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THE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND COVENANT
MONDAY, AUGUST 26
Hebrews 8:1-13
Jeremiah 31:31-34
“And they shall teach no more every man his
neighbour … saying, Know the LORD:
for they shall all know me …”
THE PURPOSE OF THE SECOND COVENANT
The passage of time has proven that Jesus Christ is indeed the mediator of the new covenant. The Apostolic message has spread to every continent of the world as God promised. The first one was imperfect and there was need for a second one. This fact has been asserted severally in this book.
Hebrews 7:18 said that there is a disannulling of the commandment because it was weak and unprofitable. A proper search of the Scriptures would have prepared the Jewish nation for the coming change. The writer in Hebrews 8:8-13 reminded his audience of the promise God gave through the prophets. He quoted from Jeremiah 31:31-34 to show that the new order should not be strange. This is part of that promise, “… Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord” (Heb 8:8-9).
God brings to pass the new covenant saying that He will be their God and they shall be His people. He added that they will know Him without anyone teaching them. God will manifest His grace as He will be merciful to them and forget their unrighteousness and their iniquities. This will come on the basis of atonement through Christ the mediator of the covenant. Salvation by grace alone always stands.
The advent of the new covenant makes the first one old and thus there is no need to observe its specifications but all are to embrace the new. All these things lie in God’s eternal plan. Believers were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. Are you chosen?
THOUGHT: Salvation by grace was in the beginning and will remain till the end.
PRAYER: Father, may I accept Thy gracious offer in Jesus Christ.