The New Covenant of Christ!

“For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance–now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.” Heb 9:15

The “new covenant” is the new agreement God has made with mankind, based on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The concept of a new covenant originated in the book of Jeremiah that God would accomplish for His people what the old covenant had failed to do (Jer 31:31-34 & Heb 11:7-13) . Under this new covenant, God would write His Law on human hearts.

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,

“when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel

and with the people of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors

when I took them by the hand

to lead them out of Egypt,[Old Covenant]

because they broke my covenant,

though I was a husband to them]”declares the Lord.

“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel

after that time,” declares the Lord.

“I will put my law in their minds

and write it on their hearts.

I will be their God, and they will be my people.

No longer will they teach their neighbor,

or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’

Because they will all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest, “declares the Lord.

“For I will forgive their wickedness

and will remember their sins no more.”

We all know that this prophecy is fulfilled in Jesus Christ’s Blood Covenant, which is the New Covenant! The cross of Christ divides the Bible into two covenants, the old and the NEW! Under the old covenant everything was conditional, even the love of God! It was purely based on your performance – blessing and cursing system! But in the New Covenant with Jesus Christ we are blessed with every “Spiritual blessings “because of Jesus’s obedience and performance![Eph1:3], Everything – forgiveness, righteousness, holiness, and health – is given to us by grace and is received by faith

The death of Christ ushered in the new covenant under which we are justified by God’s grace and mercy — it is now possible to have the true forgiveness of sins. Jesus Himself is the Mediator of this better covenant between God and man (Heb 9:15) Jesus’ sacrificial death served as the oath, or pledge, which God made to us to seal this new covenant.

The “new covenant” is the new agreement God has made with mankind, based on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The concept of a new covenant originated with the promise of Jeremiah that God would accomplish for His people what the old covenant had failed to do. Under this new covenant, God would write His Law on human hearts.

When Jesus ate the Passover meal at the Last Supper with His disciples, He spoke of the cup and said, “this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Mat 26:28). Luke’s account refers to this cup as symbolizing “the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you”

When Paul recited the account he had received concerning the Last Supper, he quoted these words of Jesus about the cup as “the new covenant in My blood”(1Cor 11:25).

“This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

The Epistle to the Hebrews gives the new covenant more attention than any other book in the New Testament. It quotes the entire passage from Jeremiah 31:31-34 in the 8th Chapter of Hebrew. Jesus is referred to by the writer of Hebrews as “the Mediator of the new covenant” and the new covenant, a “better covenant … established on better promises” and rests directly on the sacrificial work of Christ. (Refer – Heb 8:16, 9:15 &12:24) The new covenant accomplished what the old could not, i.e., the removal of sin and cleansing of the conscience (Heb 10:2-22). The work of Jesus Christ on the cross thus makes the old covenant “obsolete”( Heb 8:13) and fulfills the promise of the prophet Jeremiah.

The New covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ is intended of the entire mankind.

The New Covenant was Gods plan from eternity to eternal!

You and me is assigned with the great commission from our Lord Jesus Christ to take this Gospel [Good News] till the ends of the earth!

SUMMARY

Yes! The cross really did change everything, but – and this is the important bit – it did not change the nature of God. He is eternal and unchanging and He did not have a change of heart after the cross. He did not think, “Well that first covenant I came up with was a disaster, so I’d better try something new.” No, the new covenant was God’s plan from the very beginning. This is why the Bible refers to the new covenant as the “eternal covenant” (He 13:20) while describing the old covenant as temporary and now obsolete (2 Cor 3:11, He 8:13). The old covenant was not a practice run while God was still figuring things out. It was a temporary arrangement whereby He deliberately restrained His heart of loving-kindness toward the Israelites so that they might become aware of the magnitude of their sin and their dire need for a Savior (Rom 3:20, Gal 3:24).

“So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith”[Gal 3:24]

Unlike the Mosaic covenant, the new covenant of Jesus Christ is intended for all mankind — regardless of race. In the Great Commission Jesus sent His apostles into the entire world so they could tell the story of the cross (Luke 24:46-47, Matt 28:18-20).The gospel call extends to every man and woman today!