New Covenant Quotes

#1. We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

Pat Robertson

#2. There was not one way of salvation in Israel and another way in the new covenant (Christian) community. Justification is by faith now; justification was by faith back then. The meritorious ground of salvation in the Old Testament was the merit of Christ, not the merit of bulls and goats.

R.C. Sproul

#3. The new covenant is purchased by the blood of Christ, effected by the Spirit of Christ, and appropriated by faith in Christ.

John Piper

#4. The inclusiveness of the invitation to be reconciled to God through Christ's work of Atonement- acknowledgement of who He is (God) and what He has done (Redemption)- aligns itself perfectly with the paradigm shift intrinsic to the New Covenant".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#5. In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation ... Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

John Chisum

#6. The world demands that kind of justice, old school eye-for-an-eye stuff. The New Covenant requires the disciple to extend grace and mercy as honor to the one who extended immeasurable grace to us.

John W. Andrews

#7. The promises of the Old Covenant were preceded by an "if" that made them conditional on man's obedience, while the promises of the New Covenant were marked by a divine monergism:

Pascal Denault

#8. Typology is the study of how OT historical persons, events, institutions, and settings function to foreshadow, anticipate, prefigure, and predict the greater realities in the new covenant age. The

Stephen J. Wellum

#9. God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.

Joseph Prince

#10. The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

Joseph Prince

#11. to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required.

Watchman Nee

#12. The call of the new covenant is the same as the old: in loving God, we give him our "all.

Philip Graham Ryken

#13. Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

John Eldredge

#14. The story of the Bible is not the story of the covenant of grace; nor is it the story of Israel. The Bible is the story of God's work in history to sum up all things in Christ. New Covenant Theology strives to keep this one plan of God - centered in Jesus Christ - primary.

A. Blake White

#15. Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!

Gary Patton

#16. The new covenant only begins after the cross, when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost. There is a lot of confusion and wrong believing in the church today because many Christians read their Bibles without rightly dividing the old and new covenants.

Joseph Prince

#17. Brother, the act of faith, by which you accept and enter this life in the New Covenant, is not commonly an act of power, but often of weakness and fear and much trembling.

Andrew Murray

#18. The sign of the new Covenant is humility, hiddenness - the sign of the mustard-seed. The Son of God comes in lowliness. Both these elements belong together: the profound continuity in the history of God's action and the radical newness of the hidden mustard-seed.

Pope Benedict XVI

#19. It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.

They are not Christians - they are Leviticans.

Christina Engela

#20. The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.

Scot McKnight

#21. I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

Herta Muller

#22. You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.

Joshua Fields Millburn

#23. Not everyone is equally good-looking.

Martha Beck

#24. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is the renewal of the covenant: "this is my blood of the new testament" (or covenant), so that the sacrament itself re-establishes the law, this time with a new elect group

Anonymous

#25. United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#26. When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order

N. T. Wright

#27. When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#28. I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

Paul Fleischman

#29. Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

D. A. Carson

#30. I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

Derek Jeter

#31. The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Herbert Hoover