Hebrews 8:7-13

hey hey good morning good morning welcome to coffee and devotions this morning we're at Hebrews chap 8: 7-13 we're going to be talking about the old Covenant versus the New Covenant how Jesus ties into that and what God has done let's go ahead and have some coffee we'll get into God's word we'll grow in our love for the Lord together let's pray father thank you so much for this day thank you for your word thank you for the blessing of your holy Spirit Lord what we read today is a fulfillment of Prophecy Lord it is an amazing gift to have your word in our hands in a language we can understand access to the Divine oracles Lord we are the inheritors of an amazing blessing so father we pray that your Holy Spirit would please work with our hearts that you would teach us what we should know and how we should live in Jesus's name amen all right so here we go we are at Hebrews 8: 7-13 for in that first Covenant being faultless then had no place would have been sought for a second because finding fault with them he says behold the days are coming says the Lord when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they did not continue in my Covenant and I disregarded them says the Lord for this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts and I will be their God and they will be my people none of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother saying know the Lord For All Shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them for I shall be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their Lawless Deeds I will remember no more in that he says a New Covenant he has made the first obsolete now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away well we need to ask ask ourselves a what is this about B what's the best verse to summarize this and C what are we called to do in response to this well last time you and I got together we talked with Dan Dan about Jesus being a better high priest right Jesus having a a Ministry in heaven and that everything on Earth was just a type and a shadow of who and what Jesus is and this is a better Covenant because see there was something insufficient or weak in in that old Covenant it was never able to actually make anyone perfect it was never designed intended by just the signs and the types to be the fullness of it no it was it meant to be a snapshot a picture a type a shadow of what was meant to be and what was meant to be was Jesus's priesthood and the ministry of the holy spirit in the heart of God's people so see there needed to be a New Covenant right if the old Covenant was fine if if Moses and the Tabernacle and and all of that was fine if that was as good as it was ever going to get then why did Jesus have to come everybody he says no it it wasn't meant for that right that you can't say that first Covenant was faultless is what he says in verse 7 but he says no Jeremiah pointed out in Jeremiah 3131 through 34 that there would be a new covenant a better Covenant and the promise contained in that better Covenant are amazing did you notice what it said for this for this is the Covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days said the Lord I will put my law in their minds and write them on their hearts right this just has Echoes of Deuteronomy 6 4-9 and I will be their God and they shall be my people right he's talking about this this amazing loyalty to him that he won't let them go and they won't be snatched out of his hand that his word is going to be with him none of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother saying know the Lord right this isn't saying that there's not going to be any teachers but there's going to be an amazing abundance of access to the Divine oracles to the word of God people are going to have the word and they're going to be able to teach each other the word and and it's not going to be this special cast of priests but they would be a nation of royal priesthood and so he says to them that None Shall teach his neighbor none his brothers saying know the Lord why for All Shall know me from the least of them to the greatest right this is one of the big things of the Protestant Reformation as we say we want the scripture in the vulgar tongue we the Sola scriptura in the language of the people we want the scriptures in the normal language that we're able to understand get it out of the Greek get it out of the Hebrew move past the Vulgate Latin that was only known by the priests give us God's word take us like the people in Nehemiah when they said to Ezra bring out the book right we want the book we want to hear God's word and it's not so shrouded in mystery that somehow somebody has to layer things for us but the things that need to be clearly understood for salvation are perspicuous right they're clearly able to be seen that's not saying that everything in the Bible is equally clear we've talked about that already multiple times as we've gone through coffee and devotions but those are those things that needed that are needed to show us a new covenant about Jesus are clearly known and we're able find out about salvation because the next thing right there's there's some there's things that are amazingly clear in scripture notice what he says for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their Lawless Deeds I will remember no more the gospel will be that clear in the New Covenant that when Jesus says this is the new Covenant in my blood which is poured out for you for the remission of your sins if you are in Christ and the Holy Spirit is in you you know you know what that means you know that the omniscient God who knows everything purposefully doesn't think about your sin that though all of our righteous Deeds are as filthy rags and though the wages of sin is death that God loved us while we were yet sinners that Christ would die for us and so we don't have to hide in shame about our sin because God knows about it and in this new covenant he sent his son to die for us that we might inherit his righteousness and become the righteousness of God see this is the beauty of this New Covenant in verse 13 in that he says a New Covenant he has made the first becoming old or obsolete now what is becoming obsolete is growing old is ready to vanish away right as the New Covenant goes more and more into its fullness this is what God is saying here that you don't have a need for a priest and a sacrifice on Earth no your sacrifice is in heaven once for all the lamb who was slain who worshiped by the Angels ministering in a tabernacle made not by human hands but by God in heaven and there he makes intercession always for us because he is living so it's a better Covenant better in every way with better promises and a better Ministry indeed he is the shity of a better Covenant this is the age of this New Covenant in Jesus's blood this is the hope we have so what's the best verse to summarize this well I've got in my Bible double underlined verse 12 and 13 that's what I got underlined in my Bible maybe you underline something else what were we called to do those what are we called to do trust in Jesus Christ rest in him it's in Jesus that even though we have unrighteousness if we confess our unrighteousness he is faithful and he is righteous to cleanse us forgive us of our sins and cleanse us of all of our unrighteousness he remembers your sin no more Christian he buries it it beneath the deepest of the ocean he removes it away from you as far as the East is from the West why because Jesus's work is finished and so trust in Jesus trust in the high priest of the New Covenant who shed his blood for you cling on to that hope know your God have great joy because he's merciful to you let's pray God what an amazing blessing it is that we get to come to you our merciful gracious loving God Lord we thank you that we live in an era of even better Revelation better gifts better Covenant Lord we thank you we thank you for Jesus Christ and Lord we pray that you would please let us trust in you and love you all of our Lives we pray these things in Jesus's name amen men or may you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ may you rest in his finished work and I'll see you next time bye