Understanding the Whole Bible: The King, The Kingdom and the New Covenant

This is what the New Testament is about. It is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants, as well as the closing out of the Mosaic Covenant.

they chose Moses as a go-between because of their slave-minded fear.

The Lord uses these offensive approaches as a test to see whether we will persevere in the relationship or back off because of offense.

true faith has the fruit of good works.

only two chapters after the establishment of the Law, the wrath of God makes its first appearance. This makes more sense when we read Romans 4:15, which says, “The law brings wrath….” In other words, the wrath of God came with the Law.

We can know we are living in the new covenant when people can look each other in the eye and talk about the deepest, most personal issues in their lives because they have experienced true family. This is how we demonstrate the new covenant.

the law of Christ is love,

the Mosaic covenant did not bless the whole world. It could bless Israel if they kept the covenant and did not bring curses upon themselves. However, that did not happen very often.

you may participate in the divine nature,