MelVee Sabbath School || Ln 10 - Q3 2017 || The Two Covenants

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Join this week's guest panelists as they discuss the two covenants in the book of Galatians. The lesson explores the post-modern Christian erroneous belief that rejects the authority of the Old Testament covenant and the law from Sinai as inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The lesson shares how it is wrong to claim that the covenant given on Sinai represents an era, a dispensation, from a time in human history when salvation was based on obedience to the law. What was the basis of both covenants. What actually makes the old an old covenant and the new a new covenant? The lesson also explains that the new covenant is the everlasting covenant of grace first established with Adam and Eve after sin, renewed with Abraham, and ultimately fulfilled in Christ. Salvation was never by obedience to the law and that biblical Judaism, from the start, was always a religion of grace. The legalism that Paul was confronting in Galatia was a perversion, not just of Christianity but of the Old Testament itself. The two covenants are not matters of time; instead they are reflective of human attitudes. They represent two different ways of trying to relate to God, ways that go back to Cain and Abel. The old covenant represents those who, like Cain, mistakenly rely on their own obedience as a means of pleasing God; in contrast, the new covenant represents the experience of those who, like Abel, rely wholly upon God’s grace to do all that He has promised. Recorded and Published by MelVee Video Productions www.melveeproductions.com