Christian Living

The Bible says "...Jesus has become the surety [guarantee] of a better covenant." (Heb 7:22). The Greek word 'diatheke' is used for the English word 'covenant' in the New Testament.

This 'diatheke' means 'one sided covenant'. While one person gives, the other has nothing to give. Here in the New Testament God reached out to man and God in Christ fulfilled all that is needed to fulfill the covenant. Christ gave to us all that He had, while we give to Him nothing but our debt. This has tremendous significance in the New Testament. Jesus Christ became the mediator between God and man and he fulfilled all the requirement of the law. He is the only sinless person who ever lived a perfect life with out sin in Him. As God He could not die, so He became the Son of man to take upon Himself all the sin of the world and go through all the punishment through death on the cross in the kingdom of darkness.

Finally because He paid it all for us, He had become the advocate for us right now. We can go to Him confidently and He will speak on behalf of us to the Father. We have a requirement to do in this covenant, that is to confess to Him our wrong doings with regret or sorrow [giving our debts], if we do not do this, we cannot receive His goodness, grace and favor of God in our life.

Jesus is right now interceding for us to the Father God sitting at His right Hand, this is His profession now. He is not only interceding for the sinners [for sinner's salvation] (1 Tim 2:1, 3-4; John 17:20), but the Bible says in Rom 8:31-33, "He is interceding" for "God's elect". Just after these verses, the Bible speaks about our enemy's condemnation, trials, perils, tribulations, etc... The reason the word of God expresses it is because Satan will try to accuse and condemn us and will try to make us depressed all the time.

Jesus understands that the new believer will still be activated by the old impulses to sin, so when the time of temptation comes, the new believer may easily fall in to temptation by not being able to resist it. For this reason God in Christ became a man and went through all the temptations in his body, so that He could be sympathetic and compassionate towards his fellow brothers and sisters with a kindred spirit. When they are tempted, He helps them by interceding for them.

A new believer may think that he has backslidden because he is sinning and may not have understood that because of the weaknesses of the flesh that he is doing it. He may even consider himself not to be a true son. So come to Jesus with Boldness to receive His goodness. When Satan accuses you, say to him right in his face 'I am who Jesus says I am, I live by His word and He is my master, you have no authority over me. From Him I receive strength to live this life and He has redeemed me by His Blood.'

So Jesus is our intercessor and Jesus is our advocate. Who can condemn us and take us away from His Love? It is He who justifies us. So only Jesus said to the believers like us, "And I give to you eternal life, and you shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch you out of My hand....no on is able to snatch you out of my Father's hand. I and My Father are one." (John 10:28-30). The new covenant is a better covenant because we have Jesus as our surety. Heb 7:22 clearly speaks about this. Jesus is the one who paid the price for us to be redeemed. Jesus is the guarantor of this covenant which He initiated with God through His very own Blood for us. It is a better covenant because we cannot fulfill anything in this new covenant, but only we have to give our huge debt and weakness to Him in order to receive His grace and goodness from Him. In the new covenant we don't have to bother about the covenant getting broken by our disobedience.

Jesus is our everything! Praise the Lord! No one is able to condemn us in the new covenant and the devil is already defeated and the war has been won by Him. We by faith take whatever is of Him and we stand based on it as our own. Praise the Lord!