Unbelief is the root of disobedience and every sin. It makes it IMPOSSIBLE for God to do His work. It is unbelief that prevents us from entering into God's true provision. Unbelief prevents God from working in us and through us and from doing His mighty works in us. The only true remedy to ones sinful state is faith in God and His full provision. Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God. Faith is THE ONLY THING that prevents any sinner from receiving God's true gift of salvation.

If we turn to God who has engaged to do all for us, who will keep His covenant forever our lives will be all that God really wants it. God's main object is draw us to Him and then bring us into the right position and disposition in which He can fill us with Himself.

The law or old covenant ended in mans proving his own unfaithfulness and failure. In the new covenant God is to prove what HE can do with man, all unfaithful and feeble as he is when He allowed and trusted to do ALL the work. God HIMSELF keeps it and ensures our keeping it: So it makes it an Everlasting Covenant.

When a person's utter impotence, his hopeless captivity under the power of sin has been truly discovered, there came the new covenant, in which God reveals how man's true liberty from sin and self and God's holy character was to be found in the must entire and absolute dependence, in God's being and doing ALL with in him.

Only through faith in the promise and the mighty quickening power of God could they, could anybody be made truly and fully free, and stand in the freedom with which Christ has made us free. Under the new covenant God will work in us and make us fit according to His mighty power that works with in us.

The old covenant was necessary to waken man's desires, to call forth his efforts, to deepen the sense of dependance of God, to convince of his sin and total lack of power and so prepare him to know his true need of salvation of Christ. The law can never bring forth true obedience or true love. The law was to convince man of his true sinful state and waken the confession of is lack of power and true need of the new covenant and a true redemption.

There are two lessons God must teach us. One is the lesson of sin, the other lesson of holiness. The lesson of the law is to show man a true sense of their sinfulness and hopeless lack of any power to deliver themselves. Without an intense longing and desire for deliverance from sinning and ones chosen selfish state this person will fall back into the power of the law and the flesh. The lesson of holiness is that the triune God engages to do all. He undertakes to give and keep the new heart, to give His own Spirit in it, to give the will and the power to truly obey and do His will. The law CANNOT give life or make any person holy. The laws purpose is to make man guilty and helpless before the holiness of God. Then God reveals to him that HE in His grace accepts him and makes him a partaker of His holiness and divine nature. A sinner must come to the real knowledge of the power of sin and his true lack of power to cast it out, or to work in himself anything that is good. ONLY when they have truly learned this often by their own experience can they possibly fully enter into the blessing of God's true provision. Man in his sinful state has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in himself to give himself the TRUE LIFE he so desperately needs. ALL the sinner will ever truly accomplish by self effort is continual, perpetual failings and disappointments. The answer to this lies in the wonderful assurance that God, by His Holy Spirit, undertakes to work everything he requires within you.

The longing from the life of daily sinning and the total realization from all hope to secure this by our own efforts will prepare us for understanding and accepting God's true and only way of salvation. It is Him HIMSELF really working in us all that is pleasing in HIS sight.

The sinner must turn his heart away from all past experience of failure and disappointment that was caused by nothing but his own unbelief. The sinner must admit fully and heartily what this failure has really taught him about his absolute impossibility walking in God's law in his own strength even for a millisecond. Seeing this failure he can turn his heart quietly and trustfully to a totally faithful and loving God who will do exactly what He says He will do. He can rest in the fact of God's Almightily power and the Holy Spirit working in him both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.

Some Christians who really have been justified by faith then seek to sanctified by works of the law. They look for the maintenance and the growth in their Christian life to the observance of the law. They do not understand that, just like the new birth, the Devine life is ALONE by faith, day after day receiving from Christ alone. Nothing avails but faith working by love.

The Christian is bound to a living person, not the law. Holiness is only possible by the unceasing faith in His power ever working in us. Much of what people call Christianity is really nothing more then sinful flesh attempting to preform religious efforts.. A person can always yield himself to God and in simple faith count on Him to preform what He had spoken.

Many have to experience of being in total bondage to sin under the law before they can have clear insight in their true need for deliverance. Others attempt to use the means of grace and a more earnest striving to live in accordance with God's will and yet entirely continually fail. The reason for this failure is that there is a SECRET ROOT OF EVIL which must be removed. That root is the spirit of self-effort which only hinders that humble faith that knows that God will work all and freely yields to Him to do it. It is only by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus that hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Under the new covenant God actually provides for every possible need.

The old covenant could never provide the necessary holiness required. But what would the point for God to have a new covenant if it did provide for actually the fulfilling and securing true obedience? The true gospel does not do away with obedience it provides the only solution where true holy living is possible. Any preaching that attempts to do away with the true and actual obedience of the Christian is a FALSE gospel that only deceives a person in his totally sinful state. The problem with the old covenant was man broke it. Man showed his total unfaithfulness and his failure to do his part. God provides a New and better covenant in which he would make impossible for the one in to be ever be unfaithful, or not do his part. God swears that HE HIMSELF will prevent a person, living under this covenant of grace, to ever break it. HE would truly secure mans part as well as His own. The new covenant CAN NOT BE TRULY BROKEN by man because GOD undertakes man's obedience at all times.

Never forget that if you have any subtle unbelief that thinks that it is impossible for you to be kept from sinning, it will cut away the power of your accepting the provision of His everlasting covenant. The new covenant is designed to meet the need for a power of not sinning. It freely gives the power and ability to be set free of a chosen selfish state and obey. The old covenant was never designed to produce the actual required holiness and obedience.

Gods great object in salvation is to get possession of the heart. The heart is the real life, with the heart a man loves, and wills, and acts, the heart makes man. God designed the heart of man for His own dwelling, that in it He might reveal His love and His glory.

Under the old covenant man failed in what he had to do. Under the new, God does everything in the believer. The old could only convict of sin, the new a cleanses the heart from filthiness. Under the old it was the heart that was wrong. Under the new, a new heart is provided into which God put His fear and His law and His love. The old demanded obedience, but it could never secure this obedience. In the new God causes us to walk in His judgments. The new provides the true fulfilment of the demands of the law. Gods gives us His love within all hearts so that we can truly love Him and others rightly. The old gave no power. The new is by the Spirit, the mighty power of God. The heart is under the reign and power of Christ. His domain on the throne of the heart by His Holy Spirit given to us. God fills our heart with His love and makes it His abode. The Holy spirit or grace and power by whom the obedience of the covenant and the fellowship with God can be maintained without interruption.

The child of God needs to give the Holy Spirit the place in his live that He has in God's plan. Be still before God, and believe that He is with you, and ask the Father to work in you through Him. Let the consciousness of His presence and working fill you with holy calm and fear.

The new covenant is born by the very LIFE of Christ and the Holy Spirit's resurrection power that brought Christ from the dead. Thus is everlasting life and power of all sin, flesh, and the devil. In Christ we are DEAD to sin. We get to be partakers of His true Divine nature. It is Christ who will make me perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in me all that which is pleasing in His sight. It is the aim of God to fully restore man from a state of chosen selfishness to the life in HIM. The old covenant of law and effort and failure has ended in condemnation and death. The new covenant is the coming to give, in all whom the law has slain, the law written in the heart, the Holy Spirit dwelling there, Jesus Christ and the Father dwelling their. God works all, both the willing and the doing through Jesus Christ.

We are to accept our death to sin in Christ and act on it. We are truly dead to any self effort when we see our helpless and unworthiness before Him. We can fix our heart upon a great and mighty God, who in grace will work in you above what you ask or think. Believe NOW that this new heart is yours. Act in faith, and count on God as faithful and able and so loving to reveal in you, to make true to you, all the power and glory of His everlasting covenant.

Under the new covenant, sin does not have the slightest claim on us, nor the slightest power over us, except by our ignorance or unbelief or half heartedness allows it to have dominion. We can truly stand in the freedom with which Christ has made us free.

Faith knows that it is an operation of God's mighty power that effects a cleansing that does give a clean heart. A clean heart is first known and accepted by simple faith, apart from signs or feelings apart from sense or reason, and the truly experiences the joy and the fellowship with God it brings.

The new covenant is the only possible way that mans heart can be put right. Under the new covenant he freely receives a heart that fears God, to love God with all its strength, to obey God and to actually keep all the commandments. The real object of Christ's redeeming work was to take the entire possession of the heart. God's grace can truly be seen in taking a totally rebellious sinner, one who so truly loves his owns selfishness that he will NEVER turn from it, to being led out of his bondage under the old covenant with all its failures into the REAL experience of the promise and the power of the new covenant.

It is with the heart alone that Christ can be truly known or honored. It is in the heart the work of grace be done, and the saving power of Christ to be displayed. It is in the heart alone the Holy Spirit has His sphere of work; their He is to work Christ's likeness; it is there alone He can glorify Christ. The Spirit can only glorify Christ br revealing His saving power in us.

The new covenant deals with the heart, just that Christ may be found there, may dwell there by faith. The heart becomes the actual dwelling place for the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit.

If we are to live in covenant with God, everything depends upon our knowing aright what Jesus secures to us. The more we know and trust Him, the more assured will our faith be that is every promise and every demand WILL BE FULFILLED, that a life of faithful keeping of God's covenant is indeed possible, because Jesus is the Surety (guarantee) of the covenant. He makes God's Faithfulness and ours equally sure.

We have not only a Covenant, with certain definite promises; we have not only Jesus Himself, The Surety of the covenant; but at the back of that, we have the living God, who is longsuffering and faithful, coming in between with an oath. The thing God aims at in this covenant is to give us an absolute confidence that HE is going to do all He has promised, however difficult or wonderful it may appear. His oath is the end of all fear and doubt.

Christ is able to completely save those who draw near to God through Him. This is because Christ ever liveth to make intercession for them. He is ceaselessly engaged in watching their needs and presenting them to the Father, in receiving His answer, and imparting its blessing. Now as a result He is able to save completely - to work and maintain in us a complete salvation. It is the love of God that draws us close to His heart. He puts our heart under the power of His love and then fills it with His love.

We have the assurance of the sufficiency of Christ's finished redemption. Christ did all that was necessary to put away sin, to free us entirely and forever from its power. Christ did this by His life, blood, death, resurrection and ascension. He has taken us out of the power of the world and transported us into a new life in the power of the heavenly world. Christ Himself is the guarantee that the divine righteousness, and the divine acceptance, that all sufficient divine grace and strength are forever ours. All this is and will be ours by His unbroken continuance.

We need this assurance to enter into this life in the new covenant. Without this we may shrink back from the surrender of all because we know we do not have the power to let go. We may also fear we do not have enough faith to really take all that is offered to in this covenant. Christ's guarantee consists in proving us with the very dispositions that we need, to accept it and enjoy it. God wants us to know we can have a confident trust that He we do in us all that is necessary. It is when we withhold our confidence in Him by placing our confidence in our own self efforts we sin.

Many see the cross of Christ but have stopped there. Many never expect Him to do great things in their own hearts. It is by the Holy Spirit the heart is the home and His throne. We can as a definite act of faith. Throw ourselves utterly on Him to gives His life and walk. There can be no greater guarantee then the faithfulness of Jesus to accomplish in our hearts the desires of a loving God.

It is not when you are strong within yourself, it is only when you are week, feeble and fearful that Christ draws you to Himself. He does this by showing you His faithfulness, love, and guarantee to inspire you with courage and confidence in Him. Jesus really delights to bring you into the covenant. As long you feel strong within yourself, you will never know of your need for Him. When you see your need of Him and His free offer to deliver you from your sins it is easy to throw yourself into His loving arms.

Christ enables a person to believe that he may trust Him confidently. Christ will do everything that is required to make all the covenant grace absolutely true to you. No mater how low or sinful you are or have been, just look up NOW to see your glorified Lord who will maintain your confidence trust in Him. You will receive more then you can ask or think. You can know without a doubt that what the Lord undertakes, He will preform. Your part is to surrender all to Him knowing that He will totally accomplish what He said He would do.

Many people think that they can be holy but they have so little sense of their own sinfulness or the true Holiness and Glory of God. With self confidence they consider themselves able to keep the laws of God. In their own strength and in the power of the flesh they are ready to engage to serve God. They view Christianity as a systems of laws, a course of instruction to direct them in the way God would have them go.

Many seek to serve God without faith or in any daily contact with Him. Only His presence can keep us from sin. Their religion is a matter of outward instruction from man. They have never experienced the death of the flesh and the end of self will that only comes as a result of a close walk with God. They may be faithful and diligent in the study of their bible but they truly lack the LIFE that is in Christ.

The person living under the new covenant sees that the letter kills and the flesh profits nothing. Only the Holy Spirit can bring the scriptures to life. Only when the Spirit of the living God brings the words to life within the heart it will be quick and powerful. The word will works effectually in them that believe, giving within the heart the actual possession of the very grace of which the word has spoken. In the new covenant the Holy Spirit is everything. It is the Holy Spirit entering the heart, writing, revealing, inspiring upon it God's law and truth, that alone works true obedience.

One of the great reasons that so many people never come out the old covenant is they never know they are in it and have to come out of it. There is often so much head knowledge without the power of the Spirit at work. It is when a person sees his need and then believes the fact of Gods provision for him that he can embrace it. Do not relay on human understanding and do not let any teaching or teacher take the place of the Holy Spirit. Human wisdom has no profit God must reveal by His holy Spirit.

The new covenant is true obedience and fellowship with God. We can now live in full and unbroken obedience and communion with Him. He tells us that by the mighty power of the Son and the Spirit, that He Himself will work this in us. He has made EVERYTHING fully available to us. We can now experience His Devine nature and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust. He makes our unbroken obedience possible. All we need to do is simply surrender in faith and yield ourselves to Him to do His work. Oh let us look, and see this holy life, with all its powers and blessings, coming down from heaven, in the Son and His Spirit. Let us let God take total possession of us and experience His provision for every spiritual blessing.

Under the old covenant God's favor and blessings were solely dependant upon strict obedience to His laws. Under the new covenant God Himself provides for the required obedience. Instead of the covenant and its fulfilment depending on man's obedience, God undertakes to ensure the obedience. The old covenant proved the need, and point out the path to holiness. The new covenant inspires the love and gives the power of holiness. True obedience is as indispensable necessary in the old as the new covenant. The new covenant DOES NOT remove obedience but it actually provides the obedience required. The whole old covenant was meant to teach the lesson of absolute and indispensable necessity of obedience for a life in God's favor. The new covenant comes, not to provide a substitute for that obedience in faith, but through faith to secure the obedience, by giving a heart that delights in obedience and has the power to preform it.

Some think that somehow grace does away with ones actual obedience, But NO, truce grace comes to give the power of a holy life, a heart delighting in God's law, and a life in which God Himself causes and enables us by His indwelling Spirit to actually keep His commandments. Do not be deceived, obedience is essential. The new covenant was designed and expressly made to provide the actual necessary obedience.

The entrance to the new covenant often depends on some single act of surrender. When a person realizes that something is really wrong with his obedience he often attempts to solve this problem in his own strength and power and then he only fails. Sometimes it is an old habit that seems impossible to overcome and maintain the promise of obedience. This habit pricks the conscience and says that everything is not in accord with God's perfect will. Attempts are made to push this suggestion aside. In this state prayer appears to have no effect. It was if faith could not lay hold of the blessing which was in full sight, until he gives up and surrenders to the guarantee of the new covenant for God to maintain his obedience. God provides all the faith and everything else to give him the power and maintain the necessary obedience. In his disappointment and failure if he then realizes that God will maintain his obedience for him. God does this by freely giving him the obedience and the power and desire to maintain it, now it becomes very easy now for his total surrender to God. With every doubtful thing given up, and his hearts confidence before God assured, He can receive and possess God's full provision. Which provides for his actual continual, perpetual, unbroken, absolute and, strict obedience forever!!!

If a person thinks that no man can obey God he cuts away at the very root of true hope and strength. This thought can also can give thousands who are living under the law a false hope and a false peace that God does not really expect more from them than that they just try their best. Under grace, true genuine obedience is not only possible, it is absolutely essential for Christian living. Grace does not remove obedience, it provides for the actual fulfilment of it.

When the law is written in the heart; when the heart is circumcised to love the Lord with all the heart, and obey Him; when the love of God is shed abroad in the heart it means that the love of God's law and of Himself has now become the moving power of our life.

By faith in the promises of the covenant, we get the inworking of the Holy Spirit and the love of God in his infinite desire and power to make true in us all His love and promises. He lives within us. This is our continual experience. No matter how feeble or cold we may feel, faith knows that the love of God is truly within us both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

Obedience is not the way to the new covenant, it is the result of being in the new covenant.

To have God teaching and guiding you, to be united to God in willing what He wills, in working out what he works in you by His Holy Spirit, in doing His Holy Will, and pleasing him. All this is a joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Ask God to show you how "you have been created in Christ Jesus unto good works." Ask Him to show you that He means obedience, not only to be a possible thing, but the most delightful and attractive gift He has to offer, the entrance into His love and all its blessedness.

The new covenant is more then just power, strength, grace and the certainly that this covenant will never fail. These are results of the living God giving Himself and making Himself known, and taking possession of our hearts as our God.

The Father loves you with an infinite love, and longs to make you, RIGHT NOW, His Holy happy, obedient Child. He has for you an entirely different life from what you are now living. A life in which His grace shall actually work in you every moment all He asks you to be.. A life of simple childlike obedience, doing for the day just what the Father shows you to be His will.

A life in which the abiding love of the Father, and the abiding presence of the Savior, and the joy of the Holy Spirit, can keep you and make you glad and strong.

Now, just turn heavenward and ask the Father, by the Holy Spirit, to show you His abundant life. Ask for it and expect Him to do it. Keep your eyes fixed on it. The great blessing of the new covenant is obedience; the wonderful power to will and do as God wills. This is the entrance to every other blessing.

Under the new covenant sin will NOT have dominion over you. What the law could never do, give deliverance from the power of sin over you, grace would effect. The new covenant is entirely a covenant of grace. It is of grace and by grace working in you that all the promises can be fulfilled and experienced.

What the law demands and requires, grace supplies. The law demands, but makes no provision for its demands being met. The law only burdens, condemns and slays. It can waken a desire, but it can never satisfy it. It can stir up effort but not secure success. It can appeal to motives but gives no inward power to make any change toward true holiness. Jesus Christ came to give grace to deliver us from the bondage and the dominion of sin. We are pardoned from all past transgressions, we are made righteous and totally accepted into God's favor and friendship. We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of His grace. This abundance grace is seen in the work of the Holy Spirit as He maintains obedience within us every moment in our life. This grace fulfills the law because it maintains the heart in a state fit for God's continuous indwelling. The love of God takes over and controls the heart so that it fully and joyfully obeys every requirement of the law.

All the grace in the heaven and earth can not help you. It is only in the heart it can be received, and known and enjoyed. "They that receive the abundance of grace shall reign in life through Christ." Grace alone will make you fit to do God's will. "The gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of His power." "The grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was given unto me." "God is able to make all grace abound in you, that you may abound unto every good work."

Grace is not only the power that moves the heart of God in His compassion toward us when we were sinners, but is equally the power that moves the heart of the Christian, and provides it each and ever moment with just the right disposition and the power which it needs to love God and do His will. The grace that pardons is the grace that sanctifies.

Many never expect to be free from all sin in this lifetime. This is one reason they do not experience the grace that can sanctify them and produce much fruit. They are left only with their own self effort. Their life remains one of feebleness and bondage under the law. They do not yield themselves to let God's grace do all within them.

Grace stands in contrast to the works of our own that we have done. We are created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God had prepared for us. It is by grace alone that can work them in us and work them out of us. The work of grace is not only for the new birth but also for the continuance of the Christian life and growth.

We see that grace is literally and absolutely to do all in us, so that our actions show forth of the grace that is in us. We must live by faith in which every moment, everything is expected from God. It is only then that we shall experience that sin shall not, never, not for a moment have dominion over us.

Either you are under the law's influence, experiencing failure and bondage to sin or you under The influence of God's grace that truly sets you free from the domain and power of sin. Take the time to examine your own life now to see which state you are really in. If you find that you are under the law's influence then NOW ask God to open your eyes by the Holy Spirit to see that in the new covenant everything, every movement, every moment of the Christians life, is of grace, abounding grace exceedingly, and working mightily. Believe NOW that the God of the covenant waits to cause all grace to abound toward you. Now begin to live the life of faith the depends upon, and trusts in, and looks to and waits for God, through Jesus Christ, by His Spirit, to work in you all that which is pleasing in His sight.

The old covenant consisted of the law written on the tablets of stone. The new covenant:

Jer. 31:31-34 "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 a 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 neighbor, 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."

Jer. 32:39-40 "And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me."

Heb. 8:8-12 "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when 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 when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."

Ezek. 36:25-27 "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."

The old covenant was mere law. The new covenant is the writing of this law in the heart. The first covenant commanded one to love the Lord God with all his heart and all his soul and with all his strength. The new covenant is the fulfillment of what the old required. It is the fulfillment, in the heart, of all that the old required. The old covenant required perfect obedience on the pain of death. The new is causing God's people to render perfect obedience. The new covenant is not a promise, but it is result promised, that is, the promise itself is not the new covenant but that state of mind produced by the Spirit of God writing the law in the hearts and causing them "to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments and do them." The new heart and the new spirit are the new covenant itself. It is the fulfillment of the promise. The new covenant is neither law nor promise, but the very spirit required by the law produced in the heart by the Holy Ghost.

The old required a holy heart. Ezek. 18:31 "Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?"

The new is the giving of this holy heart.

Ezek. 36:26 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh."

Obedience was enforced under the old covenant by penal sanction. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." The new is the production of this obedience in the heart by the Spirit of God.

The old covenant promised life only upon the conditions of perfect and perpetual obedience. The new is the producing of this perfect and perpetual obedience.

Deut. 30:6 "And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live."

Jer. 24:7 "And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart."

The old covenant left men to the exercise of their own strength. The new is the effectual sanctification by the Holy Spirit. The new covenant is the effectual indwelling of the Holy Spirit, producing the very temper required by the law, or old covenant.

The old was an outward covenant with the law written on stone. The new is an inward covenant. It is the indwelling of the Spirit of God, writing the law in the heart, begetting and maintaining the very obedience required by the old covenant. The old covenant was the mere requirement of that of which the new covenant is the fulfillment, by the indwelling and effectual influences of the Spirit of God.

The old covenant was broken, but the new covenant shall not be broken by those who receive it. The great difficulty with the old covenant was that it had not sufficient efficiency to secure holiness. The new covenant is holiness.

The design of the old covenant was designed to develop sin. Rom. 7:8-13 "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful."

The design of the old covenant was not to make men holy but to develop their real character, to show them their own wicked heart and thus convict and condemn them rather than make them holy and justify them. The old covenant or the law can only convict and condemn the sinner. It can only place sinners under judgment and without repentance justly send them to hell.

The new covenant is the death of sin in opposition to the old which is the strength of sin. I Cor. 15:56 "The strength of sin is the law."

The new covenant is not outward precept nor an outward promise nor any outward thing at all. It is an inward holiness wrought by the Spirit of God. It is the very substance and spirit of the law written in the heart by the Holy Ghost.

The old covenant works spiritual death and ends in eternal death. The new consists in righteousness and eternal life.

The old covenant was only a school master to bring one to Christ.

Gal. 3:24 "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." But the new covenant is the reign of Christ in the heart.

The old was designed to strip one of self-righteousness and show one's need of Christ. It was designed to develop one's selfishness and enmity and his entire helplessness and dependence upon Christ to incline him to holiness. This prepares the way for one's acceptance of Christ as an indwelling and reigning Savior. The old covenant brings one to Christ. The new enters. In other words Christ enters the soul, takes up His residence there, writes the law of love in the heart, takes away the stony heart of flesh, makes the new covenant with the soul, and sheds His divine influence over the entire being. Without the old covenant or the law's effect on one, one would never see his own sin and come to Christ. The law strengthened sin, it never can kill it.

Under the new covenant, one is dead to sin, but under the old, one is dead in sin. The new is entire holiness, the old entire wickedness. The old made nothing perfect. Heb. 7:19 "For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God." The new covenant is perfection itself.

All men under the old covenant or law are in a state of slavery and render service out of fear. The new covenant is liberty itself. Rom. 6:14 "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace."

The old covenant only produced outward morality, while it aggravated the sin of the heart. The new covenant produces the holy heart that results in outward holiness.

The new covenant is not the gospel itself but that which is to be effected by the gospel. The new covenant is that work in the heart which is wrought by the Holy Ghost by the means of the gospel. The gospel is God's only means by which He makes the new covenant to the soul, or by which He inclines the soul to close in with and obey the old covenant. Now the whole object of God in the gospel is not to put aside or nullify the old covenant or the law but to bring men into obedience to it. One is to be perfectly conformed to the law of love.

Being born again is not the receiving of the new covenant. The promises concerning the new covenant are not automatic. The mass majority of believers have never received this promise. The promises of the new covenant are made to believers and not to unbelievers. They are made to the church and not the world. It is after one believes, he is to be sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.

The condition of the new covenant is faith. It is naturally impossible that the new covenant should be received or the old written in the heart upon any other condition than faith. Without confidence or faith there can be no love. Genuine faith produces love.