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Jeremiah 31:33-34

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Hi folks!
Tomorrow for our Creation to Consummation scripture passage, we will be reading Jeremiah 31:33-34. 
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
Here God promises to establish a new covenant (a solemn agreement) with his people, a covenant that is not like any of the previous covenants God had established with the nation of Israel (see v.32).  The covenants previously made with Israel were based on laws that were external that were written on tablets of stone (i.e., the Ten Commandments) and were established with a visible mixed community of believers and unbelievers.  But the new covenant God will establish will be based on laws that are internalized, that are written "on their hearts," and will be established with a community who are all believers "from the least of them to the greatest of them."  Christ establishes and inaugurates this new covenant by his death and resurrection.  Hence, at the last supper he says, "Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" (Matt 26:27-28).  But the real beauty of the new covenant and all those who are brought into the new covenant by faith is found in the final words of v.34, "For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."  What an amazing and comforting truth.  Looking forward to tomorrow!
Blessings,
Hexon
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Isaiah 53:1-6

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Hi friends!

Tomorrow we will be reading together, responsively, Isaiah 53:1-6. 

"Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?  For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.  He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.  But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-- every one-- to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." 

 What an amazing passage of scripture that speaks about what Christ would do for his people, that he would ‘bear our griefs’ and ‘carry our sorrow’, that he would be ‘stricken and smitten by God and afflicted,’ that he would be ‘pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities,’ that on Christ ‘the Lord has laid the iniquity of us all,’ and that ‘upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace.’  Peace with God!  What an amazing truth!  We didn’t deserve any of it.  It is we who should have hung on that cross for all eternity, yet God in his amazing grace and mercy chose to send his son to take our place.  Tomorrow let us look forward with great anticipation to worshipping our God and King!

Blessings,

Hexon

 

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