New Covenant
The New Covenant is the agreement that God made for followers of Jesus Christ. This New Covenant gives everyone hope of everlasting life through Jesus and his sacrifice. It’s a new beginning for everyone who believes in him.
God writes His New Covenant in our hearts and minds.
People who follow Jesus are able to understand the intentions of God through the Holy Spirit, giving them understanding in their hearts and minds.
The Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines a covenant in the Greek #1242 as disposition, contract, will, and testament.
Luke 22:15-20
Jesus Christ explained that the New Testament, New Covenant, or agreement was confirmed through the shedding of his blood. Anyone can be part of this New Covenant and be forgiven for sins through his blood.
Hebrews 13:20-21
Through the blood of the eternal covenant or testament, anyone can be saved and made perfect through Christ’s sacrifice.
Hebrews 8:6-13
Jesus Christ is our High Priest who mediates the New Covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
The prophet Jeremiah described how God’s people would receive the New Covenant.
Hebrews 10:14-18
Jesus Christ offered himself as a sacrifice once for all people.
Related scriptures:
- Romans 8:1-17: The result of receiving the New Covenant is that we live in the Spirit.
- Galatians 4:3-7: Since Jesus Christ brought the New Covenant and his followers are no longer under the Mosaic law, since Jesus came, people must now live by faith through the Spirit that wrote God’s law in our hearts and minds.
- 1 Corinthians 2:9-16: People who believe in Jesus Christ and accept him have the mind of Christ and can discern all things through the Spirit of God. With the mind of Christ people receive instruction through the Holy Spirit.
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