That is why God promised a new covenant. He wanted to have a new kind of relationship with his people. They would genuinely know him as their God. And then they really would be God’s own people. They would obey him, because his law would be in their minds. And they would love him, because his law would be in their hearts. And God would forgive all the wrong things that they had done against him.
Ezekiel 16:42-17:24
Hebrews 8:1-13
Psalm 106:13-31
Proverbs 27:7-9
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New Testament: Hebrews 8:1-13
Summary: Jesus, High Priest of a Better Covenant
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
~ Hebrews 8:6-13
In Hebrews 8:8-12, the author will copy the words from Jeremiah 31:31-34. That passage mentions two covenants (peace agreements) between God and his people.
The first covenant was God’s agreement with the people that Moses led. God loved them, and he saved them from their difficult lives as slaves in Egypt. God wanted them, and their families, to serve him always. He appointed priests, and he gave them his law. He established his tabernacle (the tent that was God’s house) among them. He promised that they would receive the country called Canaan as their permanent possession.
We have already studied what happened to those people. Although Moses led them, they were not loyal to God. They did not love him and they did not obey him (Hebrews 3:16-19). So they did not enter Canaan, and their children received the benefit of God’s promises instead.
Jeremiah wrote his book about 900 years after Moses lived. But the situation during Jeremiah’s life was similar. Israel’s people were not loyal to God. And they did not care about God’s covenant with Israel. It was a terrible situation.
That is why God promised a new covenant. He wanted to have a new kind of relationship with his people. They would genuinely know him as their God. And then they really would be God’s own people. They would obey him, because his law would be in their minds. And they would love him, because his law would be in their hearts. And God would forgive all the wrong things that they had done against him.
This new covenant is the relationship that God has with people because of Jesus. They have confessed their evil deeds to him. And they have invited him into their lives. So now they are God’s people. And God’s promises are for them.
From: usefulbible.com – by Keith Simons
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A Superior Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-13
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