k4c
22nd March 2008, 08:10 AM
As you read the Old Testament you will find many of the things God had Israel experience have a spiritual meaning in the New Testament, for example. As you read the Old Testament you will find a story of two sons being born through Abraham, one was through Hagar and one was through Sarai. This whole experience has a spiritual application in the New Testament.
Galatians 4:21-26 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
We find this kind of spiritual insight all throughout the New Testament as God brings spiritual meanings to the things of the old. Egypt itself and the coming out of Egypt has a spiritual meaning in the New Testament. The Promise Land in the Old Testament has a spiritual meaning in the New Testament. Just about everything we read in the Old Testament has a spiritual application in the New Testament. Even the law itself is spiritual.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
In other words, when something is spiritual we have to understand it as it applies to the inward man. This is the whole idea of the New Covenant.
John 4:23-24 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.'
1 Corinthians 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Colossians 1:9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The Sabbath of the Old Covenant is of stone and brings death and condemnation.
2 Corinthians 3:7-9 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
The Sabbath of the New Covenant is spiritual as it applies to the inward man.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
These things of the New Covenant have to be spiritually decerned. If we try to understand the New Covenant with an Old Covenant mindset it will continue to bring death.
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Life and peace come from understanding spiritually the things of the New Covenant.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The Roman Catholic Church is a perfect example of interpreting things of the New Covenant with a carnal or natural mindset as they turn Jesus into a cookie and tell people they become righteous when they eat it.
This is no different than telling people to keep a literal rest on the seventh day by ceasing from all labor to be acceptable to God or to receive life. What propfit does Christ become to us in doing so?
John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
The New Covenant is not founded on anything of the Old, but rather, the words of Christ. For it is His words that will judge the New Covenant believer in the end, not anything of the Old.
John 12:48 "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
Galatians 4:21-26 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
We find this kind of spiritual insight all throughout the New Testament as God brings spiritual meanings to the things of the old. Egypt itself and the coming out of Egypt has a spiritual meaning in the New Testament. The Promise Land in the Old Testament has a spiritual meaning in the New Testament. Just about everything we read in the Old Testament has a spiritual application in the New Testament. Even the law itself is spiritual.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
In other words, when something is spiritual we have to understand it as it applies to the inward man. This is the whole idea of the New Covenant.
John 4:23-24 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.'
1 Corinthians 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Colossians 1:9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The Sabbath of the Old Covenant is of stone and brings death and condemnation.
2 Corinthians 3:7-9 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
The Sabbath of the New Covenant is spiritual as it applies to the inward man.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
These things of the New Covenant have to be spiritually decerned. If we try to understand the New Covenant with an Old Covenant mindset it will continue to bring death.
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Life and peace come from understanding spiritually the things of the New Covenant.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The Roman Catholic Church is a perfect example of interpreting things of the New Covenant with a carnal or natural mindset as they turn Jesus into a cookie and tell people they become righteous when they eat it.
This is no different than telling people to keep a literal rest on the seventh day by ceasing from all labor to be acceptable to God or to receive life. What propfit does Christ become to us in doing so?
John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
The New Covenant is not founded on anything of the Old, but rather, the words of Christ. For it is His words that will judge the New Covenant believer in the end, not anything of the Old.
John 12:48 "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.