In the Old Testament, we see God making covenants with increasingly large groups. First a couple, then a family, then a tribe, then a nation. With Jesus, we see the covenant offered to all humanity. This means that the covenant is with each and every individual, and it comes full circle in being so expansive and total that it becomes the most personal. Jesus came to change hearts. To heal us. This can only be done on an individual basis, and this is what we see in the New Testament, a God who comes to each person for a personal encounter in which they are changed and brought into His covenant.
This was the change with Christ’s incarnation: that God would have an individual relationship with each person.
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