The New Covenant

What is the reason for the tree of knowledge. Knowing that the tree was put there for the purpose of allowing Adam and Eve to make a decision as to obedience or disobedience has shown me why we are where we are at today spiritually. The act of unbelief and disobedience that cause the spiritual death of man kind is made clear. We wanted to be God.

Man today still wants to be God. Adam and Eve were just the first in the line that still has the same desire. We were before the act of disobedience made in God's spiritual image. We were to rule Earth for him and to be his companion, not because he needed us but because of his love. Instead we must now struggle to find our way. Human kind must return to the earth that we came from instead of ruling it.

All of our lives we have to struggle with the temptations cause by that one act. Until we know what is missing in our lives we must continue this life of sin and despair. But from the beginning God in his mercy and love had a plan. The covenant, made with Abraham, that we today, that are born again into Christ partake of, was his plan. The blood of Christ, is our covenant blood. All of the promises that God gave Abraham are ours. Every thing that the Scriptures tells us is ours. God made a covenant with Abraham and with us, through the Blood of Jesus his Son. He does not break his covenant, we do. Most of us still do not know what a covenant really is.

In Bible time a covenant was a binding pact between two people our groups of people. This covenant made them as one group, a family. They would take on each others name to show that they had a covenant with each other. Countries would bind together, not as today with a piece of paper but with blood. Some cultures today still practice this type of covenant. The shed blood bound them together. To be a true covenant there had to be the shedding of blood.

God is love. That is probably one of the most important statements ever written. We as human can not come close to understand that it is his nature. Our concept of love with all of it's limits can not come close to fathoming his love. His love is unconditional, if we come to him as he calls us, through the blood of Jesus the Christ. It is his love that seeks us, to bring us to a saving grace. His love nailed Jesus to the tree not us being good or holy.

Only by becoming man and taking all of our sins could Christ be as us and for us. Thus he became our representative in the New Covenant. We in our sinful nature could not approach God. We needed a man that could take our sin, pain, temptations, and death. He had to be sinless. He had to overcome the temptations of life, from his infancy to adulthood. He was a teenager with it's problems, and of course he was tempted by Satan in the wilderness. He over came all even suffering a cruel death. We were there with him. He willingly became our representative and carried our troubles and trials. He is the one who represents us in the New Covenant. It is his blood that was shed for the covenant.

God is faithful. We all hear this from every pulpit. Do we really understand what it means. It means that God is truth, to be certain, enduring, to trust or believe. What God promises he will always do. He made the covenant with us through Jesus blood. Our faith is brought about by our personal relationship with God. It is not an energy or some power that comes about by our on strength but through The Holy Spirit. As with Sarah who had the faith to conceive a child in her old age we also can find that faith in Christ.

We live under the grace of the New Covenant, free from the burden of the old covenant. Jesus freed us with his blood. We no longer need the blood of a substitute animal to cover our sins. God's perfect plan is the Good News of the New Covenant. Jesus dealt with our sin, now we need to accept the divine amnesty, and be reconciled to God.