Precious friends, for your prayerful and
Careful consideration:
"When the Bible speaks of covenants in the specific sense, it is speaking of the covenants given to God’s chosen nation Israel. No one today in the dispensation of Grace is a partaker of the covenants which are made between Israel and God.
Hebrews 8:7 speaks of the first covenant and the second covenant given to Israel. The first covenant describes the Law as given to Israel at Horeb:
The second covenant, or ‘better covenant’, is the ‘new covenant’ also given to Israel (
Heb 8:13,
12:24).
And again in Jeremiah:
Knowing that the covenants were given to Israel and Judah, Paul stated concerning his brethren according to the flesh, Israel,
Gentiles and the Body of Christ
The covenants were between God and Israel regarding their future redemption as spoken of by the prophets since the world began. However, Gentiles in time past as well as those in the body
of Christ today are not a part of the covenants.
Paul says,
In order for a Gentile in time past to get the blessings of God they had to follow the provisions of the covenant. (See “
Did Gentiles in the Old Testament get saved?” for more.) However, they were estranged from the covenants given to Israel.
During the dispensation of Grace, believers receive the benefits of the redemptive work of Christ
on the cross outside of any covenant relationship. It was purely by God’s grace that we receive
eternal life and the blessings associated with salvation. Otherwise grace would not be grace
(
Romans 11:6).
Today there is neither Jew nor Gentile. There is no special status before God for any nation today.
Instead of a covenant providing the necessary terms of redemption, believers today are
of the same body and partakers of the promise in Christ by the gospel of the grace of God
(
Eph 3:6,
Titus 1:2-3). We receive the mercy and the grace of God apart from our adherence
to any covenant given in time past, we receive it by faith (
Romans 5:1,
8-10)."
(J Johnson, a
fellow Grace ambassador)
Amen.
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