The book of Hebrews is actually the book that fully explains how the Old Covenant Torah was fulfilled in Christ under the New Covenant. The question is not whether someone is forgiven, the question is whether they are in the New Covenant because when you are in the New Covenant you are forgiven. Hebrews explains the New Covenant better than any other book in the New Testament. It helps us understand what a testament is.

Hebrews describes it like this…

[Christ, the Messiah] is therefore the Negotiator and Mediator of an [entirely] new agreement (testament, covenant), so that those who are called and offered it may receive the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance--since a death has taken place which rescues and delivers and redeems them from the transgressions committed under the [old] first agreement. For where there is a [last] will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established, For a will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive. So even the [old] first covenant was not inaugurated and ratified and put in force without the shedding of blood.

(Hebrews 9:15-18 AMPC)

In order to avoid the confusion of legalistic religion and properly understand what scripture refers to as the gospel of truth, we must understand when the Old Covenant ended and when the New Covenant began. The verse above clearly states that “the [old] first covenant was not inaugurated and ratified and put in force without the shedding of blood.” It also states that a “will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has not force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive.” The New Covenant is the Messiah’s will. The King has died and left us an inheritance that we received upon trusting Him. Everything changed in God’s economy when the will “went into effect.” Paul in Romans said something very similar regarding the Law and the impact of a husband dying.

DO YOU not know, brethren--for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law--that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive? For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband. Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

(Romans 7:1-4 AMPC)

The audio message (mp3) below is one of the clearest teachings I have ever heard on the New Covenant. Bob George, author of Classic Christianity cuts right to the heart of the book of Hebrews and in doing so strikes at legalistic religion. So many churches teach things that are simply “the traditions of men.” Jesus warned about how tradition could actually “make void and of no effect the Word of God.”

Thus you are nullifying and making void and of no effect [the authority of] the Word of God through your tradition, which you [in turn] hand on. And many things of this kind you are doing.

(Mark 7:13 AMPC)

The audio message below is a little over an hour. Please don’t skip over this vital teaching on the New Covenant as it is one of the most important messages I have ever heard on the subject.

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