In the New Covenant now, even if you mess up and sin, it doesn’t cut you off from God or break your access to Him, in any way! In the Old Covenant it did. That’s because the Old Covenant was a covenant cut between God and man. It was a covenant, where your relationship with God and the blessings or punishment you’d receive from Him, were all based on your keeping of the Law of God. If you kept the Law you would be blessed, and if you broke it you would be cursed. The problem is, because of mans fallen state, it is impossible for anyone to perfectly keep the high standards of Gods Law. Man is always going to fall short and therefore suffer the consequences. One of the consequences is broken fellowship with God. But the New Covenant is a covenant that God didn’t make with man, but between the Father and the Son, Jesus. That’s why it’s not reliant on our performance but on Christ perfect performance. God brought us into Christ and that’s how we come into this New Covenant. This is a much better arrangement!
The good news is that now God relates to you through Christ’s perfect righteousness in you, and not your performance whether good or bad! Therefore you can have perfect and unbroken fellowship with God 24/7.
The proof of this is that the Holy Spirit does not leave you when you sin. If your sin made you unholy the Holy Spirit would have to leave until you were made holy again. Then you’d have to be re-baptized in the Holy Spirit. And every other time you sinned! No Jesus said in John 14:16 that the Holy Spirit will never leave you. This demonstrates that we don’t have to be fearful ever again of being separated from the love of God but can walk in boldness in our relationship with Him no matter what!
“So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory.”
Romans 8: 15 – 17 (NLT)
“What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—forChrist Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us…
…And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below— indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 8: 31-34,38,39 (NLT)
