Bible Question:
Hi can someone tell me the difrence between the old and new testament and why we have to live according to the new testament |
Bible Answer: Hennie That is a very big question. The Old Testament is a lot of things. It is the whole history of the begnning of mankind with God. It is the history of the begnning of the fall of man. It is the history of the first Gentiles, the first Israelites, the first Hebrews, and the first Jews, which last three are not quite all the same thing, although each flows from the other. It is the history of the Gentiles, the first Israelite Patriarchs, the Iraelites as captives and freed, as wandering and finding the promised land, as under Judges then under kings, as both faithful to God and as rebellious. It is the history of the genealogy of Jesus. It is the history of the Law and the Prophets. It is the history of the major prophets and the minor prophets. It is the history of God revealing Himself in creation and by miraculous revelation so that everyone would choose to worship Him and be saved by faith. It is the history of the Jews and their relationship with God. The New Testament is the history of Jesus Christ and the Genitile and Jewish world receiving the offer of salvation. It is the history of the birth and life of the first century church. It is the revelaion of Jesus Christ as God. It is the revelation of the meaning of history from the time of Jesus to the the end times of the earth. It is the fulfillment of OT prophecy of the coming and work of Jesus Christ. It is the history of the change from the old covenants in the OT to the one new covenant in the NT of salvation by Jesus blood. It is the final revelation as sctipture from God to bring people everywhere to salvation in Jesus Christ. We live according to the NT because it contains the message of salvation and a model of how to live in that new salvation and we live according to the specifications in the the new covenant not according to the specifications of the old covenants. The old covenants required the ability to uphold every part of the law, which man could not do. If you are guilty of one law, you are quilty of all law, therefore you cannot be saved by the law. You are saved apart from the law by faith alone, by grace alone, and not by any works. Read Romans 3 through 8 to understand this part about how we are saved. Read Hebrews 11 to understand that no one ever got saved in the OT or the NT without faith, it was always by faith, that did not happen only in the NT. But as Hebrews 11 says, we have obtained what promises those in the OT did not receive. They were promised better things than what they received, yet we have received what they were promised - they received approval by faith, but we have been given better promises. They did not have Jesus as their advocate in heaven interceding for them for every sin as a high priest. They did not have Jesus as their king and enter directly into His kingdom at the moment of belief. They did not have Jesus as their prophet and receive the promises He prohesied that we receive. They are still saved, but we have been saved under a better more effective covenant and that is why we live by the NT and not the OT. Why go backwards to attain that which has not the power to save and to justify and to sanctify and glorify as what Jesus has given us? There is no longer any need to live as if we were under old covenants which do not have the power to save, or to justify, or to sanctify, or to glorify. We are free indeed, free in Christ, we have the liberty of Christ and no longer have the condemnation of the law, we are no longer waiting for the prophecies of salvation to come true, they are here. Live according to Christ Jesus, purpose to know nothing eccept Christ and Him crucified. You need nothing else, the old has passed away, the new is here, drink it, eat it, here is His body and blood. Take the new covenant and leave off the old. blessings abound, bowler |
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