The Daily Word of Righteousness

If You Love Me . . ., #7

For this the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people." (Hebrews 8:10)

If the new covenant were an overlooking of sin, if this were why it is superior to the Law of Moses (superior from man's standpoint, certainly not from the Lord's) then it would say something like this:

Because My people have not obeyed My holy laws I am going to make a new covenant with them. If they will put their trust in the righteous Jesus I will not regard their behavior any longer. I will see them only through Him. I no longer will expect them to keep My commandments. I will have fellowship with them and bring them to Heaven to live forever solely on the basis of their belief in the merits of My Son. (Thompson 1:1)

The result (however unintentional) of the doctrine of dispensationalism, along with the other three errors we will mention later, is the creation of lawlessness in the Christian people, and consequently in the nations of the earth because the Christian's are the only moral light of the world.

What does Hebrews say is the new covenant?

"I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people."

Instead of being a plan for creating lawlessness on the part of the royal priesthood, the new covenant is designed to remove the moral law of God from the stone tablets and write them in the mind and heart of the believer.

Is the new covenant only the eternal forgiveness of the sins of God's people, or is it primarily a device for creating the laws of God in the personality of the believer?

Some will agree that the new covenant is intended to result in a change in our behavior but still insist that we do not have to do anything, Jesus does it all from within us. Is this what the Scripture teaches?

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1,2)

Is the above something we are to do? Will Christ do it for us? What if we don't submit ourselves to God each day?

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (II Corinthians 7:1)

Is this something we are to do?

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. (Galatians 5:24)

And so on and on and on in the New Testament.

To be continued.