Leviticus 11

[John 8:32]

And do you think not one jot or tittle has disappeared from the law, yet?

Jesus gave two conditions for something being able to 'disappear' out of the law. And we know one of them happened because simple logic and reason tells us that by the fact that something really did disappear from the requirements of the law! (Are you following the logic?) And not just a jot or a tittle 'disappeared' but a very large portion of the law. A portion that no longer has to be 'kept' because of Jesus having fulfilled those requirements through his death.

When Jesus fulfilled (met, kept, satisfied) the requirements for sacrifice for sin through his own body he provided one of the two conditions that must be met in order for something as little as a jot or tittle to 'disappear' from the law--fulfillment.

This being true, that some things really have 'disappeared' from the law', it's impossible to use Matthew 5:17-18 as some kind of defense that God's Church is still bound to every letter of the law including the laws of uncleanness. It's a terribly flawed argument.

Well now just what laws have NOT disappeared by your reckoning? Explain to me how you pick and choose.

 

[John 8:32]

WOW and YIKES !! Yes, some grace people who understand justification is not by works do not understand that the person who is doing the law does not mean that person believes they are justified by the law. Personally this gives all GRACE without works preachers and believers a bad name and causes me to have to explain that the preachers I listen to are GRACE but they do not teach one is free to sin without consequences.
Such as if you do the law (say each kosher, observe a Saturday sabbath) that it is the same as doing these things in order to be justified and saved. And that if you do things you have fallen from grace. I my studies I feel like the only thing a Jew could do that would be to return to shedding animal blood as a sacrifice for sin, in fact as a gentile that would clinch it. That is a rejection of the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross. As a gentile if I were to no longer believe that He my Savior and there is, maybe, or don't believe in salvation at all it would be the same thing.

Hope this made sense, I'm half listening to the football game. Sorry. Superbowl may be the battle of the Angry Birds.

Now read Ezekiel 40 through 48 and you find that animal sacrifices are once again carried out in the Millenium. Animal sacrifices were never atonement for sin, they were the schoolmaster to bring us to the sacrifice of Christ...

Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Animal sacrifices were a bloody reminder that sin requires blood to be shed...

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The sacrifices were a type and prophecy of the perfect sacrifice of Christ. He shed His blood for our sins so that our blood need not be shed. This is not an abrogation of the law, if He did away with the law, there would be no penalty and no need for a sacrifice...

Rom 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Without law there is no sin and without sin there is no penalty for sin. If there is no sin and no penalty for sin, there is no need for a Savior. The whole concept of doing away with teh law cheapens the sacrifice of Christ.

 

[John 8:32]

OK, here is my thinking on Lev 11...

1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

First of all, I disagree vehemently with the SDAs and there "vegetarian diet is more righteous" doctrine. But let's examine these verses carefully...

1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

What meats were created to be received? The clean meats. There is scriptural evidence that this was known prior to the flood...

Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Now why did they need to take seven pairs of clena beasts onto the ark? They were on it for a year, what do you think they ate?

Now, clean and unclean was around at the time of Noah for sure, can you say for certainty it was unknown at the creation? If God stated everything all at once, there would be one book with one chapter and it would be so confusing no one could read it. Just because He did not RECORD clean and unclean at creation does not mean He did not instruct Adam and Eve in it. He obviously instructed them in many other things that were not recorded in the first few chapters of Genesis.

Now, onto verses 4 & 5...

1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Two conditions are stated here in verses 4 and 5, one is that we should give thanks for our food and ask God to bless it, secondly, meat is sanctified by the Word of God.

sanctified:

G37
ἁγιάζω
hagiazō
hag-ee-ad'-zo
From G40; to make holy, that is, (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate: - hallow, be holy, sanctify.

sanctified by the word

word:

G3056
λόγος
logos
log'-os
From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is, Christ): - account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say (-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.

Now where do we find something said about meat? Where do we find a discourse on that topic? Well, I can think of a couple of places, Lev 11 adn Deut 14. What it boils down to for me is that I believe the designer and maker of the human body knows what fuel he intended for us to use in it. I trust Him to tell me how to take care of it.

 

[iLOVE]

Honestly, this is a ridiculous reply, you are telling me that I fall out of Grace with God if I keep this law?

Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

So, to be in God's grace, we must all be murderers?

To stay in God's grace believers must believe that God has been and will be merciful to your unrighteousness, sins, and iniquities. No one goes to hell for sin. People will go to hell if they reject Jesus. When we became born again the bible tells us that we became the righteousness of Christ. However there will be consequences for our actions. Jesus has done it all for the believer. We have victory in the Blood of Jesusssssssssss!

 

[John 8:32]

To stay in God's grace believers must believe that God has been and will be merciful to your unrighteousness, sins, and iniquities. No one goes to hell for sin. People will go to hell if they reject Jesus.

Paul disagrees with this...

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

When we became born again the bible tells us that we became the righteousness of Christ. However there will be consequences for our actions.

Well yeaah...

Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Jesus has done it all for the believer. We have victory in the Blood of Jesusssssssssss!

Jesus did it all, yet...

Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

And another favorite...

Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

 

[iLOVE]

Paul disagrees with this...

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.



Well yeaah...

Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.



Jesus did it all, yet...

Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

And another favorite...

Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Get behind me Satan! You post scriptures to confuse the Christian believer.

 

[Deborah13]

Now read Ezekiel 40 through 48 and you find that animal sacrifices are once again carried out in the Millenium. Animal sacrifices were never atonement for sin, they were the schoolmaster to bring us to the sacrifice of Christ...

Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Animal sacrifices were a bloody reminder that sin requires blood to be shed...

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The sacrifices were a type and prophecy of the perfect sacrifice of Christ. He shed His blood for our sins so that our blood need not be shed. This is not an abrogation of the law, if He did away with the law, there would be no penalty and no need for a sacrifice...

Rom 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Without law there is no sin and without sin there is no penalty for sin. If there is no sin and no penalty for sin, there is no need for a Savior. The whole concept of doing away with teh law cheapens the sacrifice of Christ.

Were you trying to say that the sacrifices were a type and shadow of the law. Yes they were as so me thing in the OT were. And all law given by God was a schoolmaster. However, that is not here or there that I can see as to my post in response.
All the same the blood sacrifices had to be done and they believed it. It was what they did, tradition.
Hebrews 6:4-6

King James Version (KJV)

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.


The author of Hebrews was saying don't turn back, don't look back, like Lot's wife.....

Galatians 2:21

King James Version (KJV)

21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.



You don't understand saved by grace?
You don't understand righteous by faith?
Therefore, no more penalty for sin, as in death, hell, lake of fire?
There will be consquences to be sure.

All sinners need a Savior. All righteous are only righteous because their Savior is righteous, can't do without Him, and who'd want to anyway.

And I don't think I said anything about the law being done away with? However, I do believe Jesus fulfilled the law and when walk in the Spirit in love, we continue in Him fulfilling the law of love, which is the fulfillment of the law. Now that you have heard the word law many times do you feel jusitified. The law can not ever justify anyone, only Jesus........

The Glory of the Cross is cheapen when someone believes that the law has any power to do what only the shed blood of our Savior Redeemer could ever do.

Praise Him, Worship Him, Sing of Him, Shout of Him.....and only Him. Jesus Our Lord

 

[Jethro Bodine]

And if you read the context you find that the subject is not clean and unclean, it is the ceremonial washings concocted by the Pharisees...

Mar 7:1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
Mar 7:2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
Mar 7:3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Mar 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Mar 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mar 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

The issue here is not the command to avoid unclean meat, it was a concocted tradition of the Pharisees that was being viewed as far more important than the commands of God, they did this...

Where food goes is what disqualifies it as actually being able to make a person unclean and, therefore, unfit for manifest fellowship with God and his people. So you're saying that the unclean foods of the law somehow go into the heart and make a man 'unclean', and not into the stomach where they are purged away like other foods? And somehow unclean foods are the exception when Jesus said that it isn't what goes into a man can make him unclean but rather what comes out of a man, from his heart?

We don't understand this quite so well in our modern cultures, but food and eating are closely associated with intimate fellowship and communion with other people. The influences of those we fellowship closely with, as symbolized by eating, really does go into our hearts and can be either clean or unclean for us. Whether we realize it or not, we take people into ourselves, like eating food, when we fellowship with them and are influenced by that fellowship (1 Corinthians 15:33).

God uses this metaphor of unclean 'animals' in Peter's vision on the roof in Acts 10. The unclean animals are illustrations and types of the forbidden relationships the people of God were not to have for risk of making themselves unclean by the influence of their practices. But as it is, God is saying he has made these formerly unclean influences--the bottom feeding, predatory gentiles--clean, by faith, just as he has done the Israelites themselves.

Is Acts 10 a hard and fast proof text that unclean foods, and not just unclean gentiles, are now clean? No, not really. Mark 7 shows us that all by itself. But what sense does it make to use something that continues as being unclean in and of itself to illustrate something that now ceases to be unclean? Peter got the message.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Well now just what laws have NOT disappeared by your reckoning? Explain to me how you pick and choose.

The short answer:

"8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." (Romans 13: NIV1984)

The continuing debt of law that we have that is the never satisfied is the debt of law to 'love your neighbor as yourself' as seen in commands such as 'Do not steal'. For obvious reasons that obligation, that debt of law, never ceases. That requirement of the law is never satisfied. We are to always do that. It continues as an ongoing obligation of the servant of God.

The ceremonial law, on the other hand, has been satisfied so that there is no remaining debt of obligation concerning those laws. The work of Christ did that--one time, for all time, for all believers, so that there is no more need to fulfill an obligation of ceremonial law (through which to draw near to God) that has now been accomplished perfectly and forever through the blood of Christ. That being true (we are now perfectly and forever brought near to God through Christ) we no longer need the old system of temple, priest, and sacrifice to draw near to God through. It has been laid aside as being obsolete in favor of the New and better Way, faith in Jesus Christ. Amen, amen, and amen.

 

[Deborah13]

Paul disagrees with this...

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.



Well yeaah...

Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.



Jesus did it all, yet...

Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

And another favorite...

Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Your post makes it Very clear that you esteem your acts of righteous are of value to salvation. Your acts of righteousness cannot shed any light only darkness on your salvation. No matter what you do they are as filthy rags you cannot buy what is given as a gift.
Salvation is of the Lord. It is in His righteousness that we find our justification and in His alone. Our Redeemer paid the price, the ransom for our souls. He gave the precious gift of His righteousness and in so doing our spirits are made righteous in Him, justified by Him. Our souls, that part of us that hangs on to the things of the world, our minds/attitudes need to be renewed to come into agreement with God, by the workings of the Holy Spirit in us (if we will die to self, in other words cooperate) are being sancitified. Some will do better than others in this process but our Lord is faithful even when we are not. He will complete is sanctification of our souls, (see Revelation).
Righteousness by works makes the works of the cross void in one's life. The works of the cross allowed us to be judge by His righteousness rather than by the law for if we were to be judged by the law no one would receive eternal life. That is what the word says. No man, no matter how much he confesses, repents, begs for forgiveness is righteous enough.

All must receive the GOSPEL, the GOOD NEWS, the almost too good to be true news.

The law (the old covenant of judgment by the law) is not the good news for man. The gospel (the new covenant of judgement by His righteous) is the GOSPEL of grace. If this were not so there would have been no need for the new and Christ died in vain.

 

[John 8:32]

Your post makes it Very clear that you esteem your acts of righteous are of value to salvation. Your acts of righteousness cannot shed any light only darkness on your salvation. No matter what you do they are as filthy rags you cannot buy what is given as a gift.
Salvation is of the Lord. It is in His righteousness that we find our justification and in His alone. Our Redeemer paid the price, the ransom for our souls. He gave the precious gift of His righteousness and in so doing our spirits are made righteous in Him, justified by Him. Our souls, that part of us that hangs on to the things of the world, our minds/attitudes need to be renewed to come into agreement with God, by the workings of the Holy Spirit in us (if we will die to self, in other words cooperate) are being sancitified. Some will do better than others in this process but our Lord is faithful even when we are not. He will complete is sanctification of our souls, (see Revelation).
Righteousness by works makes the works of the cross void in one's life. The works of the cross allowed us to be judge by His righteousness rather than by the law for if we were to be judged by the law no one would receive eternal life. That is what the word says. No man, no matter how much he confesses, repents, begs for forgiveness is righteous enough.

All must receive the GOSPEL, the GOOD NEWS, the almost too good to be true news.

The law (the old covenant of judgment by the law) is not the good news for man. The gospel (the new covenant of judgement by His righteous) is the GOSPEL of grace. If this were not so there would have been no need for the new and Christ died in vain.

Odd, I believe that I am justified by Christ's blood and saved by His life. I do believe that God expects me to do what He says to do, in other words, I believe that God asks for obedience not disobedience. If God tells us to do something, how is it a lack of faith to do what He says to do? Sin is not doing what God says to do...

1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

And we all do that regularly...

1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

So we need the sacrifice of Christ to forgive sin...

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

So as we sin (transgress God's law), we do this...

Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Which, if we are honest with ourselves and God, is daily.

By the by, your definition of the New Covenant is off just a tad...

Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.