Hebrews 10:1- "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers they unto perfect "
A careful study of that scripture will proof to us that, everything that was done under the law that is the old testament was a shadow of the real thing to come, meaning that something that was done during that ministration was pointing or representing the real thing that was to come. That is why they couldn't really be helped, even in all those sacrifices that they offered year after year could not make the perfect.
Until you identify with the real, you will never experience the good things that you are supposed to experience, it is only the real that can make you perfect, no matter the sacrifices you offered, if you don't identify with the real, your sacrifices doesn't count. It is only the real thing that can perfect you, perfection is not in the shadow but perfection can only be found in the real.
The old testament was a ministration of condemnation but the new testament is the ministration of life. This because in the old testament they were chasing shadow but in the new testament the real has come, we are no longer chasing shadow but we have the real now. Where the real thing is, life is available because life is the function of the real.
This why the scripture in the book John 5:24 says "verily,verily I say unto you, He the he are the my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life".
Before the law sin was in the world, but sin was not counted unto men. The reason for the law was to declare man guilty and then pave way for punishment. the law brought the knowledge of sin and set man for punishment but this awareness makes the work of Christ very simple and straightforward.
Check this truth out inRomans 10:4 It reads "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth".
So in the death of Christ, the punishment for all sinners was fulfilled. This fulfilment was not for a particular set or group of people but it was for all. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared unto all men not some men but all.
Christ fulfilled the requirements of the law. To fulfill means, to satisfy or to meet up the standard needed for something to be free. The death of Christ satisfied all the requirements of the Law and bring righteousness to everyone that believes on him. It is there becomes illegal to punish a man in Christ the second time for sin.
A man in Christ does not have any generational curse to break. He is one generation away. The new testament is the fulfillment of all that was required of man, the old testament was written in ink but the new testament is written in the life, death, blood and the sacrifices of Christ fur US.
So in summary, a believer in Christ is the product of the new testament, in the new testament a believer is justified in Christ. In the new testament there is no record of sin, the only thing that the new testament testifies of is good report.
The blood of Jesus does not keep record of sin, Jesus received all the sins of man and grants every believer righteousness. Jesus never commit any sin but He became sin so that the sinful man could be made righteous. The one time death of Christ on the cross took care of sin mattered eternally, the new testament is in the blood of Christ, in Christ there is no record of sin. so stay intact in the new testament.
Stay blessed, think Christ