The New Covenant

Today we talk about the new covenant. We now know that Israel couldn’t keep the first covenant. They broke it. And we also can’t do it on our own. We are all sinners. That’s why Yahweh had to do something.

The old covenant had a Law that was written in stone. The 2 tablets that Moses brought from the mountain. But the new covenant has the Law written on the heart. And with the old covenant we had our own spirit. But with the new covenant we get the new spirit of Yahweh. Our own spirit cannot well distinguish good from evil. The spirit we get from Yahweh is rejecting everything that’s not good. It connect very well with the Holy Spirit.

Ezekiel 36:25‭-‬27‬‬

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

Before Yahweh is giving the new heart and spirit, He will cleanse us from all our sins and our false gods. With the old covenant they had to offer a living animal every time when they discovered they sinned. In the new covenant is the offer of Yeshua enough for all our sins. His blood cleanse us from all our sins. Yeshua’s offer is His dead on the cross. And He got the punishment that we suppose to get from Yahweh His Father. He suffered for our sins. Someone died for our sins. Blood was shed. Forgiveness is what we got.
And it is the Holy Spirit who will show not only our sins but he will also show us our false gods. And he will tell us to stop with obeying our gods. And He will teach us to observe Yahweh’s ordinances.

Jeremiah 31:31‭-‬34 ‬‬

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

To know the Lord means that you know Him as if you were married with Him. You know His name. You know His Son. You know what He likes and what He doesn’t like. You know His character and you know how He thinks. You know His love and you know what He is longing for. And we will know Yahweh because He has forgiven us.

Hebrews 8:7‭-‬13‬‬

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says, “Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people. And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ For all will know Me, From the least to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more.” When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

The old covenant was for us human beings undoable. Yahweh is a righteous God. And He can’t ignore His own Law. The Law is never changed but Yahweh changed our mind and our heart. In our heart are the deepest reasons why we do something. It’s what drives us. The spirit is what connects us with the Holy Spirit. The new covenant is Yahweh telling to us that He will make it possible for us to live in His Kingdom and to obey His Law. While the old covenant was: do what I say and I will bless you.

Yeshua is telling us how we can become part of the new covenant. His blood is the blood of the covenant. Drink from the cup with my blood that is what Yeshua says. Then you will get forgiveness. In Luke is even written the new covenant is in My blood.

Matthew 26:27‭-‬28‬

And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

Luke 22:20

And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.

More clear it can’t be. The cup with Yeshua’s blood that the disciples drunk, was the way to forgiveness. The cup with Yeshua’s blood that the disciples drunk was the way to become part of the new covenant.

John 6:54

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

So let us be aware of this every time when we eat His body and drink His blood. We got a new heart and a new spirit. We got eternal life. We became citizens of Yahweh’s Kingdom.