Title: New Covenant
Content Title: New Covenant
Bible: Jeremiah 31:31-37
Through the prophet Jeremiah, God is speaking about the new covenant, prophesying the return of the Israelites captive to Babylon. “Behold, the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah” (verse 31). It's the day you come back. Broadly speaking, it also refers to the day when Jesus Christ comes to this earth. The new covenant is the covenant related to the people who are saved by believing in Jesus on the day Jesus Christ comes. If the old covenant was made with the blood of animals, the new covenant is the covenant made with the blood of Jesus Christ. If the old covenant was the covenant made with the Israelites, the new covenant is the covenant made with each believer who has believed in Jesus and is born again.
First: God who promised deep in our hearts
The specific meaning of the words “I have put my law within them, and I have written them in their hearts” (in verse 33) is that God pours out a new spirit and a new heart on those who receive Jesus Christ, so that they can keep the law from the depths of their hearts. Word. When we confess and accept Jesus as our Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to us. The Holy Spirit within us guides us into the truth. Every day, God makes me realize that He is my God and that I am His people, and makes me confess. It makes you understand what God's will is. And He helps us to live according to the word we have realized.
Second: He does not remember all sins.
“I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more, saith the Lord” (verse 34b). People in the Old Covenant era sacrificed animals with their blood whenever they sinned. But our Jesus died on the cross to atone for all our sins once and for all. Jesus made eternal redemption with His own blood. Jesus not only forgave our sins once and for all through the blood shed on the cross, but He never remembers those sins again. The people of the new covenant live a life free from sin and all guilt.
Third: We will live in covenant relationship forever.
“I, the LORD, gave the sun as the light of day, and the moon and the stars as the light of the night; I stir up the sea and make its waves cry out; my name is the LORD of hosts, I say” (verse 35). It was a covenant engraved on However, the new covenant is a covenant written in the heart. So it doesn't break. It is not erased. In verses 35-36, it says that the day and night may change, but they cannot forsake their people. If the principles and laws of nature cannot be abolished, how can they forsake the people of the new covenant made with their own blood?