[2Co 3:2-6 KJV] 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Paul in saying he was an able minister of the new testament was not saying we are under the new testament.
[Mat 26:28 KJV] 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
The new testament expressed the will of Christ to shed his blood for the remission of sins. The many whose sin is forgiven is not us it is Israel.
[Heb 9:15 KJV] 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Christ redeemed the transgressions Israel committed under the first testament.
[Jer 31:31, 34 KJV] 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: ... 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
God will make a new covenant with Israel and will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more. Justification in forgiving Israel's sins required blood (Hebrews 9:22). Jesus as testator of the new testament had to die to put it in force (Hebrews 9:16).
[Eze 36:26-27 KJV] 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].
The new covenant would enable Israel to keep the letter of the law by his spirit.
[Rom 7:6 KJV] 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
As able ministers we should convey that although we are not under the new testament we have been made partakers of Christ's shed blood for the forgiveness of our sin. We do not minister keeping the law by the Spirit but rather walking in the Spirit for life (Galatians 5:25) to fulfill the righteousness of the law (Romans 8:4)
Paul in saying he was an able minister of the new testament was not saying we are under the new testament.
[Mat 26:28 KJV] 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
The new testament expressed the will of Christ to shed his blood for the remission of sins. The many whose sin is forgiven is not us it is Israel.
[Heb 9:15 KJV] 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Christ redeemed the transgressions Israel committed under the first testament.
[Jer 31:31, 34 KJV] 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: ... 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
God will make a new covenant with Israel and will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more. Justification in forgiving Israel's sins required blood (Hebrews 9:22). Jesus as testator of the new testament had to die to put it in force (Hebrews 9:16).
[Eze 36:26-27 KJV] 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].
The new covenant would enable Israel to keep the letter of the law by his spirit.
[Rom 7:6 KJV] 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
As able ministers we should convey that although we are not under the new testament we have been made partakers of Christ's shed blood for the forgiveness of our sin. We do not minister keeping the law by the Spirit but rather walking in the Spirit for life (Galatians 5:25) to fulfill the righteousness of the law (Romans 8:4)
