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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Hebrews 8:6-12

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"GOD'S NEW COVENANT"
I. THE PURPOSE OF THE COVENANTS.
A. To establish the basis for man's relationship with God.
1. Through relationship with God, many are blessed.
a. Thus it established the basis for blessing.
2. Man needs to relate to God to be complete.
a. In many, whole spiritual dimension dormant.
b. Not a total person - just body and soul.
c. Fallen man would seek to relate to the animal kingdom.
1. Without the spiritual dimension, he is as an animal.
d. Relating to a baboon can never be meaningful. You must relate to God.
B. To give direction to man's life, and purpose.
1. To keep the covenant brought blessings.
a. Ps. 1.
b. Joshua 1:8.
II. THE OLD COVENANT (Ex. 19:5).
A. Established by God with Israel.
B. Inscribed in two tables of stone.
1. Their relationship and blessings conditioned on "if" you obey.
2. God's law contrary to human nature.
a. Man found it hard to keep God's law.
1. There were times when a lie would seem to serve a better purpose than the truth.
2. The development of situation ethics.
Problem - authority lost, anarchy ensues, chaos results.
b. Man rather than change to conform to God's law sought to change God.
3. The law, once violated condemned.
a. Man found himself estranged from God.
b. Thus the law made nothing perfect.
III. THE NEW COVENANT.
A. Promised by God through Isaiah 61.
B. Conditions declared through Jeremiah 31:33.
C. Jesus, after reading Isaiah 61 in the synagogue declared "this day is this scripture..."
1. To the disciples Jesus said, "This cup is a new covenant in my blood..."
D. The basis of the new covenant.
1. Man being changed by a new birth.
a. Born again by the Spirit.
b. "If any man be in Christ...."
2. God writing His laws in our minds and in our hearts.
a. He gives us a great desire to go to Bolivia.
b. Saying to Kay, "We're moving to Tucson."
c. It's so easy - it flows.
3. God's mercifulness to our unrighteousness, His forgetting our sins and iniquities.
E. The weakness of the old covenant premised on man's faithfulness.
F. The strength of the new premised upon God's faithfulness.
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