The new covenant is not about swapping out one legal system for another, in order to "be saved".
It's about restoring Eden, wherein there is no violence, disease, death.
As humans, we can only do so much toward this goal (and will have to wait for Jesus' return for most of it), so Jesus emphasized what we *can* do, and that's to have a God-at-the-top community, wherein the citizens treat each other with mutual respect, bearing one anothers' burdens, helping the widow and orphan and sick, never seeking vengeance or responding with "oh no you did'n!" as you plan a way to "teach them a lesson" or flipping off the bad driver who cut you off in traffic.
In short, the good news is supposed to result in a social healing at our hands; the mental and physical healing comes at the hands of God.
It's not about what we eat or drink or what day we worship or our church organization or what rituals we observe; it's about how we treat each other. This is the crux of Christianity - one-another relationships.
Originally published at:
https://kentwest.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-new-covenant-relationships.html
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