....continued from yesterday
The book of Hebrews in the New Testament explains the covenant in great detail. Romans 8:3 tell us that because the first covenant could not do, the new one did. That is to say the flesh was condemned by Christ’s blood payment, so that the righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk in the Spirit and not the flesh. [David wrote,
"I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is in my heart" (Psalm 40:8).
Delighting in God's law is not a normal human response (Romans 8:7). The new covenant promises the power to obey God. How? Through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:1-4, 9), a unique feature of the new covenant.
The fundamental basis of the new covenant is simply the conversion process. "Writing" God's laws in the mind and on the heart poetically describes how God, through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, helps us "internalize" His laws.
But conversion does not put the brain on automatic pilot. Nor is it like a sudden brain transplant. It is a daily process (2 Corinthians 4:16) of renewing the mind (Romans 12:2). Christ is being "formed in you" (Galatians 4:19) as "God works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose" (Philippians 2:13, NIV). ]*
These exciting provisions in the New Covenant, forgiveness of sins, eternal inheritance, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God, provision for healings and deliverance from sin’s bondage of demonic activity, all these are fulfilled in Christ and are ours as part of this covenant that is forever, New. He came that we might have life and that more abundantly. (John10:10b
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