 All right welcome back Let's pick up from where we stop. Let's get into chapter 6 on your notes Video stopped. Hold on. Is the videos videos stopped? So Nina is the video stuck for you right now Nina Karen anybody can is a video stuck Just here it's We'll find out so let's get into chapter 6 the old and the new Now I was using the term all covered we are Specifically talking about a covenant given to most of the people of Israel Remember the old covenant You know gone. Yeah, so God what is it? He he calls Moses and he says Moses Take this This is going to be a covenant. This is what you must follow This is what you must do and then later on he gave many other Commandments for them to follow so similarities both the old Covenant and the new covenant one of the most You know important similarity is that of the blood covenant and we talked about it, right? The old covenant was given through Moses the new covenant was given through Christ Jesus John chapter 1 and was 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ Right. So what is the contrast here? The law was given to Moses. You follow these laws You have to do it this way. All right. These are rules and regulations that you must follow Right. If you do not follow it, there will be consequences, but here grace and truth came through Jesus Christ right The old covenant was given through Moses to the people of Israel. The new covenant is given Through Jesus Christ to everyone who believes So in that time in the old covenant, there was the law There was regulations and rules, but it was given only to the Jews to the Israelites right, so you're not going to find the You know people who are Gentiles and out of the Covenant doing all those sacrifices and you know Doing all those levitical offerings nothing right, but here grace and truth comes through Jesus Christ and it is given to everyone See that contrast there Here rules and regulations here grace and truth here It is for the Israelites here. It is for everyone all of us right Hence the old was called the law of Moses and the new is called the law of Christ as in Galatians 6 to The old is based on law. The new is based on grace The old covenant was based on the law, which is the 10 commandments and then Hundreds of instructions that God gave the people of Israel And the new covenant is based on grace because of the finished work of the cross The old covenant brought guilt But the new covenant brought righteousness What a wonderful Wonderful wonderful thing that the Lord Jesus said the old covenant They would make those offerings the guilt offerings and offering whatever offering they would go back They were not yet justified It was not like you know, they were They had a right standing before God No Right the old covenant. They just had remission of sins covering of sins But here this free gift of righteousness Is imputed. What is imputed? It is just given to us. It is poured on us We receive it whether we like it or not Right, so the moment I became become a believer Even if I don't know what is the meaning of righteousness in God's eyes, you are righteous Right only later we may realize oh righteousness justification But all that whole list happens to us the moment we become a believer But we may not understand it right now for example Person is coming to faith from a different Religion right and they believe in Jesus All they know is Jesus Hey, I prayed Or to many gods nothing happened But now I pray to Jesus and I believe Jesus is the only God and he's the only one who Can wash away my sins and he's the only one who has made me a new person Now this person doesn't know anything about the cross He doesn't know anything about the you know the Lord's table Water baptism Righteousness justification sanctification Redemption nothing they know It's a I believe in Jesus. That's all they know But in the spiritual realm and God's eyes God has already imputed He's become a believer. He's righteous before God He doesn't know it, but he will know it later on They understand what I'm saying right so the Old Testament The old brought guilt the new brought righteousness Right It's a free gift. I will justify you make you free from all guilt shame and condemnation The gift of righteousness qualifies you and I to reign in life right so No matter what happens we can say hey, I have a right standing before God Right The old Was the letter of the law the new was the was the law or written in our hearts The circumcision of the heart a change of heart Happens in new birth Right That is the sign of the new covenant in the old covenant It was more of the mind more of the intellect Right, but in the new covenant or new heart I will give you a new heart in the book of Hosea. He says You know Hosea six. He says come and return to me with all your heart And and I will I will wash your sins. I will do this. I will do that. I'll give you a new heart Right, but here the meaning of that heart is a new person a new identity Right, and that was not there in the Old Testament The old was based on human effort the news based on faith empowered by the spirit That is human Effort and there is empowering of the spirit. I will write my words in your hearts and in your minds I will pour out my spirit upon you and upon you who will empower you to walk in this new covenant so The Lord Jesus is saying and we talked about this right in the book of acts. He he tells the disciples go and wait Let me empower you first. Let me baptize you the Holy Spirit then you go into ministry So the Lord Jesus is saying In the old covenant it was only you know, just human effort, but here on the new covenant we Walk by faith But we also put in effort, right? There's also the aspect of human effort But we are not coming again. We've been very careful. They're not coming on this human effort to the presence of God I love what the apostle Paul writes um You know, he says You the people are my crown in heaven right now The apostle Paul could have said so many other things What are my crowns first missionary journey is one crown Second missionary journey one more crown third missionary journey is three crowns. I should have by now Then the number of churches I started For example, you keep at 10 churches God. So give me 10 mini crowns for 10 churches and then the number of leaders I raised them And the number of books I've written So all together just let's close the deal on one 30 crowns for me He's not coming by any works Paul himself is writing and saying in many places in the scripture. He's saying he's saying When I go to heaven, what is my glory in heaven? He's asking the believers. What is my glory in heaven? You are my glory What can I boast of in heaven? I can boast of only about you But you see that he's not coming by his works that he did But he's coming by what God did through his life To the people that he was able to bring so many people to Christ Again, he you know, he writes it in so many places. It's not a work of the of human hands To become a believer. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. We say who's what is my glory in heaven? It's none of this all of these scriptures All of these, uh, sorry all of these things that I did All these letters that I've written all of that is not important What is important is you people in the presence of God that is where I will be rewarded right The old brought bondage, but the new brings liberty The old was served by earthly priests, but the new one has a heavenly high priest The the old served a natural tabernacle The new uses an eternal heavenly tabernacle Right. So when we look at the old Oh, uh, god instructs the people of israel what go you make a tabernacle you make it this way Wherever you go you carry it when you're walking In the desert when you camp let the tabernacle let it be in front and you all camp around it That is where I will come and will show my presence there Right. That is a natural earthly tabernacle, but now in the new covenant you and I can enter The heavenly tabernacle of God We may be here in in our body But in the spirit We can enter his tabernacle Enter into his presence You get what I'm saying Right. So the the tabernacle in the old testament referred to the presence of God It was a physical place, but now You and I being you know can enter that earth that heavenly tabernacle being the presence of God Imagine We can be just three of us singing songs praising God His presence is there. We have entered his tabernacle three of us two of us Maybe even alone We're praying we enter his tabernacle. We enter into his presence And we pray right The old required many recurring Sacrifices So the sin offering guilt offering all these sacrifices. They were a recurring thing. They had to keep doing it Every there are some offerings that are done six months. There are some that are done yearly Some are done on festivals and seasons But in the new covenant the sacrifice was already made When Jesus said it is finished We don't need any more sacrifices Right. We don't need any more that the Lord Jesus has to do You know, if we believe in him, we don't believe in him. He's still the king of kings Right So in the old covenant, it was keep doing it the new covenant. He's done it once He doesn't need to do it again. He doesn't have to prove to the devil. Hey, I'm still victorious And when we look around in the world, we see so much of evil that is happening right the devil is you know, just attacking bringing so much of you know, hatred and Terror in this world. He's using, you know We get these articles where children are being addicted to Pornography and drugs and all these things the young age. You see the devil is doing something. It's not like You know, God the Lord Jesus is sitting and saying, oh, what should I do now? Oh What does it say there? Sacrifice was already made. God has already defeated the enemy So he knows what is happening He knows that he's still in control Right, it's not like oh devil has suddenly he's got too many people in his army. What should I do? No, no Right, he knows exactly what to do. He's victorious So he's not nervous about his position Right As yesterday, we had our pastors, Bangalore pastors meeting all across And so we went for the Bangalore meeting and we were talking about The work of God in Punjab and you know, there was one of those one of the Missionaries who had come to the meeting and she was sharing about how God was doing such a great work in Punjab Right and other other parts Arunachal Pradesh as well And it was so encouraging You know, sometimes we look at the small things or we look at things and say, hey, the devil is doing so much But it doesn't mean God is not doing. He is doing his work People are believing Jesus and scores In our nation There are many many many many brahmanas who have come to the Lord She was sharing yesterday that there's a whole community of brahmanas like Thousands of people who gathered together for praise and worship and You know, just a confidence thousands of brahmanas Now if you look at the brahmanas, they are all caste system They all joined together Rich poor Everyone together Cast system is broken. There's no caste system there Why because there are new creation in Christ Jesus And they look at others. It's no more. Oh, you are this, you know, uh, the brahmanas have those caste systems, right? chatrias and the sudras and all of that so All of that has gone away Why because they understood the scriptures So God is doing a powerful work Right and when you look at the book of revelations, God is going to perform world revivals That's going to be revivals. It will happen the book of Revelation talks about it. Right. There's going to be world revivals Just a fire of God spreading across the entire world. God is going to do it Right. So don't you know, sometimes you may focus on what the enemy is doing and say God What happened now? We're not seeing much of you. No, no, no. He is doing his work right Every day every moment. There's there's something that's happening. God is doing He's not sitting idle He's doing his work. The Holy Spirit is doing his work Right. So whether there is anti conversion bill, whether they say no more Christianity We should wipe out Christianity It can't happen Because God is building his church God is building his kingdom, right So always be assured of that right even when we hear these news Hear what the enemy is doing and we hear, you know When you look at the evil some of the evil that the enemy is doing sometimes, you know, it just Infuriates us gets gets so upset, you know, my child my son. He's he's seven years old and second standard But he's exposed to so much in these schools That they know about, you know Gay marriage, they know about LGBTQ They know about, you know, all these things that are happening about the internet, you know Only seven years old I think the enemy how he's not going to look. Okay. He's only seven let him become 12 years old then The enemy is doing his work, but God is also doing his work Right. You and I have a responsibility Right to to pray and to intercede and to look to God If we don't do it, then who will do it? Right. So we be encouraged when we see all of this The old has been removed the new is in force. The new is an everlasting covenant It's not that the blood of Jesus has an expiry date No, it's not that the cross has an expiry date 10 years from now 100 years 1000 years from now the cross will have the same effect That it has on the day On during the time when The believers in the book of acts experienced the power of the holy spirit. It's the same effect Don't have there's no expiration date, right? Uh, this is a the new is a more glorious covenant. The new is a better covenant based on better promises shedding of old covenant mentality Now, how do I shed off this old covenant mentality? Luckily you and I are Not doing any sacrifices and all of those things But you look at what happened in After malachi those 400 years of silence. What happened? They were doing those offerings again and again. They had no idea why they were doing it, but they were doing it and Suddenly they came a time when John the Baptist is saying repent. You have to be you know repent for the kingdom of God for them. It was too much. No, no, no We'll go to the temple by old covenant mentality Right, what about the Israelites? Right, they they came out of Egypt. No, no, no. I want that I want what was there before that was only better Sometimes, you know, there's the saying no it was It took maybe one day for the Israelites to come out of Egypt They just walked out of Egypt But it took 40 years for Egypt to come out of them Meaning what all those practices they did in Egypt. They said we had cucumber meat in Egypt They actually said it Right, there was meat and cucumber in Egypt, but now we are eating only this right So the old mentality was still there Oh in Egypt, we had some idol at least you go and say, you know, just touch the idol pray and come now There's no idol here I know God is sending some mana. There's some fire that is following us in the night There's a pillar of cloud the sea has parted into two and we walked through it on dry land. All that is good But there's no idol. There's no nothing to touch. So let's make an idol old mentality Right And shedding off that is very difficult very difficult Now when you look at the new covenant, you know when I became a believer like a proper believer I used to come to church and see everyone raising their hands Obviously I will not raise my hand I'm worshiping God from my heart I don't have to I don't have to prove anything I'm not raising my hand why because I would never did that in my life Right, I never did that. So it was something that it was a shell that I wasn't no, I will not lift my hands But I'm worshiping God from inside. They are lifting their hands, but I am You know inside I'm lifting my heart all kinds of excuses Right, the Bible clearly says lift up your hands. Oh, you holy gates be lifted up ancient thrones Right, it says clap your hands together. The trees of the fields will clap your hands Shout for joy sing for joy dance aloud in the presence of God Right, I will not that is for the old covenant not for me shedding off that mentality or you know, sometimes we In prayer, we may say no, this is how I will do it And this is how I will do it because I did it past 10 years. I'm doing it. This is how I will do it No, if God ministers to us to pray in a different way Many times, you know, uh, I remember God would just stop me and say Stop this. I just felt the Holy Spirit. Stop this You know, what is the prayer God? Thank you for this new day. Thank you for the blessings lord. Thank you lord for hand and legs Eyes to see. Thank you lord for house. Thank you for bike. Thank you lord washing machine and fridge. Thank you lord and the thank yous are so many Oh 30 minutes over prayer Only thank yous Forgive me if any sin is there lord in the end last five minutes Help me not to sin lord. I'm your child. I receive everything that you have for me Amen. Oh 30 minutes forever And the day would continue But sometimes God may say stop this Is the prayer good? Yes But it's just become monotonous You're not letting me to speak. You're only saying thank you. Thank you. Let me speak. No And many times many times it's happened to me right now. Is it good to pray for people? Yes I'll pray for my dad pray for my mother my brother And you know everyone pray for all the pastors bless them lord The god is saying hey, I want to talk to you hold on Keep quiet Just be in my presence Many times the worst game be still and know that I am gone Just wait So there were times I remember many years ago. I would just take my guitar I'll say sing one song and say wait Thank god. Okay. You speak a thing will happen. Sing one more song Then a time came god said you keep that guitar on the side did I ask you to come with the guitar? Keep the guitar. Okay, then what to do now nothing to do. Okay god speak something So Yes waiting see but Many times he has spoken Many times just a word will come I'll just say do this He will I'm not saying immediately, but just waiting in his presence It may look weird many times. I'm waiting and I'm looking around nothing's happening Why because I'm not used to it I'm only used to thank you. Jesus. Thank you. Jesus. Hallelujah. All right. I never used hallelujah But thank you that whole list was there of thank yous. I'm not used to Keeping quiet and waiting for god to speak to me So it was very difficult to shut off that right So every time I say thank you, I would feel bad. Okay It's good to thank but then the thank you prayer is too much God is saying wait Stop that let me speak Let me speak Just that one hour what you're praying that it become meaningful. There'll be a time you pray all that thank you But you be you shut off those old habits Do something new Right. So we also, you know, if we are doing something and we see that it's becoming a you know, uh, just uh What do you call a routine? Shared it off Shared it off right now routines are good. Sometimes we feel that oh, this is not good. I will not do it. No right Now for example, we are praying and we we don't see any vision Don't feel that god is not hearing us right. We have to pray It's a it's a thing that god has given us to do so we press on sometimes we may not feel like praying We may feel like doing something else Right. So we've got to press on right those times but Don't get off that Old mentality those things that have made us to be very You know monotonous in life and we're not seeing fruit Try not to follow that do something different. I love the lord to minister Right now if you're if you know this this whole thing of going into the room closing the door and waiting It was very weird for me Wait for what Wait for fire to come down wait for Angel to come and tell me wait for holy spirit or wait for jesus himself to come Wait for what but god made me And he taught me you wait You just sit so many times in that one hour of just sitting quiet I came out with one verse But that verse was powerful It was made so much meaning in my heart and it was just I knew oh One hour one verse Right, but it's okay. It's better than thank you jesus. Thank you jesus One hour one verse But many times he's you know, he began to just pour out And speak to us and then there are times we have to also pray So basically what i'm trying to say is get off those old habits those old mentalities that can suppress us Right rather than uplift us in the presence of god Is the new covenant without law the new covenant is called the perfect law of liberty. Let's read james 125 125 But he who looks looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it And is not a forgetful hero, but a doer of the work This one will be blessed in what he does James 2 12 through 13 so speak And so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy because mercy triumphs over judgment So there is law but there is mercy and mercy will triumph over judgment So why still read the old covenant? We're talking so much about the old and the new covenant I'm saying hey new covenant is better better than better promises better blessings Why still read the old covenant? How many of you like the old covenant? Online students how many of you like the old you like how many of you like to read the old covenant? Nobody likes to read I can read Yeah All of us like to read no there may be some books. We don't prefer reading Well, you'd like to read the whole come oh why to read the old covenant? Our policy we don't go back to the law and now we saw Oh the blessings that are available. Why to read the old covenant because God has not changed God is the same from the beginning. God is the same now God has not changed So the works he does Can be different. We can learn that God himself has not changed It's not like God of the Old Testament is this angry God and Jesus came full of grace and truth I'll show you his potions of what all Jesus has done He has thrown the money chambers tables Many places in one place he says something, you know The the disciples of Jesus's followers comes and say hey Jesus Herod and these people are coming to catch you Jesus's replies go tell that fox That I will continue to do what I'm doing today tomorrow and finish what I'm doing They I think match you 23 years full list. He says Was that love? Yes, it is love So Jesus walked in grace and truth, but he's the same God If you have seen me you have seen the father That's what Jesus says, right? Because I am in the father and the father is in me It's the same God the heart and the nature of God remains the same in the Across testaments the power and glory of God remains the same across testaments The heart and nature of God is the same God said in the Old Testament, I'm the God who heals you even now God says I'm the God who heals you I'm the God who will give you peace New Testament he says I'm going to do the same thing Right, he has not changed his power and glory has not changed Oh in the Old Testament he parted the seas he did these wonderful miracles, but New Testament nothing he's done No, he's done And he's doing he's doing greater works Right We learn from God's working and dealings We learn from God how he worked in the Old Testament And you know when we read these Stories from the New Testament, doesn't it encourage us? And it's so powerful to read Daniel What did he do? We read about Jeremiah you read about these wonderful prophets And how God just ministered to all them you read about David So wonderful right and and we can learn and we can draw so much of inspiration Every time I think of David. I'm very encouraged Every time I think of him The most unlikely person to become a king But we look at Saul Saul was looking after his father's donkeys That was his work God and then God made him the king of Israel. He disobeyed God. What has God said? Saul There was one time you thought you were very small in your sight. You thought oh, I am nothing I'm just looking after donkeys. Who am I? You know, you thought very small in your own eyes Now after becoming the king of Israel, you think you are so great that you Disobeyed my command And then to David he says David I will make you the king Right. Look at these look at these things. Look at Nehemiah. What a wonderful God gives him the wisdom to build that entire wall Look at Daniel in the lion's den shut the mouth of lions Right And these wonderful wonderful stories Elijah Moses Joshua there's plenty of stories that we can learn from there's so much that we can learn from Right. You take these stories and use the principle in your life Right. Uh, I think of David. Oh, man. My god used this shepherd boy But he trained him so much that he killed the lion and the bears Nobody was there clapping for David. Oh, David, you killed the lion Probably he went home and told his brothers. Hey, you know what? I was looking after the sheep Suddenly one bear came out from outside And then I took out my sword and I you know, I took out my Sling or whatever it was I used and I killed a bear and the brothers are saying what are you saying? You're telling me I'm in the army I'm in the Israelite army And you killed a bear You're not even 10 years old No, you're such a small boy. How will you? How did you do probably they made fun of him? But now this training is done The real test of time has come Goliath is standing there Now the Israelite army are shivering and this young boy saying hey, I'll go Right. So, you know very important lesson God is a god who always Trains us for the things that he has ahead of us. There's always preparation time Right. Look at Joseph. You learn so much from their lives. So you can draw inspiration from them Right, and you say god, give me the wisdom Give me the strength. Give me the uh, the the mindset that these people had Right Oh Shadrach Misha, you know, when he goes standing there. Hey, we'll throw you in the fire You okay king you do what you want You throw us in the fire One god can save us if he doesn't save us still we'll not Look at the mindset You see the mindset there Can we draw inspiration from it or not? Or do an old testament See that's what happened. They came out unharmed. Nothing Is it written anywhere else like this? Has it happened? Any other place Where the king Nebuchadnezzar himself came and said oh Nobody should speak anything about these You know these they're god because their god is real Right don't speak about them Leave them alone So you and I can draw inspiration from all of these stories And apply it in our lives, right? The old covenant points us to Jesus Christ There are types and shadows of the old testament And we talked about that right from Adam Moses and All through there are types that we see What old covenant practices still remain Romans chapter 13 was 8 through 10 Anyone can read Romans 8 8 13 8 to 10 Oh, no one anything except to love one another For who for who loves another Has fulfilled the law for the commandments You shall not commit adultery. You shall not murder. You shall not steal You shall not bear false witness. You shall not court And if there is any other commandment are all summed up in the same Namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to a neighbor Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law What a powerful he so the Lord Jesus In the book of Romans Paul is saying Now Paul knew everything about the law. Yes Right. He was studied under gemaliel. He knew everything Right now. He's saying all of these laws You know, whether they do not come at adultery. You shall not murder. You should not steal You shall not bear false witness. All of these laws Is summed up into one simple law One simple practice. What is that? You shall love the Lord your God And as you sorry, what is that you shall love your neighbor as yourself Of the Lord your God love your neighbor as yourself Then there's no way I'll do any harm to them If I don't want to if I love them and I don't want to do any harm to them I will not commit adultery. I will not murder because I love I will not steal I will not bear false with us. Nothing So there's this Of the Lord your God love your neighbor as yourself So Paul is saying if you do all of this That is you have fulfilled the law I want to say that verse 10 therefore love is the fulfillment of the law So we may not have to do the practices of the old testament and we don't have to do it But just by loving one another We have fulfilled the law in the old testament right, so Are the practices still there? We don't have to go to the temple. We don't have to offer sacrifices We don't have to do circumcision. We don't have those The Paul is saying you just love the Lord love your neighbor as yourself And when you do that you have fulfilled the law So powerful, right Just one thing Paul is saying love That's it's all summed up in this verse John 3 16. God. So Love the world That he gave Is only we got in some but he gave So this should encourage us. Yes though The new covenant is greater with better promises better blessings Or the old covenant is also important because God has not changed And God is the same we can draw inspiration And we can learn from people's lives learn from their mistakes also right one of the Things that we can learn for so many things but one example is david See god made him king I mean Abraham god told Abraham right i'll give you a son I'll give you a child What happened in between he? He went and you know stayed with hey god But he knew Right look at david He knew he was married, but he sinned And he went back to god. So these are things that we can learn from Right and and and we learn from them and say god Thank you for what they have done help me to walk In righteousness help me to walk with wisdom Fulfill whatever you have for us a man man, so be encouraged And each one of us even our online students be encouraged Knowing that god is with us no matter what is happening around us, right? Let's close in prayer Maybe we can close in prayer Thank you jesus. Thank you lord Thank you for everything you did for us lord jesus. Thank you for that blood covenant lord jesus Thank you for everything jesus Lord in this class you teach us so many things lord jesus help us to Learn and gain everything lord jesus And use us for your glory every glory and every honor i belongs to you jesus in jesus name. We pray amen Amen, amen. Amen. Thank you so much everyone. Thank you to the online students. God bless you all see you next week Our next class. Good. Bless