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Gryphonette · #9 (**permalink**) 02-16-2007, 09:42 AM

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how can one be in covenant without a mediator?

When it comes to the New Covenant, one cannot.

Hebrews 8:6 "But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises."

Hebrews 9:15 "Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions [committed] under the first covenant."

Anyone for whom Christ mediates is surely destined for glory, for it's unthinkable that any of those given to Him should be lost ("I give them eternal life, and they will never perish —ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand..." John 10:28).

The idea of anyone being in the New Covenant, i.e. being one of whom it's written "Therefore He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them" (Hebrews 7:25), being eternally lost is nonsense.

Now, will the SIGN of the New Covenant be applied to those who are not, in fact, IN the New Covenant?

Most assuredly.

But the only people actually IN the New Covenant are those for whom Christ lived, died, was risen, and now pleads for in Heaven.

And not one of them will be lost.