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GENESIS
and we appropriate the blessings of the Covenant by obed-
ience (Rom. 10:17, Heb. 11:6, Matt. 7:24-27, John 15:14,
Heb. 5:9, 2 Thess. 1:8, 1 Pet. 1:22). This, of course,
does not include the innocent and the irresponsible, such
as infants, for whom Jesus atoned unconditiolzally when
He died on the Cross. Those who die in infancy pass di-
rectly from the kingdom of innocence into the kingdom
of glory (Rom. 5:19, 1 John 3:4, Matt. 19:14, 18:l-6,
etc.)
4. The seal of the Old Covenant was fleshly circum-
cision (Gen. 17:9-14). The seal of the New Covenant is
the indwelling Spirit of God (2 Cor. 1:22, Eph. 1:13,
4:30, etc.). This cutting off of the old sinful relationship
and life by the entrance of the Holy Spirit into the obedient
believer’s heart is spiritual circumcision (Acts 2 :3 8-39,
Rorn. 2:28-29, Phil. 3:3, Col. 2:9-12, Eph. 1:13-14).
5. The Old Covenant was national, confined to one
people, the fleshly seed of Abraham, The Mosaic Code
was a civil code for the government of the Theocracy of
Israel. In this sense the Law of Moses might be said to
correspond to the civil statutes of the United States of
America, and the Decalogue, which was the core of the
Mosaic Law, to our federal Constitution (Deut. 5:2-21).
The tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments
were engraved were known as the tables of testimony or
tables of the Covenafit (Exo., 24:12, 31:18, 32:15-16;
Deut. 6:20-23, 4:13, 10:1-5). The New Covenant is for
all mankind. It has no geografibical or racial limitations.
The Decalogue is God’s mandate to humanity, binding on
ruled and ruler alike.
6. The Old Covenant was local ie., adapted to a peo-
ple living in a fairly warm climate. Its provisions pertained
largely to matters of the flesh, “meats and drinks and
divers washings, carnal ordinances, imposed until a time
of reformation” (Heb. 9:10). How could any human
being living in a cold climate obey the Old Covenant
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