OLD COVENANT vs. NEW COVENANT
Today I want to write about a scheme that the majority of Christians used to avoid work - Old Covenant vs New Covenant. Here is what the Gentiles say about the Old Covenant and the New Covenant based on the book of Jeremiah. Here is what one writer wrote on the Internet, “What the difference actually is: not a different law, but the location of the law, now written in hearts and not on stone.” Dr. Joshua Martin.
When God gave the law to Moses, the original law was written on stone. But Jeremiah says that God “will put the law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.” How?
I agree that placing the law in our hearts is better than placing the law on stone. But Christians do not want to see the law on stone or in their hearts. They want to abolish the law altogether. That’s why they believe in what Paul says. No law, no work, period. Just grace through faith. If there’s no written law to observe, there will obviously be no law to violate. Sin is defined as the transgression of the law. If there is no law to violate, how can we ever be found guilty of violating the law? How can we commit sin? Isn’t Satan very clever?
But we know that no one receives grace without work except the one thief on the cross. And the apostle James says that faith without work is dead. The thief on the cross is an exception. But the majority of Christians was misled by Paul to believe that every Christians can get grace from Jesus without work based on this one exception - the thief on the cross? This is a fallacy of logic! I can understand if some carpenters and fishermen believe in this kind of argument. But how about the rest of us? People with Masters and Doctorate degrees?
“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every intent of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 6:5-8.
Do you know why God killed all of them except Noah and his family? Children, adults, and the elderly were all drowned and killed. Do you know why? God has no faith in them. That’s why Jesus told His 12 disciples, "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28. Yes, He was talking to us, to you and me, and not to the Muslims.
If any of my readers believe that they can sin no more, keep on believing what you want to believe until Jesus returns.
Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me in that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'” Matthew 7:21-23.
Do you know when did Jesus say these words? During the New Covenant.
When God gave the law to Moses, the original law was written on stone. But Jeremiah says that God “will put the law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.” How?
I agree that placing the law in our hearts is better than placing the law on stone. But Christians do not want to see the law on stone or in their hearts. They want to abolish the law altogether. That’s why they believe in what Paul says. No law, no work, period. Just grace through faith. If there’s no written law to observe, there will obviously be no law to violate. Sin is defined as the transgression of the law. If there is no law to violate, how can we ever be found guilty of violating the law? How can we commit sin? Isn’t Satan very clever?
But we know that no one receives grace without work except the one thief on the cross. And the apostle James says that faith without work is dead. The thief on the cross is an exception. But the majority of Christians was misled by Paul to believe that every Christians can get grace from Jesus without work based on this one exception - the thief on the cross? This is a fallacy of logic! I can understand if some carpenters and fishermen believe in this kind of argument. But how about the rest of us? People with Masters and Doctorate degrees?
“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every intent of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 6:5-8.
Do you know why God killed all of them except Noah and his family? Children, adults, and the elderly were all drowned and killed. Do you know why? God has no faith in them. That’s why Jesus told His 12 disciples, "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matthew 10:28. Yes, He was talking to us, to you and me, and not to the Muslims.
If any of my readers believe that they can sin no more, keep on believing what you want to believe until Jesus returns.
Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me in that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'” Matthew 7:21-23.
Do you know when did Jesus say these words? During the New Covenant.
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