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God fulfilled His covenant in Christ. That covenant, fulfilled, is the new covenant of Hebrews 8. Not a different covenant but the realization of all the covenant promises made for four thousand years previously, as the covenant formula in Hebrews 8:10 so clearly shows: “I will be to them a God, and
Now the difference between the Old and New Covenant is that in the Old Covenant, God as it were kept a distance from his people. There was a relationship there, but he kept his distance from them. And he was known by his people as the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, the Lord of hosts,
What does this mean? Astounding is the truth that God will not simply take the house of Israel and the house of Judah together and bring them back to the land of their fathers and dwell with them there again in the covenant under the dispensation of the law. He will not simply bring them back a
I was a husband unto them, our text says. In the Old Testament, God illustrated the covenant with the illustration of marriage. In the New Testament, Ephesians 5, for example, The covenant is still illustrated. The essential character of the covenant is illustrated by the beautiful relationship
But it is a new covenant in that it is a more complete manifestation of this eternal covenant of love for His people that never fails. It is the covenant that is fulfilled with the coming of Christ, His suffering, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven.
It's the conclusion of many reformed conservative scholars that for the most part This term ought to be translated covenant as it is here translated covenant and most other English translations. There is one place Hebrews 9 verses 15 through 17 where this word obviously refers to a testament. No
The covenant will not be a matter of external obedience, but will arise out of hearts that have been made new by the power of God. Love for God will be written on the heart (Jeremiah 31:33-34). Sin will be destroyed, and the people of God prepared for a new heavenly life in a new heavens and a new e
But through the new covenant, and that's its newness, why it's so glorious and wonderful, the law of God is written in our hearts. And we delight in the law of God in the inward parts. Even though we struggle still with our sinful nature, we delight in the law of God in the inward parts, becaus
The old covenant was old in that the truth was administered outwardly, on tables of stone. The new covenant is the same old covenant, but now administered inwardly, written upon the tables of our hearts. What was the central sign in the Old Covenant? Washing-in the blood of the Lamb! What is the bas
A covenant that will be maintained not only but glorified and exalted and that will endure through all eternity as it is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. That's the teaching, beloved, of Hebrews chapter 8 and that's the commentary. This is what God will do for his people. Because He loves them with an