New Covenant

2 Corinthians 3:6 NLT
He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

Our Bibles tell the story of the beginning of both the Old and New Covenants. We tend to view them as the Old and New Testaments, but as it has been revealed to me, the Old Covenant was still in force until after the Cross.

The New Covenant is not a codicil to the Old; not something added to the Old. Jesus fulfilled the Law, the old written covenant. You see the laws showed the children of God what sin was. And all the promises in the Old had conditions attached that related to those laws. It was kind of like "Be good and I will bless you with this promise."

But Jesus died on the cross as us, each and every person on the earth from the beginning of time through the end of time. He took all sin upon Himself. He fulfilled all the law, all the conditions of the promises in the Old. And all those promises are for us to walk in.

The age of law ended and thus the Old Covenant ended. The age of grace began for all mankind. The New Covenant began. No longer are we bound by law to enter into the Kingdom of God.

Like salvation, grace is a gift. The only requirement to come under the Grace of God is to believe in Jesus; to accept Him as our Lord and Savior. This wonderful good news is available for all of mankind no matter what they have been like during their human life here on earth.

Jesus gave us the command to Love one another and the commission to go into the world and preach this simple message of salvation, this good news, to all. I believe it is time to stop talking about it and go and do; time to walk the walk.