The New & Everlasting Covenant.
What Is the New & Everlasting Covenant?
The new and everlasting covenant is the covenant extended to all people everywhere in order to save us. God makes an oath to save us if we will make an oath to do His will in all things, which is most often referred to in the scriptures as “keeping his commandments.” This is how we offer up the sacrifice of a broken heart and contrite spirit.
- Supporting Scripture:
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7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.
- 2 Ne. 2:7
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17 And as many as have received me, to them have I given to become the sons of God; and even so will I to as many as shall believe on my name, for behold, by me redemption cometh, and in me is the law of Moses fulfilled.
18 I am the light and the life of the world. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
19 And ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood; yea, your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away, for I will accept none of your sacrifices and your burnt offerings.
20 And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost, even as the Lamanites, because of their faith in me at the time of their conversion, were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not.
21 Behold, I have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the world, to save the world from sin.
22 Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a little child, him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of God. Behold, for such I have laid down my life, and have taken it up again; therefore repent, and come unto me ye ends of the earth, and be saved.
- 3 Ne. 9:17-22
Offering up a broken heart and contrite spirit is the way to be saved
The only way to be saved is by offering up a broken heart and contrite spirit, and no one else can be saved unless they do that. Since there are multiple levels of being saved, this same covenant applies each time we advance or desire to advance on the spiritual ladder.
That’s how it always has been and always will be, forever, making it “everlasting” (Moses 6:67-68). It is also Everlasting because that is one of God’s names, and his covenant is an Everlasting one.
The “new” aspect refers to the renewal of the opportunity with the world, as part of a new restoration:
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47 And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father.
48 And the Father teacheth him of the covenant which he has renewed and confirmed upon you, which is confirmed upon you for your sakes, and not for your sakes only, but for the sake of the whole world.
- D&C 84:47-48
Part of God’s will for everyone is to repent and be baptized by water, then by fire and by the Holy Ghost once we fully demonstrate that we will do his will in all things he commands us. So the new and everlasting covenant is synonymous with the doctrine of Christ, the gospel of Christ, and the plan of salvation (D&C 45:9-10,28; 66:2; 133:57).
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