Changes from the New Covenant

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah (Jeremiah 31:31).

Although Jesus said that he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it, His birth, life, death, and resurrection certainly changed some things. A big one is that believers no longer need to offer blood sacrifices for their sins. Jesus' blood became the ultimate sacrifice that covers all who ask. And the sins of the fathers no longer fall to their children as happened in Moses' day (Exodus 34:7).


Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19).

Now, God's people include not only the Jews but all others who accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. This encompasses all nations. One of the reasons Christ died for us is to make it possible for us to again have a close, personal relationship with our heavenly Father. We can be restored.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (Romas 7:6).

Our main assignment as Christians is to love God and love others. By doing this in the way Christ commanded, we have all the Ten Commandments and laws of God covered. Christ has freed mankind from the shackles that previously bound him because he could not keep the full law. But we are to use this freedom for God's glory and to fulfill His purposes.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy souls, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets (Matthew 22:37-40).

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