because the new covenant—the NT—is essentially the fulfillment of prior OT covenant arrangements through Jesus. So we still have this little bit of, again, legal flavoring in it, but again, not so pronounced as we do in the OT. The NT, again, is just a record of the way God honored His promises that were given in the OT [and] fulfilled those covenantal relationships through the coming of Jesus and His work on the cross and then the birth of a new entity—a new people of God that we like to say, as theologians,