When man obeyed the words of the devil, the covenant between man and death and the agreement with hell came into being. 每个人, 谁将从人类的种子中诞生, would be born and live in the covenant with death and the agreement with hell. But Jesus Christ came to expose and destroy the lies of the devil and the works of darkness and to break the covenant between fallen man and death and the agreement with hell. What does the Bible say about the covenant with death and the agreement with hell? How can you be delivered from the covenant with death and hell and enter the everlasting covenant with God and inherit eternal life?
God created man with a free will
因此，现在, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: And ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him. And all the people answered together, 并且说, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord (出埃及记 19:5-8)
God had chosen one people among all the people on earth and made the people His own, namely the children, 他们是雅各后裔所生的; 以色列.
This was the grace of God and a privilege.
Since the children of Israel were the only people among all the people on earth, who were chosen by God and set apart.
The children of Israel were in a covenant with God, which was visible through the circumcision in the flesh and their way of living.
Because as God is holy and righteous, His people, who belonged to Him, also had to walk holy and righteous.
God’s people walked holy and righteous as long as they obeyed the words of God and kept the Law of Moses with all its commandments, precepts, (牺牲, 食物) 法律, 仪式, 和盛宴.
然而, the children of Israel did not always consider it a privilege. They were not always happy with their God, since the nature of the devil that reigned in their sinful flesh, strove against God and His will.
God’s people had a choice to obey or disobey the words of God
The people had a choice to obey or disobey the words of God. They could reject the words of God and give into the will, 欲望, and desires of the sinful flesh and do things, that were an abomination to God, which God had revealed through His Word and His commandments, and bear the fruit of sin, which leads to death. Or they could obey the words of God and not give into the will, 欲望, and desires of the flesh and bear the fruit of righteousness, which leads to life. The people had received this power from God from the beginning of creation.
God created humanity with a free will and gave them the power to do what they wanted to do, even after the fall of man.
The rulers of God’s people made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell
Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 所以，耶和华神这样说, 看哪, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried Stone, a precious corner Stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report (以赛亚 28:14-19)
It is very sad to read, how the rulers of God’s people in Jerusalem, who had such a privilege, didn’t believe the words of God. They rejected their God and scorned Him, by making a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
They assumed they were safe, when the overflowing scourge (判断) would pass through, by making lies their refuge and hiding themselves under falsehood.
The prophecy about the coming of Jesus Christ, the precious Cornerstone
But God prophesied about the coming of Jesus Christ, 永生神的儿子, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and would be a precious Cornerstone, not only for the children of Israel but for all the people, who belong to the generation of fallen man and live in the covenant with death and the agreement with hell, which is visible through their disobedience to God and their sins and iniquities.
And so Jesus came to the earth and represented, preached, and brought the Kingdom of God to the children of Israel.
Jesus exposed the lies and falsehood of the leaders, who had made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. He revealed and destroyed the works of darkness and called the people to repentance, and finished His perfect work of redemption for fallen humanity. (另请阅读: 十字架的真正意义是什么?, 耶稣和宗教领袖有什么区别? 和 过去和现在上帝子民的领袖有什么相似之处?).
Jesus broke the covenant with death and the agreement with hell
我, the Lord have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house (以赛亚 42:6-7)
And when I saw Him, I fell at his feet as dead. And He laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, 不要害怕; I am the first and the last: 我是活着的他, 并且死了; 和, 看, 我永远活着, 阿门; 并拥有地狱和死亡的钥匙 (启示 1:17-18)
Jesus came to provide a way out, for all those, who belong to the generation of fallen man and live in the covenant with death and the agreement with hell in darkness.
Jesus came for those, who walk in darkness in the lies of the devil and put their trust in these lies, and hide themselves under falsehood, 因此, do the works of the flesh and bear the fruit of death, 这是罪孽.
God gave out of love for humanity the ability to be redeemed from the power of darkness through His Son Jesus Christ (哦. 约翰 3:16-21, 歌罗西书 1:12-14).
Jesus became the Substitute for fallen man and took the place of fallen man on the cross.
Jesus was made sin and entered death and hell, to break the covenant between fallen man and death and the agreement between fallen man and hell (a.o Isaiah 28:14-19, 使徒行传 2:31, 以弗所书 4:8-9, 歌罗西书 1:12-14, 1 彼得 3:19, 启示 1:18).
所有那些, who believe in Jesus Christ and His redemptive work and obey His words and become born again in Christ and build their faith upon Him, shall not be ashamed.
the covenant with death and the agreement with hell can only be broken through the rebirth in Christ
They are quickened from the dead in Christ and live from Jesus; 活的道, Who is seated in the heavenly places above all principality, 力量, 和统治. They live in the truth of God’s Word and have made God’s truth their refuge and hiding place, whereby they’re saved in Him and live under God’s protection. (另请阅读: Are you living in the shadow of the Most High or in the shadow of death?).
Becoming born again in Christ is a requirement to be released from the covenant with death and the agreement with hell.
The covenant with death and the agreement with hell in the flesh can only be broken through the death of the flesh in Christ.
每个人, who believes in Jesus Christ and is baptized shall be saved
每个人, 谁相信耶稣基督, 神的儿子, and decides to follow Him, should be 受洗礼. This is not a choice, this is a commandment of Jesus Christ.
The rebirth, the renewal of fallen man, must take place on earth. It’s impossible to live from your old state as a sinner in the New Covenant in the new state as a saint.
很遗憾, many people think that it is possible. Therefore they try to live from their old state (fallen state) as a new creation. Because of that many walk after the flesh in the occult, thinking they walk after the Spirit. (另请阅读: Do you have to be born again to walk in the supernatural?).
因此, we see a lukewarm church and indifference towards sin that has led to a compromised gospel that allows the works of the flesh and tolerates sin in the church.
We see an increase in disrupted families, 叛乱, 自豪, 性不洁, divorces, and other works of the flesh.
But walking after the Spirit means submission to God and His Word and obeying the words of Jesus and keeping the commandments of Jesus, whereby you walk by faith in the will of God and do righteous works (另请阅读: 恩典和行为呢?).
If you are baptized in Christ, you have put on Christ
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ (加拉太书 3:26-27)
Through baptism, you identify yourself with the death and resurrection (from the dead) 耶稣基督的. Your flesh dies in Him, whereby you are redeemed from the power of darkness, and the covenant with death and the agreement of hell are broken. Since every covenant and every agreement and commitment ends through death (另请阅读: What is the meaning of baptism?)
所以, if your flesh dies in Christ, the covenant between you and death and the agreement between you and hell ends, and the 罪与死的法则, 在肉体中掌权的, ends.
Not until your flesh dies, your spirit, who is under the authority of death, can be raised from the dead.
And as Jesus Christ rose from the dead, your spirit will also be raised from the dead. Through the resurrection of your spirit from the dead, you have become a new creation and live from the spirit in the New Covenant, the eternal Covenant, which is sealed with the blood of Jesus, in which the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus reigns. (另请阅读: 第八天, 新约的那一天).
The new man walks in the New Covenant
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in His sight, 通过耶稣基督; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. 阿门 (希伯来书 13:20-21)
The new man is spiritual and has a new nature; 神的本质. The new man walks from this new nature after the Spirit in obedience to God and His Word and puts off the old habits and works through the Spirit (哦. 罗马书 8:1-13; 13:12-14, 加拉太书 5:16-26, 以弗所书 4:20-32, 歌罗西书 3 (另请阅读: 怎样才能赶走老人? and How to 穿上新人?)).
The new man believes in God and obeys God and His Word. The new man doesn’t belong to the devil and shall no longer listen to him and believe his lies and do the works of darkness. But the new man shall expose and destroy the lies of the devil and the works of darkness with the truth of God’s Word.
The new man shall no longer put his trust in the words of the world, 哪些是谎言, and shall no longer make the lies of the world his refuge and hiding place.
反而, the new man shall believe the words of God and build his life on Jesus Christ, 活的道, and the precious Cornerstone. And God shall be his refuge and hiding place. (另请阅读: Is Jesus a precious Cornerstone or a Stone of stumbling?).
Don’t enter the covenant with death and the agreement with hell!
But although Jesus has accomplished this great work of redemption for humanity, we also see in this age, that just as in the Old Covenant, many Christians, who have tasted the new life in the New Covenant, return to the flesh and the poor worldly spirits and through their disobedience to God and their lives, enter a covenant with death and an agreement with hell again.
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