The New Covenant part 1: Ramafications and considerations.

Jer 31:33-34  “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the LORD. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.  (34)  And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the LORD.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the LORD. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”

Either the New Covenant is in force or it is not. Has the Old Covenant, the Mosaic Covenant... simply limped along side the New Covenant for the past 2000 plus years as so much of evangelical doctrine and dogma suggests? The answer, I believe is a resounding no! Here is the fact as I see it from the preponderance of scriptural evidence. The New Covenant is the only covenant in force today. If that is not the case, and we await some cataclysmic apocalypse then NO Gentile is truly redeemed. Look at this verse from the (little apocalypse) in Luke's Gospel: Luke 21:28  "But when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.” Here you have it plain and simple, if the apocalypse did not happen as prophesied in the first century there is NO REDEMPTION.

However, it did happen as prophesied with the destruction of the temple. So as a result, the New Covenant is completely and solely in force. This is ultra important in understanding the gospel and the transformation it brings. The real transformation process is the direct result of having peace with Father God. That peace with Father comes from the 34th verse of the above passage from Jeremiah. "I will forgive their wickedness and I will never remember their sins." This is precisely why a proper understanding of the gospel is so important. Paul explains it this way in Ephesians 2:15-17,  "having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,  (16)  and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.  (17)  And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near." This is what brings peace with the Father. The Old Covenant because of human flesh was enmity with us. However, Paul also explains that it is being justified, declared righteous by the work of Christ that brings the peace.

Rom 5:1  Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. This is precisely the fact that brings about supernatural transformation and it was what turned the world upside down in the first century. Because of the gospel one is set free from being accepted by God based on obedient behavior. The Obedience is simply trusting Christ for righteousness no matter what. This brings peace with the Father and more than that it produces love for the Father. That is where all the transforming power stems from. It is not antinomian to believe the gospel. That is simply a perverted view of the gospel that is brought on by the leaven of the Pharisees which as infiltrated most all of Christianity.

The New Covenant is not as evangelical doctrine erroneously depicts it. It is not a hybrid mixture of the New Covenant and the Old Covenant. It is simply a new and better way!