through the Scriptures

Please read prayerfully and carefully the passages I've given thus far, and see for yourdslf ,( thru the HOLY SPIRIT ) what God's Word is teaching us.

[Guest WarriorforChrist1]

It is real important to understand the New Covenant, particularily in relation to not only PROPHECY, but also and more importantly in relation to Christ, who fulfilled God' plan of salvation. FIRST, you must read very carefully JEREMIAH 31:31-34, which speak of God's Laws being placed into our MINDS , and WRITE them on our HEARTS, of which took place on PENTECOST. Peter refered to JOEL'S prophecy in Joel 2:28-32, ( ACTS 2:14-21 ).

Now of course Joel's prophecy refers to Israel, which was fulfilled with 3000 Jewish people accepting Christ that very day.

(ACTS 2:36-41) The book of HEBREWS quotes JEREMIAH in 8:8-12, to verify this New Covenant.

Now as far as the COMMANDMENTS are concerned, ALL are included in the words ( LAWS) mentioned in both Jeremiah and Hebrews.

We as believers in Christ are saved by GRACE, as is said in Ephesians 2:8-9, AND NOT BY WORKS, but, we are all called to OBEDIENCE, which can only be acceptable with a LOVE for Him ( JOHN 14:15).

Now I know this will probably generate more questions, and that's OK, because I myself went through this when I was first told through the Scriptures

Please read prayerfully and carefully the passages I've given thus far, and see for yourdslf ,( thru the HOLY SPIRIT ) what God's Word is teaching us.

[arron]

well i always live right and there are certian things that i dont do you can cll it legalism is you want but i dont do them for instance one day THE LORD spoke to me and told me not to wear short sleves IN CHUCH because some one was watching me and it would hurt my influence so i have never done that since i had to go once when i did not have a long sleved shirt with me but i had a caot so i put it on and kept it on while i was in church

[Sherman]

Shiloh,

I appreciate the study thus far. One point of clarification though, many think that the word

[DjZed]

No study of the Bible is complete without at least some working knowledge of the covenants that are prevalent throughout Scripture. As I stated in the introduction, the covenants occur concurrently alongside what are known as