The statement has been made, “the Scriptures are clear that we do not live under the New Covenant yet. The New Covenant era is described in Jeremiah 31. Go read it and explain to me how we’re in that era now. Secondly, the covenant with Adam is the same one we’re under now. It’s the same covenant as the one with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, etc. It has been been renewed, not ended. Please read Matthew 5:13-20.”
As far as not being in the New Covenant. Jesus disagrees.
Luke 22:20
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Not only that, but we see in Hebrews 7 that the perfection could not be attained through the Levitical system, and there was a need for another priest to come. We also see in this passage that there was a change of the priesthood and in the law and that the Old Covenant (“former regulation”) was set aside.
Hebrews 7:11-19
11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come—one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? 12 For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law. 13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar. 14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared:
”You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.” 18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
We see in the next chapter of Hebrews that the priest spoke of in Hebrews 7 was actually Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 8:6
6 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.
In fact, Christ made the old covenant obsolete.
Hebrews 8:13
13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
And in fact, the Levitical system of offering sacrifces in the temple DID disappear, when the temple was destroyed in 70AD.
We are living in the New Covenant, as we see in what Hebrews 10:14-18 tells us has occurred:
14 because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” 17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18 And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.
What other evidence do I have that we are not under the the Torah? I find the need to offer sacrifices at the temple something we have been freed from. Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for all time.
Hebrews 10:12
But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
God love us, but He is a righteous, just, and holy God. He WILL judge us. Are you ready? Are you under the New Covenant?
So, no, those who trust in Christ, as having been sent by God the Father to suffer and die for our sins and raised again on the third day to show His divinity, are not under the Old Covenant. We are under the New Covenant.
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Thank you for your kind words. I pray you and others will be encouraged to live for Christ as you read this blog.
Not so, the word mistranslated as “new” is actually “renew”
There is no new covenant.
The original covenants were “olam” meaning perpetual.
Christianity is a political control mechanism and has more to do with social engineering of populations than anything else.
Enjoy your myth-conceptions.
Actually, you are mistaken.
Chadash is used as either an adjective ( http://www.biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?number=02319&version=nas ) or a verb ( http://www.biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?number=2318&version=nas ). As an adjective, it means new. The verb means to means make new or renew or repair.
The old covenant was broken by the people of Israel. God made a new one. Jesus’ blood was the blood of the sacrifice needed for the new covenant.
Jeremeiah 31 and and the quotation of it in Hebrews 8 are clear that the New Covenant is for “the house of Israel and the house of Judah”. What’s more, the primary audience of both Jeremiah and Hebrews was Jews, not Gentiles. Also, only Jews were present when Jesus instituted the New Covenant at the Last Supper, so far as we know. In fact, the only contact between Gentiles and the New Covenant that is recorded in the NT is in Paul’s instruction to the Corinthian believers in 1 Cor 11, where he gives instructions for their memorial of the original Last Supper. In Galatians 3 Paul makes it abundantly clear that Gentiles are counted with God’s people on the basis of God’s promises to Abraham in Genesis 12 and 22 and their fulfuillment in Christ, not on the basis of the Mosaic or New Covenants.
I’m not sure of your point. I know that in Acts 10:44-48, Gentiles are included in what was available to Jews. We also see that believers are adopted as children of God (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 1:5; 1 John 1:7). The blood of the Lamb covers the sins of all believers (Ephesians 2:13; 1 John 1:7).
So yes, we are under the new covenant.
Our Apostle Paul tells us, ( Christians, whether Jew or Gentile), that we ARE NOT under the new covenant but the dispensation of Grace and that we all share the same promise. The renewed covenant will come into effect after the rapture when the physical kingdom of heaven governs the earth under the priestly and holy nation of Israel. The Church at the time will be with the LORD in heavenly places and we will remain there with him forever.
Keshia,
You have provided no scripture to support your idea. Please do so.
Because it is clear from scripture that the old covenant has passed away and the new covenant was instituted when God made Christ the Lamb of God and had Him sacrificed at the cross.
Christ died as a ransom to set us free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:14-15
Christ’s shed His blood for the new covenant.
Matthew 26:28
Mark 14:24
Luke 22:20
1 Corinthians 11:25
Paul said he (and we) are ministers of the new covenant.
2 Corinthians 3:6
So yes, we are in the new covenant.
Really enjoyed reading this, as I found you when I googled a question, “Are we under the same new covenant as mentioned in Jere, 31?”. Well, thanks to you, you directed me to Hebrews 10. In this chapter it tells us plainly that we are in the new covenant, the same covenant that was promised to Israel. The amazing connection us Gentile have to this new covenant God made to the Hebrews (Besides all the other ones you have already provided,Thanks) is Hebrews 10:23,”Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;….” This is the same profession that Paul speaks of in Romans 10:9 and10, “That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” There it is, the profession that changes our lives, saves our lives! The very same way (instruction) for both the Hebrew and the Gentile. Moses never told any Hebrew to just confess, never! Its a “…new and living way,…” Hebrews 10:20. Praise God , Jesus is the way! John 14:6 .
I am glad you enjoyed it.
We are saved by grace through faith. Nothing we do saves us, so how do we understand verses like that with Rom 10:9-10?
Ephesians 2:8-9
Acts 16:31
That salvation includes changing from sining and turning to God.
Acts 26:20
Anything we do gives evidence of the salvation we have. Without evidence of our believe, its not a saving faith, but its not the evidence which saves us.
James 2:14-17
Oh, I was not disagreeing with you, by the way. I was simply trying to clarify how we can understand the verses you wrote with other scripture, as I have been having discussions with others about this.
Praise God brother, Another way to say it, Faith without works, never lived in the first place. In other words ,if one truly believes, his or her life will show it. Its just got to be in the DNA of that ‘new creature’ ! 2 Corinthians 5:17 ! Hallelujah ! Its that ‘Spirit of life’ in Christ ,Romans 8:2.
Exactly!