Unit 3 Chapter 8

Lesson 8.1 Salvation Under the Old Covenant and the New

Lesson 8.2 Three Types of Old Testament Laws

Salvation Under the Old Covenant and the New

Also called the Pentateuch

The “Laws” were Genesis,

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,

and Deuteronomy

Revelation is called

Apocalyptic Literature

8.1

The Covenant

•Gen 12 God’s covenant with Abraham

•The Covenant renewed/passed on to Isaac and Jacob

•400 years later –it was renewed and passed on to the Jews through Moses

•Like a road map: stay on the road and be blessed; off the road –face

consequences

•Remember that (between Ex 20 –Deuteronomy 33) it is about a covenant

between God and the Jews, based on the Law of Moses.

The New Covenant explained in Hebrews:

“By calling this covenant “new,” He has made the first one obsolete;

and what is obsolete (not work) and aging will soon disappear. (Hebrews

8:7–13; compare Jeremiah 31:31–34) Christians are not under the old

covenant based on Law.”

Christians are not under the old covenant based on Law:

•For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law,but under grace.

(Romans 6:14)

•Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live

by faith.” (Galatians 3:11)

Salvation by Faith in God, through the Sacrifice He

Accepts

Moses and the Law: Ex 12+

“For the life of a creature is in

the blood, and I have given it to

you to make atonement for

yourselves on the altar; it is the

blood that makes atonement for

one’s life” (Leviticus 17:11)

Adam and Eve: Gen 2 –3

Cain and Abel: Gen 4

Noah (after the flood): Gen 8

Abraham: Gen 12 –22

Job: Job 1

Always

thru

blood

Saving Faith Through Good Works and the Spirit

of the Law

•Faith without works is as dead as the body without the spirit

(James 2:14–26).

Balance needed

•For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is

not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2: 8