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A New Covenant. Jeremiah 31:31-34. Ark of Covenant - in Babylon. I. A Heart Written Covenant. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Ark of Covenant - in Babylon
I. A Heart Written Covenant
“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Jeremiah 31:33
OLD NEW
Book
Externally
Outward
Physical
Visible
Hearts
Internally
Within
Spiritual
Unseen
The New Covenant began On Pentecost A.D. 33
Peter preached3,000 had something written on their heartsBaptized into New CovenantReceived Word preached15 years before 1st of N.T.
3,000 New Covenants
Commitment to follow Christ
Jesus had written something on their hearts
3,000 personal covenants or contracts
“Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.”
II Cor. 3:3
I. A Heart Written Covenant
II. A Personal Relationship
“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Jeremiah 31:33
II. A Personal Relationship
“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Jeremiah 31:33
God always wanted a personal relationship
Eden
Enoch
Samuel
Joseph
David
Daniel
In the New Covenant we have a personal relationship“I will be their God”
“The Lord is at Hand”Phil.4:5
“Peace that passes all understanding” – Phil. 4:6-7
“I will be their God” II Cor.6:16
III. Knowers of the Lord
“And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:” Jer.31:34a
Old Covenant
Samuel born to Hebrew Parents
Did not know the Lord
Was part of the covenant
Had to be taught who the Lord was
New Covenant
“gladly received the Word” Acts 2:41
They knew who the Lord was
It is an Individual Covenant
IV. Absolute Remission
“for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jer. 31:34b
Pardon
Impossible before the Cross
“and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Heb.9:22
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”
Heb. 10:4
Reality after the Cross
“And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”
Heb. 10:17
Quote from Jeremiah
The New is Superior to the Old
Heart writtenPersonal relationKnowers of the LordAbsolute remission
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Quoted in
Heb. 8:8-13We are living in the days of this
Covenant God made with us
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
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Evans, Ga. 30809
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Sunday Evening July 12, 2009