A covenant is a legally binding agreement or contract that once entered into by the concerned parties is unalterable, it cannot be changed in any way. The old covenant GOD made with the nation of Israel was the Ten Commandments. These Ten Commandments were the statutes or law for the Israelites. This contract or covenant demanded the death of anyone who violated or broke the Ten Commandments. The only way out of this contract / covenant was to be purchased or bought out by someone who would pay the price demanded by the Ten Commandments requirement of death. This person would have to be completely without sin and be willing to give their sinless life in exchange for the lives of sinners or the people that broke the Ten Commandments contract / covenant.
An example of this would be a person who would co-sign a loan that you make so that if you failed to pay the loan then the co-signer would have to pay.
GOD made the Ten Commandments covenant with Israel but all Israel violated the covenant and sinned. Indeed the whole world has sinned and has broken the Ten Commandments. The fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a contract or covenant that we can’t keep. Israel made a covenant of death when they entered the Ten Commandments covenant. How can Israel and the rest of humanity escape the righteous condemnation to death because of breaking the Ten Commandments ? As mentioned, if someone who was pure and sinless would be willing to give their life as a substitute sacrifice and pay your penalty for you then this would be purchasing you out of the covenant of the Ten Commandments, you would be bought with a price, the payment being the death of Jesus Christ.
Jesus announced another covenant , the new covenant, made possible by his blood being shed instead of ours. GOD through Jesus causes the converted saints to Passover from the Ten Commandments into the Two Commandments . The condemnation to death is removed and no new condemnation remains. Only the people who understand these things and have entered into the new contract / covenant experience the benefits of the new covenant. The saints are the only people on earth that are not condemned to death by the Ten Commandments covenant. The saints are not under the old covenant Ten Commandments but under the new covenant Two Commandments.
It is very sad that so many people believe that they must keep the Ten Commandments and the actual truth is that the unconverted are still required to keep the Ten Commandments because they have not been purchased out of the Ten Commandments. If you are not in Christ then you are still under the Ten Commandments and condemned to death. The many false Christians who think they are in Christ know nothing about what I have written here therefore they are not in Christ if they don’t even know these things.
The Ten Commandments are not evil, they are holy, just and good. The problem is humanity that is evil, the Ten Commandments only point this fact out and are to show the need for a messiah.
Once you enter the new covenant and are in agreement with GOD and Christ in its terms and conditions then you are bound by them and totally released from the Ten Commandments covenant. You are no longer under the Ten Commandments, you are now in grace and faith with access to repentance and forgiveness, mercy and justification, the blessings of GOD and Christ that the Ten Commandments never gave. You no longer try to overcome sin by observing the Ten Commandments but by GODS love that will fulfill the Ten Commandments whereas the Ten Commandments only killed you. When purchased or bought out of the old covenant Ten Commandments you are never to return to them. In the analogy of the loan I gave once the co-signer pays off the loan you don’t continue making payments. Your debt to the Ten Commandments has been paid you are now free from that debt but if you go back to the Ten Commandments you deny all that Christ did for you. It is like the dog eating its own vomit or the sow that wash washed to her wallowing in the mire.
The message to you in this article is that if you are unconverted you must keep the Ten Commandments in the hope GOD will lead you to repentance and conversion but if you are a babe in Christ and still try to keep the Ten Commandments then you must stop this and learn the lessons of the schoolmaster. Ask GOD in sincere humility to teach you about the difference between the Ten Commandments and the Two Commandments. If it is GODS will for you at this time then HE will but if not HE won’t. You may have to wait until the millennium or second resurrection.
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