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2 Corinthians 3:7-11
June 05, 1994
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Well I don't know how you all are doing, but I'm having a wonderful time in 2 Corinthians chapter 3. In fact, this is so rich we may be here till the Rapture. Chapter 3 of 2 Corinthians is our study this morning. I want to encourage you to open your Bible, if you will. This is part 4 in a series from verses 6 through 18 called "The Glory of the New Covenant." I don't know how many parts there will be, there will be more, obviously. This is a treasured section of Scripture, one that we don't want to take lightly, we want to grasp all the riches as much as we can.
Second Corinthians 3:6 through 18 is almost like a reduced version of the book of Hebrews. It takes the book of Hebrews, the great concept of the superiority of the new covenant, and just reduces it to this one little passage. And when you get into the passage you can't just deal with it, you're forced to expand back out and embrace many things that, as we've already noted, are found in the book of Hebrews, as well as elsewhere in Scripture.
From verse 6 down to the end of the chapter, Paul wants to make very clear that the new covenant is superior to the old covenant. The reason that is important is because in the city of Corinth where he labored so faithfully and planted such a great church there have come false teachers and false apostles who want to affirm that the old covenant is equal to the new covenant. They want to affirm that the Mosaic ceremonies and the Mosaic rituals and rites must be maintained, that the old covenant is as permanent as the new covenant. It is as eternal, if you will, as the new covenant. It is as important as the new covenant. It is equal to the new covenant. And so they are imposing on the simplicity that is in Christ all of the Mosaic prescriptions from circumcision on and confusing the people and deluding the simplicity of the gospel. And we talked about how sacramental and sacerdotal, which is another word for priestly kind of ministry, ritual, ceremony and routine, external kind of things tend to obscure spiritual reality.
Obviously Paul is defending himself in 2 Corinthians. The whole letter is a defense of his own ministry and his own integrity. And one of the things he uses to defend himself is that he was a minister of the new covenant. He says in verse 6 that God has made us adequate as servants of a new covenant. And that is by way of contrast to the false teachers who are still ministers of the old covenant. Paul is saying the new covenant is far better and any true minister of God ministers new covenant gospel, new covenant truth, not old covenant ritual and legalism. The new covenant is the gospel Paul preaches. The new covenant is preached by all faithful preachers throughout all of the history of the life of the church.
And so, as a part of his defense of himself and his ministry, he deals with this issue of the new covenant. Why would you turn from me, a faithful preacher of the new covenant, to false preachers of the old covenant? Why would you do that when the new covenant is so superior to the old? And so while defending himself as a true pastor and a true Apostle and a true preacher and a true teacher, because he teaches the new covenant, he allows us insight into the richness of this new covenant. So he goes beyond his defense and gets into the theology of the new covenant, even if briefly, certainly richly.
He rejects salvation by works. He rejects salvation by circumcision, by ritual, by ceremony. He rejects those things completely. And he wants us to reject them as well. Salvation is not a matter of ceremony, not any kind of ceremony. It isn't a matter of ritual. It isn't a matter of liturgy, no matter what ritual or what liturgy. Salvation is bound up in the new covenant. What is the new covenant? The new covenant is simply a promise. Covenant means promise. The new covenant is the promise of salvation which means the complete forgiveness of all your sin made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's God's promise. God promised to take away your sin, remember your sins no more, remove them as far as the east is from the west, completely and totally forgive them because of what Jesus Christ has done on the cross. That's the new promise. That's the new covenant. And that's the gospel. The new covenant and the gospel are the same thing. Paul says I'm a gospel preacher, I'm a new covenant preacher and so is every faithful preacher.
You say, "Well what was the purpose of the old covenant?" We've covered it in three weeks now and I won't go into it again except to say the old covenant had three components...a civil, a ceremonial and a moral component. The civil component was to prescribe life in Israel in such a unique way that they were a people sorted out and isolated from the pagan polytheistic people of their day. It allowed them to live such a unique life, we would call it a kosher life style today, which kept them separated from the nations which would pollute them and which would destroy their testimony.
The ceremonial part of the Law, all the symbols and the sacrificial system and from circumcision on, the Sabbaths and all the feasts and festivals, all related to redemptive purpose...they were always to show the redemptive plan of God. The need of man to be redeemed and how God was going to accomplish it. So those were all symbolic. Those were all pictures. The civil part that identified Israel as a unique nation as set aside because we have one people, Jew and Gentile in the church, the ceremonial was set apart because the pictures fade away when the reality comes and the reality is here in Christ. The third part of the Law was the moral part, that's the permanent and eternal part because in the moral law God revealed His character and His will for man. But the moral law can't save you anymore than the ceremonial law could save you. It was only pictures. The civil law couldn't save you, it was only a way of life, externally. The moral law can't save you either, all it does is drive you to the place where you see your sin for what it is and in your despair you rush to God and plead for mercy and grace. And that's what an Old Testament saint did. That's what the remnant did. That's what a true Jew did. He looked at the Law, looked at his life and said I can't keep the Law. And he cried out for mercy. The rest of the Jews, sadly, tragically looked at the moral law, said, "Well I can't keep it very well, I know salvation is in the ceremonial law. Because I can't keep the moral law I'll use the ceremonial law as a means of salvation." And that was even worse because not only did the moral law kill them, but then they took the letter of the ceremonial law, imposed it on top of the moral law as if it were a saving component. And they were really killed then, the letter of the Law was really deadly. By letter we pointed out that we mean the external ceremonial aspect of it.
God gave the ceremonial part of the Law to show man's need for redemption through symbols and pictures. God gave the civil part of the Law to isolate His people for purposes I mentioned to you, to be a witness in the world and not be polluted by easy intercourse with the other nations. God gave the moral law to break the back of man, to show His will, to show His will for man and to show man that he couldn't live up to it. And all of that would then cast him on the mercy of God and God in His grace and mercy would forgive him through the work of Jesus Christ symbolized in the sacrificial system.
Now we've gone through all of that, I don't want to go over it anymore than just that. Let's look at our text now. Paul is pointing out the better covenant, which is the new covenant, the superior covenant, which is the new covenant. And in showing that the new covenant is better, he makes eight points to show the surpassing excellence of the new covenant. And in so doing rejects the old covenant.
First of all he says the new covenant gives life. And we went into that in verse 6, we'll not do it again. He says the new covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. The new covenant is a life-giving covenant. The old covenant couldn't do that. All the Law could do was kill you, it couldn't give you life. In fact, in verse 7 he calls it the ministry of death. The old covenant is a killer, the Law is a killer. When you read the Law of God and you look at your own life, you're dead.
Well what does that mean? Well you die a kind of living death of shame and guilt and remorse and inability and frustration because you can't live up to God's Law. And it also kills you eternally because you now have violated God's Law, according to Galatians 3:10 you are cursed, Galatians 3:13 you are cursed. That curse means eternal damnation. So the Law is a mass murderer, it is the greatest mass murderer of all time. It renders all men doomed and damned, condemned and judged. The Law is a killer. But the new covenant gives life.
Secondly, starting in verse 7, the new covenant produces righteousness. Now let me read that to you. Verse 7, "If the ministry of death in letters engraved on stones came with glory so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how shall the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory, for if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory."
Now he makes another very vivid contrast between the Law as a ministry of condemnation and the new covenant as a ministry of righteousness. The new covenant brings righteousness. It provides righteousness. And that is a very, very important point because by the deeds of the Law no flesh was made righteous, right?...Romans 3, no flesh was justified before God. You cannot attain righteousness, you cannot satisfy God that you are virtuous, holy and righteous by your performance. If you break, as I said in Galatians 3, if you break one part of the Law you're damned by the Law. It just takes one violation one time and you're damned. So it was a ministry of death. It was, as he calls it in verse 9, a ministry of condemnation. But it is said in contrast to the new covenant which is a ministry of righteousness...a ministry of righteousness.
Now to illustrate the superiority of the new covenant, the Apostle Paul goes to the Old Testament to one of the most amazing and one of the most unusual and fascinating accounts in all of the Old Testament found in Exodus chapter 34. Let's go back to Exodus chapter 34 and in particular we'll start looking at the text at verse 29. This is the experience of Moses on Mount Sinai. And it is a fascinating account. Moses, as you well know, was taken up into Mount Sinai by the command of God to receive the Law. He got up there and he conversed with God and God gave him the Law. God gave him the prescription which reflected His own nature as holy and which reflected His will for man, the very Law which man would be broken and have to come back to God and plead for grace and mercy which God would give...based upon what Jesus Christ would some day accomplish on behalf of the repentant sinner.
But in verse 29 let's start reading, "And Moses had been up in the mountain with God," and you'll see in verse 28 God had written on the tablets the words of the covenant which is the Ten Commandments which is the summarization of the old covenant. "It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he was coming down from the mountain that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him."
Now he had been up there speaking with God. Now God is a spirit and you know that a spirit has not flesh and bones so a spirit is invisible, but God made Himself visible. And God would make Himself visible by manifesting the glory of His nature in light. We call it the Shekinah, which means "presence." The Shekinah glory of God appears of number of times in the book of Exodus. In fact, I believe it is an aspect of the Shekinah glory of God that is designated as the cloud and the pillar of fire that by day and by night were leading the people of Israel. You remember when the tabernacle was completed at the end of the book of Exodus, the glory of God, the glory cloud, this...this cloud of great shining light representing God comes down and settles at the place of the tabernacle.
So when God manifested Himself, He manifested His spiritual presence by reducing all of His attributes to visible light. In a miracle...in a miraculous way God manifested Himself thusly to Moses. So Moses, you remember, had gone up into the mountain. Remember he said to God in chapter 33, "Show me Your glory," and God said, "I'll let you see a little of My glory," and He tucked him in a rock and His glory passed by. Well it was that emanating shining light which was God made visible. Moses had been with God. And he had been in the presence of God. And when he came down the mountain he didn't know, because, of course, he couldn't see his own face, that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. And he came down and he was like an incandescent light bulb. He was lit up, shining bright. And when I talk about bright, I mean bright.
Verse 30. "When Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold the skin of his face shone, they were afraid to come near him." They kept their distance because he was glowing. It wasn't some faint little glow, it was a blazing glow...blazing to the degree...verse 31, "Moses called to them and Aaron and all the rulers in the congregation returned to him." In other words, he called and said...Come, come, come...don't be afraid. "And Moses spoke to them and afterward all the sons of Israel came near and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai. When Moses had speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out." That's so he could get more glory on his face. "And whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel he told them what God had commanded. The sons of Israel would see the face of Moses that the skin of Moses' face shone, so Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak to Him."
Here's the way he did it. He would speak with God, he'd come out, his face was like a blazing sun. It was like a small sun. It was blazing. In fact, it was blazing to the degree that people couldn't look at it. They could look around it and sort of feel the glow and hear the voice but they couldn't look directly at it. And then when Moses stopped speaking the direct words of God, he put a veil over his face so that he wouldn't keep blinding people. Blinding glory...then when he went back in to speak with God, he could take the veil off. Then when he came back out he would speak with the veil off. And then when he was through speaking he put the veil back on.
Now what in the world is going on here? Well, the analogy that Paul wants to draw out of this, the illustration that Paul sees here is an illustration of the glory of the Law. Let's go back to our text and we'll see that. Verse 7, "But if the ministry of death, the old covenant, the Law, engraved on stones...those tablets...came with glory so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face..." stop there for a moment. There's the point. When Moses came down from the mountain where he had met with God and received the Law, he bore on his face the very glow of God, the very glory of God, the Shekinah. The closest thing you would find in the Scripture to a parallel to this would be in Matthew 17. You remember the Lord was transfigured. Only when the Lord was transfigured and was shining so brilliantly, He scared the people who were there...you remember the disciples who were there fell over in a dead faint. The difference was that the Lord Jesus pulled back the flesh and the glory came from the inside. In the case of Moses, the glory was reflected on the outside. Moses was like the moon in that sense...he had reflected glory.
But you'll notice in verse 7 the Law came with glory...the glory of God was on the face of Moses when he delivered the Law. What he's saying is the Law is glorious, it is reflective of God. You see, the Apostle Paul had been accused by the Judaizers and the circumcision party of being against the Law, speaking against the Law, denigrating the Law, depreciating the Law, ignoring the Law, discounting the Law or lowering the Law. He never did that. He realized that the Law, the old covenant, came in glory, it came with glory. When God gave the Law, when Moses came down bearing it, it was with glory. In fact, so much glory that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory on his face. He was shining to bright and the Shekinah was so great that he couldn't look intently. That verb means "to fix on," or "to gaze at," or "to stare at."
Now you can go out on a day like today and...a warm day or when the sun comes breaking through and it's brilliant and you know it's there and you can feel it and the glow of it is very clear to you. And when somebody comes over to your house this afternoon and says, "I want to take your picture," you stand there and you squint and you understand all of that and yet you're not looking at the sun because if you look at the sun you'll go blind. So you look around it, below it, to the side of it, but you feel that glow. That's exactly what was going on here. They couldn't stare at the face of Moses. And this is Moses, they knew this guy. And he had never looked like this before. Something very glorious had happened, something very transcendent had happened, namely the giving of the Law in the presence of God. The glory was so brilliant, so shining, so great that it would be like staring into the sun. And they couldn't even look at his face. That's why when he was through speaking the words of the Lord and just wanted to have some normal communion with the people, he put a veil over his face because otherwise he would have blinded them. Paul's point is that the law came with glory from God and that glory was apparent to everybody who saw Moses come down the mountain and to everybody else who reads the record. The ministry of death was glorious because it reflected the will of God, the nature of God, the character of God, the glory of God.
But even though it had a glory, it had a limited glory because it was from God, yes, but it was a killer. It came from God, please notice verse 9, as a ministry of condemnation, not as a ministry of salvation. It was a killer. It was designed to bring sinners to the knowledge of their sin. It was a tutor to lead us to Christ. It was bondage that shut us up, in Galatians 3 Paul says that. The old covenant with its civil and moral and ceremonial laws could only command, it could only illustrate, it could only symbolize, it couldn't give life and it couldn't produce righteousness. It was deadly. And particularly when reduced to letter which is different...it's not a synonym with Law, you can see that in Romans 2:27 to 29, it was a killer but it did have a glory. It was designed by God. It did come from heaven. It was God's will.
Now if that was true that the old covenant had glory, look at verse 8, "How shall the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?" The term "ministry of the Spirit" is Paul's descriptive term for the new covenant. He calls the new covenant "the ministry of the Spirit." The Law written on stone was a killer. But written on the heart by the Holy Spirit is a life giver and produces righteousness. The Law written on stone condemns. The Law written on the heart by the Holy Spirit saves. So this covenant is so much better than the old covenant. How, he says, shall it fail to be even more with glory? That's an obvious conclusion.
Listen to the difference. The old covenant is good in that it commands righteousness. The new covenant is better in that it infers righteousness. The old covenant made a person a hearer of the truth. The new covenant makes a person a doer of the truth. And as I've been saying all along and I don't want you to miss it and several people have asked this question, as I've said all along, the Old Testament saint, the person who was a genuinely saved individual in the Old Testament was saved because he was broken over the Law and knew he couldn't keep the Law and knew he was a sinner and came to God and pleaded for mercy and grace and forgiveness from God. He came as a penitent, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, meek and mourning over his own iniquity, just like the Beatitude attitude of Matthew chapter 5 and he plead with God to be merciful to him, a sinner, just like the publican beating on his chest because he knew God to be gracious and merciful. And God was merciful and was gracious to a penitent sinner and forgave him all his sin based upon what Christ would accomplish on behalf of that sinner, yet in the future. And that's how salvation worked. It's never been any different. It's always been by grace through faith based upon the work of Christ whether it was before Christ's work or after it.
So the old covenant was never intended to save, it was an inferior covenant to the new covenant to begin with it because it was a non-saving covenant. Then, however, when an Old Testament Jew was saved by grace through faith, all of a sudden that Law, that moral law which once was a killer to him became a path of blessing and he had an attitude like David in Psalm 119 who says, "O how I love Thy Law. I delight in it. I meditate on it all the time." All of a sudden instead of the Law being a killer, the Law was a path of life and blessing...sweeter to him than honey in the honeycomb, more precious than gold. It wasn't that his attitude toward the Law saved him, it was that his salvation changed his attitude toward the Law.
Then verse 9, the argument from the lesser to the greater, "For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, if the Law which damns and kills has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory." Here the ministry of death is given another name, the ministry of judgment, the ministry of doom, the ministry of damnation, the ministry of condemnation. The old covenant made people vulnerable to judgment. The old covenant brought sinners to a state of condemnation. The old covenant failed to produce any escape, any means of satisfying divine justice apart from death and hell. But it had a glory. It did have a glory. It was from God and when Moses came down from the mountain there was a glory on his face. Now if that deadly, killing, damning, dooming old covenant had a glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
What's the ministry of righteousness? That's just the new covenant...the new covenant. It has an abounding glory because it produces righteousness.
Go back to Romans chapter 3 and verse 21. In verse 20 Paul says, "By the works of the Law no flesh will be made righteous, no flesh justified, for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin." The old covenant was to kill you, break your back, show you you're a sinner. But look at verse 21. "Now, he says, but now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifest, the Law witnessed to it as the prophets did, they saw the new covenant coming, but the righteousness of God is manifested...verse 22...through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe." The Law could never provide righteousness. Righteousness came through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.
What does the new covenant bring? Righteousness. The new covenant changes God's view of the sinner, changes His attitude. He sees him clothed in the righteousness of Christ, garmented with the robe of righteousness, Isaiah calls it, covered with the righteousness of Christ. Having the righteousness of Christ imputed to him, put to his account. The old covenant could never do that. That was all achieved by the new covenant.
Let me give you a good illustration of this. Turn to Philippians chapter 3 and let's use Paul as the illustration, one of my favorite chapters in all of Scripture. Paul knew that the old covenant came with glory but anybody coming around preaching the old covenant as a means of salvation was the enemy of the gospel. You got that? Anybody preaching the old covenant as a means of salvation is the enemy of the gospel. In fact, in verse 2 of Philippians 3 Paul calls those kind of preachers "dogs, evil workers, beware of the false circumcision." Anybody who says that circumcision or Mosaic ceremony or any of that, or even achieving certain level of morality according to the Law saves is a dog and an evil worker. Dogs, by the way, were scrounges, mongrels. Dogs were outcasts, dirty, filthy, they ate the garbage. They were spoken of with derision in ancient times, like dogs...says Peter...who go back and lick up their own vomit. They were curs running wild in the street. And that's what he says of those who preach old covenant as a means of salvation, or as a cooperating element in salvation.
But let's look at Paul. And if ever there was a guy who was under the old covenant, it was Paul before his conversion. And not only was he under the old covenant but he was a letterist. He was trying to get saved by maintaining the letter of the Law, the externals. Let's look at it. He says, "Look...verse 4...I myself might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more." I'll stack up my fleshly achievements with anybody. If we're going to get saved by the flesh, if we're going to get saved by the deeds of the Law, if we're going to get saved by human effort and ceremonial and ritual and routine and all that stuff, I'll put my credentials against anybody's. Here they are, "I was circumcised the eighth day," that's the prescription and I had that. My parents put me through that. "I was born of the nation of Israel, the chosen people, I'm from the tribe of Benjamin," one of the two of the noblest tribes that were faithful, Benjamin and Judah when the kingdom was divided. "I am a Hebrew of the Hebrews." What does that mean? I never violated my tradition, I hung in there. Today we would say he was an orthodox Hasidic, never was compromised in his tradition. He was traditional. He followed the tradition to the very letter.
"As far as the Law, I wasn't just committed to the Law, I was a Pharisee." About 6,000 of them were in the world at that time and they were fanatical, they were bizarre in their dealings with the minutia and the trivia of the Law. He chose to be as deeply under the letter of the Mosaic covenant as he could possibly be and he goes so far as to say anybody who violated anything in that covenant, anybody who ever came along and said there was something better than that old covenant, those people called Christians I persecuted, that's how zealous I was for old covenant. "As far as the righteousness which could be achieved in keeping the Law, I was without blame." Every single thing I could do according to the Law, I did it. And there isn't anybody who can come against me and say you're to be blamed for this. He was fastidious.
Here you have a letterist. Here you have an old covenant guy. I don't think he was even saved. I don't think he was even redeemed because he was counting on all of that. And I don't think that he had yet come to the place of Romans 7 where the Law revived, he saw the reality of what it meant and it killed him. That happened somewhere around the Damascus Road experience when he saw himself for what he really was.
But look at this, when it happened, verse 7 he says, "All that stuff was gain to me." I had accumulated all that in the gain column. That was my salvation, friends. I was going to get righteousness by the Law. And then I saw Christ and immediately when I saw Christ I counted all that stuff as...what?...loss. More than that, verse 8, "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things. And I'll tell you what you can do with the whole old covenant, you can just put it in the rubbish pile."
Now he's not...he's not depreciating God's moral law, he's just saying looking at the old covenant as a means of salvation. You know what it means to be circumcised the eighth day as far as salvation is concerned? Nothing. You know what it means to be of the nation of Israel as far as salvation is concerned? Nothing. Salvation is not by ritual and it's not by race. You know what it means to be in the tribe of Benjamin? Nothing. Salvation is not by privilege. You know what it means to be a Hebrew of the Hebrews? Nothing. Salvation is not by tradition. You know what it means to be a Pharisee, keeping the Law? Salvation is not by religious observance. You know what it means to be a zealous persecutor of the church? Nothing, it's not by zeal and it's not by external morality. None of that is anything, it's all skubalon, by the way, that's a word for human excrement, or any excrement, the vilest stuff. He said I looked at that stuff and it was rubbish, trash, filth.
You say, "Why are you so quick to junk all that?" Verse 9, "Because when I saw Christ I was found in Him not with the righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but a righteousness which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith." Boy, what a definitive statement. I saw what I always wanted, righteousness, but it was in Christ and it was by faith, not in the Law by works. And so that's rubbish...rubbish.
Yes, the old covenant has a glory, go back to 2 Corinthians 3. The old covenant has a glory. But nothing like the glory of the new covenant. In fact, look at verse 10, "For indeed what had glory...that is the old covenant...in this case has no glory on account of the glory that surpasses it." So when you look at the old covenant in comparison to the new covenant, it's as if the old covenant had no glory. That's his statement. That which had glory, the old covenant, when you compare it with the new covenant which has such a surpassing glory, it appears to have no glory. And you look at it and you say rubbish. Paul says, "Don't you dare accept some Judaistic circumcision, esoteric religion. Don't you dare opt out for some ceremonialism that corrupts the simplicity that is in the gospel of Jesus Christ. There's so much glory in the new covenant, the old covenant appears to be nothing...nothing."
You say, "Well is God's moral law still important?" Sure it is because God's moral law is still the...is still the rock which has to break the sinner's back. And we have to preach that Law and uphold that Law. And by the way, the moral law is repeated in the New Testament, right? The civil law is set aside, no more Israel. Gentiles and Jews are made one. Ceremonial law is set aside, no more Sabbaths and new moons and feasts and sacrificial system, the temple is destroyed, no more sacrifices, no more Sabbaths, that's gone. But the moral law is repeated and recited and reiterated in the New Testament and it is again reiterated and brought to the face of the sinner to show him his sin. But the old covenant if it was all by itself would be absolutely useless, even the virtuous reflection of the holiness of God is useless to save. The new covenant comes and by grace through faith provides what the old covenant couldn't give.
And again I repeat to you, see that is why sacramental sacerdotal which means priestly kind of religion like the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox or liturgical Protestantism with all of the stand up, sit down, light the candles, bow down, do this, genuflect, go here, do that, all that externalism, all that ceremonialism is a corruption. And as I told you last week it isn't even...it isn't even biblical to start with. At least the Judaizers had a covenant that had some glory though it was a fading glory. The concocted evangelical...I should say the concocted Christian ceremonialism doesn't even have a biblical precedent. It never did have any glory, so it is a non-glorious approach. Stay away from all of it. All you need is grace and faith in Christ, the simplicity of Christ and a personal relationship made possible by the power of the Holy Spirit working in the heart.
Now the Apostle makes a third point. Okay? We'll just get in to this third point and we'll be done for this morning. The superiority of the new covenant is based upon the fact that it gives life and produces righteousness. Thirdly, it is permanent. Look at the end of verse 7. The new covenant is permanent. You'll notice this is a fascinating point that he makes. End of verse 7, he says, "The sons of Israel couldn't look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face," then he throws this in, "fading as it was." The point is the glory that was on Moses' face was temporary. After that encounter and that experience, it was gone. It faded. In fact, it faded even as he was there talking to the people. And when he put the veil over his face it would fade. It was a fading glory. The same verb is used in 1 Corinthians 2:6 translated "passing away." The glory of the Law is thus illustrated by that in Paul's mind. He sees an analogy to the glory of the Law. He sees a purpose of God in that wonderful story to show us that though it had a glory, it was a fading glory, it was a passing glory.
The Law was no permanent answer. The Law was no final solution. The Law was never intended to be the last word on the plight of sinners. The Law never could save. It can't be the last word. I remember on one occasion when I was in Israel many years ago and I stayed in a hotel right adjacent to a synagogue, my room was right about as far as I could reach my arm to touch this synagogue and it was...it was on Shabbat and they were having this worship and I heard it hour after hour after hour and, of course, the realization that these people are locked in to the old covenant. They will not allow the new covenant. They will not tolerate it. And if you introduce it to them, they become violently aggressive and agitated about it in their rejection. And you want to say to them, "But..but..but the Law was never the last word on the plight of sinners, it can't save. It was never to be the full final revelation of God's redemptive purpose and the means by which righteousness could be provided. It only pointed to something greater."
It was not adequate, it was not permanent. It could prescribe what men ought to do, but it couldn't enable them to do it. The old covenant could provide a basis of damnation but not of salvation, a basis of condemnation but not of justification, a basis of culpability but not purity. Something had to be added.
You say, "Well did the Jews know it was coming? Were they ever told?" Sure, Jeremiah made it as clear...as crystal clear as it could be made. Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 31, he says this, "Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in a day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke...not like that one. This is a covenant I'll make with the house of Israel after those days, I'll put My Law within them and on their heart I'll write it and I'll be their God and they'll be My people and I'll forgive their iniquity and their sin I'll remember no more." They should have known that the old covenant wasn't the last. The contrast is between what is transitory and passing and what is lasting and eternal. What Moses stood for was glorious but passing away. The day was bound to come when its splendor would vanish. The new covenant, however, comes with a pledge of eternality. The new covenant doesn't fade away.
Look at what the text says in verse 10, "For indeed what had glory in this case has no glory on account of the glory that surpasses it, for if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory." You want to hear some good news? There was an old covenant and a new covenant and we're not waiting for a new, new covenant...this is the end. This is permanent. The new covenant is the last word, salvation by grace through faith. The ministry of death and condemnation had a glory, it was designed by God, it was holy, just and good. It established the standard of righteousness. And for believers, for those forgiven by God and saved, it was a path of blessing. But the New Testament has a greater glory. The new covenant has a greater glory. And without the new covenant, the old covenant would have just catapulted the whole human race into hell.
The ministry of Old Testament prophets, we don't have time to get into this, the ministry of Old Testament prophets was to call the people to repent. Over and over and over again, right on down to John the Baptist, repent...repent...repent...repent, that was the whole point. You're brought against the Law, the Law reveals your sin, you're called to repent. See, what happened was most of the Jews knew they couldn't keep the moral law so they figured out a way to get saved. Oh, we can't keep the moral law but what we do...what we will keep, we'll keep the ceremonial law and the ceremonial law will save us. So they imposed the ceremonial law on top of the moral law as the Savior. And that's what it means that they worshiped according to the letter of the Law and that was damning.
But let's take a true Jew who really believed. What would he do? He would come to God, repentant, pleading for grace and pleading for mercy. He saw the ceremonial law as symbolic of God's provision for him somewhere down the future. He knew God would provide. He knew God would be gracious and God would be merciful because that's the kind of God He was. And he cast himself on God's mercy and God's grace. And he would be redeemed based upon what Christ would do in his behalf. But for most Jews, the vast majority, apart from that true remnant, they disobeyed the Law offered, no genuine repentance, exercised no saving faith in God, depended not on God's grace but on their works keeping the external ceremonial religion and that was really a killer. And along came the prophets and constantly called them to repentance and called them to repentance and called them to repentance.
That's always the message. It boggles my mind how that people can say today that we don't have to preach repentance. It's always been the message. So, indeed what had glory, the old covenant, in this case appears to have no glory when compared with the new. Now verse 11, we'll close with this, "For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory." Moses had the glory on his face and it would just fade cause it wasn't coming from the inside, just reflection. As long as he was in God's presence it was reflecting, but it faded away. But that which remains has a permanent glory. The new covenant remains because it is the consummation of God's plan and is the most glorious. It is the final word, the gospel is the final word, there's no other word, this is it. It isn't the gospel, it isn't the old covenant, the new covenant plus tradition, plus Mary Baker Eddy Paterson Glover Frye plus the Book of Mormon, plus...plus...plus. New covenant ministry is all that is needed, gospel is all that is needed clearly in the New Testament. That's why at the end of the book of Revelation it says, "You add anything to this and it shall be added to you the plagues that are written in it."
New covenant ministry will continue and never be replaced because there's no more to do, there's no more to say. It's all been done in Christ. He has accomplished once forever the redemption of His people. There is no higher truth, that's it. Oh, we'll get new understanding of the richness of the gospel as we grow but we'll never get beyond the gospel, we'll never get beyond the new covenant. There's nothing beyond it. We're not sitting around waiting for testament number three to drop. The false apostles and the false teachers in Corinth boasted of the antiquity of their teachings and they boasted that they had the advantage of Mosaic ceremony. And Paul demolishes their bright temple facade and proves its nothing more than a disguised dungeon. And the minister, the preacher of the new covenant brings the right message, a message of hope and a message of righteousness, not a message of condemnation. We don't need some kind of mystical religion. We don't need some kind of exotic ceremonies that convey spiritual reality, we have reality in Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Paul cries for men who will carry not the message of stones but the message of the cross...not the message of Sinai but the message of Calvary. He's warning the Corinthians to shed the Judaizing ceremonialists, those who were preaching esoteric religion, the teachers preaching Sinai, external law and symbols, the dry rot of religiosity. A.T. Robertson has an interesting comment on this section, he says, "Love of the external killed the inner life and crucified Jesus of Nazareth for HIs emphasis on the spiritual life and rebuke of the mere ceremonialism of the scribes and Pharisees. Stephen went the way of Jesus when he rebuked the Pharisees for their perversion of real religion and sought to give the spiritual interpretation of the Kingdom of God as expounded by Jesus. Paul turned from persecuting Pharisee to spiritual interpreter of Jesus and took the place of Stephen in whose death he had rejoiced. Jesus and Stephen fought official Pharisaism in the current Judaism. Paul took up the battle with Pharisaism within the Christian fold which was speaking to put the fetters...seeking to put the fetters of their perverted Judaism upon the Christianity of Jesus. The one hope of rescue...he writes...for the soul of man was in jeopardy. Paul's soul was stirred to its depths and he met the issue with all the force of his nature. He is in the thick of the fight with these Judaizing Christians who were attempting to destroy spiritual Christianity when he draws the contrast here between Judaism and Christianity, the battle between the bondage of legalism and spiritual Christianity has never ceased. Paul set up his standard in 2 Corinthians, Galatians and Romans, Martin Luther took it up hundreds of years afterwards and the peril is always real," end quote.
And that's why I'm warning you about all of these efforts today to accept Roman Catholicism which is just another form of the dry rot of religious externalism, only it doesn't even have a glory...it didn't ever have a glory because it never came from God. We're fighting it again. And when I pick up a document that says we're supposed to be loving and evangelical in our evangelical circles and embrace the Roman Catholic people and we're supposed to ask God to forgive us for the sin of witnessing to them about the gospel because we've offended them, they're already our brothers and sisters in Christ...I'm appalled by that, I'm frightened by that, I'm grieved by that because these folks need to be rescued just like the Apostle Paul endeavored to rescue people caught up in this stuff just like Stephen and just like Jesus. We have to see it for what it is and rescue men from it.
The superiority of the new covenant then, it gives life, it produces righteousness, it is permanent. More to come, next time. Let's pray.
Father, we thank You again for Your truth so clear and so potent, powerfully does it speak to our hearts. Father, we just ask that You would reach out to every life here with Your Spirit and bring life, produce righteousness, save, Lord, save sinners. Produce repentance, generate contrition. May everyone here who doesn't truly know the Savior come with an eager penitent heart seeking forgiveness by grace through the provision of Christ on the cross. We thank You that Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins so that You can extend grace to us who believe. Grant faith, grant grace, grant salvation, Father, we pray to every needy heart.
And, O God, how we thank You that we don't have to be trapped in the bondage of legalism but that we can enjoy the freedom of faith, the blessing of grace through Christ. Amen.
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The Task Force makes its recommendations on the basis of explicit criteria. Recommendations issued by the USPSTF are intended for use in the primary care setting. The USPSTF recommendation statements present health care providers with information about the evidence behind each recommendation, allowing clinicians to make informed decisions about implementation.*
The USPSTF is supported by an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC). Under contract to AHRQ, the EPC conducts systematic reviews of the evidence on specific topics in clinical prevention which serve as the scientific basis for USPSTF recommendations.
The USPSTF reviews the evidence, estimates the magnitude of benefits and harms for each preventive service, reaches consensus about the net benefit for each preventive service, and issues a recommendation.
The Task Force grades the strength of the evidence as "A" (strongly recommends), "B" (recommends), "C" (no recommendation for or against), "D" (recommends against), or "I" (insufficient evidence to recommend for or against).
*From: Harris RP, Helfand M, Woolf SH, et al. Current methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: a review of the process. Am J Prev Med 2001;20(suppl 3):21-35.
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More than half (53.0 percent) of teens aged 16 to 19 years were enrolled in school sometime during the summer of 2009, a percentage close to 3 times higher than it was in 1989 (19.4 percent). Over the same period, the employment-population ratio for 16- to 19-year-olds declined from 57.0 percent to 32.9 percent.
Teens who are enrolled in school are much less likely to hold jobs in the summer than are youths who are not enrolled. The employment-population ratio for enrolled youths was 25.5 percent in summer 2009, compared with 41.3 percent for nonenrolled youths.
In addition to higher summertime enrollment rates, a second possible reason for lower employment-population ratios among teens is that students are facing greater academic demands and pressures than in the past, which, together with the desire to achieve, may incline them toward placing greater emphasis on academics than on working.
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"We've got 37 seniors, some who have been playing for three years," Tippmann said. "They've got a taste of what it's like to be in these kind of games. A lot of them played against Fishers as sophomores, when we were beaten pretty soundly, and they wanted to do better.
"It's a group that's worked tremendously hard and is unselfish. When you have that many of them, they're not all playing on Friday nights, but they're contributing on special teams or scout team, and having a positive influence on their teammates."
Snider (13-0) needed all of that Friday, when it escaped with a miraculous 36-35 overtime victory over Fishers. The Panthers were down 14 with less than four minutes left. After blocking a field goal, they drove to get within 28-21 with 1:20 to go. Following a quick Fishers three-and-out, they blocked a punt and scored to tie the game in the last 30 seconds. In the OT, Snider went for two and the win.
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After watching his team not play well for most of the game, Tippmann is relieved to have what amounts to a postseason mulligan.
"The playoffs are a grind," he said. "In most cases, you have one really bad game and you just hope it's not your last one. Usually that's the team who's turning its stuff in on Monday. We didn't play up to our abilities in a lot of areas. For whatever reason, we weren't ourselves. We're one step closer, but we know we're going to have to play better or we're not going to reach our goal."
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I've never been to Australia, my wife was in in Sidney and Melbourne for 2 weeks 20 years ago on a business trip. We thinking about exploring on motorcycles, not a car, a combination of the "typical" tourist place and things off the beating path (preferred).
Please PM me if you can give us some recommendations on places to go and were to find bikes. She rides a Vstar 1300 and I'm on a '07 FJR.
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I have only just seen your post. June may not be the best time to tour downunder, it is winter then. I am on the other side of the country from Melbourne and Sydney. That is about 2,500 miles. So I will not be much help in regards to recommendations. Try our Australian FJR Forum at
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Sorry, Roy. You're too late. June 2012 was five months ago. I think you should reschedule your trip for June, 2013. Maybe the airlines will give you part credit or something.
Sounds like it'll be a hell of a trip though. Happy anniversary!
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U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy said a recent 17 million dollar federal tax refund scam, busted by the IRS and FBI, was the first of its kind to hit Southwest Virginia.
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Happy Santa Lucia's Day! Candles & Crowns
Celebrated throughout Scandinavia and Italy, St. Lucia Day is marked by girls in white dresses wearing candle-filled crowns and bearing trays of baked-goods. How have I missed out on it all these years?
There is so much to tell about St. Lucia Day, I'll let Wikipedia do most of the work for me (though I prefer Posie Gets Cozy's more personal telling), but here are a few of my favorite details...
- Like most winter (and especially Scandinavian) holidays, St. Lucia Day evokes the struggle between light & dark, life & death.
- First celebrated in Sweden during the 18th Century, it spread throughout Scandinavia, faded a bit, and then experienced a strong renewal during World War II. For example, "In Denmark, the Day of Lucia (Luciadag) was first celebrated on December 13, 1944. The tradition was directly imported from Sweden by initiative of Franz Wend, secretary of Föreningen Norden, as an attempt 'to bring light in a time of darkness'. Implicitly it was meant as a passive protest against German occupation during the Second World War but it has been a tradition ever since." (Thanks, Wikipedia.) The same holds true even for countries with a longer St. Lucia tradition.
- Early on the morning of December 13th, the eldest daughter of a family dons a flowing white gown and a wreath of candles (electric these days, I hear) and brings breakfast in bed to her parents. The traditional saffron breakfast rolls are called Lussekatter, or St. Lucia buns, and here is a recipe, thanks to King Arthur Flour.
- In public processionals, the festivities are once again led by a be-gowned & be-candled girl, always blonde, which confuses me because St. Lucia was Italian. As a brunette, I especially love the gorgeous dark-haired girl in the photo above. Brunettes can wear dangerous hair-accessories, too!
- Carl Larsson painted this evocative glimpse of St. Lucia Day in 1908- don't you feel like you're there? The early morning darkness, the gratefully accepted cup of coffee, the scent of saffron and wax in the air. Someday.
- Gingerbread Snowflakes has a nice tutorial on how to convert a standard wreath into a St. Lucia wreath, including finding a reasonable facsimile for lingonberries.
- Over at Posie Gets Cozy, you can buy a Santa Lucia Clothespin Dollmaking Pattern, and there are detailed instructions as well.
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I was St. Lucia in our 5th grade Holidays Around the World play.
I can't be the only '90s girl here thinking about digging her Kirsten American Girl out of storage and decking her out in her St. Lucia Day garb, can I?
Oh man. And in looking her up online, I just found out they're discontinuing her. Cue heartbreak.
bodicegoddess - She's always my first thought when I hear of St. Lucia's day. I'm sad they're retiring her, she was my favorite! (I never did get the doll, but I had a mini Kirsten and had all the books, and my mom made me her dress from the American Girl patterns - I loved her.)
Yes to Kirsten! Love her!
I had Kirsten too! One year she and I both dressed up in Saint Lucia costumes...I don't think I served breakfast in bed to anyone, though!
FUNNIEST scene in a movie almost ever was the scene in The Ref where they have an argument at the table, and someone is wearing a St. Lucia candle crown. They play the scene entirely straight except for that one hilarious detail.
Baking rolls right now! :)
Happy Lucia! God Jul! My family just got back from the Santa Lucia procession here in Chicago. Our Lucia was brunette and chosen by a name draw from a hat around lunch time. She also wore real candles! It's a great celebration!
Yes! I was in Sankta Lucia processionals from about age 6 to age 13, when I was Lucia by default (the college student they'd arranged couldn't come). Other Luciasdag kid outfits include Star Boys and little girls dressed with tinsel crowns instead of candles. Being Swedish in the Midwest was awesome.
I'm baking limpa bread for the first time today. Loaves are rising right now and will go in the oven shortly. It was an ordeal, but I can't wait to taste the results!
No saffron, so no lussekatter. Krumkake and spritz are next on my holiday baking list.
I'm not Swiss, and I don't want to offend anyone, but this just looks dangerous. Some traditions need to be updated, like using led lights instead of wax candles. Seriously.
Yeah, Kirsten! That was the very first thing I thought when I saw the title of this post...I was always a Molly girl (brunette AND glasses? Hello, role model.) but this Kirsten book was my favorite.
@ HP Stephanie...you might want to read the article more carefully...and take a geography lesson ;)
my family celebrates st. lucy every year. we dont eat any meat, like our holiday lights and eat pasta with anchovies and breadcrumbs.
@Patrick, I was wondering if anyone would mention The Ref! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this picture! Great movie!
Blonde might be because it is a color of lightness. Candles, white robe...blonde hair. It all ties together, thematically.
I personally prefer the contrast against dark hair, too, but it's not really a holiday about BLENDING two states. :)
Kirsten was the first thing i thought of too ! I loved that doll and how the doll had a doll :)


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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Surveillance cameras meant to curb illegal dumping in Louisville's neighborhoods have caught two people over the past year.
Last May, Metro government installed the 19 cameras at a total cost of $60,800. Metro Council members this week questioned whether the cameras were effective, while Mayor Greg Fischer's administration said the extra surveillance had helped deter crime.
"Once the camera is placed, people see it and the dumping just stops," said Harold Adams, a spokesman for Metro Public Works. "It's really having a large effect that doesn't show up in the citation numbers."
Nine Metro Council members allocated money for the cameras through their Neighborhood Development Funds last year. Mayor Greg Fischer at the time said it was response to a "true quality of life issue" in many West Louisville neighborhoods.
Public Works can move the cameras to the worst areas for illegal dumping. Some residents on Hale Avenue said they wanted a camera in their area, even as they questioned whether it would lead to arrests.
"There's not a lot we can do. We can't sit vigilant 24/7 trying to watch somebody," said Hezzy Jewell, a block watch captain. "Especially if you catch two or three people (with a camera), the word will be out in a hurry."
Metro did put a camera in an alley near Hale Avenue, but neighbors said people still use it as a dumping ground. Friday, there were piled-up branches, but neighbors said it's often used for trash.
"It's just like if someone came into your house to dump trash," Jewell said. "All if it is frustrating and annoying to us as a community."
Councilman Rick Blackwell, a Democrat who helped provide money for the cameras through his Neighborhood Development Fund, questioned whether the cameras were working appropriately. In a budget hearing this week, Public Works administrators told him that crews had to climb up to the cameras to retrieve video, instead of downloading it as Blackwell expected.
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MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - A Milwaukee man who spent 23 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit might be compensated more by the state than what he expected.
Robert Stinson was seeking $115,000. Tuesday, the state Senate voted unanimously to pay him $136,000.
West Bend Republican Glenn Grothman said he thought Stinson deserved more. Grothman also sponsored a similar bill two years ago to compensate Stinson, but it went nowhere in the Legislature.
The new measure now goes to the Assembly.
The State Claims Board granted its maximum of $25,000, and it asked lawmakers to approve more.
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Marion County Probation
District 12 - Kory George
Wayne County Probation
District 13 - Cassie Marion
Vigo County Probation
District 14 - Nichole Hall
Bartholomew County Probation
District 15 - Janice Wade
Vanderburgh County Probation
District 16 - Jennifer Franklin
Lawrence County Probation
District 17 - Denise Poukish
Clark County Probation
At Large Board Members:
Stacy Beam
Noble County Probation
John Thorstad
Starke County Probation
Troy Hatfield
Monroe County Probation
County Probation
Christina Ball, Chair
Marion County Probation
Crystal McBroom
Lake County Probation - Adult
Linda Brady, POPAI Liaison
Monroe County Probation
The Order of Augustus
The Order of Augustus is an honorary award presented annually by the Probation Officers Advisory Board of the Judicial Conference of Indiana to those persons in the profession of probation whose commitment and personal dedication have exemplified the ideals and philosophy of John Augustus, the undisputed "Father of Probation." The creed of John Augustus was "To raise the fallen, reform the criminal, and so far as my humble abilities would allow, to transform the abode of suffering and misery to the home of happiness."
1993- Dr. Valorous "Val" B. Clear
Madison County Court Services
1994- Kenneth E. Watson
Allen County Court Services
1995- Neil T. Hannon
Porter County Probation
1996- Virgil L. Seay
Floyd County Probation
1997- Thomas N. Frederick
St. Joseph County Juvenile
1998- K. Allan Henson
Vanderburgh Circuit Court
1999- Leonard E. Simpson
Marion Superior Court Probation
2000- Denise Z. Ware
Clark Circuit Probation
2001- R. Todd McCormack
Hendricks Superior Court
2002- Amber Stirrup-Leonard
Lawrence County Probation
2004- Linda Brady
Monroe County Probation
2005- Suzanne Miller
Johnson County Juvenile Probation
2006- Eric Zimmerman
Allen County Adult Probation
2007- Susan Allen
Monroe County Probation
2008- Wayne Addison
Hancock County Probation
2009- Stephen T. Eyrick
LaPorte Superior #4 Probation
2010- Donald J. Travis
Howard County Probation
2011- Joe S. Hooker
Tippecanoe County Probation
2012- Robert Chamness
Wayne County Probation
2013- Susan Lightfoot
Henry County Probation