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to strike the heart and break It Into pieces. It is far better, when we are con victed of sin, to come to the cross of
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MAT 26, 1940 JEREMIAH ANNOUNCES THE NEW COVENANT J e r e m ia h 31
Jeremiah 81:31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according- to the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day that I took them by the hand to bring; them out of the land of Eirypt; which my cove nant they brake, although I was a hus band unto them, saith the Lord: 33 'But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; A fter those days, said the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and wy)4e it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. :.;'34 And they shall teach no more every plan, his neighbor, and every man his saying, Know the Lord: for they s% ll all know me, from the least of them- unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I •'will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordi nances of the moon and of the stars for a ‘ light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from be fore me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the founda tions of the earth searched ont beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord. LESSON TEXT: Jer. 31:31-37. GOLDEN TEXT: “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the hou^e of Israel; After these days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people»» (Jer. 31:33). DEVOTIONAL READING: Lk. 22:14-20. Outline and Exposition I. T h e P r o m ise o f t h e N ew C o v e n a n t (31, 32) A FTER speaking of the restoration of Israel and the coming of L Christ, the prophet announced God will make "with the house of Israel and the house of Judah’’ (v. 31). Hence the nation is to be restored as it was at the beginning, before there was any
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i ujill put my law in their ipoiard parts , flOD WRITE IT in THEIR HEARTS; ADD UIILLSE THEIR oop.flnp THEM SHALL6E my PEOPLE? division into two kingdoms. Here is one of the many Biblical answers to such heresies as the Anglo-Israel notion, which is so widespread today. And here also is the answer to another heresy widely proclaimed, that God has finished His dealings with His people Israel. But Israel is ever before Him as His own, beloved for the fathers’ sake, and never fully, certainly not forever, cast away from Him (cf. Rom. 11:2). The necessity for a new covenant lies in the fact that the old one recognized two parties to it, that is, God and the people. Not knowing the extent of the ruin caused by the Fall, the people pre sumed to engage themselves to keep the whole law as given at Sinai, but they failed miserably in keeping it. They did not even recognize God as their "husband,” or, as the margin informs us, as “Lord over them.” The headship and consequent rulership rested in the Lord, not in themselves, but they did not recognize this fact, and hence the old covenant failed. It failed, not be cause there was anything wrong with it in itself, but there was something wrong in the people (cf. Heb. 8:6-13), rr. T h e C h a r a c t e r o f t h e N ew C o v e n a n t (33, 34) The Lord Himself will be the One who will undertake the keeping of the new covenant; hence, it will be a covenant wholly of grace and not a legal obliga tion at all for thè people. It will be made “after those days” (v. 33), that is, the days of which all the prophets speak, the days of dispersion and grief for Israel during which they will learn the utter impossibility of standing before their God under the old covenant of law. But "after those days” of their scat tering and persecution, the new cove nant will be written upon their hearts, rather than upon tables of stone, and it will control men through an inner desire rather than by an outward threat. The living One will be Israel’s God, and they shalj be His people. The new covenant will embrace all the peo-
the promise of a new covenant which
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