COVENANT

COVENANT

The ultimate sacrifice. God sacrificed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. A single sacrifice made for all mankind, now being the only sacrifice acceptable to God.

a. ONCE AND FOR ALL

Until now, sacrifices had to be made on an ongoing, retrospective basis on the Altar of firstly, the Tabernacle, then the Temple.

But Jesus changed the system by becoming the sacrifice for all mankind's future sins.

b. THE SOLE SACRIFICE OF THE NEW COVENANT IS JESUS CHRIST

The Son of God.

The blood of Jesus, the Christ, alone, is the only sacrifice acceptable to God as an atonement (forgiveness) for sins.

Confirmed in Scripture.

The Holy Spirit of God was promised by the Father through Jesus before His death.

The Holy Spirit began to poured out in Acts 2 and continues right now and will continue until Jesus returns. We are told to be filled with the Spirit.

This is signified through water baptism as we are crucified and buried with Christ.

1. SECURITY: The stone at the mouth of the lions den was sealed with the king's signet ring so that Daniel’s situation might not be changed.

Likewise the stone on Jesus tomb!

2. OWNERSHIP:
The blood REDEEMS us to God.
The water SEPARATES us to God.
The Spirit POSSESSES us for God.

God claimed His Son when the Holy Spirit came upon Him.

3. AUTHORITY: Under the Old Covenant both Joseph and Mordecai had authority through using the king's seal, a type of what is now available for us.

4. LIKENESS: His own image is imparted to the one who is sealed, on the proviso that there is a complete yielding to the Spirit. A seal is malleable. So must we be! The seal makes an identical impression to the sender!

5. OBLIGATION: All parties to a covenant are responsible for fulfilling their contractual obligations. The Christians obligation is to receive the Holy Spirit AND to walk in Him, AND NOT to grieve Him!

All too often, we overlook our obligations!

The New Covenant will not be broken. It is the final covenant offered to mankind. We must choose to accept or reject it.

We will take a look at what the sacrifice, the blood of Jesus , has done for us.

We are so blessed to live under the New Covenant.

However, we need to understand and live out its obligations as well as its blessings!

In what languages were the Dead Sea scrolls written ?

The majority of the scrolls were written in the Hebrew Language (approximately 90-95%) with Assyrian Block script. From this majority there are a few cases in which the scribes used Paleo-Hebrew. In addition to the texts found in Hebrew there were also some texts written in Aramaic and Greek.