Covenant
{COVENANT OF GOD}
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{FRANÇAIS}
- La Nouvelle Alliance dans l'Esprit - {Copie PDF} - (Le Don de l'Esprit est essentiel à la Nouvelle Alliance promise par Dieu dans la Bible hébraïque pour Son peuple)
- Bénis les Nations - (Le Don de l'Esprit est l'une des promesses de l'Alliance de bénir les nations de la Terre par Abraham et sa Postérité) - {Télécharger le PDF}
- Héritiers de l'Alliance - (Avec l'effusion de l'Esprit le jour de la Pentecôte, les bénédictions promises à Abraham pour toutes les nations ont commencé) - {Télécharger le PDF}
{NEW COVENANT}
- The Promise of the Father - {PDF Copy} - (With the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, the blessings for all nations promised to Abraham commenced)
- Both Jews and Greeks - {PDF Copy} - (The equality of Jews and Gentiles before an impartial and just God is pivotal to Paul’s Gospel. They stand or fall before Him on the same basis)
- New Covenant in the Spirit - {PDF Copy} - (The Gift of the Spirit is essential to the New Covenant promised by God in the Hebrew Bible for His people)
- Without Circumcision - {PDF Copy} - (With the new era inaugurated by Jesus, circumcision is no longer the required sign of membership in the covenant community)
- His Incomparable Covenant - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus inaugurated the superior New Covenant through his Death and Resurrection, rendering the old covenant obsolete – Hebrews 8:6-13)
- Priest Forever - {PDF Copy} - (His priesthood is superior since it rests on his endless resurrection life and God’s oath, the priest after the order of Melchizedek – Psalm 110:4)
- The Spirit is Life! - {PDF Copy} - (The Spirit of God imparts life, especially the everlasting life of which the Gift of the Spirit is the foretaste and guarantee)
- Bless the Nations - {PDF Copy} - (The Gift of the Spirit is one of the covenant promises to bless the nations of the Earth through Abraham and his Seed)
- One People in Christ Jesus - {PDF Copy} - (By his Death and Resurrection, Jesus formed one covenant community - One New Man - based on faith in him – Ephesians 2:11-22)
- Blessing Kings and Nations - {PDF Copy} - (The promise to bless all nations in Abraham culminates in the vast multitude of the Redeemed that will inhabit New Jerusalem)
- These Last Days - {PDF Copy} - (The era of the Levitical priesthood terminated with the arrival of the word in God’s Son, Jesus Christ, our High Priest forevermore)
- Son of Abraham - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus is the Son of Abraham and the heir of the promises, the One who fulfills and implements the inheritance for his people)
- The Final Temple - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus is the Greater and Final Temple prefigured in the ancient Tabernacle and the later Temple building in Jerusalem)
{THE LAW}
- The Greater Lawgiver - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus is the Greater Moses who interprets the Law and the Prophets and brings the promises to fulfillment)
- The Law and Prophets - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus came to fulfill all the things that were promised and foreshadowed in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Law and the Prophets)
- Jesus and Tradition - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus undermined the religious rationale for dietary restrictions. With the Messiah’s arrival, the old rituals lost their relevance)
- Lord of Sabbath - {PDF Copy} - (In response to Jewish religious leaders, Jesus demonstrated that he was Lord even of the Sabbath Day - Mark 2:23-3:6)
- Authority over Ritual Purity - {PDF Copy} - (The touch of Jesus cleansed a leper, and the forbidden contact did not render him unclean)
- Food and Calendars - {PDF Copy} - (Paul argues for tolerance in the church on food regulations and the observation of holy days – The shadows now find their fulfillment in Jesus)
- Rudimentary Things - {PDF Copy} - (The Messianic Age dawned in Jesus, and calendrical rituals and other Levitical regulations belong to the old order)
- Limits of the Law - {PDF Copy} - (The jurisdiction of the Mosaic regulations over the covenant community reached its limit with the arrival of Jesus, the Seed of Abraham)
{IN GALATIA}
- Conflict in Galatia - {PDF Copy} - (The key issue in Galatia was whether Gentiles must be circumcised and keep some, at least, of the deeds required by the Torah)
- Proclaiming Another Gospel - {PDF Copy} - (The Judaizing faction in Galatia proclaimed a message that deviated from the Apostolic Tradition and twisted the true Gospel – Galatians 1:6-12)
- Neither Jew nor Greek - {PDF Copy} - (Returning to the custodianship of the Law would mean rebuilding the wall of separation between Jews and Gentiles)
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