Today’s passage: Hebrews 8:8-13
Helpful thoughts:
- This passage quotes Jeremiah 31:31-34.
- This New Covenant is unconditional (God is going to bring it about by His grace alone) and it is final (There will be no further need of ways to forgive sin).
- With the announcement of a New Covenant, the Old began to age and was now ready to pass away (Verse 13). The Hebrew people needed to let it go. God has made the Old obsolete, therefore trying to keep it alive is rejection of God.
Questions to consider:
- Where was the fault found in the Old Covenant? Who is “them” in verse 8? Who would it have been if we had been commanded to keep all the commands of that covenant?
- How does God’s promise of inner transformation (Verse 10) compare with passages like 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Ephesians 2:1-7?
- In what ways do John 19:30 and Revelation 21:1-4 serve as bookends to the fulfilments of the New Covenant?