Jeremiah 31:33-36
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun for light by day
and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord of hosts is his name:
“If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
Tag: Security in the Fidelity of God's Word
In the above passage God is talking through Jeremiah about the "new covenant." This is the gospel. God is establishing a new covenant around the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. God will "write it on their hearts." The "Law" was a formal way to introduce Israel (and all mankind) how to approach God ... through the sacrifice of blood and obedience to His commandments of God. But, no man could keep those commandments. Their hearts aren't bent that way. So, God is going to change their hearts through Christ's work on the cross. God establishes this as a "covenant." It is a covenant that CAN'T be broken. It is, like the stars, the moon and the sun and the wind and the waves, FIXED!! God is saying that this new covenant (the Gospel) is a fixed order. God can't go back on His Word. It is a promise of God that if He were to break it the world would crash around us. We can be secure in the fidelity of God's Word.
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