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Heb 8:6-13 A New Covenant
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Jan 7, 2025, 4:48:03 AMJan 7
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A New Covenant
Heb 8:6-9 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said: "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord." (Jer 31:31,32)
The Old Covenant was defective, indeed ineffective as noted in Heb 7:18-19, and so was replace by a new covenant. Such was prophesied in Jeremiah. Likewise the ministry Jesus received was superior to that of the Levitical priests who officiated under the Law.
At the last supper after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." Luke 22:20 Jesus himself sealed the new covenant with his blood, which was the offering made to God to pay for the sins of the world. "God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood." Rom 3:25a
Heb 8:10-13 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
There are two aspects to this New Covenant. These may be categorized as Sanctification and Justification. First he mentions Sanctification. Under the Old Covenant the letter of the Law kills. And Paul writes, "He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant— not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." 2Cor 3:6 Under the New Covenant behavior is affected by the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit. Right behavior comes naturally to the Christian. Thus John writes, "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1John 3:9,10 And "those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires." Rom 8:5b Under the New each individual believer is given a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ in cooperation with the Spirit of God. "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. 1Cor 2:16
Justification, which incorporates the forgiveness of sins, makes that personal relationship possible. For "your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you" Is 59:2 But "In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace" Eph 1:7 Under the New Covenant our sins are not only forgiven but also he will remember their sins no more. If God were to ask you why he should let you into his kingdom, of the many possible answers a Christian can give, he can simply say "Why not?" For sins which God doesn't remember cannot be taken into account on the judgement day. (Now if God forgets our sins and that of our fellow Christians, maybe you should as well!)
Heb 8:6-9 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said: "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord." (Jer 31:31,32)
The Old Covenant was defective, indeed ineffective as noted in Heb 7:18-19, and so was replace by a new covenant. Such was prophesied in Jeremiah. Likewise the ministry Jesus received was superior to that of the Levitical priests who officiated under the Law.
At the last supper after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." Luke 22:20 Jesus himself sealed the new covenant with his blood, which was the offering made to God to pay for the sins of the world. "God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood." Rom 3:25a
Heb 8:10-13 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
There are two aspects to this New Covenant. These may be categorized as Sanctification and Justification. First he mentions Sanctification. Under the Old Covenant the letter of the Law kills. And Paul writes, "He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant— not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." 2Cor 3:6 Under the New Covenant behavior is affected by the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit. Right behavior comes naturally to the Christian. Thus John writes, "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1John 3:9,10 And "those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires." Rom 8:5b Under the New each individual believer is given a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ in cooperation with the Spirit of God. "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. 1Cor 2:16
Justification, which incorporates the forgiveness of sins, makes that personal relationship possible. For "your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you" Is 59:2 But "In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace" Eph 1:7 Under the New Covenant our sins are not only forgiven but also he will remember their sins no more. If God were to ask you why he should let you into his kingdom, of the many possible answers a Christian can give, he can simply say "Why not?" For sins which God doesn't remember cannot be taken into account on the judgement day. (Now if God forgets our sins and that of our fellow Christians, maybe you should as well!)
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