 Good morning everyone. Good morning to our old clients as well. I hope I can hear all of them. So, of course, we'll be in a sec. This is the next prayer. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for what you've done for us. Thank you for coming to us. So, we established all of us and called us to be partakers of this company. Thank you for this. Thank you for your place in our city. Thank you for a lot of your projects and all of the good that we've done together. How do we play that role in the future to us? What do you make them back to us? Open our eyes. Let us be good friends. Let's bring forth wisdom and revelation given as we spend time. Let's just quickly talk about what we did last week. Last week, we talked about the means of God. Yes, we talked about how God is a God. We looked at many of the names that we looked at on the list of names. And then in chapter 3, we looked at the blood covenant. Understanding what the blood covenant is and what established the blood covenant. And when God established the blood covenant, he meant life for life. And he also said that if he is willing to give himself fully for the covenant, he and every person asking for the covenant, he is willing to give ourselves fully to the covenant. The best example we'll get. I'm gonna give you a sound. That is the word covenant. God asked for the covenant. by the son Isaac and we know the stories of blood copper was established in Abraham and another blood covenant was established in Moses and out of the people of Israel we need to get the Passover and then in the blood covenant that God established through the good rules. Then in chapter four we briefly looked at how God has called us to be part of this covenant. Now we look at the covenant God says okay you are a secretary but there is a distinction between you or there is a difference between you and I as believers and those who are believers. Now when we look to the oldest we see that when Israel likes to disobey what happened to them when they disobeyed the covenant. There was change here. Everything that they did there was a fear. Because why not? They opened their lives. We look at the example of people of Israel. What were they doing after they came out of Egypt? Wait for more. What were they doing? Sorry? What were they doing after they came out of Egypt? So yes they were worshiping other gods. So what was the concept of that? Sorry? What were they saying? What took 20-30 days? God made it for many years. Now what would have happened if Israel like said God, no matter what happens to God, what would have happened? Nothing would have happened. They would have gone into the place that God would have still done. It's just that they would have gone into the place that God would have done. Everything would have been okay. But because of it they remained there. And because of today they said, no God will do it. How can we do it? I said, I can't go. You will do it as you do. And we know that you and I can say, no, I don't want to go. That's not what the world will do. We have to do it. We have to walk away from God. But don't expect the blessings of God to come. And me, God asked, if we have rejected God and said God, of course God still answers. But we are not open to do things of God. If we are not open to God, God is open. We cannot expect God to know, work in our lives. So if you want satisfaction, you have to go on to be special, a chosen generation. We must be able to do that. And when we do that, we are overtaken by blessings. We look at that, right? Conflict, protection, providence, praise, everything is there when you come. So as some people in the community, you and I can use God's name, use God's authority as given us. We can walk in victory. In the old covenant, we can live. Talk about that with us. In the old covenant, David knew who he was. He knew his authority. He knew his time. In the old covenant. So how much more you and I must know how to stand in the covenant. Where the blessings of God say, we are seated together. We are seated together. We are seated together where? In heavenly places. You are seated with him. You are on authority with him. So very important. I'm going to ask you to close on this chapter of our speech. Remember that you are in covenant. The covenant continues, you know. The sound of this recording, the sound of the audio. Hello? Yes. It's really tough here. People wait. Is it better? It's a better now. I hope it's better now. Is it better now? Is it a better now? Is it a better now? Is it a better now? Is it a better now? You want me to speak in a more soft voice? Not audible now. Okay. I think everything is fine here. Those who are here logged in online. Alright. So maybe increase your volume. Okay. Everything is fine here from our side. Okay. Alright. So let's go into chapter 5. Talking about the new covenant. Right? So now we talked about all the covenants that God established in the Old Testament. Now, what is it to be people of the new covenant? Right? Let's read this. Matthew chapter 26. Oh, sorry. I didn't get the verse here. Is that Matthew 26 and 28? Let's read that. Is there an additional mic? Just so that everyone can hear. If there's an additional mic, we can use that. Let's go ahead. Chapter 5, the new covenant. Matthew 26, 28. Go ahead. Read it from your notes. For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Right? Okay. I'll just read 26 and 27 also. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, Take, eat. This is my body. Then he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, Drink from it all of you. For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remissions of sin. Now, Jesus knew that there were many covenants in the Old Testament. Now, what does he say? This is a new covenant I'm giving you. Right? So Jesus completed everything that was written in the Old Testament was a shadow of the cross. We've talked about it before. You look at the sacrifices. You look at everything that God did. It pointed to Jesus. Right? The book of Hebrews, it says, that rock which Moses struck was Christ. Right? In the book of Joshua, he says, Whose side are you on? Joshua says to the angel of the Lord. And what does he say? As commander of God's army. And he, you know, he's declaring. So you will learn that in Christology as well. There are many, many places where Christ has been portrayed in the Old Testament. Now Christ, he's come into the world. He's manifested himself as a human being. And here he's saying, This is my body. This is my blood. And he's saying, this is a new covenant. Right? Let's look at Luke 22 19 and 20. It says, he took the bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying, This is my body which is given for you. You do this in remembrance of me. Likewise, he took the cup after supper saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you. So what Jesus did was he typified everything in the Old Testament. What is the meaning of typify? Let's look at the example of Abraham. We look at even the example, the covenant of what God made with Moses. Now with Abraham, what happened? Abraham is taking his only son up the mountain. He's going to sacrifice him. And then what happens? God says, Stop. I will provide. Look at the ram that is stuck in the ticket. Take it, sacrifice a blood covenant. Blood was shed and it was done. Now when you look at it translated to what happened to the cross. Beautiful resemblance, right? God took his only son. This time God didn't stop the hand of judgment. This time it was not a ram. It was the son of God. So you see God typified it, right? Even you learn more in Christology as well. Remember the people of Israel are out in the desert. They started rebelling against God. They started grumbling, Oh man, at home in Egypt, I had cucumber and I had, you know, meat to eat. Yeah, there's nothing. This manna is tasting so bad. They started grumbling and what happened? They start turning to other gods. The snakes, the snakes started biting people. People are dying. And what did Moses say? God, don't do this. What did God tell Moses? Bronze. God told Moses bronze, take a bronze pole, take a serpent and when anybody gets bit, you look at that and you'll be, you will live. So when you look at it so much, right? Resemblance. It's typifying Jesus, right? Bronze means in the Old Testament, bronze is judgment, right? The Lord Jesus became sin that you and I, when we look at him, we will live, right? So a lot of typology there and the cross and the rock from where the water comes. What did Jesus say? Streams of living water will flow out of you, right? Wherever they went that water flowed, right? So all across in the New Testament, in the Old Testament we see the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant. Now, he inaugurated the Old Covenant. He ratified the Old Covenant. Now he's also inaugurating, ratifying, fulfilling and establishing the New Covenant. So basically, God is telling the people of Israel and everyone saying, okay, all that was done in the Old Testament points to me, okay? So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to shed my blood. I'm going to sacrifice myself on the cross. I will take up all your sins, right? You remember you used to go take the blood of the Ram and go to the High Priest? No, you don't do that. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give my life on the cross and this body and this blood will signify and establish this covenant, right? Now, when Jesus said, you drink of my eat of my body and drink of my blood, what did they say? What are you talking about? The Jews are so upset, right? How can you tell us to eat of your body and drink of your blood, right? This is cannibalism. It doesn't sound good. But what was Jesus trying to tell the Jews? You did it in the Old Covenant and you're doing it even now, right? You're going and shedding that blood. You don't have to do it now. But the problem was they didn't understand it, right? It was above their understanding. Jesus said, you destroy this temple. I will raise it up in three days. They didn't understand it. Before Abraham was I am. They didn't understand it, right? Jesus Christ, he fulfilled everything of this Old Covenant. Remember what happened at the cross? Something very significant happened at the cross after Jesus said it is finished. What happened? Very good. The veil in the temple was toned from top to down. Now, this is not a curtain we have in our home. You just do like this little move. Okay, this is in the temple, right? So they were made. So have you done the study on the high priest clothes? The clothes of the high priest. And you've seen those tribes and the material that they use. It's all high end. God didn't say just go take camel skin and wear it. He made sure that everything was meticulous. Everything was good. And he anointed people in the Old Testament to make those, you know, the garments for the high priest. And here the temple, those curtains, they were not just one single curtain. Very good material. And you can't just take a blade and tear it. It's not going to happen, right? Now, in the Old Covenant, why was that curtain there? Because if you go in, that's the high priest there. The presence of the Lord is, right? Once in a year, this high priest would go. And at the cross, the curtain was torn from top to down. The veil was cut, meaning what? Now, you don't need a high priest. You don't need this whole thing of the blood of the goat and ram to go in. You don't need it because I will be your high priest. So when you come into the presence of God, you don't come by the...you know, there's a lot about it. Don't come by the blood of rams and goats and bulls, but you come through the blood of Jesus. We enter. We sing the song, no? I enter the holy of holies. I enter to the blood of the lamb. Right? So the Lord Jesus is the Passover lamb of the New Covenant. What was the Passover lamb of the Old Covenant? A lamb, right? So it was a Passover lamb. They cut it, they put the blood on the door, death passed by. Jesus became the Passover lamb of the New Covenant. Jesus Christ is our great high priest of the New Covenant, representing us before the Father. Every time I read this in the book of Hebrews, each one of us, it should really, you know, bring shivers down our spine and it's a joyful thing. Why? Imagine this. There's sin. Now, for example, we're going to pray, right? And the God, the Father is saying, hey, there is sin. Sin has to be judged. Right? I'm just painting a picture for you. Right? Sin has to be judged. Now Paul, there's sin. So I have to judge it. All of a sudden, the Lord Jesus is standing there and he says, Father, don't put your judgment on him. You remember the cross? You remember the blood that was shed? You remember the price that I paid? And it's like the Lord Jesus is standing there with the blood, not of goats and bulls, but his own blood. He's standing there and he's saying, it's like saying, Paul, come stand. You are righteous because of me and because of this blood, you can worship the Father. So when the Father looks at you, he's looking at you through me and you are holy in his sight. You get what I'm saying? You understood? Right? So there is nothing that the enemy can say, right? That, oh, no, God doesn't love you. God doesn't care for you. Let's read this Hebrews 9 15 through 18. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is enforced after men are dead since it has no power at all while the testator lives. Therefore, not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. The Lord Jesus is the testator, which means the covenanting one, the one who made the covenant of the new testament, right? The Lord Jesus didn't say, okay, anyway, old covenant is there. No, we practice that for some more time. He doesn't say that, right? He says, hey, I've done it all. I'm not saying reject the old testament, but what I'm saying is you're doing all that because that points to me. So it's already fulfilled. Now, if you're going back to that, what is the use? What is the use of the cross? You see why Paul was so upset with the Galatians? He's gone to Galatia. He's telling, hey, Jesus is, you know, the Messiah. He's the one, you know, all that probably he explained everything from the Old Testament to them and then showed them how Jesus, you know, established this covenant. And then he goes back, finishes his first missionary journey, goes back to Jerusalem. Then he hears, hey, they're going back to circumcision and, you know, all the sacrifices of the Old Testament. What does Paul say? You're foolish. It looks turned, but it's true because Jesus has fulfilled that. What is the use of you going back there when there's something better? Right? That's why the Apostle Paul was upset because Jesus himself has stated that covenant and here he's fulfilling it. Right? Jesus sealed the new covenant with his own blood. Jesus is the mediator of the new covenant. He sealed the covenant with his own blood. That's why we sing. There is power, wonder working. We have so many songs on the blood of Jesus. Why? Because it's not that, okay, that's just regular blood. To look at it was just the blood of a, you know, maybe just regular blood that we have, but there was, there was weightage. There was power in that blood. More than, you know, in the Old Testament, they're giving the blood of the Lamb. God is saying, okay, I, you know, I forgive your sins for now. I cover your sins for now. It's just a regular blood of some Lamb. But here the blood of his own son, how much more powerful that is, is this new covenant. Right? When we, you and I, spend time in prayer, and you and I are going through things in life, speak the blood over yourselves, speak the blood, speak the power of the blood of Jesus. If the enemy comes in like a flood, the enemy is bringing trials and troubles, and speak the blood of Jesus. When you partake in the Lord's table, wherever church, at home, do it in a worthy manner. We'll talk about the cross in the next section. Right? And the importance of the cross. The Greek word here for covenant. We've already looked at it, diotheque. The whole gracious and effective character of God's covenant in the Septuagint, or Septuagint is in the Old Testament, by the choice of the covenant and a diotheque is a will that distributes one property after death according to the owner's wish. It is completely unilateral in the New Testament. The word diotheque occurs 33 times and is translated in the KJV 20 times as covenant and 13 times as testament. Right? Now, it's not that we must know it. Okay, 20 times it is a covenant, 13 times it's testament. But if we only get this understanding of what Jesus did on the cross and how he established this new covenant for us, the way we look at things in life will change. The way we respond to situations, the way we look at how, you know, circumstances come, everything will change, right? Because of the covenant. Jesus, when he established his covenant, the last point there, he establishes a better covenant with better promises. Everyone say better. Better. Sometimes we have a guitar, we want a better guitar. We have a drum kit, we want a better drum kit. You have a good laptop, we want a better laptop. You have good earphones, you want a better earphones. Nobody's going to say, hey, no, no, I have these earphones. That's enough for me. I always want a better one. The Lord Jesus is giving us a better covenant with better promises. Right? Let's read this. Hebrews 8, 6 through 13. Go ahead, anybody can read that. Hebrews 8, 6 through 13. It's on your notes. It's on your notes, no? Just read it from your notes. He says, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made with the fathers in the day. When I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I discarded them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor and none of his brother saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more. In that he says, a new covenant he has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Thank you. Right, so look at this. In the book of Hebrews, he's talking about what was written in the Old Testament and he's saying now, this new covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah, in this new covenant I will make, verse 10 says, for this is the new covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts. I'll put the laws in their mind and I will write them in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people. What a covenant, right? I will write, I will put my laws in your mind and I will write them in your heart. Nowhere in the Old Testament we see people, you know, the writing of God in your heart. Meaning, you and I as believers, we have the Word of God, we have the Lord Jesus, we have the Holy Spirit inside us to minister to us every time, because it's better than the Old Covenant. What does he say in verse 13? He says, a new covenant he has made the first obsolete. The word obsolete means empty or powerless, but he's made the old one obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete is growing old and is ready to vanish away, right? Hebrews 10 9 says, then he said, behold I have come to do your will, oh God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second. You know, in the new Covenant we see so much. It's like God is giving us the Abrahamic, the Mosaic, the Davidic Covenant, all these Covenants. And he's saying, I'm also giving you the blessings of the cross. It's a bonus, everything you take. But we must know how to partake of that Covenant. Some of the guidelines of the Covenant remain the same. Which means what? If I walk away from the new Covenant, if I walk away from the Lord Jesus, if I walk away from what he did, there's no more... there's nothing that we can expect God from but wrath. And there's nothing more that can happen in our life than failure. But we may think, hey, what about others who are, you know, their life is good. They don't believe in the Jesus. They don't believe in the cross. Everything's going well. But it's not about, you know, just blessings in the outside. What about a spirit man? What about forgiveness of sins? How do we deal with all that? Right? So that's a big topic again. But a Covenant of grace was established. Now I'm not asking you to do things. I am inviting you to receive by faith. Not based on law or on work. Sorry, not based on law or on works but based on grace. What is grace? All of us know this. What's grace? Second chance. Okay. Online students, what is grace? Unmerited favour. How many of you have got in 100 marks, your past mark is 30? You've got 29 in school. Nobody. Then what do you do? You wait for the class to get over and the teacher comes out and says, we go and stand there. Just give me one more. The teacher looks at that paper and he looks everywhere and he checks somewhere. Let me give this fellow one mark so he can pass. But there are some teachers no, no. That's final marks. What's happened in your school? There are some teachers who are willing to give you five marks extra also. Okay. Since you didn't trouble me in the class, here's your five marks. You don't deserve it, but I'm giving it to you. What is that? That's grace. What about your parents? Sometimes his parents maybe do things that will really which is make them upset. But they still love us. They still provide for us. They still do everything for us. Why? That is the grace. Now the Lord Jesus is saying in the old covenant, they had to go search for a lamp or for a goat and all those sacrifice. They're coming by what? Works. Okay, I did this offering. I did that offering. It's all by works. But here God is saying don't come by works. Meaning don't come by any kind of work. Now so now we may not come with a goat and a ram and all of that but sometimes we come with our works. God two years I did Bible college course so you have to bless me. What are we doing? Works. God is not interested in your two years of Bible college. The devil is not interested in two years of Bible college. He's not going to say two years Bible college student I better go and tempt somebody else. No. He's not bothered about all that. When we come to the Lord if we come by works we will fail. It is nothing like we're going back to the Galatians. We're going back to the Old Testament. God I prayed no five days of fasting prayer. I prayed 21 days of fasting prayer and I'm coming to you now. Why haven't you still answered me? So that means you are basing our God on our 21 days of fasting prayer. That's again coming by works. Whatever it is we come by the grace of God. God will see all these are important the five days prayer worship, 21 days prayer fasting prayer all this is important but if you're coming to God's presence with that as your foundation it's a very weak foundation. You can come with one hour of prayer but come by grace say God I'm not worthy but because of the cross now I am justified my sins are washed clean. I may have sinned Lord you forgive me of my sins wash me by your blood and I know I'm standing here not because of two years Bible college 21 days fasting prayer and two years MTH and BTH and all those things I'm not standing here with all that I'm standing here because of the grace of God so whether people call you pastor, prophet, apostle whatever the things that I've been doctor all of those things won't matter to you. because you're standing in the grace of God this grace was sealed by his own blood Jesus says it was it is my blood that is sprinkled before God and you and there will be no need of a sacrifice no more sacrifices no more rituals I like the word rituals right no more rituals you don't have to go to God and say okay you know follow those old rituals but no now with the Holy Spirit inside you you can pray at any time anywhere just ask God to minister speak to the Holy Spirit why? because it's no more it's no more ritual right we don't need an image we don't need a high priest pastors and all these are there and they can pray for you they have to minister to you but there is one mediator between God and man the man Jesus Christ unmediator close the deal nobody else now this person may be a prophet and he say hey I went to heaven yesterday and came good ask him how was the trip did he enjoy it good but your response and my response should be one mediator between God and man I can you know ask people to pray for me that is biblical right say hey pray for me I'm going through this but I'll respond like me personally if I tell you to pray and I'm not praying right so I must come to God's presence by his grace not by any works even if you know any of you or any of them become a big businessman rich multimillionaire wonderful it's God's blessing on you but you and I don't come to the cross by our offerings God last year I spent 1.5 crores in offering I'm not interested I snap 1.5 crores can become in this come there it doesn't matter to me because you're coming by works and I'm going to burn it and when I test it by fire it becomes ashes 1.5 crores is gone what about your soul what about your spirit you see what the difference is when we come by work because the reason I'm sharing this and emphasizing this is because as believers it's very easy to come to God through works it's very easy God I'll do this I'll do this will you bless me no you and I come by grace whatever it is say God it is your grace tomorrow if I'm alive it is your grace not because I went to the gym not because I ate well all that is important but it is your grace I was just watching some of those videos that some of them have sent very disheartening you know the video in Turkey what happened with the earthquake everything was fine just 3-4 days back life was normal just like what we are you know what was going on here all of a sudden you know this happened in a blink of an eye there were families there was a couple of videos where there's a small child baby that is stuck deep inside the rubble and they can hear the cry but they are not able to go in the mother is dead there can we come by works to God's presence come by the grace of God every day you say God it is your grace that is sufficient it is your grace that I'm standing here it doesn't mean that we don't do anything hey God said come by grace don't do any work no so we need to maintain a balance we come to the Lord Jesus our identity comes through His grace nothing more right so a more glorious covenant that is the work of the Holy Spirit inside us in the old covenant the Holy Spirit would come minister to people and leave you and I have the Holy Spirit inside us right all of us have the Spirit of God inside us do we believe this yes we all can prophesy we can pray for healing working of miracles we all can speak in tongues we all can be led by the Spirit of God what does the scripture say those who are sons of God shall be led by the Spirit of God we are led by the Spirit of God we are sons of God both ways so as a child of God we can say God you lead me leading of God is very important I don't know if I've shared this this happened many many years back I think it was 2015 you know we had at Central what happened was there was a there was a university from I think it was Texas Oral Roberts University I think it was they had come to church and they wanted to just talk about their church and their ministries that they have that Sunday I happened I was leading at Central so I finished leading the worship and after the worship the Bible College principle of Oral Roberts University came up to me and said what is your name thank you for leading worship and he said are you married I said yes your wife three years scholarship in the US you will have your own place you will have after the first year you can start working but we want you to come and study there sounds good wonderful it sounded Ilya is getting bad to us better to go somewhere and everything is being given right everything she said I'll give you this this this all you have to do is get your visas done I'll send you the letter get your visas done it sounds good to the year but in my spirit I was like she said why I said I don't want to I want to be here in India you can come back I said I don't want to go I just knew somewhere in my spirit I knew it was not for me when I look back and I say thank god it's good to go I'm not saying don't go to the US and go go and study go but be led by the spirit of God don't do things just because everyone are doing it be led by the spirit of God ask the Holy Spirit is this something that you want me to do take your time take time think about now for me it was immediate I just knew I said no and there were plenty of opportunities in the workplace also can you go there and work can you go I said no no I'll be here I want to be here why my colleagues you say why you want to be here what is so great I like Bangalore I like to stay here I will stay here and I'd like to be here no I'm not going anywhere if you want I'll go north India and come not outside India I don't it's just there inside me but I knew it was a leading from God I always share some of them were saying all my cousins all my relatives everyone have gone abroad I think two of us are here and the other person also may go why don't you come why don't you know our last Christmas they all visited us why don't you come one cousin is saying come to the US they went early 2002-2003 so they're all citizens and they've all settled down come come just come don't have to do anything other cousin here come come I said all of them I'm not coming I'm gonna be here so what's so great here God is great here I want to be here so being led by the spirit and it could be it's not only this but it could be in anything starting a business starting your ministry be led by the spirit of God and you'll know okay God this I know that this is God who's telling me right how because of the work of the Holy Spirit then we see the sign and seal of the new covenant the seal is a new birth circumcision of the heart when we believe in Jesus 2 Corinthians 5 17 says we become a new creation that's a seal that God has given us the sign is the Lord's table we partake of the Lord's table in Genesis 13 Melchizedek presented bread and wine to Abraham I would encourage you in your free time go ahead and read that portion we don't have time but it's again a type of what was going to happen in the Lord's table in the new covenant we have a new identity remember the old covenant they'll do the offering, they'll go home and sit or they'll go to work is there a new identity? everything is the same but sure as believers we can be the worst sinner when we believe in Jesus you're washed by the blood of Jesus we have a new identity we're the fathers of the living God we're a child of God that identity was not there in the old testament right then the new covenant includes the covenant with Abraham the new covenant temple and the ark of the covenant then there's spiritual sacrifices on partake practicing the covenant spiritual sacrifices including all of that we're doing now prayer worship water baptism the Lord's table all of these things that we're doing in the new covenant and the new covenant invites us to a place of intimacy what does the Bible say what does Jesus say when you call to me and I'll answer you I'm knocking I'm here to listen ask and it shall be given knock and the door shall be opened studied in Christian leaders conference right we can pursue intimacy and he's willing to be intimate with us imagine in the old covenant those prophets and the great men and women of God they were so intimate and close with God but you and I can have a greater intimacy than that because of the Holy Spirit inside us you see the difference there are some things they enjoyed like Hebrews gives a whole list by faith they did this this this this this and they didn't even have the Holy Spirit I mean they had the Holy Spirit with them but not always and they did all of that but you and I as believers with the Holy Spirit inside us how much more we can do so there is a reason why God is giving us the Holy Spirit and he wants us to walk in this integrity in this power in this authority that he has called us for so let's take a break we'll come back in 10 minutes and we'll continue with chapter 6 the old and the new covenant contrasted