1a) The Old Covenant was a covenant between God and a specific race of people.
1b) The New Covenant is a covenant between God and His Only Son Jesus Christ and people of all races and walks of life are invited to partake of it.
2a) The Old Covenant was a covenant of death intended to prove to men they could not be holy through any effort on their part.
2b) The New Covenant is a covenant of life that makes men holy through the work of Christ.
3a) The Old Covenant was a temporary covenant between an infallible, infinite God and fallible, finite men.
3b) The New Covenant is everlasting because it is between the infallible, infinite God and His infallible, infinite Son.
4a) The Old Covenant could only work from the outside in and therefore depended on men's ability to do something in order to be holy.
4b) The New Covenant makes someone a New creature on the inside making them holy by faith in what Jesus did.
5a) The Old Covenant demanded that men fix themselves, which is impossible.
5b) The New Covenant works from the inside out and makes men what they could never be by any self effort. New Creations.
6a) The Old Covenant concentrated on what a man can do.
6b) The New Covenant focuses on who a man has come to know.
Why would anyone want to live under the Old Covenant when the New Covenant is far superior?
About The Author
- Tim Atchley
- Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
- I currently serve as Senior Pastor of Harvest Church in Knoxville, Tn. I was sent out from Trinity Chapel of Knoxville in 1993 accompanied by my wife Sheila our four children Sarah, Hannah, Josiah & Isaac and a handful of bold, brave and committed believers determined to plant our first church. Pioneering is hard work but well worth the journey. That is why we desire to make disciples of Christ who will, like us, also embrace the call to plant churches.
