The Role of Covenant in the Christian Life

In the spiritual resurrection of believers, he illustrates the justice of the law by asking his listeners to imagine a criminal who must bear the punishment prescribed that law. In the same sermon, he uses physical death to illustrate the necessity of a divine new creation to bring life to the dead sinners. He will truly discover the governing principle of Christian life and recognize that there are simply no limits which we can set upon its application. It's covenantal theology, and that is inseparably tied also to our hermeneutic.