When man obeyed the words of the devil, the covenant between man and death and the agreement with hell came into being. Everyone, who would be born of the seed of man, would be born and live in the covenant with death and the agreement with hell. But Jesus came to expose and destroy the lies of the devil and the works of darkness and to break the covenant between 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
Now therefore, 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, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord (Exodus 19:5-8)
God had chosen one people among all the people on earth and made the people His own, namely the children, who were born of the seed of Jacob; இஸ்ரேல். This was the grace of God and a privilege. Because 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, which the people did, as long as they obeyed the words of God and kept the law of Moses with all its commandments, precepts, சட்டங்கள், rituals and feasts.
எனினும், the children of Israel did not always consider it a privilege and 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.
The people had a choice to reject the words of God and give into the will, ஆசைகள், and desires of the sinful flesh and do things, which 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 to obey the words of God and not give into the will, ஆசைகள், and desires of the flesh and bear the fruit of righteousness, which leads to life. This power was given by God from the beginning of creation.
God had created mankind with a free will and had given them power to do what man wanted to do, even after the fall of man.
The rulers of God’s people had 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: Therefore thus saith the Lord God, இதோ, 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 (ஏசாயா 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 and 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 (judgment) would pass through, by making lies their refuge and hiding themselves under falsehood.
But God prophesied about the coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and would be a precious Corner Stone, 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, and revealed and destroyed the works of darkness and called the people to repentance, and finished His perfect work of redemption for mankind (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: What is the true meaning of the cross?, இயேசுவுக்கும் மதத் தலைவர்களுக்கும் என்ன வித்தியாசம்? மற்றும் அன்றும் இன்றும் உள்ள கடவுளின் மக்கள் தலைவர்களுக்கு இடையே உள்ள ஒற்றுமைகள் என்ன??).
Jesus broke the covenant with death and the agreement with hell
I 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 (ஏசாயா 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, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that liveth, and was dead; மற்றும், இதோ, I am alive for evermore, ஆமென்; and have the keys of hell and of death (Revelation 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 and walk in darkness in the lies of the devil and put their trust in these lies and hide themselves under falsehood and as a result do the works of the flesh and bear the fruit of sin.
God gave out of love for humanity the ability to be redeemed from the power of darkness through Jesus Christ (ஓ. ஜான் 3:16-21, கோலோசியர்கள் 1:12-14).
All those, who believe in Jesus Christ and His redemptive work and obey His words and become born again in Him and build their faith upon Him, shall not be ashamed.
Since they live from Jesus; அந்த வார்த்தை, Who is seated in the heavenly places above all principality, சக்தி, and dominion, and therefore live in the truth of God’s Word and has made God’s truth their refuge and hiding place, whereby they are save in Him and live under God’s protection (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: 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.
Everyone, who believes in Jesus Christ and is baptized shall be saved
Everyone, who believes in Jesus Christ, கடவுளின் மகன், and decides to follow Him, should be baptized. This is not a choice, this is a commandment of Jesus Christ.
The rebirth, the renewal of mankind, 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.
எதிர்பாராதவிதமாக, many people think that it is possible and try to live from their old state as a new creation, whereby many walk after the flesh and in the occult, thinking they walk after the Spirit (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: அமானுஷ்யத்தில் நடக்க மீண்டும் பிறக்க வேண்டுமா?).
அதன் விளைவாக, we see a lukewarmness 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, கிளர்ச்சி, பெருமை, பாலியல் அசுத்தம், divorces, and other works of the flesh.
But walking after the Spirit means submission to God and His Word and keeping the words and commandments of Jesus, whereby you walk by faith in the will of God and do righteous works (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: What about grace and works?).
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ 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 (கலாத்தியர்கள் 3:26-27)
Through baptism, you identify yourself with the death and resurrection (from the dead) of Jesus Christ. 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 (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: What is the meaning of baptism?)
எனவே, if the flesh dies in Christ, the covenant between the person and death and the agreement between the person and hell ends and the law of sin and death, which reigns in the flesh ends.
Not until the flesh dies, the spirit of man, who is under the authority of death, can be raised from the dead.
And as Jesus Christ rose from the dead, the spirit of man will also be raised from the dead. Through the resurrection of the spirit from the dead, man has become a new creation and lives 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 (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: எட்டாவது நாள், the day of the New Covenant).
The new man shall walk 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, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. ஆமென் (Hebrews 13:20-21)
The new man is spiritual and has a new nature, namely God’s nature, and shall walk from this new nature after the Spirit in obedience to God and His Word and shall put off the old habits and works through the Spirit (ஓ. ரோமர்கள் 8:1-13; 13:12-14, கலாத்தியர்கள் 5:16-26, எபேசியர்கள் 4:2-மேலும் படியுங்கள்: முதியவரை எப்படி தள்ளி வைப்பது? and How to புதிய மனிதனை அணிந்துகொள்?).
The new man believes in God and shall obey God and His Word and shall no longer listen to and believe the lies of the devil 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, which are lies, and shall no longer make the lies of the world his refuge and hiding place. But the new man shall believe the words of God and build his life on Jesus Christ, the living Word, and the precious Corner Stone and God shall be his refuge and hiding place (மேலும் படியுங்கள்: இயேசு ஒரு விலையுயர்ந்த மூலைக்கல்லா அல்லது தடுமாற்றத்தின் கல்லா??).
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.
‘பூமிக்கு உப்பாக இருங்கள்’
