HYBRID COVENANT - NYOBS 30.11

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 30.02 - CIRCUMCISION

THE HYBRID COVENANT – RABBIT TRAIL

• A little OLD and a little NEW. – You cannot put new wine in old wineskins –It will explode.
• The Old Covenant was about MEN and the “DO NOT’S” – The New Covenant is about HIM and Love.
• The Old Covenant in Jewish law was not just The BIG TEN Commandments, but over 600 rules and regulations that every Jewish person was commanded to obey. – Breaking just ONE of them made you fail at ALL of them.
• Do you keep the Sabbath from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday? – I SEE - Do you cook or go shopping on the Sabbath or walk around the Zoo with the kids? – I SEE - Pick up pine cones in your yard or take out the trash on the Sabbath - I SEE – So you just observe NINE of the BIG TEN Commandments.
• Do have any graven images such as small statues or pictures of Saints of old in your home on the dash of your car. – I SEE – Now we are down to just EIGHT of the BIG TEN.
• Do you offer any blood sacrifices for sin? – I SEE – Do you tithe TEN percent? – I SEE – Circumcised? – I SEE – Do you eat catfish, shell fish, shrimp, lobster, crabs or oysters - I SEE - how about BBQ Pork – I SEE –
• Pick and Choose what you WANT from the Faith Buffet and leave the rest.
• Hybrid Covenant – We tend to MIX some of the Old Covenant with some of the New Covenant. – We alter the rules to fit our lifestyle. – The Apostle Paul called this FOOLISHNESS. – We begin to push the envelope when we say we must take up our cross daily and crucify our self or cut off our offending hand or pluck out our offending eye. – These statements are just concepts of Christ “Raising the Bar” on our standards; showing us that we cannot possibly achieve these standards without a SAVIOR.
• The Old Covenant set the standard for man to obtain righteousness and it is STILL THE STANDARD, BUT what it really did was show you and me that we cannot attain this righteous in our own strength, but need a Savior. – The only way to fulfill this law is to accept the one who could and did fulfill it. – If you are led by the Spirit, you are no longer under the written law, but under GRACE.
• Paul says to keep it simple and don’t be led astray with MIXED doctrine.
• The OT commandments did not bring salvation, but showed us THE WAY to obtain it through the acceptance of the work of Jesus Christ.
• Part of the Mosaic Law was the ceremonial law of offering sacrifices for sin, Jesus was the FINAL sacrifice; once and for all, FULFILLING the law.
• We become justified or saved through Faith - not by observing the Law - we have died to the written code and have been made alive to serve in a NEW way.
• The new covenant is like NEW WINE… You cannot put it into OLD WINESKINS.

Gal 5:3-4 – Follow one point of the Law – Must follow all points.

3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. NIV

Gal 3:1-5 – You are foolish to mix the two covenants.

1 You FOOLISH Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?

3 Are you so FOOLISH? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?

4 Have you suffered so much for nothing-if it really was for nothing? 5 Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard? NIV

2 Cor 11:3- It’s simple – Don’t be led away and be deceived.

3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. NIV

Gal 3:23-25 – We are no longer under the supervision of the Law

23 Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.

25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. NIV

Gal 5:18 – Led by the Spirit – Not under the law

18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. NIV

Rom 6:14 - you are not under law, but under GRACE

14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under GRACE. NIV

Matt 9:17 – You cannot put new wind into old wineskins.

17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."

NIV

James 2:10 – Break one Law; GUILTY of ALL of it

10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is GUILTY of breaking ALL of it. NIV

Gal 3:10 – You are CURSED if you do not do everything

10 All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." NIV

Rom 3:28-29 – Man is saved by FAITH, not observing the law

28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.

29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, NIV

Rom 7:6 – We have died to the old way of the written code

6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. NIV

In the multitude of counselors,

 there is wisdom.

Prov 11:14

I am grateful for those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical information, and scripture verses.  Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further than I otherwise ever could have.

Annotated Reference Bible – Dake

Apocrypha; The – Edgar J. Goodspeed

Bible Almanac; The – Packer Tenny White

Bible Dictionary – Harper & Row

God without Religion - Andrew Farley

Illustrated Bible Dictionary – Nelson’s

Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale

Naked Gospel; The – Andrew Farley

New International Dictionary of the Bible; The – Douglas - Tenney

Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible; The – Zondervan

Thru The Bible Commentary – J. Vernon McGee

Victor Journey through the Bible; The – V. Gilbert Beers