Grace, Faith & Life

1.  The New Covenant is a new way of living with God based on Jeremiah 31:33 NIV
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people”. (Christians are grafted into Israel.)
Philippians 3:9 NIV
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2.  The New Covenant law is love,
Mark 12:28-31 NIV
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” [29] “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. [30] Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ [31] The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
Romans 13:9 NIV
The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 6:2 NIV
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

3. The NC is not about working to clean up our flesh and being righteous this is legalism. NC is about what we do in love.

4.  We can’t learn how to love by reading scripture. We can learn about love, but not how to love, that should be in our heart becasue of number one above.

We are Holy because God’s Spirit is in us. Holiness is the fruit of truth. We no longer live according to commandments. We live according to the love which God will put into our heart. We cannot love as a duty.

Christianity is not about making me a better person by obedience to laws, it is about helping somrone else have a better life because God and you love them.

This is what is written on our heart and should be taught as the result of our belief in God which brought the Holy Spirit into our heart and became our new way of living with God. We cannot read Scripture and learn to love.
Romans 8:2 NIV
because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.