November 17, 2024

Hebrews 8:10-13

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

“Jesus will make clear that there is continuity between what he offers and what God promised, but one should have no doubt that what Jesus offers is decidedly new and distinct as well. It is, in every sense of the word, a new approach to viewing how people can come to God, a new period, and a new dispensation. Jesus is the real point of difference…”