The very mention of the New Covenant is not in the New Testament but in the Old Testament, in the Hebrew Scriptures. In Jeremiah 31:31: it's written, "The time is coming", says Yehovah, "that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel." Now if you just read that in English, it would appear that God just decided to make a new covenant and that was all there was to it. But in the Hebrew, there is much more to it. For when it ways, "I will make a new covenant" in Hebrew, it says something a bit different. It says, "I will cut a new covenant."
What does that mean? I means that God will not simply make a new covenant but He will cut it - as the cutting of a sacrifice. What sacrifice? The sacrifice of God's anointed one. It is not just that in the New Covenant our sins are forgiven. But rather that in the New Covenant, our sins can only be forgiven because a sacrifice has been cut for us. That mystery appears as well in Isaiah 53 as it foretells the sacrifice of God's anointed one that brings about the forgiveness of our sins.
That mystery also appears in Daniel 9 as it foretells the bringing in of the final atonement for sin. And according to that prophecy, it can only happen with the coming of God's anointed one. The Hebrew states very specifically that, "God's anointed one shall be cut off. It's another way of saying God's anointed one will be killed or crushed - the cutting of the New Covenant.
What does this mean for us? I means we can never take for granted the fact that our sins can be forgiven. It's not a right, it's not a given, and it's not something naturally that follows. The fact that we can lift up our sins before God and have any one of them forgiven, much more all of them, is only because a sacrifice has been cut, a price has been paid, a great price, the blood of the life of God's anointed one. So it is not a matter of feeling or hoping, it is a matter of absolute fact. A sacrifice has been cut. That means our sins are forgiven, no matter what.
So be blessed and walk in newness of God's grace. Live a life worthy of the price that has been paid for your life. Walk in the power of holiness, confidence with purity and with power. Because it is for such a life as ours that God's anointed one's life was cut off.
Author Jonathan Cahn edited by Bruce Lyon
What does that mean? I means that God will not simply make a new covenant but He will cut it - as the cutting of a sacrifice. What sacrifice? The sacrifice of God's anointed one. It is not just that in the New Covenant our sins are forgiven. But rather that in the New Covenant, our sins can only be forgiven because a sacrifice has been cut for us. That mystery appears as well in Isaiah 53 as it foretells the sacrifice of God's anointed one that brings about the forgiveness of our sins.
That mystery also appears in Daniel 9 as it foretells the bringing in of the final atonement for sin. And according to that prophecy, it can only happen with the coming of God's anointed one. The Hebrew states very specifically that, "God's anointed one shall be cut off. It's another way of saying God's anointed one will be killed or crushed - the cutting of the New Covenant.
What does this mean for us? I means we can never take for granted the fact that our sins can be forgiven. It's not a right, it's not a given, and it's not something naturally that follows. The fact that we can lift up our sins before God and have any one of them forgiven, much more all of them, is only because a sacrifice has been cut, a price has been paid, a great price, the blood of the life of God's anointed one. So it is not a matter of feeling or hoping, it is a matter of absolute fact. A sacrifice has been cut. That means our sins are forgiven, no matter what.
So be blessed and walk in newness of God's grace. Live a life worthy of the price that has been paid for your life. Walk in the power of holiness, confidence with purity and with power. Because it is for such a life as ours that God's anointed one's life was cut off.
Author Jonathan Cahn edited by Bruce Lyon
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