 Right, welcome back. So let's move into chapter 6. All this while we've been talking about the Old Covenant and how God has placed these covenants using different people. Now let's look at chapter 6, the New Covenant. And we all know the New Covenant. The Lord Jesus Himself completed the Old Covenant and He established the New Covenant. Now what do we mean by completed? The Lord Jesus Himself said that I have not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it in all its ways. Right, so if we look at the Old Testament and you'll also be learning this in Christology, talks about there are many many places where the pre-incarnate Christ is mentioned and portrayed. Let me give you just one example. You'll learn in Christology as well. Remember the people, I'll give you two examples. One is when God told Abraham, take your son Isaac, go up the mountain, sacrifice him. And the Lord said before, as Abraham was going to kill Isaac, he said look there's a ram there stuck in its tickets, take it, kill it, offer it unto the Lord. And we know that that that signifies Jesus as well. And also when God told Moses, you know the people of Israel were disobedient, they were crumbling and sinning against God in the desert and God sent snakes and serpents among them. And they started biting people and many people died. And here's what God told Moses, you take a brass pole, place that brass pole, take a serpent and put it around it. And when anybody gets bit, when you look at that serpent, you will live. Again, it typified what Jesus would do in the New Covenant, brass in the Old Testament refers to judgment and the snake refers to sin and sickness. So when you look at that, you will live and not die. And there are plenty where Moses strikes the rock, the stone and the rock was the Messiah himself. And so many, many places in the Old Covenant we see that Jesus was typified. And when Jesus came into this world, he fulfilled all of that, which was there to the Old Covenant. So it's not like Jesus said, okay, listen, I've come to make a new covenant. So forget about all the things that happened in the Old. No, he fulfilled that. And he created a new covenant. He made a new covenant with his blood. The Old Covenant was a blood of animals and goats and sacrifices. But here he made a covenant with his own blood. The New Covenant was instituted, was ratified and sealed by God himself. Let's read Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 9. Hebrews 10 and verse 9. Hebrews chapter 10 versus 9. Then he said, behold, I have come to do your will, O God, he takes away the first that he may establish the second. Hey man, thank you. So behold, I have come to do your will, O God, he takes away the first so that he may establish the second. God gave himself as a covenant sacrifice to establish this new covenant. Now picture this, just think about this, picture it in your mind. For years and years and years, the people of Israel would take these, you know, the lamb or the unblemished goat and go through all these different sacrifices. So what they would do is they would offer up those sacrifices. The blood is taken, a little bit of blood, and the blood is taken by the high priest, and the high priest makes atonement. So he takes that blood and he says, okay, God, instead of me dying, I am offering this unblemished lamb, this unblemished offering, it is gone, it's substituted instead of me. Because we must understand, God is a holy God and he cannot deal with sin. So there has to be some kind of atonement. And so this blood was given to the high priest, the high priest would go and sprinkle the blood, it was atonement. So instead of me dying, this innocent lamb or the offering, this innocent animal is dying on my behalf and the blood is making atonement. So the high priest would take the blood and go in and sprinkle it. Now Jesus in the new covenant shed his own blood. He was the unblemished lamb, a lamb with no sin, shed his own blood. And what he did, he got, he first he fulfilled the old covenant, now he's done away with the old covenant and he's brought in a new covenant. I remember the Lord Jesus in Matthew 26 in the Last Supper, he says, this is my blood, the blood of the new covenant. I'm sure the disciples are wondering how can it be your blood? Maybe the disciples didn't understand it. Right. Let's read Matthew 26 and 26, yes. And verse 28, Matthew 26. Matthew chapter 26, verses 28. For this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Amen. Here's the thing, thank you Sid, which is this is my blood, the blood of a new covenant which is said for many for the remission of sins. Now as a Jew, if we are listening to this, we said, okay, this is the blood which I have to, you know, I know that I have to go sacrifice an animal, go and make atonement, give the blood to the high priest and the high priest will make atonement for my sin. But the Lord Jesus is saying here, this is my blood of a new covenant which is a new promise and what does it do? It doesn't cover sins but there's remission, forgiveness, cleansing of sins. Jesus Christ here is Luke 22, 19 and 20. I'll read that again talking about the Last Supper. He took the bread, He gave tanks, He broke it and gave it to them saying this is my body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of me. Verse 20, likewise He took the cup after supper saying this is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you. The Jews knew about the covenant that God made with Abraham, the blood covenant. The Jews knew about the blood covenant made with Moses. I'm sure when the Lord Jesus said this is my blood, the blood of the new covenant, the moment they heard the word blood, the first thing their mind would have gone to was Abraham and Moses. But now Jesus is saying there's a new covenant, there's a new blood. It's not the blood of goats and bulls and rams but the blood of the sinless Lamb. Jesus Christ is typified in the Old Testament. He's the mediator in the new covenant. Remember the Old Testament, the Old Covenant? You take the blood, you give it to the high priest. The high priest is the mediator. Now as a person, as a Jew in the Old Covenant, I cannot just say okay I've cut the lamb, I've made the offering. I can't just take the blood and say okay let me go inside. No, we cannot do that because God set certain standards. He said only the high priest can go there. You know some historians say that there were times when people would even linger near the you know the most holy place. If you see in the tabernacle, if you see in the structure the tabernacle is fully covered, the outer court has that place of offering where they sprinkle the blood. Then you have the centerpiece where you wash the high priest, wash their hands. There are times when people would linger near the most holy place and they have died. Remember God tells Moses, when Moses was up that mountain, he tells Moses tell the Israelites to stay where they are. Don't even come to the foot of the mountain because if you do come to the foot of the mountain you will die because they were unholy. They were living a life of sin. So God told Moses tell them not to come even to the foot of that mountain as I'm speaking. So Moses did that. He told the Jews don't come to the foot of the mountain even as I'm there up the mountain. Just be here but they went about doing other things. But what we're trying to bring at is Jesus himself inaugurated, ratified, fulfilled and permanently established a new covenant. I love that verse where the Lord Jesus says, behold I make all things new. Can you picture that? For years, for thousands of years they've been doing these offerings, sin offering, guilt offering, peace offering, all kinds of offerings. And now Jesus is saying, behold I will do, I will make all things new. Everything will change. There's no need of a temple. Remember in John chapter 4 when Jesus meets the Samaritan woman a time is coming and has now come when you don't need no people will not worship on those mountain nor will they worship in Jerusalem. They will worship in spirit and in truth a new covenant. The Samaritan woman was wondering how is that possible? But after the cross it was possible. Jesus inaugurated this new covenant. He ratified it. He fulfilled it and he permanently established it. When the Lord Jesus was on that cross he said it is finished. That moment he died it was a new covenant established. The work was done. It is accomplished. He had fulfilled. He had inaugurated it. He has ratified it and he has permanently established the new covenant. Nobody can do away with the new covenant. Even now when you look at Jews in Jerusalem they don't have the offerings that were there in the Old Testament even though they are strong Jews. They don't do those offerings anymore. They have done away with it. But here in the new covenant that you cannot do away with what the Lord Jesus did because it is established and this covenant is a long-lasting covenant. It will be a covenant forever and ever. What does Jesus say? He says just two things here. He says my body Jesus Himself is the covenant sacrifice. So picture this. The Jews would go find the best lamp. It says okay Passover is coming or you know I have to do this offering. They'd find the best out of all they have. They would take it to the temple. They will sacrifice it. And you know when we read the Levitical in the book of Leviticus when we read the instructions the Lord God gives so many instructions to the Jews. He says if there are blemished lamps if you give lamps or sacrifices that are you know you know that are blemished and not the best there will be sickness and curses coming upon you. So he's very particular about how you do the offerings. Here Jesus Himself is a covenant sacrifice. Jesus Himself shed his body. He Himself it was like if you look at it it's like Jesus Himself crawling up the sacrifice or going and sitting on the sacrifice and saying kill me and this blood this body this blood that is going to be shed will do away with the old and a new covenant will be established. You know there's a history. History says that during the Jewish meal what they would do is this is history right. Now there is no proof of it being true but this is what history says a lot of historians have spoken about it and this is a culture that the Jews used to follow earlier on. What they would do is whenever they have a meal a supper they would all sit together and they would have these loaves of unleavened bread right again unleavened to signify that we it's not leaving it's not with sin right so they would have these loaves of bread and usually what they would do is the topmost one they would burn it completely right completely make it black they would burn it up and the Jews would say take this bread that black one and say okay this is you know the coming one who will be sacrificed for us the Messiah and they would take that and keep it aside and they would begin to you know start their meal. History says that the Lord Jesus on the last supper took the bread said that he may have taken the burnt bread himself and said this is my body signifying that that burnt bread is me that I will be you know put on the cross I will die and I'm that Messiah now again I want to be careful this is history right there's no proof this there's no words there's no documents to you know completely you know give weightage to what has been said these are said by historians but the point is the Lord Jesus gave up his body to the Lord Jesus gave his blood blood is life for life we looked at the blood covenant you give all that you have and you should be willing to also take all that the other person is giving Jesus Christ sealed a new covenant with his own blood when God made a covenant with Abraham he said Abraham cut the animals I will walk past and I will sprinkle the blood when God made the covenant with Moses he said okay walk past Moses took the blood he's of the animals and he sprinkled it on the sacrifice and on the people now here Jesus the son of God with his own body shed his blood to establish the new covenant there was a reason why the soldier took the spear and you know pierced his side and blood and water came out it was to prove that the blood was completely drained out just like how it was in the Levitical offering remember what in the book of Leviticus God tells Moses make sure the blood is all drained out but when you make the sacrifice all the blood should be drained out everything should be you know should be taken out and the lamb should not have a broken leg or a broken hand a broken feet no unblemished blood should all be removed off completely and then put on the sacrifice you see how it makes sense now the Lord Jesus on the cross his blood was drained out he shed all his blood completely like a lamb there's no blood left in him the blood was shed and there's no greater blood covenant than the covenant the new covenant that the Lord Jesus did there's no greater covenant there God just had to sprinkle it on the offerings and then Moses sprinkled it on the people that blood didn't do much but this blood the blood of the new covenant is greater much much much greater than that of the old covenant so what happened after the sacrifice now we're talking about okay Jesus shed his body and the blood he became our substitute so what is it for me now Jesus is our mediator and our high priest right so now we don't have to go in the old covenant they had to go to the high priest give the blood to the high priest the high priest goes into the holy of holies book of Hebrews make paints a wonderful picture of what the Lord Jesus has done as our high priest Jesus is our mediator Jesus is our high priest and Jesus is right now representing us in front of the father at the old covenant the high priest represented the people of Israel and the new covenant Jesus is representing us let's read Hebrews chapter 9 15 to 18 Hebrews 9 verses 15 to 18 Hebrews chapter 9 verses 15 to 18 and for this reason he is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of the trans of the translation under his first under the first covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of the internal inheritance for where there is a testament there must also of the necessity be the death of the tester for a testament it's in the force after men are died after men are dead since it has no power at all while the tester lives therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood hey man thank you said so here in Hebrews the writer is trying to reason with the with the with his audience and he's trying to tell them there is a promise in the old covenant but there's an eternal promise in the new covenant what is the Lord Jesus doing for us as a mediator now the Lord Jesus is our high priest so he's there in heaven let me let let me paint a picture for you right if we sin we become unholy God is a holy God right and God has to deal with sin right so we are sinners if we keep sinning God is a holy God God has to deal with sin and how does he deal with sin he brings judgment upon us but here's what I'm just painting a picture for you picture this for example there's somebody a believer and he's going on sinning and continually right and the Lord and God is ready to bring you know probably a judgment and correction upon him because God is holy right and this is unholy and it's not it's not working together as God is going to bring judgment upon him it's like Jesus is the mediator they're standing here and he probably standing with his own blood he's saying father you remember what I did on the cross you remember how the Romans beat me up they scourged me remember the cross where I shed all my blood every drop of my blood was gone now you remember this blood the blood that I'm holding here in the old covenant it's a blood of animals and the high priest would go and pour it into the holy of holies making atonement but here the Lord Jesus is saying remember this blood remember I shed this blood for this person the Lord Jesus is our mediator what will the father say will the father say no no I have to bring judgment upon him no because of what you have done because you are the high priest because that the Lord Jesus is standing as a mediator we don't have to fear you know face the judgment because God took the judgment the Lord Jesus took the judgment upon himself God all the sin and evil of this world was put upon Jesus he took it for us so right now Jesus is our mediator between the father in heaven that's why the beautiful word says through his spirit we can call him above father and the old covenant you cannot call God father if we look in the old covenant all through nobody calls God father because God is God he's Yahweh, Yahdeh, Wadeh the great God the God eternal the mighty God then call him the father he's God but in the new covenant it's where we you and I the relationship has been restored and now we can call him through his spirit we call him above father can you picture this you know sometimes when we read the Bible we must understand the context to why it's how it's been written picture this the Lord Jesus the disciples come to Jesus and say Jesus teach us how to pray what does Jesus say okay I'll teach you how to pray our father who art in heaven maybe the disciples are wondering our father who are in heaven our God who art in heaven it sounds better Jesus immediately started to pray our father who are in heaven the Jews must have felt okay when when we use the word father what does it bring up it brings out a personal relationship and you bring out the word God it's more of you know God and we are here God is eternal we are limited but the Lord Jesus teaching the disciples he says our father who are in heaven maybe the Jew the disciples mine sort of opened up a father you're calling Jehovah the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob father said yes soon that relationship is going to be restored this is how you pray and so now as the Lord Jesus is standing as our mediator remember he's our father God is our father because of what the Lord Jesus did for us right we are wrapped in a blood covenant we are in a blood covenant God with God through Jesus Christ our relationship with God is wrapped in this blood covenant you know we can run away run away turn our face away from God do all the evil in this world and then finally we can come if we come back to God and say God please forgive me I've you know I've sinned God is still willing to accept us he's still willing to forgive us and why because of the blood covenant God is not going to say oh you went you enjoyed everything you did all the wrong things now you're coming back and saying you know forgive me I'm not going to do that no God is not saying that because God because of this blood covenant we are wrapped around and God is willing to forgive us now that does not give us the license and I've heard a lot of people hey I'm young let me enjoy when I'm 50 or 55 years old I'll think about you know reading more anyway I'll be retired so I'll think about reading more and spending more time with God now is the time to you know work earn money enjoy life James put it puts it so wonderfully he says we are just a vapor in the air how do we know we can see even tomorrow we don't know even the next breath we don't know then even Paul writes wonderfully he says because of his grace does that give us the liberty to keep sinning not not no of course not it does not give us a liberty to keep sinning because of the grace of God we don't take advantage of the grace of God but the grace of God is given to us so that we can continue to live and this holy life continue to walk in holiness that's what grace is for right so if we have the thought maybe you know let me wait till I'm 50 or 60 now get it away from your mind say God now today from from now Lord help me to fulfill to walk in holiness to to you know to remove every sin to to you know to think about things of what's written in your word and what you have done for me and then God begins to you know bless us right we are in the blood covenant with God through Jesus Christ you and I are a son and a daughter of God God is our covenant father right just like how the father was for Jesus same way God is our father for us remember what the Bible teaches us Paul writes he says we are co-ears or joint is with Christ like we're joint is so how the relationship that Jesus had with his father we can have that relationship too with the father right and how how did that happen through the cross through the blood covenant right we bear each other's name just a few points on the blood covenant the blood covenant we bear each other's name hence we represent each other Jesus said go in my name right if you he also said if you confess my name before men I will confess your name before the father how powerful is that Jesus says you go in my name go to the ministry go do your business go do your work whatever you're doing go and do it in my name and when you represent me and you are persecuted you are ridiculed people laugh at you people mock at you and you go through all of that but a time will come that when I will represent you before the father imagine you know you're standing there the Lord Jesus is saying here father this is my son he's been you know he served me for 30 years faithfully I'm standing on behalf of him right what more do we want the high priest standing on behalf representing right no angels no need of angels no need of anybody the Lord Jesus himself is standing there no need the 24 elders or the disciples and nobody the Lord Jesus himself when we think about it we understand how powerful this is now our life we live we will pass on when we pass on the Lord Jesus is our mediator he will represent us in heaven what a joy that is that should be something that should encourage us even through the challenges through the turmoil through the persecutions God we're gonna stand remember what Stephen did that wonderful wonderful picture that he he gives us during his death Paul is standing there approving of the death of Stephen and Stephen is there and he says he doesn't say help me or they're throwing stones I'm dying it's paining no what does he say he says I see the father I see standing I see the son of man standing next to the father he's representing me I'm ready to go what a powerful picture I'm sure the apostle Paul never forgot that scene through his entire life we remembered oh Stephen saw the Lord Jesus standing next to the father it paints a good picture of Jesus being the mediator there is oneness and harmony in their living in the decisions made things achieved Jesus says in the book of John powerfully he shares and he says if you abide in me and I will abide in you you shall bear much fruit right you abide in me I will abide in you the word abide is to rest to stay every time we open the word of God we read we spend time in prayer we're abiding in God we're abiding in the presence of God and what happens his presence he will abide in us and he will abide in us and when he abides in us greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world that abiding there's harmony you abide in me I will abide in you three that is mutual sharing of gold's purposes and feelings and which affects one another Paul writes it so powerfully Galatians 220 he says it's no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me Paul is trying to make the Galatians understand the Galatians are people who were wavering they accepted Christ they accepted the message of Paul but after Paul carried on on his journey we see that some people came Judaizers came and they said you're believing in Jesus all of that is good okay that's up to you but you go get circumcised then you believe in Jesus no problem you have to be circumcised as a Jew you have to be circumcised so what happened they so what happened they went they got circumcised and Paul got to know about and he says why why would you go back to the law when God has given you a new covenant and so he you know he sternly corrects the church he says you foolish Galatians who has bewitched you you were walking the right path what we shared with you about the about the Messiah about the new covenant is greater than what you're trying to do through circumcision right and he brings that whole picture of Abraham how God called Abraham even before he was you know circumcised God called him and all of that so what is it what are we trying to see Paul is trying to tell the believers it's no longer I live it is Christ who lives in me it's not my thoughts it is not my it's not about my urges it's not about my desires it's not about my plans all of that me I am gone just bodily I'm here but it's no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me if Christ wants me in heaven wants wants me to die here it's up to him if he wants me to live I will continue to do the ministry and so it's no longer me but it's Christ who's living in me everything of my life is is directed by Christ and so Paul is trying to bring it out and it's very important learning for us but we can say God let me every aspect of my life let it be directed by you right every aspect yes of course God has given us wisdom God has given us a mind so for example if you're planning to start a business or start a work go for interviews now we don't say okay it's no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and then we sit at home and keep doing that no you know Christ who lives in you but Christ also went about doing things he when he had a vision he declared it some 60 I saw a 65 he says I have come to make the captors free to you know to free those who are oppressed from the and bring light where there is darkness and he followed up that vision by choosing people and going choosing 12 people and he went about fulfilling the mission so yes Christ is in us it's no longer we will live but Christ enables us to fulfill the tasks ahead of us to do our work to do our ministry whatever we are doing through Christ who strengthens us right there is mutual enrichment wherein when one is weak when we are weak God is our strength and he encourages us when we are sick he breaks healing when we are burdened and heavy he brings peace right where why is it that people who've lost their loved ones they are so broken but after some time you see a peace of God in their heart in their face also why because when they've trusted God God is a lifter of our head he comforts us he grants us a peace that passes all our understanding why is it that some of us may be sick in our body and then when he and then he strengthens us he gives us the grace to continue we may be going through mental you know so much of challenges so much of worries in our mind but when we surrender it to God there's suddenly there's peace in that situation why because when we are weak he is strong Isaiah writes it so beautifully he says when we fall down he will lift us up when we are weary he's our strength such powerful verses and so there's mutual enrichment now we don't have to do anything for Jesus Jesus has done everything for us all we need to do is ask Jesus ask him Lord this Lord this is the thing I'm going through this is my weakness this is my challenge these are my failures these are my limitations can you help me and he will he will come through because he has made this blood covenant with us what belongs to us also belongs to the other so we are joined as with Christ we what the Lord Jesus did for us we have we can call him above father same thing we as his children call call God above father last point there is deep communion intimacy and fellowship with each other and everything that the Father has revealed to me Jesus says I will share it with you by my spirit so here's an important point when you know we always pray we always seek God what does the Holy Spirit do I'm sure we all know this we've learned this the Holy Spirit reveals the will of the Father to us and sometimes we pray we say I sense the Holy Spirit telling me this and I feel the Holy Spirit is leading me to do this what is that the Holy Spirit is revealing the will of the Father the Father's will is revealed to us remember the Lord Jesus the Garden of Gethsemane he's sweating drops of blood and he says Lord not my will but let your will be done the same way the Father is revealing his will through the Holy Spirit to each one of us right so when we pray say Holy Spirit speak to us minister to us it is Father's will it is the Father speaking to us it is the spirit of God God who is speaking to us right so we don't take it lightly and I'm sure all of us are pray and we seek God and God ministers to us when God speak to us through his Holy Spirit remember that it's God's word it's God's will for us so we don't take it lightly we think about it we pray about it ask God to lead us in whatever he's speaking to us so we'll stop here we'll pick up from a better covenant better promises next week onwards and I'm sure we're doing quite well our pace is quite good so we will complete this covenant then we go to the cross and the blood the cross is again very powerful I know that some of this may be familiar to us but I'm sure even as we study it as we learn it God would bring deeper revelations the Holy Spirit will bring deeper thoughts deeper revelations of his of what we are studying into our spirit so hopefully we can do that as well all right before we close any questions any suggestions any thoughts anything you want to share about what you have learned go ahead you have any thoughts or questions anything that has been ministering to you over this over the duration of this course feel free to share anyone would like to share okay so everything's okay I hope this course is helping you out let's close in prayer did somebody raise their hand all right all right Aradhana Kambley has raised her hand yes go ahead I have a request yes go ahead I have a sickness and my stomach is paining a lot now also the doctor is telling me certain but I scared about that please pray for me I I get healed okay sure sure Aradhana we'll pray for you okay we'll pray for you all right let's close in prayer right and let's remember Aradhana also even as we are in different places let's just declare healing over Aradhana that the Holy Spirit would bring healing through the blood of Jesus the Lord is our healer and so let's declare healing over Aradhana let's pray Father we just want to thank you for this wonderful time that we had Lord just reading from your word studying about covenants and this beautiful covenant that you have made and internal everlasting covenant that you Lord gave yourself as the unblemished lamb you offered yourself shed your blood for us oh God that now we no longer need the blood of animals but the blood of Jesus is sufficient we can call you above Father Lord we thank you God for you have restored our relationship and we are partakers of this new covenant and even Lord each one of us right here may be going through different seasons in our lives of God I pray Lord that you will be there for them that you will comfort them you will strengthen each one of them of God especially lift up our Aradhana into your hands of God right now we speak over her stomach and we declare in the name of Jesus I command every spirit of infirmity I command every pain everything that is causing this oppression in her stomach the spirit of infirmity I command you in the name of Jesus to get out of her body Lord we're standing here by the blood of Jesus and your word says that by your stripes we are healed and Lord we just declare this over our Aradhana right now let the presence of God wherever she is as she's listening to this session of God I pray right now that the presence of God the Holy Spirit the power of God we're bringing healing we're bringing deliverance Lord I pray that you will receive healing by faith of God thank you God for you have brought healing upon her right now in the name of Jesus we thank you Father you are the Jehovah Rafa the God who heals I pray God that every organ every tissue every cell in her body will function normally in the name of Jesus I pray God even as she goes back to the doctor the doctors will give a good report that there will be no surgery required and she will be healed completely in Jesus name we receive it by faith on our behalf of God Lord I also speak over each and every student here of God each and every one of us Lord I pray that you will be with them Lord that you will meet each one of us at the point of our need that your that we will rely on your promises on your word that Lord we will fill our hearts our minds with your word with your with your spirit with your presence God that we will speak and confess your word in our lives we thank you we thank you Lord we thank you for this wonderful time we give you all the praise we give you all the glory in Jesus name we pray amen amen amen God bless you all have a wonderful week ahead and restful weekend God bless have a see you next week