Jeremiah 31:31-34

Jeremiah 31:31-34

“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 that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I

Jeremiah 31:31-34

“was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man

Jeremiah 31:31-34

“his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more”

Ark of Covenant - in Babylon

1. Heart written covenant

2. Personal relationship with God

3. For those who know the Lord

4. Provide absolute remission of sins

I. A Heart Written Covenant

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I 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

This is not the New Covenant,

although it teaches us what

the New Covenant is...

The New Covenant began On Pentecost A.D. 33

Peter preached

3,000 had something written on their hearts

Baptized into New Covenant

Received Word preached

15 years before 1st of N.T. written

3,000 New Covenants

Commitment to follow Christ

Jesus had written something on their hearts through Word

3,000 personal covenants or contracts

“Forasmuch as you 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

Example 1 Example 2

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

“for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD”

Jer. 31:34

Old CovenantSamuel 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 - Acts 2:36

It is an Individual Covenant between you and God, through Jesus

IV. Absolute Remission

“for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Jer. 31:34

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

1. Heart written covenant

2. Personal relationship with God

3. For those who know the Lord

4. Provide absolute remission of sins

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Quoted in

Heb. 8:8-13

We are living in the days of this Covenant God made with us

IN CHRIST

“ALL SPIRITUAL

BLESSINGS”(EPH. 1:3)

SALVATION(2 TIM. 2:10)

“NO CONDEMNATION”

(ROM. 8:1)“NEW CREATION”

(2 COR. 5:17)

BAPTISMROM. 6:3-4