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I received an inquiry via email and this
was my reply. I hope that it may be helpful to the reader...D
The blood of
Jesus SAVES, and the blood of Jesus is of course what Saves you and Saves me and
Saves all that Believe unto Salvation - Jew and Gentile
alike.
The Jew had relationship with God before
Jesus shed His blood through the High Priests, but we know that the animal
sacrifice was only temporary - there was a better WAY and a NEW WAY coming. And
that NEW WAY was established through the shed blood of Jesus - that is in the
DEATH of JESUS.
The problem that comes from Paul Sadler and
others is that the NEW COVENANT is with Israel - but the shedding of BLOOD by the Lord Jesus Christ bringing
forgiveness of sin for whosoever will.
I find that Israel's New Covenant is under
God's Everlasting Covenant between God the Father and God the Son. And most in
Christendom go right to God's New Covenant with Israel to find us therein
receiving the spiritual blessing from the New Covenant. For the sake of arguing
- I don’t push my understanding because the New Covenant is linked to the
Everlasting Covenant. It's just that most do not see what I understand and it
isn't something that matters in the outcome, because it is the shed blood of Jesus that Saves us, Jew and Gentile
alike.
Israel's New Covenant has stipulations that
are not required of us in the dispensation of God's Pure Grace. I want to rely upon JESUS ALONE and the SHED BLOOD of JESUS
and not upon Israel's New Covenant.
1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same
manner also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new
testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it,
in remembrance of
me.
When Jesus spoke of the CUP that He must
drink, He spoke of His DEATH. A Testament can't go into effect until the
Testator has died. This is the CUP Jesus spoke of, and this is the CUP that we
are to REMEMBER - that Jesus DIED and SHED HIS BLOOD in order
that we might have NEWNESS of LIFE. The CUP is one’s lot or experience, whether joyous or adverse. The CUP
is a divine appointment, whether favorable or unfavorable. It is a CUP
which God presents one to drink, whether it be of prosperity or adversity.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE
MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT.
WE COME TO JESUS
CHRIST - NOT TO THE NEW COVENANT.
JESUS DIED FOR OUR
SINS - this was HIS CUP and God the Father brought HIM again from among the
DEAD.
Hebrews 13:20, 21 Now
the God of peace, that
brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is
well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus
Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
I find that all of God's
Covenants are Everlasting. But I find that this Everlasting Covenant between God
the Father and God the Son is THE
COVENANT of which all other COVENANTS are under for
lack of a better word.
If Paul Sadler or anyone else
desires to say that we are under the umbrella of Israel's New Covenant they may
do so, but I prefer to trust solely in JESUS and
the SHED BLOOD of Jesus Christ which was agreed would be
shed for the ransom of many by Jesus Christ and His Father before the
foundations of the world.
Do you want to be under Israel's New
Covenant with it's forgiveness program?
"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither
will your Father forgive your trespasses" (Matt. 6:12,14,15).
"And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to
the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall
my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every
one his brother their trespasses" (Matt. 18:34,35).
"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye
have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your
Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses" (Mark 11:25,26).
"Forgive and ye shall be forgiven"
(Luke 6:37c).
"If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke
him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven
times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, `I repent;'
thou shalt forgive him" (Luke 17:3,4).
Since I'm a Gentile, I'll find my
instruction and doctrine in the Epistles of Paul the man especially hand picked
by the Lord to be the apostle to the Gentiles.
"Forgiving one another, even as God for
Christ's sake hath forgiven you" (Eph. 4:32).
"Forgiving one another...even as Christ
forgave you, so also do ye" (Col. 3:13).
As Scofield has so aptly stated, "Under law
forgiveness is conditioned upon a like spirit in us; under grace we are forgiven
for Christ's sake, and exhorted to forgive because we have been
forgiven."
As Gentile Believers we come to Jesus who is the Mediator of the New Covenant,
we
do not come to Israel's New Covenant.
Israel's New Covenant is yet
future.
Here is a quote that sums this thought up
quite nicely.
"We are come 'to Jesus, the
Mediator of the new covenant' (Heb. 12:24). We are not come to the New Covenant,
but to Jesus the Mediator of it. We are associated with Him who is the Mediator;
that is a far higher thing than if merely come to the Covenant. He will make
this New Covenant with Israel on earth." - H.H. Snell
I hope this will help you to see that what
Paul Sadler and others purport is not exactly correct. The real TRUTH is that
we are all talking about the shed blood of Jesus
Christ to Save - it's just a matter of semantics that do not
matter in the bigger picture.
Be at Peace Brothers and Sisters.
In Christ Jesus,
De
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