Today's Journal
THE PROMISED NEW COVENANT
“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord. “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)This ‘new covenant’ mentioned above is the covenant of Jesus that fulfills all the flaws and slips in the Noah, Abraham, Moses and David covenants. He is the guarantor and mediator of the new and better covenant. Hebrews 7:22: “Jesus is the one who guarantees this better covenant with God.” And, “That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised
them.” (Hebrews 9:15) Now people from every nation, tribe, and tongue who trust Jesus can become a part of God’s covenant family. Jesus is the new and better way.
“This cup is the new covenant in My blood which is shed for you.” Jesus