We cannot have a relationship with God without a covenant. God is holy and requires a covenant for intimacy with Him. The word “intimacy” may seem strange in context with God however He refers to the church very often as His bride. God desires to make us His Tabernacle and dwell inside us. That is pretty intimate. The covenant of marriage between a man and a woman has been established by God to reflect His relationship with the church. People today enter intimate relationships all the time without a covenant and it is considered by God unholy and wicked. To enter an intimate relationship with God we have to enter covenant with Him. The bible teaches us that God loves order and peace, and a covenant is a way to avoid confusion and to affirm commitment. We do not determine the conditions of the covenant. The conditions have already been laid out by God. All the terms and conditions are spelled out in the volumes of the Holy Bible. There have been two main covenants during the history of the world that govern God’s relationship with man. They are the Abrahamic covenant and the Mosaic covenant.
The condition for not having a covenant or not fulfilling the covenants of God is condemnation to death and separation from God. YESHUA HAMASHIACH came to earth and fulfilled the requirements of the Mosaic covenant since it was impossible for man to do it. YESHUA also made provision for us to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant so that we could enter the promises rewarded by God to all that fulfilled the covenant. The Mosaic covenant was made with the children of Israel at Mount Sinai which included following, to the letter, a long list of rules and ordinances. The bible tells us plainly that the Mosaic covenant was instituted because men were wicked and obstinate after the disobedience of Adam. After Adam was compromised in the Garden man inherited a slant toward rebellion and selfishness that created an incongruity between man and God. This incongruity caused the mind of man to be alienated from the mind of God thus creating a condition where no long-term relationship could be maintained without provocation. The selfish and rebellious nature, now dominant in man, would always surface and pull man away from the ways of God into immorality. The Mosaic Law was a list of ordinances that laid out conditions for a rudimentary relationship with God which entailed the bare minimum of what God’s holiness could endure. Even at this base level man could not keep even the lowest tenants of God’s moral law in order to fulfill the Mosaic covenant. Therefore, in the Mosaic Covenant every man was condemned to death and separation from God.
Fortunately. the Mosaic Covenant did not disannul the Abrahamic Covenant, which was 430 years before the Mosaic Covenant. Under the Abrahamic Covenant, God promised that the children of Abraham would be as plentiful as the stars in heaven and would be justified by God through their faith and trust in Him just as Abraham had faith and trusted in Him. God promised that these blessed descendants would come from the union of Abraham and his wife Sarah. Abraham, being imperfect, gave in to the pleading of Sarah who doubted the promise of God, and compelled Abraham to give her a son from her bondmaid Hagar. From the union of Abraham and Hagar came Ishmael. Later, just as God promised, Sarah gave birth to the son of the covenant, Isaac. Ishmael and Isaac symbolize the two covenants of God. Ishmael, being born of Hagar the bondmaid as a result of doubt, symbolizes the Mosaic covenant. Isaac, being born of Sarah the free woman, from faith in the promise, symbolizes the Abrahamic covenant. The lineage of YESHUA through Joseph can be traced all the way back to Isaac the child of promise, so that man would know that YEHSUA HAMASHIACH is the doorway to the covenant of Abraham which provides for justification through faith.
Though God has provided salvation through the Abrahamic covenant in YESHUA HAMASHIACH Jews reject YESHUA as the Savior promised through scripture. The Jews lack of faith in YESHUA leaves them condemned under Mosaic Law. Those who have faith in YESHUA are considered by God to have fulfilled both covenants. The sacrificed life of YESHUA as a lamb fulfills the conditions of the Mosaic covenant and the faith in YESHUA fulfills the conditions of the Abrahamic covenant.
How does faith in YESHUA enable wicked man to have a lasting relationship with God? Man, finally convinced of his wickedness through being unable to keep the lowest of God’s moral law cries out to God and surrenders his attempts to self-govern his life. He accepts the love offering of the Son of GOD and takes up his own cross every day in surrender of his life, trusting and having faith that regardless of how things may appear, he has been accepted into the family of God and with every day that he lives he trusts that his Father God is saving him through a transformation of his life. Redeemed man believes that YEHSUA, the Lamb of God, gives him access to God the father enabling him to know God intimately. This intimacy with God will allow man through the power of a born again spirit to understand the perfect intent of the law even the mind of God so that man can live righteously and holy. The Mosaic Law was never intended to do this nor could it. Taken from the Commentary Critical and Explanatory of the Whole Bible this quote expresses what I am saying very well, “No literal precepts could fully comprehend the wide range of holiness which LOVE, the work of the Holy Spirit, under the Gospel, suggests to the believer’s heart instinctively from the word understood in its deep spirituality.” This quote speaks of the excellency of the spirit through Christ and the Holy Spirit in the administration of the Abrahamic Covenant in comparison to the administration of the law under Mosaic Covenant.
There are those that believe that the law under the Mosaic covenant, even after being shown to be inferior to life in the spirit, still has a place under the administration of the Abrahamic Covenant. This influence comes from the promotion of Judaism by Jews who had not embraced the fullness of grace provided through Christ the Savior in the days of the early church. It is the same today. We saw this in the obstinate minds of the Scribes and Pharisees as they tried to condemn the spirituality of YESHUA HAMASHIACH by accusing His actions that appeared to them to violate the Mosaic Law. We also saw this conflict between the liberty of the spirit and the bondage of Mosaic Law in the ministry of the apostles after the ascension of YESHUA. YEHSUA taught that ALL the law and the prophets hung on LOVE as in Matthew 22:34-40,
“But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” YESHUA said to him, “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ’On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Paul was trying to reinforce the same truth to the Galatians after he found that they had been persuaded to take up the Mosaic Law by those in his day promoting Judaism in a confusing mix with the gospel of Christ. We see this in Galatians 5:1-6,
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Christ YESHUA neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.”
This is huge. You who are attempting to keep Mosaic Law remember that you are a debtor to do it ALL. If you ascribe any merit to your standing with God due to your being circumcised, abstaining from meats, or observance of a day, then Christ is of no profit to you. Paul says, you frustrate the grace given you by Christ. A little leaven ruins the whole loaf.
Here is a list of chapters out of the bible that deal specifically with the subject I have posted here. Put on your spiritual ears and hear the message of liberty and holiness that the spirit is teaching through these texts.
2 Corinthians 3
The Book of Galatians
Romans chapter 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
1 John chapter 4
Genesis chapter 15, 16, 17, and 18
I am including a link to the site where you can read all of these texts. The link is to Bible Gateway one of my favorite sites on the web.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/
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