12.Name some of the points of the new covenant.

God will put His laws into our minds.

God will write His laws on our hearts.

God will be our God and we will be His people.

Every one of us will know the Lord.

God will be merciful to us and remember our sins no longer.

When we compare the modern understanding of the Christian salvation with the five aspects listed above we wonder if the preachers and teachers have read the Scriptures.

In our day, the concept of the Christian salvation is that Christ came to forgive our sins so when we die we will go to Heaven.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" has been changed into: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not go to Hell when he dies but should go to Heaven to live forever in a golden mansion."

Our evangelistic efforts are directed toward encouraging people to accept the forgiveness of their sins so they may escape Hell and make Heaven their eternal home. Added to this misunderstanding is the idea that the Gospel is directed primarily toward Gentiles. We see, therefore, how far from the Scriptures we have strayed.

The purpose of the new covenant, which is directed toward the house of Israel and the house of Judah, is not to move people from earth to Heaven or to provide for their death.

God’s goal is to have sons who are in His image, who are filled with His Presence, who bear the fruit of His image wherever they are, and who govern all of the works of His hands. In addition, God intends to have nations of saved people governed by His sons. Israel, God’s chosen, His Church, His Bride, is made up of God’s firstborn sons. By Israel we are referring to all who are part of Christ.

The first covenant did not produce the righteousness that God always seeks in His family. The new covenant has been made so that Israel will be the personification of God’s eternal moral law.

We notice that every covenant God makes with man has as its purpose to create people who do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. But in every instance Satan converts the covenant so there is some other goal, such as in the case of the Jews straining over whether they should throw a light switch, or the Catholics repeating the Lord’s prayer as a penance, or the Protestants abandoning all attempts at righteousness and trusting in their version of "grace" to bring them to Heaven.

Why is Satan so determined that God’s elect do not behave righteously? It is because Satan regards the world as his possession and he wants the people to think, speak, and act as he does. It is as simple as that.

In our day there is a new movement of God. It is called, "the word of righteousness." It is God commanding His elect to cease their doctrinal excuses, to repent, and to begin to keep Christ’s commandments.

The only people who truly love Christ are those who keep His commandments. The only people who will stand in His sight are those who keep His commandments.

The fact that under the new covenant God is merciful to us and remembers our sins no more does not mean that forgiveness is the primary aspect of the new covenant. Rather, forgiveness is a means God uses to make possible the operation of the covenant, which is to write the eternal moral law in the heart and mind of each of His elect.

In no case is the new covenant made with a Gentile except as the Gentile becomes part of Israel through marriage to Christ. In no case is the purpose of the new covenant to make possible our eternal residence in Heaven. In no case is the purpose of the new covenant to prevent our residence in Hell, except as the covenant changes our behavior from that which is sinful to that which is righteous and holy.

Unrighteous people are of Hell and belong in Hell. Righteous people are of God and belong with God. It is not the purpose of the new covenant to alter this eternal truth.

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