Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Psalm 124  Thank You Father that You are on our side!  When people rise up against us.  When they want to swallow us alive.  When their anger is burning hot, when they flood us with raging waters.  You protect us.  You break the snares and set us free.  "Our help is in the Name of The Lord, who made heaven and earth."  Blessed be The Lord!

Hebrews 8
The old covenant - the Law, was broken by Israel.   The New Covenant is kept through Christ Jesus.
The old priesthood - through Aaron, was sinful, weak, and required generation after generation;  The new Priesthood is perfect, strong, and eternal.  He sits at the right hand of God.
The old tabernacle was build by men.  The True tabernacle is the Lord's.
The old way was a copy of the Reality in Heaven.
The old is obsolete, growing old and "ready to disappear"
 "But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, what has been enacted on better promises." v6

This New Covenant,  this "better" - nobler, stronger; "new" - fresh;  "covenant" - contract, testament, disposition ( will or bequest).   What is it?
1. It is made by God. v10 " I will make..."  Appoint, dispose, He is the testator of the testament.  He is the disposer of the disposition.  He is the bequestor of the bequest.
2. It is enacted by God.  " I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them upon their hearts."
It is an internal transaction initiated and completed by God.
3. It is individually transacted.  "And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen... for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest of them." v11 It is a personal relationship.  It is free to any and all people.
4. It is a Covenant of Grace.  " For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.
Oh what a wonderful Word to us who believe!  Jesus paid it all.  Jesus is our perfect High Priest.  Jesus made the way for us to enter into this Covenant of God's Amazing Grace! Thank You Lord Jesus!
Blessed be Thy Holy Name!

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