steadfast7
Puritan Board Junior
I went to a downtown lunch communion service at a non-PCA Presbyterian church and the Pastor spoke on the covenant. I'd like your thoughts as to how it squares with Reformed orthodoxy.
note the idea that the two natures of Christ upholds the two sides of the covenant and gurantees its unbrokenness.
thoughts?
thanks.
... So, finally, God decided to take the ultimate step – to send One to walk among us, to bridge the gap between the human and the divine, to establish a new and lasting covenant that could not be broken.
And we remember the establishment of that covenant every time that we celebrate this sacrament, every time that we recite words that the Gospels suggest that Jesus spoke when he broke bread and shared the cup with his friends on the night before he was killed. “This is the new covenant sealed in my blood.”
But, one might ask, covenants get broken. What makes this covenant any different from any other covenant?
The mystery and the wonder of this new covenant is that Christ himself holds up both sides of this covenant. Jesus’ divinity holds up the divine side of this new relationship, this new bridge between God and humanity; Jesus’ perfect humanity holds up the human side of this new relationship. And it is for that reason why it no longer depends on our goodness, our obedience, our perfection, our faithfulness – it depends, instead on Christ’s goodness, Christ’s obedience, Christ’s perfection, Christ’s faithfulness. Jesus proved, even in the face of temptation, and ultimately, in the face of death, that he would not waver from obedience, from faithfulness.
note the idea that the two natures of Christ upholds the two sides of the covenant and gurantees its unbrokenness.
thoughts?
thanks.