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The following verses from Ezekiel contain God the Father’s New Covenant promises and its outcomes.

“I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers [on earth as in heaven]; you will be My people, and I will be your God. I will save you from all your uncleanness.” Ezekiel 36:25-29 BSB

God the Father promised to make His people eternally and morally pure and substantively clean as Him so that God Himself could cause His saints to love God and others as God loves them!

To ensure the New Covenant promises come about at the right time, God the Father sent His Son to earth to establish the New Covenant, then sent His Spirit to implement the New Covenant in and through new creatures in Christ. The Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are co-equal God with God the Father’s salvation and sanctification plans and implementation.

“And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, [1] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and [2] by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:11 BSB

Jesus Christ’s Life Established the New Covenant

Jesus of Nazareth, who became the Christ, established the New Covenant through his sinless life, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension to the Throne of God in the Most Holy Place in heaven. Jesus Christ, through the eternal Spirit, provided the just basis for God the Father to impute Jesus Christ’s righteousness to save elect sinners.

“So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD, so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.” Ezekiel 16:62-63 BSB

And

“He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

And

“Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.” Hebrews 9:12-15 BSB

The Holy Spirit applies New Covenant Promises.

God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ sent the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to inaugurate the beginning of the New Covenant, the one Church age. The Spirit of Christ is the eternal pledge that God the Father will fulfill all His New Covenant promises in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit of grace.

 “And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the [New Covenant] promised Holy Spirit, who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.”

The prominence of the Holy Spirit’s gracious works in salvation is seen by the title God gave the New Covenant. The title God gave is the “New Covenant of the Spirit,” so God only qualifies pastors and teachers as “New Covenant of the Spirit” pastors and teachers.

“And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives [eternal] life.” 2 Corinthians 3:6 BSB

The Spirit of God ensures all of God the Father’s New Covenant promises are done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. How does the Spirit of God ensure that all of God’s promises happen in a believer’s life? The Spirit of God does all the gracious works in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to save each believer.

“And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:11 BSB

In the New Covenant, the Son Jesus Christ rules the Church from heaven through the Spirit the Lord Who rules every believer in Christ. The Spirit of God is always in control of those He caused to be born again and made new creatures in Christ.

After salvation, the Spirit of sanctification desires to transform newborn babies in Christ into mature adults in Christ. The Son Jesus Christ rules the Church from heaven through the Spirit, who is the Lord and will eternally control the saint. Sanctification is the ongoing process of spiritual maturing, transformation from an infant in Christ to an adult in Christ. As an adult in Christ, the saint knows they never arrive at full maturity.

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 BSB

And

“You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.” Romans 8:9 BSB

The New Covenant is shrouded in mystery but can be fully known through the Spirit of truth and revelation for those who increasingly desire and hunger to know God.

“To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 BSB