The covenant



The first covenant of God and man is done in the Garden of Eden. 『But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.』(Genesis 2:17) They must eat the fruit of the tree of life, and keep spiritual being. God had brought them out of the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve broke the covenant. God made a new covenant.

『And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.』(Genesis 3:15), God destroyed the people except the eight by the flood because the people were corrupt again. God made a covenant with Abraham. He said he would give the promised land and promised seed. So, God say to Abraham obey.

Circumcision means having a descendant of a promise. The descendants of the promise is Jesus Christ. The last is a covenant of blood through the cross of Jesus Christ. 『Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.』(Luke 22:20) The covenant is established by both parties. If one side fails, it will be died. The covenant of Jesus' blood has the meaning of redemption.

God will buy those who repent with the price of blood of Jesus, so that they may be God’s people, they must obey to God. God tells his people to die with Jesus on the cross. This is baptism. 『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.』(Romans 6:4) 『Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.』(Romans 6:6) old man is the evil that desire to be like God.

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