The Spiritual Man #4 – The Old And the New
In one meeting, upon a riverbank, Old met New. One was fulfilled, and one was just beginning. He must increase, and I must. He must become greater, and I must become less.
For, the law and the prophets were until John, and since that time, men were forcefully entering the Kingdom with violence (Luke 16:16).
The old system was to be replaced, and it was the New that mattered now. The law was given through Moses, Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).
Jeremiah the prophet wrote this oracle:
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that 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 their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 31:31-34