Christians believe that God has established a new covenant with people through Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, and other books collectively called the New Testament ( the word testament attributed to Tertullian is commonly interchanged with the word covenant ).

His leadership, influence and legacy led to the formation of communities dominated by Gentile groups that worshiped the God of Israel, adhered to the " Judaic moral code ", but relaxed or abandoned the ritual and dietary teachings of the Law of Moses, that these laws and rituals had either been fulfilled in the life of Christ or were symbolic precursors of Christ, all on the basis of Paul's teachings of the life and works of Jesus Christ and his teaching of a New Covenant ( or " new testament ") established through Jesus ' death and resurrection.

# The Children of Israel were God's original chosen people by virtue of an ancient covenant, but by rejecting Jesus they forfeited their chosenness-and now, by virtue of a New Covenant ( or " testament "), Christians have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people, the Church having become the " People of God.

Her testament of June 6, 1939 states, " I beg the Lord to take my life and my death … for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary and the holy church, especially for the preservation of our holy order, in particular the Carmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, as atonement for the unbelief of the Jewish People and that the Lord will be received by his own people and his kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world, at last for my loved ones, living or dead, and for all God gave to me: that none of them shall go astray.

For this purpose, he wrote Mother Earth, a " powerful testament to Nature as God and to the farmer as acolyte and collaborator in the process of ongoing creation ".

COGIC teaches that Angels are messengers sent from God who served during the Creation, throughout the old testament, the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, the establishment of the church and the ministry of the apostles, and are yet at work in the Kingdom of God.

That Kosovo ’ s declaration and testament is regarded as s covenant which the Serb people made with God – and sealed with martyrs ’ blood.

What was written on that scrap may serve as Watchman Nee's testament: " Christ is the Son of God Who died for the redemption of sinners and was resurrected after three days.

For humanity it should serve as a reminder of the worth of their actions, and for God a testament to the worth of God's creations.

The succession of Khalifatul Masih is believed by the Qadiani branch of the Ahmadiyya to be the second manifestation of God ’ s power that he wrote about in his last testament Al-Wassiyyat ( The Will )

They believed that God used certain people as his tool as in the old testament.

All four times in the old testament, ( and one of the three times in the new testament ,) it refers to " Moses the servant of God " (; ; ; ; ).

In the new testament, Paul calls himself "< U > a </ U > servant of God " in, and James calls himself "< U > a </ U > servant of God " in.

Hill's handwritten last will and testament was uncovered in the first decade of the 21st century by archivist Michael Nash of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives of New York University.

A testament to the widespread popularity of punsch or rack ( arrack ) is the songs of Swedish eighteenth century poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman.

Michael Grant tells us that " Cicero himself seems to have regarded this treatise as his spiritual testament and masterpiece.

The independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras has created a feature film Cleophas and His Own, released in 2005, which uses a personal testament by Hartley as its screenplay.

Michael is told of a " testament ", a set of documents Guiliano has composed that would be damning to certain political officials of the Italian government if released.

Michael is also told he is to be entrusted with Guiliano's testament.

In this testament, Isaac also talks with the crowds on the subjects of priesthood, asceticism, and the moral life.

As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".

Gerolf Steiner's mock-scientific book about the fictitious animal order Rhinogradentia ( 1961 ), inspired by Morgenstern's nonsense poem Das Nasobēm, is testament to his enduring popularity.

Markings was described by a theologian, the late Henry P. Van Dusen, as " the noblest self-disclosure of spiritual struggle and triumph, perhaps the greatest testament of personal faith written ... in the heat of professional life and amidst the most exacting responsibilities for world peace and order.

The fact that such a high proportion – more than 700 of the almost 4000 produced – have survived more than forty years is a testament to their high initial production quality, and to the lengths to which many owners will go in order to maintain and restore these vehicles.

Hence probably has arisen that groundless, vulgar error of the necessity of leaving the heir a shilling, or some other express legacy, in order to effectually disinherit him ; whereas the modern law, though the heir, or next of kin, be totally omitted, admits no querela inofficiosa, to set aside such testament.

In addition, it retains some scores of musicians of the Royal Chapel, privileges of different kings, the founding order of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the testament of Philip II and correspondence of most of the kings of the House of Bourbon.

Darány wanted to recur to basis of István Bethlen with the program of the conservation of the constitutional order, but he did not want to turn sharply against Gömbös ' political testament.

In his testament, Lenin portrayed him as the " Golden Boy " of the party, writing:

When Arcadius died, and the testament was opened, information of its contents was sent to Isdigerd, who at once accepted the charge assigned to him, and addressed a letter to the Senate of Constantinople, in which he declared his determination to punish any attempt against his ward with the extremest severity.

Paul's first act as Emperor was to inquire about and, if possible, destroy her testament, as he feared it would exclude him from succession and leave the throne to Alexander.

When the King died in 1343, in his last will and testament, he formally bequeathed his kingdom to his eldest granddaughter, and made no mention of Andrew, even as a consort and tried to exclude him from rule.

Both the dream argument and the Simulation hypothesis can be regarded as skeptical hypotheses ; however in raising these doubts, just as Descartes noted that his own thinking led him to be convinced of his own existence, the existence of the argument itself is testament to the possibility of its own truth.

" In the 1832 account, Smith also stated that before he experienced the First Vision, his own searching of the Scriptures had led him to the conclusion that mankind had " apostatized from the true and living faith and there was no society or denomination that built upon the Gospel of Jesus Christ as recorded in the new testament.

In Hitler's 1945 political testament ( written shortly before his suicide ) he appointed Admiral Karl Doenitz to succeed him, but he named Doenitz as President, not Fuehrer, thereby re-establishing a constitutional office which had lain dormant since Hindenburg's death ten years earlier.

The very detailed contract which Meyerbeer arranged with Veron, director of the Opéra, for Les Huguenots ( and which was drawn up for him by the lawyer Adolphe Crémieux ) is a testament to this.

However, as a testament to his skill as a negotiator and honest and amiable broker, Reagan tapped him to serve as Chief of Staff during part of his second term ( 1987 – 1988 ).

However, after Lenin's third stroke in March 1923 left him paralyzed and unable to speak, the testament was kept secret by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, in hopes of Lenin's eventual recovery.

( Although Lenin's comments were damaging to all Communist leaders, Joseph Stalin stood to lose the most since the only practical suggestion in the testament was to remove him from the position of the General Secretary of the Party's Central Committee.

It was said of him when receiving the award: “ Henry's unwavering dedication to this country's inner city economies is a testament to the difference one person can make .” In 2007, Cisneros was honored with the prestigious “ Housing Person of the Year ” Award from the National Housing Conference, where it was said: “ Without question Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to providing housing to America's working families …” Together with Jack Kemp, he received the Walter F. Mondale and Edward W. Brooke Fair Housing Award in June 2009 from the Fair Housing Alliance.

Phlox plans to destroy the last sample of the virus, but the captain orders him not to, saying it was the last effort of an extinct species to preserve itself and should be preserved as a testament to their civilization.

Such pieces stand testament to both his broad appeal and the respect that was given to him by his contemporaries.

Joseph Goebbels ' last will and testament, dictated to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, stated that Magda and their children supported him in his refusal to leave Berlin and his resolution to die in the bunker.

Because Bahá ' u ' lláh's last will and testament named Muhammad ` Alí as second in rank to ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, he took the opportunity of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's death to try to revive his claim to leadership, but his attempt to forcefully occupy the Shrine of Bahá ' u ' lláh left him on the losing end of a legal battle that completely removed any rights he previously had to the property.

In a eulogy delivered at his funeral, his daughter Francesca said, " That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was -- a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity.

As a testament to the popularity of Russell's novels in his day, one can read about him at the beginning of the Sherlock Holmes story The Five Orange Pips, where Doctor Watson is shown ' deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea stories '.

As the threat of Gaea's offspring came to light, he inscribed all his dark mystical knowledge ( acquired through a millennia of practicing evil incarnate ) onto indestructible parchments to leave in this dimension ( should he be defeated ) as a testament to his power and a link between him and this world.

However, his grandfather Frederick II, in his testament, entrusted him with the Duchy of Austria and the Marquisate of Styria, but he could never take over the government of these lands and died few years later ( ca.

The heart and the entrails of the king Alfonso X the Wise are buried under the main altar of the cathedral, as he indicated in his testament, as a gift and proof of his love to Murcia and in thanks to the fidelity that the city showed to him.

He met with his father in private, and the Don told him that they would not release Guiliano's testament for fear Guiliano's parents would be harmed in retaliation by the Italian government or its Mafia supporters.