New Covenant – Salisbury Baptist Church

The Journey to the New Covenant

24th August 2025

God takes ordinary people and fills them with His Spirit to do extraordinary things. The journey from the Old Testament to the New is not a rejection of what came before, but a movement into the fullness of God's revelation in Jesus Christ. It is through repentance and faith in Christ's once‑for‑all atonement that believers receive not only forgiveness but also the indwelling Holy Spirit, who transforms common lives for eternal purposes.

The New Covenant

6th July 2025

The Old Covenant Law does not on its own make anyone righteous; rather, its primary purpose is to reveal the universal nature of sin, holding every person accountable to God. The Old Testament itself, however, points forward to a New Covenant. This new promise is not based on external rules but on an internal change, where God writes His law on our hearts and all may know Him personally. This covenant is made possible by the one, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice of Jesus Christ, whose death provides a complete atonement for sin, offering total forgiveness to all who come to Him in faith.

When God Chooses to Forget

24th November 2024

The perfect, all-knowing God makes an extraordinary choice - He chooses not to remember the forgiven sins of His people. This seeming paradox reveals the heart of the Gospel message. When we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us, treating us as though our transgressions never occurred. He removes them "as far as the east is from the west," establishing a new relationship with His people through Christ's sacrificial work on the cross. This divine forgetfulness applies not only to our past sins before conversion but also to our ongoing stumbles as Christians, allowing us to walk in true freedom and joy with our Heavenly Father. The key, nonetheless, is that His forgiveness first requires our repentance and confession. The opposite truth also applies: "He that covers his sins shall not prosper, but he that confesses and forsakes them shall find mercy." Proverbs 28:13.

Keys to the Kingdom: Understanding God’s New Covenant

25th August 2024

The Kingdom of Heaven, as prophesied in the Old Testament, was inaugurated after John the Baptist's death. This Kingdom is not a physical place, but God's rulership on Earth through Christ. Salvation comes not through good works, but solely through faith in Jesus' perfect life and sacrificial death. When we trust in Christ, we receive forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit, uniting us with Jesus. This union with Christ is the essence of the New Covenant, offering a closeness to God at a new level than that available in the Old Covenant.

A Spirit of Grace and Mercy in the New Covenant

14th January 2024

"Now those Old Covenant, Old Testament, New Covenant, New Testament are very much connected but they're not exactly the same meanings. The Old Testament contains the Old Covenant but also has many promises of the coming New Covenant which actually happens in the New Testament though there are plenty of prophecies in the Old Testament of those coming days. And up on the screen we have from Joel a prophecy which is a very important prophecy about how there's going to come a change in what God is doing by his spirit. And actually it is the change from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. And my talk this morning is about that difference between the Old and the New Covenants and some of the things that we can learn about the fact that we're in the New Covenant in the fulfilment of many of the promises of the Old."

Have this mind in you that was in Christ Jesus

3rd December 2023

"this is the beginning of the Beatitudes, as Jesus is actually teaching those closest to him, the twelve disciples, and maybe some others that came with them. He's teaching them about what it is to be a real disciple. And there's eight things that he says, and up until where we've come to so far in the exegesis, the exposition of these, they're all positive. They're things that are shown in the life of a person who seeks to be under the kingly rule of Jesus. And so anyway, here we have Jesus teaching the disciples. And that's what the Beatitudes are all about. But as we come down to about verse 20 or so, you'll discover that there's a reversal."