 Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon everyone. I want to talk about something that has at least for me Initially, it was an issue as a matter of fact Many people when they hear this or hear this Interpretation or how how I say this or if they haven't heard this before You're probably gonna reject it. You know what? Let me take it back. Let me take it back I'm not gonna say you probably gonna reject it because I don't think you will I don't think you I shouldn't say that I Initially rejected it. I initially said to myself wait a second that that no no no no no portions of this this understanding of the new covenant Now I had a certain hermeneutic and we'll talk about our hermeneutics as we go through this and you'll hear me increasingly use the term hermeneutics all hermeneutics is is a Method of interpretation. Okay. Now the one that I subscribe to is a Literal historical grammatical hermeneutic meaning I'm gonna read everything and it's plain just regular reading I'll keep it in a in a historical context in a literal context grammatical context all of that and so When you hear me say that that's what I mean. I want to be consistent The goal to reading the Bible is to be consistent Not to be inconsistent Because if you're not consistent then dependent upon how you feel or dependent upon who who explains something to you That might color how you see things. Okay, meaning this that today. I might you know what I I've given some thought and something in my mind something in my heart something maybe something that I've experienced Relates to what I'm reading and so that might influence how I see it. Well, that becomes subjective, right? It should not be that there are ten people that are read a passage and then we get ten eleven twelve different interpretations There can be many applications in some cases, but only one interpretation and the way that you Avoid all these different types of interpretations when you read a passage is to have a consistent hermeneutic and so That's what we want to do. So When I talk about the the new covenant And you hear people say oftentimes that we are a new covenant church and so forth Well, my response now unlike it was because I said initially I rejected it and that is that no We're not a new covenant church Because as you saw in the thumbnail the question is who is The new covenant for what is the new covenant? So before we get to it I want to talk about one what a covenant is and so I'll put it on the screen You've all seen me cover this before and so let's just put this up here a covenant is From the Hebrew word bereave which is it's an agreement what it literally actually what it literally means guys It literally means to cut okay now there's more to it than to cut okay And so it is a cutting it is a shedding of blood or involves a shedding of blood a passing through of Flesh now one example and I know you all are old enough you all are mature enough to understand The greatest example that we can identify with of a covenant is a marriage coming Okay, and all those three things are are there. Okay typical what happened is when you inaugurate a covenant that Whether it be one party or two parties all those who are involved in the covenant would they would take the animal They would cut the animal in half Lay them on different sides and the two parties or one party would walk through Signifying that I am in agreement with what this covenant is for now in the covenant Whoever whoever initiates a covenant whoever sets a term those that walk through They are responsible for the terms of the covenant and for keeping the covenant Okay, and so that being 70 talk about the different types of covenant You've got what's called a unilateral a bilateral a conditional or unconditional now You can also have a combination of two of those types of covenants as well What are the unilateral covenants is is if one person is responsible for the terms and the conditions of the covenant Then the bilateral is obviously Both or it can be multiple parties are responsible for maintaining the covenant So unilateral bilateral then you have a conditional covenant based on a set of conditions meaning if then if you do this Then I'll do that if you all do that then we'll do this. Okay, then you have an unconditional covenant Which is not based on any conditions or promises just it's just saying you know what I'm going to do this No matter what and this is why we always use the The the marriage as a covenant and the marriage should be what it should be a it should be a bilateral Unconditional Covenant It's it's two parties a green But not based on any preconceived or any any preconditions Meaning that I'll be your husband as long as you cook well as long as you look nice I'll be your wife as long as you keep those muscles or as long as you have a good job Okay, no, that's not how that works. Okay, you don't want to be in a marriage where this is a conditioned marriage a conditioned Covenant, this is an unconditional. Well, let's look at the different types of covenants that are named in the Bible Okay, there are only five covenants that are actually named as covenants in the Bible There's no egg the Abrahamic the old which we call the mosaic the Davidic and the new obviously we're gonna be talking about the new But I want to give a little a little understanding now there are other covenants that people name and To be honest, there are I can you can see their point for example the Adamic Covenant. I Don't really push back too hard when someone says that There is an Adamic Covenant meaning that God made a promise or something for but you want to be Careful about naming every promise that you see as a covenant. Okay Technically in many cases they do fit the definition of a covenant But we end up saying what looks like a promise or looks like an agreement We call a covenant and it's not there's something more to it than just giving your word to it Okay, because sometimes the terms and conditions aren't known. Okay, so anyway So those are the five named covenants and when I say the five named covenants Those are ones where when you look at them look at them in the Bible They are named God makes in and the Bible uses exact words covenant when speaking to Noah or For mankind when speaking to Abrahamic to Abraham or Abraham It is called a covenant. He calls it a covenant the old covenant the mosaic covenant is a Mode is also called a covenant and we have the Davidic Covenant And I won't get into all the different covenants. I'm going to get into three of the covenants I won't really address the no way a covenant and I won't really dress the Davidic Covenants However, I will dress the Abrahamic Covenant the old Covenants And the new Covenants if I'm going to dress a new Covenants. I gotta dress the old Covenants, right? So When you look through the scriptures When you look through the scriptures There's only a few times where the term the phrase new covenant is actually in the Bible I don't know if if many of you have actually looked Up the term new covenant, but there's only a few times as a matter of fact We put on the screen so you can just see the different times and we're going to cover all of these so But we're going to cover them in a different in a different order different pattern The very first time that we see the term new covenant is in Jeremiah 31 31 31 you see it in Luke you see it in 1st Corinthians and 2nd Corinthians Hebrews 8 twice and then Hebrews 9 and Hebrews Hebrews 12, okay, so To get into it though, let's also remember Why you want to keep in mind why there's even a need for the covenant, okay? Now so when we start off, let's go and look at What do I want to start? So I want to kind of keep this thing I'm not going to nail myself down in terms of the actual order that I'll go through this But you know what let's first focus on before we get to the new covenant Let's get to the old covenant and me saying that I hadn't even typed in the the old Covenant so I'm just typing the old covenant here. Let me put it on screen. Actually let me type in here first That is going to be I'm sorry guys. I should have I should have done that first And then let me put this on here and now let me make it to where you guys can see I don't want you guys to Strain your eyes or if you already got bad eyes like like yours truly to make them worse Okay, so now here is God now the very first time we see him the first part that he does inaugurate this this covenant with Israel is In excess it actually happened before excess 20 But the first portions of the old covenant or the mosaic coming that we know is obviously the 10 Commandments Okay, now I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time with that but one of the things I want us to remember is Who the covenant who the old covenant is with Okay, this old covenant is made specifically with who this old covenant is made with Israel Okay, it is not made with anyone else but with Israel Okay, it's not meant to be a covenant with The Hittites the Jebusites anyone else it is with Israel God brings Israel out of Bondage and then this covenant becomes what's called a conditional covenant Moses is told to I mean God God tells Moses what's gonna happen take it to the people the people actually say yes We agree with this. We are God. We're good with this. Okay, and so the covenant is there established now This is a conditional Covenant and it's also a bilateral covenant now Without getting into because we've gone over the old covenant before the mosaic covenant before What you need to understand about about this covenant is when it's national Okay, this is for ethnic Israel and ethnic ethnic Israel only now could someone become Who's not ethnic Israel take part in the Covenant they could they could but it's but the primary focus is ethnic Israel It is national and what I mean by national is this that That nationally they will observe it And in so doing nationally, they will be rewarded. However When they mess up nationally, they will be punished nationally for example when they are taking taken out of the land when they are sent into Captivity okay doing the exile. This is national now. We're gonna find out if the new covenant What sort of similarities the new covenant may have with with the old Covenant? Okay, so now Because of what the old Covenant is doing and what it does not do It does notice what the old Covenant doesn't do the old Covenant provides for atonement But it doesn't provide for eternal atonement. Okay, that's very important. And so Therein lies the issue with the old Covenant and it's going to be addressed also even more so In the book of Hebrews. Okay, so now let's go ahead and jump into where We start talking about the new Covenant, so we'll go to Jeremiah Chapter 31 and we'll start in I'm sorry wrong passage oops 27 matter of fact There we go. All right Now I want you to notice Who is being talked to remember guys? Let me come back on the screen We want to be consistent We want to read this thing How they would understand it how the Jews would have understood it understood it how Jeremiah would have understood what the Lord is telling him, okay? Remember, they're not thinking about anyone else, but Israel Okay, and so we'll just try to be as consistent and as literal as we can Unless the text tells us that we should not be literal So let's try to be as literal as we can as consistent as we can as we read this All right, and so he says here in verse 27. Behold the days are coming Declare the Lord when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah With the seed of man and the seed of beast now. Let me just stop right there for a second. This is Jeremiah given this prophecy Remember what just happened now. He's prophesying to the the southern kingdom. Okay? Remember Israel split in two, but it's still Israel as a whole There's the northern kingdom and the southern the southern kingdom the southern kingdom is called Judah The northern kingdom is called Israel, but entirely in in its entirety both make up Israel Okay, and so he says I will sow The house of Israel and the house of Judah, okay Keep that in mind Verse 28 and it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down to overthrow destroy and bring harm So I will watch over them to build and to plant declares the Lord So he's speaking about what he has been doing with Israel all this time in those days They shall say no longer They should no longer say I'm sorry. The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge Now that's important When he makes his statement that the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge This is a proverb now whether it's a true proverb or it's exaggeration. It's false The point is that he's saying that in the in that day, they won't say this because what's happened I am being I can be punished not necessarily for what I've done before what this guy has done If someone in Israel messes up our fathers have brought upon us a particular punishment think back to Achan In the battle of AI how he had he had before the battle AI he had Taken some of the spoils and brought it and hit it under his I guess in the floor of his tent. No one knew about it and for the first time Israel did not win the next battle, which is the battle of AI because as God tells Joshua, they're sending the camp and they find out that is aching and so if you guys do something We're all part of Israel. You guys do something wrong. Then I can suffer the consequences. Also Our children and our children's children will suffer the consequences as well. Okay, so that's what he's talking about here And so he says in those days they shall no longer say that the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge So in those days We won't be judged by our father's sins. Look what he says in verse 30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity each man who eats sour grapes his teeth shall be set on edge by the way side note This comes up a lot not not necessarily in this but this is a passage that people turn to when they say that Adam's sin Will be atone for on the cross and so every sin thereafter will be hours and not Adam's sin In other words that original sin was dealt with on the cross. I'm not making a case one way or the other But I'm saying that this Verse 30 in Jeremiah 31 is one of the passages that they turn to okay So just FYI as we're passing by here it is Behold the days are coming declares the Lord when I will make a Covenant a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. So now Who is he making this covenant with who does he say he says with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah? Okay, he says he name I mean, which is behold days By in coming Noon, you know, which is utterance of the Lord or the Lord utters Why Karatee? I can't even say this word Karatee, which is I will cut I will cut or I will make Remember what a covenant is a covenant is a cutting. So I will make or I will cut every with the house of Israel Israel and the house of Judah you are Okay, and this is a covenant and look what it is. It is a covenant Kodesh, which is the word for new so I will cut this new covenant with who with Israel and with Judah Look what he says in verse 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers whose fathers Israel and Judah all of Israel So not like the covenant that I made with him well Which covenant the old covenant the mosaic covenant on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them Out of the land of Egypt. All right, my covenant they broke though I was their husband declares the Lord. All right, so now let's make sure we're seeing this correctly Okay, this is saying that the covenant that he made with Israel When when he brought them out of Egypt now they broke it So remember I said that the old covenant was a conditional covenant It was a covenant between God and the people Israel and it was an if-then covenant if you do this then I'll do that We sometimes we have this tendency to apply passages that aren't for us Okay, if I say hey Dina, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to go to the store pick up this and pick up that Okay, and then while I'm doing that while when I say that to you then chess champ decides to go on his own Well, wait a second chess time. I don't want you to go I want to die but you said you know I was talking to Diana not you and there might have been a reason for it, right? Little example a little goofy example, but the point is this though There are times though when we try to take what the scriptures have applied or meant for someone else and make them for us This is clearly him speaking to Israel now the questions are going to be does this will ever apply to? Gentiles So far though all we have seen is that this covenant applies to he says he's making this covenant with With Israel and Judah and so now we'll just say Israel into it. I just kind of keep it easy to understand He's comparing this covenant with With the old covenant Who was the old covenant made with the old covenant was not made with anyone but Israel now? Could someone take part in this could could let's say like like Rahab or anyone else a foreigner come in and decide that they want to become circumcised and and become Fall fall under the old covenant sure they could that now wasn't a lot But still the focal point the focus of God was with Israel in the old covenant and the new covenant now That kind of makes sense doesn't it if the if the mosaic covenant the old covenant Is for Israel then when he says the new covenant the new covenant necessarily means that there must have been an old covenant Okay So don't lose sight of that now I want to look at some of the passages that that tend to get neglected By folks they just read 31 and 32 and kind of move on I want to keep reading though He says for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days declares the Lord Look what he says I will put my law within them now The problem that Israel had was they weren't abiding by what God wanted to do They weren't they weren't abiding by what God said they were wayward people just like us. Okay, and so he says For this this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days declares the Lord I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts Now this is kind of Harkening to what Jesus speaks of and we see it also in Ezekiel about our hearts being born from above And I will be their guide and they shall be my people Look what he says and no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother saying know the Lord For they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest declares the Lord and look what he says For I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more now a couple things The problem with the old covenant was They would have forgiveness but God was still the following year remember their sin remember the equity but in their iniquity But in this case he says for I will future tense I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more no more Are we is God going to look at their sin? Unlike then this was a yearly task the day of atonement was every year Year after year after year and so he says what's gonna happen is no longer will someone else have to teach you You'll know me for yourself Well, how's that gonna happen? What because there's this this person called by Holy Spirit that they are going to receive Okay, so now Let's go back to it Burst 35 Thus says the Lord who gives the sun for light By day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night Who stirs up the sea? So that is so that it's waves roar the Lord of hosts is his name. Look at this. This is really important right here guys He says if this fixed order departs from before me declares the Lord Then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me. Did you see that? Let me read it again If this fixed order departs from before me declares the Lord then shall the offspring of Israel Cease from being a nation before me. So what is he saying? Is that going to part? No, his point is that's never going away What else never going away Israel being a nation before me? So he's making sure that we understand that Israel as a nation is important God's promises for Israel specifically are for Israel specifically He literally means to carry out the promises that he has now that in no way shape from a fashion means that he has Nothing for us now. I'm saying that the new covenant is not for Gentiles Well, then how then our Gentiles say we'll get to that. We'll get to how Gentiles end up In the good graces of God because he has and will cover that and reiterate that okay But as far as we're concerned reading here remember They don't know of a gospel of Matthew Mark Luke or John They don't know of Peter or Paul all they know is what the prophets are telling them now The prophets are the one who leave them who teach them give them the word of God as well as the priest okay, the time is coming well that won't be the case and so This mediator that you need to go before Before the Lord you won't need that mediator You meet a different high priest who will mediate on your half on your behalf to God as a matter of fact He will be God. Okay, so that part needs to be brought up And so there is no chance and God is trying to reiterate make sure it's abundantly clear that he has this in mind for the nation of Israel, okay Now remember this also Jeremiah is prophesying this in 31. What did Jeremiah just get through prophesying? He just got through prophesying about the same nation this Israel in chapter 30 About this tribulation is coming upon Israel and Israel only okay All he's mentioned is Israel and that he says that this time this Jacob's trouble for Israel is coming upon them Why because he has this concern for Israel, but he understands that Israel is disobedient And so he is going to use this time of tribulation to bring Israel to him Okay, so it's interesting note that immediately after he talks about this prophecy of Afflicting Israel he mentions that he is also going to have this new covenant with Israel When will the fulfillment of this new covenant be not the inauguration of this new covenant, but the fulfillment of this new covenant be We're gonna look at that. Okay, so I wanted you all to make sure that you have paid attention what it said in verse 36 and How he has described and how he's made sure that we understood that he's got this place For the nation of Israel now that being said I want to go to Which was this I want to let me don't want yeah, I want to leave this I don't want that in there. It's my way now. Let's go to Hebrews chapter 8 The reason why we're going to Hebrews chapter 8 is because I'm going to the most obvious passages That have to deal with Israel. Okay, because when we look at let me just put it back on the screen When we look at the other passages that this speak about the the new covenant, who's he talking to in Luke clearly he's talking to Jews and likewise verse 20 of chapter 22 and likewise a cup after they had eaten saying this Cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant of my blood They didn't give a whole lot of detail about it But he's clearly speaking to Jews and so when we go to chapter 8 of Hebrews. Let's read matter of fact Why did it go to 9? There we go Matter, you know what to keep it in context. Let's stay in verse 1 Now the point in what we are saying by the way, let's just be clear Who is the book of Hebrews written to? It's Pretty evident right in the title the book of Hebrews is written to Hebrews to Jews Jews that are Believers in Christ they have accepted Christ as the Messiah, okay now someone has That Gentiles mean nation it does but it means that mean the Jewish nation it means those outside of Outside of Israel, okay, the word goi or goi is referring to other nations now That's also in view And something that said in the Old Testament I'll come back to that in just a little bit but in this book book of Hebrews. He's speaking to these Jews Who are now in Christ now? Let me say this There is a distinction that God is making and you'll see this all throughout the scriptures There's a this know you're right Mike Paul did not write Hebrews Okay, there's a passage that he talks about that's like what wait a second if this passage is true And also to you all later that it's not Paul. We don't know who wrote the book of Hebrews But God has all throughout scriptures, especially when we see it in the New Testament He's made a distinction between Israel and the church Now here's how this works The church is made up of believers anyone who has placed faith in Christ is a part of the church So the church is made up of Gentiles and Jews. However, Israel is only made up of Jews Okay, and they're so they're in lies of distinction now. You don't have to nor should you even want to be a part of Israel It's not like God has forgotten you and that you are some second afterthought you are oh, by the way What are we gonna do with these people over here? God? Oh, yeah, let's go and let them in that's not how God treats us as Gentiles as a matter of fact Paul reiterates this in Ephesians and in Galatians as well about this mystery that he's always had For us as Gentiles who were always in view by the way Abraham's name is father of nations Well, wait a second Abraham if your name is now Abraham That must mean your father of nations or we'll say names many nations that implies more than just Israel although Along the along the way, they seem to not pay attention to that. Okay. So anyway, let's go back to Hebrews one Let's just start reading this book is written to Jews who are believers in Christ It says now The point in what we are saying is this we have such a high priest by the way notice Notice the Hebrew imagery notice what's what's being spoken of these are things that Jews can understand Gentiles Don't understand this. They don't have any dealings with a high priest. That was never their history Okay, we have such a high priest one who was seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven minister in holy places in the true tent that the Lord set up not man for every high priest is Appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices notice that every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices Thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer now If he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things for when Moses was about to erect the tent He was instructed by God saying see that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain But as it is Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant He mediates is better since it is enacted on better promises So he's referring to the old covenant that was brought out under Moses But Christ is is mediating a new covenant again. He's speaking to who he's speaking to Jude Burst seven for if the first covenant Okay, the first covenant was the first covenant the old covenant the mosaic covenant if the first covenant had been faultless There would have been no occasion to look for a second All right, so implicit in that is that there was something wrong with the old covenant Okay, please remember that Obviously, you guys know that there was something wrong with that or else why the new covenant, okay? So he's bringing about a new covenant to replace the old covenant Okay, and I'm saying that us as Gentiles Aren't thought of in the new covenant or the old covenant. Okay? So Where do we come in just hold that hold that thought we'll get there But he's speaking to Jews still every time every time we see him talking about this new covenant Except for one time. We'll see it. He's speaking to Jews about Jewish things, right? Let's go back to the passage Verse 8 for he finds for he finds fault with them when he says behold the days are coming Now he's reminding us about what was said in Jeremiah Behold the days are coming declares the Lord when I would Establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah again Who is this new covenant with Israel and the house of Judah in other words all of Israel? Verse 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them out By hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt for they did not continue in my covenant again referring to the old covenant And so I showed no concern for them declares the Lord here It is for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days to clear the Lord I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts and I will be their guide and they should be my people and They shall not teach each one his neighbors and each one his brothers saying no the Lord So he's always doing is reiterating what was spoken of in Jeremiah for they shall all know me from the least of the greatest For I will be merciful towards their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more Okay, we like that because guess what we don't want to have to do We don't want to have to have this daily reminder of our sin By the way, that's the point of the book of Hebrews guys The book of Hebrews is is a source of comfort to these Jews who have accepted Christ as the Messiah The problem that they have is in their mind We've got all these years of following the law and the law requires that there must be the sacrifices these different ways To to bring about some sort of reconciliation then there's this one year We've got to do this day of atonement and there's this constant reminder of our guilt our shame Now he addresses this issue in chapter 10. So We're not going to really focus on 10, but I just want to look at it finish up on 8 He says verse 13 in speaking of a new covenant. He makes the first one obsolete What the first what what's the first one the first covenant, which is the old covenant the mosaic covenant He makes the first one obsolete and what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away So he's trying to let them know guys. This is vanishing away Stop trying to hold on to the old covenant now what you need to remember Think back. Is there ever a time when Gentiles are reminded of the old covenant? Do we have any time in scriptures where the Gentiles are told or reminded about the old covenant or about the vessels or the Emblems all these things regarding the outcome are the Gentiles ever reminded of a high priest are the Gentiles ever reminded of the sacrificial lamb During the the day of atonement or any that's up. No That's never brought up for them. Why because that covenant was not made with them. It was made with Israel. Let's keep let's keep reading Now let's go to verse one of chapter nine now Even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness for tent was prepared The first section in which were the lampstands and the lamp of the table and the bread of the presence It is called the holy place behind the second curtain was a second section called the most holy place having the golden altar of incense And the Ark of the Covenant covered on all sides. Let's go ahead and drop down Let's see. I want to I think it's verse Okay, let's go to verse 11, but now he says he's he's he's covered what happens Under the old and these different articles and so forth verse 11 though He says but when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come Then through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands. That is not of this creation. He entered The some folks ain't gonna like this. This whole is this one saved always safe thing whatever This kind of backs us up. Anyway, but he entered once for all into the holy places Not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood Thus securing an eternal redemption I would like to really park right here and just say hallelujah. Praise god. This is bringing about an eternal redemption That's the whole that's the main point that the author of Hebrews is trying to get them to focus on But we're trying to talk about we're trying to discover more about this old covenant new covenant And so I'll go ahead and move from for now. We'll come back to some other day. Okay Verse 13 for if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a defiled person With the ashes of a half first sanctified for the purification of the flesh How much more will the blood of christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to god Purified our conscience. Remember the issue was we had this this this guilt this constant guilt over and over I'm just I'm I'm always sending always messing up. Don't go to what is wrong with me like paul says I want to do good and I don't I want to stop doing bad and I keep doing it And he talks about what's in him the this old wretched flesh The only thing good that's in him is what the holy spirit. So anyway, uh, he says From dead works to serve the living god Therefore, he is the mediator of a what a new covenant to these jews So that those who are called may receive the promised Eternal inheritance since a death has occurred that remain. I mean that redeems them From the transgressions committed under the first covenant. Oh, there it is So what's happening now? They are redeemed from the transgressions that occurred under the first covenant Well, who knows about the first covenant the jews. They get that. All right, so now It should be clear. Hopefully. I know some folks might say, well, I'm not sure because there's some other pastors I want to look at and that uh, what about these this past? What about that past this past seems to say, um, this and and and And now we're also going to get into roman's 11 because I know what someone's going to think about or bring up About us being grafted and so forth and and and and that must mean that that we were grafted into the new covenant No, it does not No, it does not so Now If we realize and we should realize that we are not under the, um Old covenant, obviously or the new covenant Um, well the question has got to be then How are we saved? Well, you don't need a new covenant or old covenant to be saved You don't okay Now is there a covenant that mentions us that we're by god has determined that he is going to save Gentiles as well Where we're in view and we're not just some uh group of second-class citizens By the way, we are not second-class citizens. Okay, I need to make that clear the bible does not teach that Um christians who are Gentiles are second-class believers. No not at all Okay, and he makes it clear that whether we are Jew or Greek meaning Gentiles whether male or female Um Free your slave if we're in christ. We are all the same Okay, so there is no Now what it is is though how god is carrying out certain things We know god has an order and a way of doing things. Okay He has a way of doing things as pertaining to men and women as it pertain to uh to to jews and the Gentiles Okay, now Why is he using the jews? Could he have done it? Could he have had a different program altogether? He absolutely could he could reverse it and had the Gentiles go To be the ones responsible for the promises of god and the and the teachings of god and bring that to the Gentiles And to the jews He could have done it that way But he chooses one he chooses a small seemingly seemingly insignificant group How small was it? Well, it was just abraham. That's how small it was when he started. It was just him There was no nation of israel Okay, then then from abraham to jakeb to isaac who's renamed israel and so This is um this small group and he says they weren't all that impressive They weren't that great, but he's going to show god is going to show what he can do with this small group This is guys um sovereignty Election if you will in choosing israel this small group to bring about a change to the entire world. Okay, so now Uh, let's see now. Where does god have us in view? Where does where does he even think about? Us in the first place. Where do I want to go? Do I want to you know what? I'm trying to figure out which one of these do I want to use? We had we were thought of in the very beginning guys When did god think about gentiles? Here it is Genesis 12 we talked about this especially if you guys were in the uh in the bible study class By the way, let me just say this What I'm saying so far Has there now whether a person disagrees or agrees doesn't matter, but let's just say the person disagrees You disagree with where I'm coming from. Let me ask you a question. So far in what what I've said Even in going to the bible study class has there been any sort of inconsistencies? In other words, is there something that I said that doesn't fit with something else that I've said So I've been saying all along when we talked about genesis. We're talking about keeping things In view understanding the foundation He doesn't say a whole lot in genesis 3 15 We just know somebody sees some woman's seat a singular seat somewhere down the line is going to do something We're not told in genesis We get to genesis 12 A little bit further illumination And what we call aggressive revelation Something of God has revealed a little bit more and this is what he says to To abram, let's go to it. He says Verse one or chapter 12 now the Lord said to abram go from your country And your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you and I will make you a great nation And I will bless you And make your name great so that you you will be a blessing now This is the abrahamic covenant Remember what I when we talked about the types of covenant what's in a covenant There's a unilateral. There's a bilateral the conditional the unconditional notice in this covenant though. This covenant is a unilateral Unconditional covenant meaning that only one person is setting the terms of covenant God didn't go to abram and say hey listen. I got I got an idea. I got a plan What do you think about this abraham or abram? What if I do this? No, that's not what happened, right? What happens is God says what he is going to do And notice there are no conditions doesn't say well if you don't do this you don't do that then no He says this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make your name great back to the passage I'll make you make you a great nation And I will bless you and make your name great. He didn't say I'll make your name great if you do x y and z So that you will be a blessing. Here it is. I will bless those who bless you and him who designers you I will curse Here it is guys. Here you here. Here are you Gentile folks Here's us and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed now. He comes back with this promise again When he's speaking to Jacob In you I will bless all the families all the descendants of the earth not every single person But us Gentiles okay, and so You need to understand something there was nothing wrong with this covenant I said in the class that this Excuse me This is the covenant of covenants. This is where everything flows from the old covenant the new cup the Davidic covenant This is how everyone is framed as far as salvation is concerned here He has promised to do something with israel and then also do something with the gentile nations okay Do we know exactly how he's going to bless how the have the gentile nations have the other nations of the world are going to Be blessed through israel he doesn't say Matter of fact, he doesn't even say how israel is going to be blessed He doesn't say all he does is offer a promise And if he makes the promise then what are what are the promises of god? They are yay and amen right and so it's going to happen. He just does not feel us in on the particulars But we harken back to this in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed All right, so Let's go back to oh now What's going to happen is someone's going to say well wait a second core There are other passages that talk about the new covenant. There are the passages Okay, now someone's going to say that the new covenant also applies to gentiles Here's my challenge And again, this was the issue with me because when I first heard it my natural knee jerk reaction was of course it applies to Of course it was not my computer screen over of course. It applies to gentiles Okay, now i'll grant you that if if if You show me the passage where it says it applies to gentiles. Here's what the new covenant does We benefit by it because of christ's blood Okay, it was never that it was only going to benefit them So god is doing two things simultaneously He is inaugurating and bringing in the a new covenant for the gent I mean for the jews, but also making a way of salvation for gentiles well Why would this be for the gentiles as well? Well, because he did make a promise to abraham He did make a promise and god has god has obligated himself to fulfill his word god is going to keep his word And so this is how the nations of the world all the nations are going to be blessed. This is through abraham through isaac and jacob through juda all the way through david And now he's a descendant obviously of abraham, right? And so through you and your descendants through israel the nations of the earth shall be blessed Okay, this is how So now Let's go to first crimson. I want to cover some passages that people are going to say well This proves though that we are also as gentiles that we are part of the new covenant because The word new covenant is mentioned When he's speaking around gentiles. Well, let's see In first crimson's 11 23 All he's doing is reiterating what jesus has said On the date of the the institution of the Of communion Okay, he says And notice what he's doing all he's repeating what what jesus says For I receive from the lord what I also deliver to you that the lord jesus on that night when he was Betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said this is my body which is for you Do this in remembrance of of me in the same way also He took the cup after saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood Do this as often as you drink drink it in remembrance of me now it is the This cup is is the new covenant in in my blood in his blood But what about that passage makes it so that that we're part of the new covenant nothing He's just he's just repeating what he was speaking to them Uh, and now do we take part in in the in communion? Sure we do There's a lot of things that that that that are that are used and that are brought to jews That we also take part in as well It's just that he had now he's got a covenant for them the problem see there was a problem with the old covenant There wasn't a problem with the new I mean with the uh, the abrahamic covenant There's no problem with the abrahamic covenant. There's there's never in in scriptures where we're told that the abrahamic Covenant was insufficient That there was that there wasn't perfect that there was a failure Well, we see that with the old covenant and it wasn't so much the old covenant was a problem. It was us Okay, and obviously god knew that people were not going to keep the old covenant, but uh, it brings us to It brings jews to the new covenant remember every time that he's talking about replacing this covenant He's talking to jews about replacing the old covenant not replacing anything that he has made for for the gentile So he made a promise even though the gentiles didn't know anything about it He makes a promise to the gentiles Or on behalf of the gentiles regarding the gentiles and there was nothing ever wrong with that with that promise He is going to why why is he going to fulfill that cup that promise because again it was an unconditional covenant There were no set of conditions on that like the old covenant There were a set of conditions that the people who were taking part in the conditions could not keep So he brings about a new covenant. What is new? What does the new covenant have? There are no conditions Okay, so they needed the jews were the ones that needed their covenant fixing we didn't Are you with me? So now let's go to another passage where he says that we are ministers of the new covenant and because I want to say well, see yeah, that's us. Let's see if that's what it says in second Corinthians Let's say look chapter five. I mean chapter chapter three verse starting five Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us But our sufficiency is from the lord who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant Oh, so that passage cori seems to say that we gentiles are ministers of a new covenant. No, it doesn't He's not talking about gentiles being ministers of a new covenant. Let's go back and look at it again He's speaking of these apostles These guys who's running around who's also preaching the gospel Look what he says Such is the confidence that we have through christ towards god Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from god So he's speaking about these apostles Okay, who has made us who's the us these apostles that he's referring to in chapter three They are called the ministers of a new covenant Okay, not gentiles are called gentiles are not ministers of the new covenant these Paul is the minister of the new covenant Okay, and so he's explaining this to them now again Do are we blessed by the new covenant? Are we blessed by what takes place? Sure because again He has promised I tell you what billy. I'm going to I was let's say let's say A father makes a promise makes a covenant with his son Okay, he makes a covenant with his son billy And he says billy if you do this and do that then I will I'll give you some money if you clean your room every day and you cut the grass and you do this and do that Then I promise to give you some money Okay, I promise you some money so that you can go out and buy your new bike All right, cool. Well Dad knows that billy is lazy billy is not going to keep his room clean not going to take out the trash not going to do the dish not going to cut the grass Not not consistently And so, uh dad says, you know what? Tell you what billy you can't you can't fulfill this you keep messing up So I'm gonna I'm gonna make a new covenant with you. I'm gonna buy you a bike You don't have to work for this money to buy your bike. I'm going to buy you a bike Oh bobby I'm gonna also buy you a bike as well I'ma buy you both a bike Now because he bought bobby a bike Doesn't negate the fact that he out that he's making a new covenant with his other son Or in this case his older son billy He made an old covenant with billy now. He's making a new covenant with billy to buy billy a bike And he's gonna buy bobby a bike well Does his new covenant with billy? Um mean that he also made a new covenant with bobby. No He's just he he's just I'm gonna do this for you also now. I told you bobby a long time ago I'm gonna go buy. I'm gonna buy your bike when you get older and buy your bike So I promise you a long time ago. I'm gonna buy your bike I made billy a promise that if billy does this and that then he can get a bike Okay, but he didn't but I'm gonna go ahead and buy you both a bike The reason why I'm buying you both a bike is because billy I'm making a new covenant with you and bobby I had an old covenant with you at the very beginning in this case the first promise that he made with bobby Was the abrahamic covenant in this case with billy He is getting rid of the old Covenant the old covenant and creating a new covenant So what god does with jews under this new covenant doesn't mean that it's a new covenant with us Now does that change anything does it change anything in terms of our salvation? Whether a person thinks he is brought in under the new covenant Or the abrahamic covenant does it change anything? No No, because it's still required christ getting on the cross and dying and then faith in him But why is that important? Why does it matter? Well Here's why Because it matters how we exegete text it matters how we read If we're going to start kind of in this kind of how professor said it if we're going to start I'm not saying this for you guys, but if we're going to start weasling our way in on other people's promises Then we can change the scriptures how we want to We can make them say or apply to us however we want to Okay, and we do it We do it oftentimes if my people who are called by my name to hunt themselves. Well, yeah, see that that's for us Well, no, it's not because if we keep reading we find out that he's saying that if you don't do this Then I'll take you out of your land Well, we as Gentiles don't don't try to apply that to us. Do we we what we often do as as as non-jews We tend to want to apply the good things from israel to us And not apply the bad things from israel to us That's kind of kind of one side of what you think and we do that often Okay, he has not made this promise for us He's made it for them because he's doing something specifically for them Okay, now, you know me. I hold to this view that uh god is going to deal with israel The 70 weeks that are prophesied they're prophesied not to us but to israel And then there's this time where this 70 week period is cut off. He's 77 is cut off The first 69 go from the time that he gives his prophecy up into the cross Okay, then the next seven we don't have well when's the next uh significant 70 year period going to happen The next significant seven year period is going to happen during the tribulation and that is clearly Clearly for israel because he said it was for israel. He didn't say it was for us We want to make it so that hey, we're going to go through the tribulation You know what the only reason why gentile christians want to say that they wouldn't go that we're going to go through the tribulation Is because in their heart they believe they'll be dead before it happens. That's why Uh, they also think that they're tough enough I'm tough enough to make it right and these other folks, but i'm going to show how tough I am because i'm Going to go through the tribulation with flying colors Whatever be quiet It's not for us. It's prophesied about the tribulation to israel It's not prophesied to the world. Okay, is the world going to also go through with it? Yes, but who's the point who's the purpose? And so when we talk about the new covenant the question has got to be why is there a new covenant? What's the purpose of having new covenant? What's the purpose of giving a new covenant to the gentiles? We already got one We already got a covenant the abrahamic covenant. Is anything wrong with abrahamic covenant all now There's not a lot of detail given God knows the details He knows what's going to happen how it's going to work Itself out and then how gentiles are going to be blessed. He knows the cross is coming We don't gentile. I mean i mean gentiles throughout throughout time jews don't even know this Okay, jews don't even know how they're going to be saved They just trust in god and then of course they stop trusting god and and and so he's got this covenant with him And so the purpose of the new covenant the why of having a new covenant is because the old covenant Wasn't working out so much for the jews You guys couldn't keep it you go you guys run faithfully says that though that you broke it I still remain the husband and he promised what he is going to do and what he's doing for them He's always as paul tells us. He's already always had in mind for it working for the gentiles now Somebody's gonna say well, we are grafted into this new covenant Well, first of all, let's see because you're gonna refer to to roman's chapter 11 And let's see is that the case in roman's chapter 11 But if some of the branches were broken off That being jews And you although a while olive shoot were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root Of the olive tree do not be arrogant toward the branches If you are if you are remember, it is not you who support the root But the root that supports you so gentiles is not you that support The root it is the jews then you will say Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in that is true They were broken off because of their unbelief But you stand fast through faith So do not become proud but fear for if god did not spare the natural branches neither will he spare you Nope, then the kindness of the severity of god severity towards those who have fallen But god's kindness to you provided you continue in his faith. I mean his kindness otherwise you will be cut off too Now a couple things I want to I want to bring up number one number one Is there any mention of a new covenant in here? No No, it's just the same blessings That they're going to receive we're brought into now. Someone's gonna say wait a second. They're cut off Does this passage also means I know what someone's thinking? I know what you're thinking you thunk it and so I want I want to address what you thunk You thunk that because it says they were cut off that that uh, we could also be cut off And so that necessarily means salvation No These were jews who thought that because they were jews that was good enough And you think and you get so proud just like the father. I think god. I'm not I'm not like him Well, no when you get to think like that then guess what you haven't done You've trusted in you and who you are rather than him See, there are these people that trust in their ability to keep themselves safe Meaning that they've never trusted in christ and what he's done And so you're just like them bye Bye So, uh, that's not at all what what he's talking about but more to the point here. He's not talking about He's not talking about a new covenant Okay, uh, he's not So what we do is we assume, but we don't see the wording here We don't see that do it. So here's the point guys. Um, and I know Some folks may still disagree. Okay, fine. Here's what I'm gonna ask you I'm gonna ask you do do in favor Find the passage that tells me Um, and I saw a couple a couple of comments in the chats. Um, some folks who I love and respect find the passage Matter of fact, where's my bible at? Where's my bible? I'll give you my bible. I'll help you out. I'll search for you I'll search with you. You're not going to find the passages that that tell us that Gentiles are part of the new covenant, but here's the thing Why do they have to be why is it so important for you to want to be part of the new covenant Why is it so important for you to want to be jews? Why Why isn't what you are sufficient enough? Why isn't what he did for you the promises that he had for you are sufficient enough? I'm not jakep I'm not isaiah. I'm not joseph. I'm not joshua. I'm not peter nor am I paul I'm none of these jewish Patriarchs. I'm none of them. I'm corrie I'm an old Gentile guy uh here uh born and raised in indianapolis now. I'm here in dallas Surrounded by a bunch of um blasphemous cowboy fans. That's who I am. That's good enough for me Do I do I need to have what they would God promise him? No Because it's not like the promises that God made for me as a Gentile are insufficient They're not they're just as efficient as a matter of fact paul talks about Paul talked about this new stewardship this new dispensation for us And that there was this mystery wow, I didn't know that you also had these Gentiles in mind. I didn't know that Now you know So I can so I can make a promise to you and I can make a promise to you And they're different promises and they can meet up So for those who disagree, I'll be waiting. Let me take a sip of my of my um my anointed Drink out of my cup All right, timothy says uh aphesians three six says that gentiles are part of the new covenant Let's go to aphesians three six Let us see my brother timothy. How are you by the way? timoth I'm typing timothy. He's had a feast. I do that Ephesians three six All right, let's go there guys This is a mystery that gentiles are fellow heirs members of the same body and partakers of the of the promise in christ Jesus through the gospel. All right, timothy hold up timothy All right I'm not picking on you timothy by the way This is for everybody because other folks are gonna say the same thing. There's not matter of fact Matter of fact, it's not just you. I went there too And so the question's got to be because remember I want to be consistent in my in my hermeneutics not just for this because in the grand scheme of things whether you think that uh The new covenant is for jews and gentiles or just gentiles. It doesn't matter But other things that i'm going to talk about other topics other pastors. I want my hermeneutics to be consistent What makes me think that what he's talking about is a new covenant. Let's go back to it Why does this have to be the new covenant? When you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of christ Which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed To this holy apostle and prophets by the spirit. This mystery is that the gentiles are fellow heirs Members of the same body. What's that? What's the body the the uh, uh, the church The gathering And partakers of the promise of christ through the gospel Well, we all are part of that. Let's see, uh Okay, he says uh, so now i'm gonna go to would you say Galatians 3 28. All right. I'm I'm listen. I'm looking for uh The new covenant Galatians 3 28 There is neither jew nor greek There's neither slave nor free There's neither male and female for you're all one in christ jesus And if you are christ then you are abraham's offspring Heirs according to the promise to what promise though timothy If notice what he hearkens back to abraham's offspring abraham's descendants Okay, heirs according to the promise Well, I think that's kind of what I was saying earlier We are found heirs according to the promise that he made abraham about us And that we will be blessed through him Through what the jews are doing and through primarily through this one particular jew who's going to get on the cross Okay, and so He's not talking about the new covenant. He didn't bring up the new covenant. I mean the new or old covenant okay, and so We are brought about through abraham not as as though we are nationally or ethnically descendants of him No, by faith we are but then those other people who are naturally Um nationally From abraham They get here. I don't say a different way that we all come through christ But before we come to christ is different roads Um, and then those who did not what is he going to do remember his promise is not that he's going to forget israel Because what did he say in back? Let's go back to jeremiah. This has got to be important Let's go back to jeremiah. Put the back on the screen um That's what I get I changed the dog on thing It got just a boat on jeremiah jeremiah 31 27 And I don't want to go to 27. I want to go to 30 first of all, who does he say Who does he say the covenant is with he'll make this covenant with the house of israel and judo Now I would think that this is just me. I'm not god, but I'm just you know speaking That if he intended to make the covenant with israel and judo and others I think he would have said so He knows what he's going to do And he's getting closer and closer and closer to the time where this covenant is actually going to be ensued By the way, he talks about jesus brings about that this covenant there's A lot of folks believe that the covenant is is going to be finalized afterwards it will be um Because all of israel is not going to come at this moment Remember there were the beginning of the church The beginning of the church was those are jews And I said that jews can make up the church all the church is just the body of the body of believers in christ So everybody makes up if you're a believer in christ, you make up the body you make up the church So that's jews and gentiles But never are we told that gentiles are part of Israel As a matter of fact, we know he cares so much about israel. He made sure that we know about this look at verse 36 again verse 36 he says um Starting verse 35 Thus says the lord who gives the sun for light by day and and the fixed order of the moon starts to talk about the All the stuff that he's created the sun the moon the stars and so forth Who stirs up the seas the waves so forth what he says If this what he was just talking about the suns the stars the moons the Sees if these fixed orders depart from me declares the lord then Shall the offspring of israel cease from being a nation? So what who's he talking about? He's talking about israel being a nation and he's talking about israel being a nation in regards to what? In regards to the new covenant that he's going to make okay so The new covenant Is inaugurated Now they won't fully realize it until after he's through with israel There are some jews that are coming in but this is this is the new covenant That he's making with the house of israel and the house of judas judas the house of juda And we also benefit from that okay now I think the bigger issue is um We've just been told this um No, I don't I don't need a replacement theology. I'd I'd And someone someone someone get word to uh to latent flowers Who thinks that I'm a Calvinist? uh No, the reason why I'm one of the reason why I'm not a coward is because I don't I don't hold to covenant theology where um, the Basically the church and I don't like to use the term replacement theology, but you know, because I think it's kind of more of a Of a slander, um, even though some folks won't take it that way is that the uh, The church is is replacing israel. No remember All the promises of god are literally fulfilled All the prophecies of god are literally fulfilled. They understand them to be fulfilled the ones that have been fulfilled Everything god says they take it literally It's just that when we start dealing with the church the Gentiles We want to we change our hermeneutics And so what he meant for the of israel is no longer israel now is us That's not right. That's bad hermeneutics guys. That's that's me That's bad. That's that's not consistent because then if you do that with this text. I can do it with another text So you know why I think we ought to be consistent because we're not that smart Even though the name of the channel of the channel is smart christen channel. We're smart when we realize we're not that smart And so when god tells us something he tells us to where even us um us assist can understand that What he's talking about we don't have to try to I wonder what he I wonder what he meant by israel I wonder what he I wonder what god meant by israel and juda We don't have to try to figure it out, do we? um, he says i'll purpose what is this i'll purpose purposefully Right purposefully disagree with you quarry. What about second Corinthians? First green. I'm sorry first green things 1212. Let's go there You said 1212 I should put on the screens there once and see 1212 13 all right. Let's go there. Let's read it therefore I'm sorry as he brews still For just as the body is one Ann has many members And all the members of the body through many are one body. So it is with christ for in one spirit We were all baptized into one body Jews greek slaves or free and all were made to drink of one spirit. So He's only speaking about the body of christ And so we all are part of the body all believers make i let that on the screen I didn't mean to leave it on the screen all believers make up the body all believers jews gentiles Male female all of us make up the body if you are a believer in christ, you are part of the body You are part of the church Just but if you're part of the church does not mean that you are part of israel Okay, uh, and so what is he going to do with uh, those jewish believers? Let's say if i if i'm correct What is he going to do to those jewish believers at the time of the tribulation nothing they get they get brought up to Because he's only going to bring the tribulation up on people who are not believers to Afflict them Primarily israel now what is he going to do as he's afflicting israel will gentiles in the tribulation also also Be brought in sure Sure, but his primary focus is israel So he's doing this for israel and then everyone else also receives blessings Well, isn't that what he said in genesis 12? to abram and then to jacob so Yeah, adria. I did cover the grafting in the grafting in it's not graffit into the to the new covenant We're just graffit into the body Okay, so yeah, we are all graffit. We're graffit into that same body the listen guys the body is not the new covenant Okay, the body is not the new covenant now The pastor preacher that told you all this go back and get your money back all you folks have been paying tithing on Especially times if you're paying tithes to this guy and he told you that the body is the new covenant Is not the new covenant. It's not the body or else the bible would have told us that Where do we wherever we get the idea that the body equals the new covenant? it does Okay, and so remember when he says what the new covenant is he says who's who it's for How come because remember god could just as easily bring up since he brought up in genesis About the rest of the world about these gentiles these nations the word is uses goi goi Since goi was always there He could have brought up goi in when he brought it up in jeremiah Okay The shine because as you I'll cover 2nd chrithians again What about 2nd chrithians 3 7? Let's let's pull it back up on the screen Is that it yeah, so when he's talking about us being mediators of a new covenant Or menace. I'm sorry mediators. That's jesus ministers He's he's speaking of these apostles because who's paul talking about paul is talking about what these apostles these preachers What they're delivering to the church and he says he has who has made us who's the us that he's referring to He's not speaking of All believers. He's speaking of us. He says not that we are sufficient Ourselves to claim anything as coming from us that is these folks that's preaching to them these apostles But our sufficiency is from christ who has made us the same us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant okay, and so That's all that is that's not speaking of All of us Gentiles are ministers of a new covenant But even if it worked doesn't mean that we are part of the new covenant But he's clearly speaking of these jews who are apostles who are ministers of this new covenant And in doing so oh by the way The cool part is that even the jews who are apostles to jews As they were scattered And they go to the nations that aren't jewish. What are they still doing? They're still preaching the gospel So the other apostles the other um 11 who are out there preaching the gospel who are intended to speak to the jews First of all, there's only so many jews that are out there and the jews. Uh, they've been given this spirit of stupor So now they have been persecuted and scattered abroad. And so now you've got those going to uh to europe You've got those going to asia minor or to asia I like the name asia minor something about the name minor Then you got those who have gone to and been and been dispersed to africa And jews aren't all over the place. So the majority of the world is gentile non jews And so now these folks whose ministry was initially to jews is now also being to gentiles just but i'm like paul paul's initial ministry What's in the gentiles? Okay, so Um Okay, yeah, I so see We agree rick So anyway, it ain't got the main point is Not to be right or to be wrong to be wrong, but the main point is how we read the scriptures This is how people can come up with these different doctrines There are there are a good godly man who don't Mystery the text who don't believe in what i'm saying um but They don't you know butcher the text, but you can But you can My man brett said i'm over my skis on this which i may be all i'm saying guys is you guys got to give me a passage You guys have to give me a passage indicates to me that i am the same as israel That i replace israel or that you replace israel you got to give me a passage You got to give me a passage tells me that he didn't have to have me contemplated now again It's it's not a big deal. It is it's not and i know what's gonna happen somebody in the comment is gonna say something um There's a doctrine of demons you go in the hell for it People over exaggerate our differences On this it's not it's not a big issue. The point is though how we read and if how i read um is going to affect How i have or whether i have sound doctrine that i want to make sure that i have a consistent hermeneutical approach and so i'm saying that uh If you have a consistent literal hermeneutical approach, then you come up with the same conclusion that i have so Yeah, okay. I can go with that. I can go with that. But um, there is no spiritual new covenant That's for sure. There's no spiritual old covenant. I think that what god put together Uh, can i answer davante's question? All right, let me type in davante so i can see what he asks I'll go to davante Could you go over repent of your sins to to be saved? Gospel What does repent really mean and is repent of your sins a proper way to to preach the gospel and do we repent first and believe That's a good question. Don't go in davante. That's a good question chest champ. Thank you for Fun on that even though it hadn't it's not really a part. We're talking about but it is all the word repent means is to um turn away In and of itself the word just simply means to to turn away to think and in terms of our sin to think differently The question is the order Do we repent? Then come to christ I think um That is all part and parcel of the same thing To believe means repent. You cannot you cannot believe if you have not repent and you cannot repent if you have not believed Okay, um, you can't so you'll see password says repent That's how you get saved. Yeah, repent. Okay, then you got passage says be baptized. All right Then you got something to believe Okay, well, wait a second. Are you giving us three different things to do or four different things to do or a certain order? No No, I think it's exegetical meaning that there are Different ways to say the same thing For different people and so to repent means that I have decided that what I'm doing my sin. It's not a good thing I don't like my sin. My sin is horrible. It's horrendous Well, where did that view come from where that feeling that my sin is horrible come from from the holy spirit My heart has been changed My heart has been changed and now I realize I feel bad now We're told they're told by by uh specifically john the baptist. He says repent for the kingdom of heavens at hand. Well, um He's making he's stating to them. Hey, you better repent. You better change and they don't well I think that in In doing so one is to show what the what the old covenant also was trying to show that you can't do it outside of me You need me you can't fully change your ways and who you are without me Uh, and so there in lies a problem so All right, uh guys, I am wore out I am wore out Uh, you ever you're not sleep all the way Like you get like three hours of sleep But you wake up fine. You wake up full of energy And then the rest of your day reminds you you didn't get enough sleep. That was me and I've been busy moving around I took a quick nap. It was like a 10 minute nap. It felt like it was about an hour, but anyway, uh Yeah, so Guys, I hope you guys will disagree. Don't hate me. I'm sorry But uh, again, I'm hoping I'm hoping by the way, I told you all before that I I have a Okay, you're right Brett. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right anywhere We see the term covenant and it's a covenant. Okay And that doesn't mean that only when we see the word covenant that, um It is not a covenant. So Okay, what are you two guys talking about? Uh, adren's dts, uh, heavy handedness So, um, anyway, listen, that's as long as you agree with me if no one else does and we are right So anyway guys, uh, I love you all. I will see you tomorrow Um, enjoy the oh go on it I got so much to fix technology wise. Um, see you guys tomorrow. God bless