Discussing New Covenant Theology (while playing Super Mario Bros)

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Alright guys, we're back to round two of me trying to beat Mario and Talking about theology now things have changed this time I was able to connect my children's Nintendo switch to the computer So now I can have a little bit more reasonable gameplay last time I was playing on an emulator and some of you gave me a really hard time Saying that my gameplay was atrocious.

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Some of you even said that I needed to be Disciplined for my gameplay, which I thought was a little harsh But I understand so I'm still not great as you'll see but at least I have a real controller in my hand not playing on a not playing on a Computer keyboard, so I want to continue the conversation several people have asked me about the conversation about Dispensationalism and covenant theology and I ended last time by giving the the overall view and distinction between the two between covenant theology and dispensationalism and we we ended by saying that the biggest difference is understanding of their understanding of Israel covenant theology really recognizes the church as being the fulfillment of the promises to Israel and Dispensationalism sees a stark distinction between the church and Israel so that is one of the big distinctions that we will see but another distinction that we find between covenant theology and Dispensationalism is what we call the discontinuity and continuity of Scripture.

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So we would say that Covenant theology focuses a great deal on the continuity of Scripture that the the the things of the Old Testament Continuing into the New Testament the continuation of the the Old Covenant system into the New Covenant system and then we have Let's see here.

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Sorry had to pause the game there for a second but now we're back and we were talking about the continuity and discontinuity of Scripture talking specifically about Dispensationalism dispensationalism and covenant theology covenant theology sees more of a Continuity between the Old Testament and the New Testament and this dispensationalism sees sees more of a discontinuity more of a Separation between Israel and the church and making a strong distinction between the two saying that there are promises that are given specifically to Israel that are not meant to be promises for the church and will be fulfilled in in the life of Ethnic national Israel and many of those promises, of course coming in the Millennial Kingdom.

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So that is the view of Dispensationalism and covenant theology, but as I said in my last video there is a third view there are actually more views, but there's there's another view that I I want to bring out and I'm dying here.

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Oh, no, and I don't have as many men this time So this this video may not last long.

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So I want to try to get through New Covenant theology New Covenant theology is a relative newcomer in the sense that it doesn't have the the long history of covenant theology and Dispensationalism is somewhat of a newcomer as well.

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Dispensationalism is only a few hundred years old really starting back in the 1800s with JN Darby and then of course being popularized in the Schofield reference Bible and And so to to say that something's a newcomer well Covenant theology has been the the the position of reform theology since the time of Calvin some would argue that it goes back obviously before that, but at least we can say can be traced to the to the teachings of the Reformers and Popularized in confessions like the Westminster Confession that that is certainly a document that teaches covenant theology as well as The the 1689 London Baptist Confession Holding to a Baptist version of covenant theology.

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So covenant theology, of course is taught there So what's New Covenant New Covenant theology and how does it distinguish itself? Well New Covenant theology Focuses on a little bit more of the distinction between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant and my game is over But I'm not gonna stop because I am not done with telling about New Covenant theology So I'm not gonna finish just yet start over and see if I can do better this time.

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So the New Covenant theology focuses on Obviously on the New Covenant.

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Some people think that New Covenant theology is like New Covenant theology like it's still covenant theology, but it's just a newer version of it that's not exactly the best way to think about it and in fact that can be often somewhat difficult as we talked about last time Covenant theology looks at the covenants of that are unnamed specifically the covenant of works the covenant of grace and The covenant of redemption which was made before time.

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Those are the covenants that are focused on in classic covenant theology, but This is hard.

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I've become invisible when I when I get when I go back to being small So classic covenant theology would see Classic covenant theology would say There are three covenants unnamed in Scripture But they are the covenants that we need to focus on and that is the covenant of redemption covenant of works covenant of grace but New Covenant theology would focus more on the actual named covenants of Scripture and those would be Beginnings actually with the Noahic Covenant.

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The first covenant mentioned in Scripture is the Noahic Covenant now there are those who argue for a covenant with Adam in the garden and that is debated between New Covenant theologians and progressive covenantalists hold to a view called the creation covenant which progressive covenantalists is our is is a newer version of New Covenant theology and they would say that There was a covenant with Adam in the garden and they in that covenant language existed there But a lot of New Covenant theologians were opposed to the term covenant of works.

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They were opposed to the idea of Adam And the idea of the covenant of works and so the covenant of works is not a framework built into New Covenant theology New Covenant theology though really is focused on the Distinction between the New and the Old Covenant in regard to the law one of the things about covenant theology that's very important is the understanding of the law the the the particularly the Ten Commandments the the Covenant theologians see the Ten Commandments as being the moral law of God And and that all moral law Essentially coming out of the Ten Commandments if you go through the Ten Commandments you will find within them According to Covenant theologians, you'll find the basis for all moral law and and that would include Let's see Like for instance with the the do not commit adultery Commandment they would say well do not commit adultery includes all kinds of other sexual sin and all sexual sin falls under the category of do not commit adultery and So it's not just about adultery.

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It's it's a framework and so You know honoring your father mother is actually not just about your father mother It's actually about all authority and therefore when you when you Disobey, for instance a lawful command of the government You're violating the Fifth Commandment because the Fifth Commandment is not just about mother and father, but it's about authority.

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So that's an important distinction to be made within Covenant theology is they they put a very important the a A very important Emphasis on the Ten Commandments and where the distinction really lies then is with the Sabbath because a lot of those who hold the Covenant theology hold to a Sabbath view not a Saturday Sabbath view though A lot of them hold to Sunday as the Sabbath and so they would argue that the Sabbath is now for Christians on Sunday I did a debate on this if anybody's interested in listening to my debate you can actually go to our website for our church or YouTube page rather Sovereign Grace Family Church on YouTube SG FC Jack's and you can find just look up Sabbath debate.

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You will find it there and We we debated that me and Rob Hamm who is a Presbyterian pastor He took the position that Sunday is a Christian Sabbath and I took the position that it is not So I believe Sunday is the Lord's Day, but I don't believe that it holds the same restrictions as the Christian Sabbath So anyway getting back to the law new Covenant theology really is is focused on understanding the law as a whole rather than seeing the Ten Commandments as the moral law and then seeing the law as being a Tripartite law and that that's another thing that Covenant theologians hold to they hold to the law being three parts moral civil and ceremonial and if you take the moral law that's the Ten Commandments the civil law or the laws given to Israel to live and function as a society and then if you take The the ceremonial law that would include sacrifices and things like that All of those things that of course are fulfilled in Christ We were told that those things represented Christ pointed forward to Christ and all those things So so that's the that that's the the trifold View of the law moral ceremonial and civil and new covenant theology says no, it's it's all one thing It's all law and the whole law has been abrogated in the New Covenant.

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We have a new law the law of Christ the the the law that is given to us in the New Covenant is our marching orders, therefore, we don't have the same law as The Old Covenant in the sense that when I say we don't have the same law it's it's not as if it's a different God or a different law in that respect, but it is a We don't we don't we are not bound by Old Covenant law and we would basis particularly on such as Hebrews 3rd Hebrews 8 which says the Old Covenant has been made obsolete and Therefore we no longer are bound by that covenant.

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And so we're not part of that.

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We're not part of that covenant We're part of the New Covenant being brought into the New Covenant by Christ.

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So that is a The Biggest difference really in New Covenant theology is how the law is to be understood and how the overall Breakdown of Scripture that again going back through the covenants when we talk about the covenants We're talking about the covenants that are actually named what covenants are named the Noahic covenants first covenant that is named actually called a covenant and The second one you guys are watching me play right now You know what I'm wanting to do and it's just not working for me and I am going to have to give up now So I'll do that.

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I'm just gonna go do something else alright, so the covenants that are named the Noahic covenant is the first one that is named after that is the Abrahamic Covenant and Then we have the Mosaic Covenant, which is the covenant that's given in the law Then there is the Davidic Covenant now very just just to put all the cards on the table The word covenant is not used with David either It's the word it's a promise given about the kingdom, but a lot of people do recognize that as God making a promise to regarding the covenants and therefore David was sometimes referred to as the fourth covenant the Davidic covenants.

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You have Noahic Covenant you have the Abrahamic Covenant the Mosaic Covenant and The Davidic Covenant then we have the New Covenant and the New Covenant is According to New Covenant theology is the fulfillment of all the previous covenants the purpose of the New Covenant is to bring about all of the Promises that were in the Old Covenant the Old Covenant Or the old covenants are all pointing toward a greater covenant something that is Yet to come and that which is yet to come is Jesus and Jesus is the Fulfillment of all of the old covenants all the old covenants point to him.

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We are not bound by the Mosaic Covenant We are not a part of Israel.

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We are what we are.

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We're grafted into Israel, but we are not we are not part of the the Mosaic legislation so The Mosaic legislation is is not our marching orders Christ is our marching orders What Christ has commanded is our commands now some some people would argue that there's no distinction between what Christ said and what Moses said and and and on a fundamental level, there's some there's some accuracy that it's all God's truth and and Jesus certainly didn't contradict Anything moral in in God's law, but at the same time Jesus does tell us that he gives us new commands, you know a new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you and So New Covenant theology focuses on the newness of the New Covenant focuses a little bit more on the discontinuity Side, even though one could argue that it is more we look at more of more continuity than say the Dispensationalist because we don't make a big distinction between Israel and the church.

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We say Israel Israel was a type of the church and the Israel Pointed toward the church.

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All right, my game is over and I'm gonna leave it with that that that's the if you want If you want to think of all this think of it like a spectrum on the right side We would say that which looks at the continuity of Scripture would be covenant theology and covenant theology would look at a continuity of Scripture Dispensationalism would be more discontinuity and New Covenant theology and progressive covenantalism would be somewhere closer to covenant theology but less Than then the full Continuation so I hope this video was helpful.

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Hope it was fun to watch I did a little bit better still didn't do great make fun of me in the comments if you like because my gameplay is Awful, but I'm gonna keep trying to win this game while I teach theology.