Hebrews 7-8: We Have a Covenant Enacted on Better Promises
Hebrews 8:6 provides me with great hope. The Old Covenant was enacted on the promises of a Messiah who would come in the future. A Savior who would come and bring salvation. The covenant itself really could do nothing about sin and damnation. The Jews toiled under rigorous laws and never ending sacrifices only to learn in the end that all it taught was they were hopeless. They couldn’t keep it up.
We have a better covenant. We have a better mediator and better sacrifice. Our covenant has better promises. It is not enacted on promises of a coming Savior, but on promises of a Savior who has already come. It is enacted on the promise of a sacrifice that really can take our sins away right now.
God had promised a time like this would come in Jeremiah 31:34: “For I will be merciful toward their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more” (quoted in Hebrews 8:12, ESV). That time is here and now. Praise God.
Keep the faith and keep reading,
ELC
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I’m so glad you dropped by “Give Attention to Reading,” a blog dedicated to reading and discussing God’s word, the Bible.
This blog is not about pushing our favorite doctrines. It is not about debate (though I’m sure at times we might get some good discussion going). It is just about promoting the reading of Scripture. It is about reading it with a view to learning something each day.
This blog is driven by my book of the same title. I figured out if we read two chapters of the New Testament each week day, we can read the whole New Testament in exactly six months. My book provides a note page for each day of reading with a section of very simple questions to devote your mind to the text and some thought questions to help you take the study as deep as you want it. It also contains a weekly group discussion guide if you would like to take this journey with some friends.
Whether you get the book or not, this blog provides a spot for us to discuss how the Word has hit us. I hope you will join me each weekday and read the New Testament together. Each day, I will blog about how the day’s reading struck me. Usually, I will pick out some part of the reading that impacted me in a special way. Feel free to comment about my thoughts or share with other Bible readers some part of the day’s reading that really resonated with you. When we are all sharing how the Word impacts us, we will all grow together.
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May God richly bless you as you draw closer to Him.
More importantly, may you richly bless God.
P.S. I am currently working on a version for the Old Testament. Hopefully, by the time we are done with our present trek through the New Testament, we will be ready for the Old.
