Blood

"You are the sons of the covenant that God made with your fathers, speaking to Abraham," Act 3:25.

The one covenant from the Hebrew Bible that has held ever since God made it, is the one with Abraham (& Sarah). Repeated to Isaac. To Jacob. The other covenant, with Moses and the Law, ended with the sacrifice of Jesus. The new covenant in Jesus's blood taps into the covenant God made with Abraham. So Jews and Gentiles, both, have access to God in one Spirit. In the singular sacrificed body of Christ, Jews from all over the world, and Gentiles from all over the world are all reconciled to God and to each other. By faith having become children and heirs of Abraham. Modern day Israel, a nation established by human will, has no fulfillment related to the Law of Moses. This statement holds true of any nation today. God's new creation is no modern nation, but is the congregation of faithful humans redeemed by Christ, belonging to Christ. New covenant.

We meet with a brother or sister today participants in God's new creation. And together we praise God who, through Christ, redeemed us all from the curse of the Law.