Transcription
We're back to a, uh, one-sided, unconditional, unilateral covenant. Christ said, "The covenant, the, the blood of, you know, in my blood is the new covenant." So, there is no way, unlike the Sinai covenant, which can and was broken by the, the disobedience and rebellion of the Israelites, the new covenant cannot be broken. It's unbreakable.
And so, the only sort of choice, I wouldn't even call it a choice, but the only option, so to speak, that you have, if you want to be in the covenant, is faith in Christ. That's it. It's all it takes to get in. You can opt out of the covenant by rejecting Christ, but you can't break the covenant.
And the covenant is this relationship between God and His people. And according to the New Testament, it includes one new man. Both Jews and Gentiles are part of this covenant, which is relational. And so, the covenant is the relationship.
But if we separate that, the gospel is the good news. The gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ came and paid for our sins, so that we could be made right with God through faith in Him. So, while the new covenant and the gospel sort of happened at the same time or are part of the same, uh, movement in God's grand story of redemption, they aren't technically identical things, right?
But, here's the thing, you have to believe the gospel to be a member in the new covenant.