It feel like old times doing this. The Old Covenant was part of the Old Testament among Jewish people and God. It was codified during the days of Moses and ended by the Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It dealt with sacrifices at the Temple, following over 600 commandments, and it was conditionally on obedience. In fact, before Moses, the Mosaic covenant with Sabbath keeping never existed. Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Shem never followed the Old Covenant or the Sabbath. It was revealed by God to Moses (Nehemiah 9:13-14). IN OTHER WORDS, THE LAW OF GOD EXISTED BEFORE THE LAW OF MOSES. In God's foreknowledge, he knew that the Second Temple would be completely destroyed by 70 A.D. in Jerusalem. That would make the old covenant impossible to kept, because to fulfill the old law, you have to go to the Temple of Jerusalem. If you violate one part of the old law, you violate them all. The New Covenant unconditional brought about by the blood of the Lamb. The New Covenant is meant for both Jewish people and Gentiles as God is no respector of persons. A person's heart matters to God not a person's color or sex. In this generation, there has been an increase of not only God haters, but blasphemers who denied the existence of the Son of the living God, deny the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, and even deny the Godhead. Tons of Christians were martyrs of the faith, and I will never deny the Father nor the Son. SO, WE ARE UNDER THE NEW LAW UNDER THE SON OF GOD NOT THE OLD LAW. The following verses define the new covenant and its components.
1. Jeremiah 31:31-34 defines the new covenant in the future that God deals with the Children of Israel.
2. Hebrews 7:18 mentions that the old commandment is annulled.
3. John 10:27-28 says that Yeshua gives people eternal life.
4. Hebrews 8:13 explicitly mentions the new law as the old law has passed away.
5. Hebrews 7: 21-28 outlined the truth that Jesus Christ has a better testament. The Old Testament made constant sacrifices a duty among believers, but with the new covenant Jesus Christ made one sacrifice alone for all people.
6. Romans 8:2 says that the law of the spirit of life is found in Jesus Christ, and he makes people free form the law of sin and death.
7. Hebrews 9:15 shows the truth that Yeshua has a better testament beyond the old testament.
8. Jesus give redemption to humanity via his blood, his forgiveness of sins, and his grace is from Ephesians 1:7..
9. Heb.9:12-12: "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
10. Col. 2:14-17 says that people shouldn't judge people in meat, celebration of Holy Days, and the Sabbath. So, it is not wrong to celebrate holy days or the Sabbath, but they are not required for believers in God to follow during this era of time. Christians can meet on the FIRST day of the week (Acts 20), take up collection on the FIRST day of the week (1 Cor. 16:1-4), and preach the FIRST day of the week (Acts 20:7), because the Saviour rose the FIRST day of the week (Luke 24, Matt. 28) and the Holy Spirit came down the FIRST day of the week (Acts 2:1-6). According to the HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: "Hence, the first day was already in the apostolic age honorably designated as "the Lord's Day." ...it appears, therefore, from the New Testament itself, that Sunday was observed as a day of worship, and in special commemoration of the Resurrection, whereby the work of redemption was finished. The universal and uncontradicted Sunday observance in the second century can only be explained by the fact that it has its roots in apostolic practice." (Philip Schaff, , vol. 1, pg. 478-479).
11. Romans 8:2-4: The law of the spirit of Christ makes people free. It is not like the old law, and the law of righteousness walks in the spirit.
12. Jesus broke the Sabbath without sin in John 5:18 when he healed a person. This proves the Sabbath was not a moral law but a ceremonial one.
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