Remember when Jesus told His followers to “make disciples” (learners), He qualified this by saying “I am with you.” There is nothing more important for us to understand than this. All good things come from God. We must stay in harmony and close relationship with His Spirit in order to understand the New Covenant and help others. The book of Acts is the continuation of Luke’s Gospel. It picks up where Luke ends and tells about how the first followers of Jesus walked with Him.

Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit but remember the Father, Son and Spirit are totally inseparable. When the disciples experienced the Spirit they were also experiencing the Father and the Son simultaneously.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever-- The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you.

(John 14:16-18 AMPC)

Jesus told His disciples that He “would not leave them as orphans.” He also said that if we loved Him we would “keep His word.” Remember this means to observe, guard, watch over and keep our eyes fixed on Him and His instructions to us. There is a special promise given to those who love Jesus.

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

(John 14:23 ESV)

It is imperative for every follower of Christ to understand that when we talk about the Holy Spirit we are talking about God Himself. This is God’s personal presence coming to “make our home with” us. Jesus specifically said “we” will come to him and make “our” home with him. This is Father, Son and Holy Spirit coming to live inside His people. The New Covenant was a better deal than the old one.

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

(Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV)

While some of this would not be fulfilled until the coming of the Kingdom of God to Earth, the personal nature of God changing our relationship to the law from one of external to internal would forever change things. The Holy Spirit would live inside His people and make His home in them. This is the essence of the New Covenant and we must understand that God’s energy, life and breath was to enter inside of us and make us His temple. The Old Testament temple was a powerful metaphor for what God was planning to do inside of us. The blood that was required in the Old Testament Temple rituals was fulfilled in Christ.

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

(Hebrews 8:6-10 ESV)

The New Covenant paves the way for us to fully experience access to God’s Spirit and our sins can never separate us from Him again because Jesus completed the sacrificial system once and for all.

When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.