Plain As Daylight

2 Corinthians 3:6 "This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit" Could it be any plainer than that? This is setting in concrete the metaphor of Jesus about new wine needing to be put into new wineskins. With his coming everything changed, and it all had to do with him personally (Spirit) and what he taught (two commandments-new covenant). That is why the words spoken in the prayer of consecration at the Lord's Supper include the idea of the new covenant (the new agreement between you and God). What an huge insult (and tragic mistake) it is to try and force the Spirit of Jesus into the old covenant-the way of rules and regulations. The bible is clear, the witness of Jesus, and here (and many other places) of Paul that the old covenant didn't work. It was grand in the mind of God, but something got lost in the process of transfer into the mind of human beings. Original sin crept in, the desire to be God took over and what was meant to be glorious (a true expression of the gospel) became, in Paul's words, death. Jesus came to give us life and that abundantly. How dare anyone try to force the freedom he came to bring us into just more of the same old death! Forgive me, I get passionate about this. But then so did our Lord. If we don't get that it's not about religion; it's about THE relationship, then we don't really get Jesus at all. Plain as Daylight.