Christ and Covenant
The Covenant and Christ
All are under sin, whether under the law or barbarians, and
apart from the Law we are all in need of righteousness. Not one
of us can stand before God righteous apart from Christ in us as
our righteousness. God does have a covenant with Israel as His
chosen race and we as believers are grafted onto the chosen race
by grace. This is where there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave
nor free for we are all in Christ, and there is a level playing
field for all mankind who are made partakers of divine nature.
We as Gentiles never become Jews, except in the spiritual sense
we become circumcised in our hearts having the law of God
written on our hearts and in our minds. In Christ we realise the
fulfillment of the law in our lives. We cannot attain to it and
neither can the Jew, so whether we are under the law or not, we
are all facing the wrath of God towards sin. Where God will
judge us for what we have done according to Paul's gospel, which
is Christ in us, the hope of Glory. We as gentiles do by nature
that which is required by the law because we have Christ the
fulfillment of the Law at work within us. What a wonderful
position to be in before God. Israel is still God's chosen
people and as such they have the protection and covenant of God.
Sin is what all men have and righteousness is what all men need.
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