How does the Bible define marriage? What is marriage in God's eyes? Is it okay for people to have sex before they're married? These questions are not only important, but they're increasingly relevant as people, young and old, revisit their ideas about relationships.
We who follow Jesus take part in the new covenant, but some are confused about whether Christians are included in the old. Here we see in Matthew 17 that Jesus' followers are exempt from the Law because we are children of the King.
Covenants are essentially contracts, or agreements. The Bible tells of a number of covenants that God made with different people. Here we see that they are all fulfilled by Jesus. The questions I get about sabbath-keeping and the Ten Commandments and being Torah-observant all come from a misunderstanding of the nature of covenants.
