Last blog ended The Solution?Part One with the Godhead planned solution of the demise of the era of the “old man (Adam)” and the advent of Christ Jesus as a TYPE of “new man”—a God-inhabited man.
1 Corinthians 15:21-23 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all (believers, choosers – author’s insert) shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.
With the advent of Emmanuelle, that is with the advent of the new era of God-with-us in human form—Christ Jesus, come to explain the Father and the “abundant” life (John 10:10b “. . . I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”), with this advent came also a new and better covenant to that end.
Better than a covenant of law and penalty, this new covenant would be a contract of Grace, belief, pardon, indwelling and empowerment of believing humankind by Holy Spirit. To be precise, the new covenant would be achieved by the sacrificial spilling of the blood of the human person of Christ Jesus and the infilling of of believers by Holy Spirit, making believers God-inhabited humankind, making each believer a new man, making each believer a man after the TYPE of Christ.
Hebrews 8:12-13 “’For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.’ In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”
Luke 22:20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”
Matthew 26:28 “For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Mark 14:24 And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.”
Word Wealth for covenant in Mark 14:24 (Spirit Filled Life Bible, p.1498, NKJV) defines covenant as “diatheke . . . Strong’s #1242: A will, testament, pact, contract, an agreed upon plan to which both parties subscribe. While the word may signify an agreement between two parties, with each accepting mutual obligations, most often it is a declaration of one person’s will. In the Bible, God initiated the whole action, set the conditions, and defined as a decree a declaration of purposes. God covenanted with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Israel. In the NT Jesus ratified by His death on the cross a new covenant, termed in Hebrews 7:22 ‘a better covenant’.”
Hebrews 7:22 . . . by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
Thus, a new choice for humankind—either live by law and die by law with no future in eternity and no prospect ever of life in a new body, or live by Grace and die in Grace looking forward to eternal life of the invisible person, eventually returned to a flawless body.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Our choice.
A new choice.
To be continued . . .
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