“The days are coming,”
declares the Lord,
“when
I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord. Jeremiah 31:31-32
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord. Jeremiah 31:31-32
The
Old Covenant was based on laws. It was
written on stone (10 commandments) and delivered by Moses. The people’s hearts became stone after years
of falling all the rules and have-to’s. They broke those commandments over and
over.
Jesus
established the New Covenant by paying for the penalty of all the sins
committed against those laws. His
one-time death delivered a one-two punch to the death penalty of all sinners of
all time. Now they did not operate by
the old rules of sin payment—Jesus did that.
That
act of love created a new relationship with the people, one of love and grace,
not duty and expectation. Jesus
encouraged them to call God their Father because they were family now.