Message Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. There were many covenants in the Old Testament

a) Noahic Covenant

b) Abrahamic Covenant

c) Sinaitic Covenant

d) Levitical Covenant

e) Marriage Covenant

f) Davidic Covenant

2. The Lord would give a New Covenant

a) This would supersede the Sinaitic Covenant

b) This was the covenant Isaiah prophesied

c) This was elaborated on by the prophet Jeremiah

THE PROMISE OF A NEW COVENANT

31 “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—

32 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 was a husband to them, says the Lord.

33 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.

34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man 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.”

Jeremiah 31:31-34

1. A New Covenant announced

a) House of Israel

b) House of Judah

2. Not like the Old Covenant   (Exodus 24; Leviticus 26)

a) The Old Covenant was broken badly

b) It was compared to a Marriage Covenant

3. Features of the New Covenant

a) God will put His law into the mind

b) He will write it upon the heart

c) He will be their God

d) Believers will be His people

e) All can know the Lord in a very real and personal way

f) All sins would be forgiven

g) All sins would be remembered no more

ELABORATION OF THE NEW COVENANT

1 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.

4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

Hebrews 8:1-4

1. The Lord Jesus is the Great High Priest

2. He is seated at the right hand of God

3. He is a Minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle

4. His has a more excellent ministry

5. He is the Mediator of a better covenant

6. It is established on better promises

FURTHER ELABORATION OF THE NEW COVENANT

11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,

14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 9:11-15

1. The Lord is the High Priest of good things to come

2. He has obtained eternal redemption

3. He offered Himself without spot to God

4. He can cleanse our conscience

5. We may receive the promise of eternal inheritance

CONCLUSION

1. We need to appreciate more deeply the Lord’s New Covenant

2. May our hearts respond with love!

3. May we rejoice in the Lord greatly!