DID GOD FAIL?


DID GOD FAIL?



            A friend on Facebook recently commented that it is confusing calling the Old Covenant Old. The idea was that it looks like God tried a covenant and it didn’t work so He tried another covenant.



            Friends, the New Covenant has always been God’s plan. Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world and it was the New Covenant that God established with Abraham under the Melchizedek Priesthood.



            Paul tells us the Law that came 430 years later in no way interferes with the covenant previously ratified with Abraham. Gal. 3:17



            The Old Covenant was never intended to save us. Its job was to identify sin and to condemn us to death, so that in bringing us a New Covenant Jesus could die in our place and then fill us with His Holy Spirit. The Law is there to condemn us, not to save us.



            God brought us the first covenant in order to lay the groundwork for the real covenant which is the covenant that Jesus brought to us by the shedding of His own blood and by putting His Holy Spirit into our hearts. This is the real covenant that has been God’s plan from the foundation of the world. HE did not fail… rather it is we who fail, because we don’t rightly divide the word of God, nor do we rightly understand the function of the Law to bring us to death so that we can live by His Spirit. (Think Gal. 2:20, 21)



            The Law brings us to death so that we can be born again through the power of the resurrection to live by the Holy Spirit of Christ. This is and always has been the plan.



            God did not fail. In fact we are told in Scripture than He triumphed mightily and brought us a magnificent salvation so that we can dwell with Him forever.

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