WEBVTT 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:05.878 We continue in Hebrews this morning, 00:00:05.878 --> 00:00:09.102 but I also want to just say happy Mother's Day. 00:00:09.102 --> 00:00:10.654 And just really sort of, 00:00:10.654 --> 00:00:13.694 kind of the way I've sort of gone at it from time, 00:00:13.694 --> 00:00:15.118 just celebrating motherhood. 00:00:15.166 --> 00:00:17.114 God made the design. 00:00:17.614 --> 00:00:18.958 God created it. 00:00:19.086 --> 00:00:25.118 God's given us an opportunity to celebrate the family the way he purposed 00:00:25.166 --> 00:00:26.156 it to be. 00:00:26.584 --> 00:00:30.472 Right. And so we look back into scripture and see, 00:00:30.648 --> 00:00:31.184 you know, 00:00:31.184 --> 00:00:35.284 the mom and dad and kids and family which builds, 00:00:35.864 --> 00:00:36.384 you know, 00:00:36.384 --> 00:00:38.034 our society and our culture. 00:00:38.056 --> 00:00:41.044 And the more it gets attacked, 00:00:41.544 --> 00:00:42.160 guess what, 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:43.184 the worse off we are. 00:00:43.184 --> 00:00:44.408 So happy Mother's Day, 00:00:44.408 --> 00:00:46.456 y'all. I know that's a negative way to look at it, 00:00:46.456 --> 00:00:47.776 but I'm just grateful, 00:00:47.984 --> 00:00:49.496 not just for my mom, 00:00:49.496 --> 00:00:50.960 who can't watch this morning, 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:51.544 because, yes, 00:00:51.544 --> 00:00:53.194 we have some technical difficulties. 00:00:53.176 --> 00:00:58.454 Whatever lightning strike sort of sent our router down the road, 00:00:58.494 --> 00:01:00.190 we're not broadcasting this morning. 00:01:00.262 --> 00:01:02.422 But anyway, 00:01:02.598 --> 00:01:04.718 I'm thankful for all the moms I've had, 00:01:04.718 --> 00:01:06.046 because I've had a bunch. 00:01:06.046 --> 00:01:07.198 Everywhere I've lived, 00:01:07.246 --> 00:01:09.674 somebody has undertaken to mother me, 00:01:10.294 --> 00:01:13.118 and I have some here in surf city as well. 00:01:13.118 --> 00:01:14.022 So thank you, 00:01:14.022 --> 00:01:15.394 moms. Alrighty. 00:01:16.894 --> 00:01:18.038 Let me ask you a question. 00:01:18.038 --> 00:01:18.902 You ready? 00:01:19.078 --> 00:01:20.550 This is a preference question, 00:01:20.550 --> 00:01:23.566 and I want you to boldly raise your hand when I ask it. 00:01:23.566 --> 00:01:24.354 All right. 00:01:25.294 --> 00:01:29.622 Who here prefers Lowe's to Home Depot? 00:01:29.678 --> 00:01:30.714 Raise your hand. 00:01:31.814 --> 00:01:32.382 Thank you, 00:01:32.382 --> 00:01:33.102 Pete. See that? 00:01:33.102 --> 00:01:34.092 Yes. Uh huh. 00:01:33.966 --> 00:01:34.262 All right, 00:01:34.262 --> 00:01:34.862 put them down. 00:01:34.862 --> 00:01:36.798 Who prefers Home Depot to Lowe's? 00:01:36.798 --> 00:01:37.834 Raise your hand. 00:01:38.254 --> 00:01:39.194 Okay. 00:01:42.174 --> 00:01:45.710 And I'm not supposed to do this because my son has forbid me to, 00:01:45.710 --> 00:01:47.214 but I'm going to do it anyway. 00:01:47.214 --> 00:01:49.142 My son likes Home Depot. 00:01:49.238 --> 00:01:50.228 You know why? 00:01:50.254 --> 00:01:51.794 He likes Milwaukee? 00:01:52.174 --> 00:01:53.314 Not the town, 00:01:54.174 --> 00:01:56.590 but the tools, 00:01:56.782 --> 00:01:57.514 right? 00:01:57.974 --> 00:02:03.262 And so we were driving yesterday and he makes this case in the car, 00:02:03.318 --> 00:02:04.714 not vehemently, 00:02:05.374 --> 00:02:06.262 for Home Depot. 00:02:06.262 --> 00:02:06.598 And I said, 00:02:06.598 --> 00:02:07.006 well, no, 00:02:07.006 --> 00:02:07.734 I'm looking. 00:02:07.854 --> 00:02:09.286 I was on my Lowe's app. 00:02:09.286 --> 00:02:10.278 I'm looking at Lowe's, 00:02:10.278 --> 00:02:11.462 right? I said, 00:02:11.478 --> 00:02:12.798 well, I like Lowe's. 00:02:12.734 --> 00:02:13.142 He said, 00:02:13.142 --> 00:02:14.462 well, I like Milwaukee. 00:02:14.502 --> 00:02:14.798 I said, 00:02:14.798 --> 00:02:16.448 well, I'm good with craftsman, 00:02:18.654 --> 00:02:19.554 you see? 00:02:19.894 --> 00:02:25.182 So you make the case for your choices, 00:02:25.238 --> 00:02:26.888 right? You make the case. 00:02:27.134 --> 00:02:28.074 The why? 00:02:28.734 --> 00:02:32.918 Why would I do this versus that, 00:02:33.006 --> 00:02:35.814 right? So we've been looking at the book of Hebrews, 00:02:35.814 --> 00:02:40.134 and the title for this year's messages is the object of our faith and the 00:02:40.134 --> 00:02:43.434 idea that the book of Hebrews is all about Jesus. 00:02:43.454 --> 00:02:44.270 But the truth is, 00:02:44.270 --> 00:02:48.836 is that all of scriptures about Jesus and what the Old Testament does is 00:02:48.836 --> 00:02:50.204 point to Jesus, 00:02:50.324 --> 00:02:54.188 everything to do with the covenant and the prophets and the priests and 00:02:54.188 --> 00:02:56.324 the sacrificial system and the levitical law. 00:02:56.324 --> 00:02:58.404 And all of it points to Jesus. 00:02:58.404 --> 00:03:02.396 And what we see in the New Testament is the fulfillment of what God has 00:03:02.396 --> 00:03:03.716 promised and pointed to. 00:03:03.732 --> 00:03:05.532 And we see the gospels and Jesus, 00:03:05.532 --> 00:03:09.380 and then we see the letters and the body of Christ and how it all moves 00:03:09.380 --> 00:03:12.812 forward. And then the book of Hebrews comes and just sort of brings out 00:03:12.812 --> 00:03:18.664 the details of both the Old Testament promise and the New Testament 00:03:18.744 --> 00:03:20.768 fulfillment. And we see it over and over. 00:03:20.768 --> 00:03:22.000 And I said this in the very beginning. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.640 The book of Hebrews is all about Jesus. 00:03:25.064 --> 00:03:28.672 And so what the writer of Hebrews has undertaken to do is to make the 00:03:28.672 --> 00:03:30.024 case right, 00:03:30.144 --> 00:03:35.176 to pull all of evidence from the Old Testament and to pull all of the 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:39.416 fulfillment from the New Testament and bind it together in this book, 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:41.104 these 13 chapters, 00:03:41.184 --> 00:03:43.124 to give us this, 00:03:44.654 --> 00:03:45.470 this case. 00:03:45.542 --> 00:03:50.486 But this undeniable realization that God has accomplished something, 00:03:50.550 --> 00:03:55.166 going all the way back to creation and the promise of the seed of woman 00:03:55.166 --> 00:03:57.158 who would defeat Satan, 00:03:57.246 --> 00:03:57.906 you see, 00:03:57.982 --> 00:04:02.566 and bringing that case all the way through the text of the Bible. 00:04:02.750 --> 00:04:06.380 And today we're gonna spend a few minutes in a prophet. 00:04:06.414 --> 00:04:08.318 We're gonna look at Jeremiah a little bit today, 00:04:08.318 --> 00:04:11.918 because it's the text that is quoted in our section this morning. 00:04:11.918 --> 00:04:13.822 So I am reading from Hebrews, 00:04:13.822 --> 00:04:14.422 chapter eight, 00:04:14.422 --> 00:04:15.914 verses 713. 00:04:18.534 --> 00:04:19.342 Here we go. 00:04:19.342 --> 00:04:22.354 For if that first covenant had been faultless, 00:04:23.134 --> 00:04:26.134 there would have been no occasion for a second one. 00:04:26.134 --> 00:04:28.646 But finding fault with his people, 00:04:28.750 --> 00:04:29.674 he says, 00:04:30.614 --> 00:04:32.582 see, the days are coming, 00:04:32.638 --> 00:04:33.374 says the Lord, 00:04:33.374 --> 00:04:35.926 when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the 00:04:35.926 --> 00:04:36.916 house of Judah. 00:04:36.966 --> 00:04:40.254 Not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took 00:04:40.254 --> 00:04:44.544 them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt, 00:04:44.548 --> 00:04:47.396 I showed no concern for them, 00:04:47.460 --> 00:04:48.796 says the Lord, 00:04:48.980 --> 00:04:52.588 because they did not continue in my covenant. 00:04:52.756 --> 00:04:56.108 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after 00:04:56.108 --> 00:04:57.188 those days, 00:04:57.356 --> 00:04:58.236 says the Lord, 00:04:58.236 --> 00:05:02.856 I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. 00:05:02.756 --> 00:05:06.004 I will be their God and they will be my people. 00:05:06.004 --> 00:05:10.404 And each person will not teach his fellow citizen and each his brother or 00:05:10.404 --> 00:05:11.076 sister, saying, 00:05:11.140 --> 00:05:12.036 know the Lord, 00:05:12.036 --> 00:05:14.016 because they will all know me, 00:05:14.244 --> 00:05:16.036 from the least to the greatest of them, 00:05:16.036 --> 00:05:17.932 for I will forgive their wrongdoing, 00:05:17.932 --> 00:05:20.572 and I will never again remember their sins. 00:05:21.764 --> 00:05:22.548 By saying, 00:05:22.636 --> 00:05:23.564 a new covenant, 00:05:23.564 --> 00:05:26.708 he has declared that the first is obsolete, 00:05:26.876 --> 00:05:31.224 and what is obsolete and growing old is about to pass away. 00:05:31.764 --> 00:05:32.784 Let's pray. 00:05:33.164 --> 00:05:38.584 Father, this morning we thank you first for speaking to us. 00:05:39.464 --> 00:05:41.904 Now, that's what we first learned in the book of Hebrews, 00:05:41.904 --> 00:05:44.324 was that in these last days, 00:05:45.544 --> 00:05:46.912 your superior. 00:05:47.048 --> 00:05:51.088 The best communication that we have from you is your son, 00:05:51.136 --> 00:05:52.164 Jesus Christ. 00:05:52.664 --> 00:05:53.200 So God, 00:05:53.200 --> 00:05:54.152 we thank you for that. 00:05:54.152 --> 00:05:54.840 But God, 00:05:54.992 --> 00:06:02.244 we want to always long for desire better understanding. 00:06:02.664 --> 00:06:05.104 Not simply because of what you've done, 00:06:05.144 --> 00:06:06.032 but because God, 00:06:06.032 --> 00:06:09.526 what you want and desire for us, 00:06:09.630 --> 00:06:10.294 in us, 00:06:10.374 --> 00:06:11.394 through us, 00:06:11.934 --> 00:06:13.670 for your kingdom's sake, 00:06:13.822 --> 00:06:15.674 not for something called church, 00:06:16.574 --> 00:06:20.006 not for something called studies and stuff, 00:06:20.110 --> 00:06:21.630 but for your kingdom. 00:06:21.662 --> 00:06:22.222 That God, 00:06:22.222 --> 00:06:26.034 we get to proclaim a truth, 00:06:27.054 --> 00:06:29.714 a truth of salvation and redemption. 00:06:30.174 --> 00:06:30.630 And so, 00:06:30.630 --> 00:06:32.434 God, help us to hear, 00:06:32.814 --> 00:06:34.594 pay attention and understand. 00:06:35.294 --> 00:06:36.886 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:06:36.886 --> 00:06:39.750 Amen. So I've tried to convey this over. 00:06:39.782 --> 00:06:42.142 And can I just tell you, 00:06:42.158 --> 00:06:42.358 I mean, 00:06:42.358 --> 00:06:42.854 I've been. 00:06:42.854 --> 00:06:49.314 I'm writing devotionals for each Sunday and I'm five weeks out. 00:06:50.094 --> 00:06:52.566 So this week we recorded the devotionals. 00:06:52.590 --> 00:06:54.274 That'll be for the 1 June. 00:06:54.654 --> 00:06:59.454 So when I do that and we record that and then I get ready to preach on 00:06:59.454 --> 00:07:01.234 Sunday, I am confused. 00:07:03.064 --> 00:07:05.616 Cause I'm way ahead and then I gotta back, 00:07:05.616 --> 00:07:06.606 way back up. 00:07:06.648 --> 00:07:09.264 So I don't know if what I'm saying sometimes in, 00:07:09.264 --> 00:07:09.924 in this, 00:07:09.936 --> 00:07:14.200 from what I recorded four weeks ago for this week and then what I 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:16.840 recorded this week for four weeks from now, 00:07:18.144 --> 00:07:19.284 where am I? 00:07:20.184 --> 00:07:21.504 Here's where I am. 00:07:21.528 --> 00:07:25.752 The book of Hebrews is the case for the uniqueness, 00:07:25.808 --> 00:07:28.288 the only begotten son of God, 00:07:28.376 --> 00:07:29.448 Jesus Christ, 00:07:29.576 --> 00:07:33.658 as the absolute superior communication, 00:07:33.826 --> 00:07:36.466 provision, redemption of God. 00:07:36.610 --> 00:07:40.578 And the book of Hebrews makes that case by drawing in all of the Old 00:07:40.578 --> 00:07:42.162 Testament prophecies, 00:07:42.258 --> 00:07:44.162 facts, the levitical system, 00:07:44.218 --> 00:07:44.762 the law, 00:07:44.762 --> 00:07:46.694 the sacrificial things. 00:07:46.994 --> 00:07:50.570 And the writer of Hebrews and God by inspiration just brings it all 00:07:50.570 --> 00:07:52.338 together in this book. 00:07:52.466 --> 00:07:55.722 And we started last week with that first line of chapter eight that says, 00:07:55.722 --> 00:08:00.754 the main point of what is being said is this, 00:08:01.574 --> 00:08:03.814 Jesus is our high priest. 00:08:03.974 --> 00:08:05.954 Cause we need a high priest, 00:08:06.414 --> 00:08:07.074 you see. 00:08:07.102 --> 00:08:10.150 And so he's referring to the Old Testament covenant here, 00:08:10.150 --> 00:08:11.554 the first covenant. 00:08:12.174 --> 00:08:13.824 So here are the themes. 00:08:14.494 --> 00:08:15.350 First of all, 00:08:15.350 --> 00:08:18.774 it's pointed out that Jesus is the son of God, 00:08:18.814 --> 00:08:20.464 the unique son of God, 00:08:20.574 --> 00:08:22.830 the superior communication of God. 00:08:22.902 --> 00:08:26.030 He is the pre existent eternal son of God, 00:08:26.142 --> 00:08:27.870 which is a statement of his deity, 00:08:27.870 --> 00:08:28.854 and that he is God, 00:08:28.854 --> 00:08:31.606 the son before he was ever born in a manger. 00:08:31.606 --> 00:08:34.334 You've got the incarnate earthly Jesus, 00:08:34.374 --> 00:08:40.462 who lived these 33 years and was born in a manger and lived and he died 00:08:40.518 --> 00:08:42.598 and he was buried and he rose again. 00:08:42.598 --> 00:08:43.934 And that's the incarnate Christ. 00:08:43.934 --> 00:08:47.454 And then we get the expression of God, 00:08:47.534 --> 00:08:50.914 of the exalted son of God, 00:08:51.614 --> 00:08:55.406 that he left after having completed his work. 00:08:55.470 --> 00:09:00.420 Here and sat down at the right hand of the throne of majesty on high. 00:09:00.954 --> 00:09:02.522 He is our high priest. 00:09:02.522 --> 00:09:07.642 And so what the book of Hebrews is doing is it's bringing us from the 00:09:07.698 --> 00:09:08.970 first covenant, 00:09:09.042 --> 00:09:10.974 the Old Testament, 00:09:12.394 --> 00:09:13.410 the first covenant, 00:09:13.442 --> 00:09:14.634 the first Testament, 00:09:14.674 --> 00:09:19.218 all of those things that we refer to the Old Testament as from shadow to 00:09:19.218 --> 00:09:20.610 substance. Because remember last week, 00:09:20.610 --> 00:09:23.554 that was one of the lines in there that says the first tabernacle, 00:09:23.554 --> 00:09:24.754 the earthly tabernacle, 00:09:24.794 --> 00:09:26.574 was a shadow of. 00:09:27.434 --> 00:09:30.250 Right, the heavenly tabernacle. 00:09:30.362 --> 00:09:33.058 So what we're doing is theme wise, 00:09:33.106 --> 00:09:38.386 the thematic sort of outline of this is the case for Christ, 00:09:38.490 --> 00:09:39.774 his priesthood, 00:09:41.554 --> 00:09:47.474 the holiest place where Christ passed into to offer the sacrifice for our 00:09:47.514 --> 00:09:49.962 sin. So in this text, 00:09:50.018 --> 00:09:51.890 we see some interesting stuff here. 00:09:51.890 --> 00:09:57.264 How many of you are really comfortable calling the first covenant faulty, 00:09:58.444 --> 00:10:01.384 obsolete, old, 00:10:02.444 --> 00:10:03.644 passing away? 00:10:03.804 --> 00:10:04.864 Well, look, 00:10:05.324 --> 00:10:09.148 God by inspiration gives it to the writer of Hebrews to do that, 00:10:09.148 --> 00:10:11.744 for the first Covenant had been faultless. 00:10:12.284 --> 00:10:16.574 See, that's a nice way to say that the first covenant was faulty. 00:10:16.324 --> 00:10:17.740 Why was it faulty? 00:10:17.892 --> 00:10:18.944 Let's look. 00:10:19.544 --> 00:10:22.288 There would have been no occasion for a second one. 00:10:22.288 --> 00:10:25.224 So what God's promise is in the book of Jeremiah, 00:10:25.224 --> 00:10:26.584 Jeremiah, chapter 31, 00:10:26.624 --> 00:10:28.624 starting in about verse 31, 00:10:28.744 --> 00:10:31.604 is this promise of a new covenant, 00:10:31.904 --> 00:10:33.512 because the first covenant, 00:10:33.608 --> 00:10:34.928 the old covenant, 00:10:35.056 --> 00:10:36.044 was faulty. 00:10:36.984 --> 00:10:39.928 And then at the end it says by saying a new covenant, 00:10:39.928 --> 00:10:40.504 he's declared, 00:10:40.504 --> 00:10:41.424 this is verse 13, 00:10:41.424 --> 00:10:47.644 that the first is obsolete and what is obsolete is growing old. 00:10:47.724 --> 00:10:49.704 That's not a reference to Scott. 00:10:51.804 --> 00:10:52.780 I just love it, 00:10:52.780 --> 00:10:55.556 man. But it says it's about to pass away. 00:10:55.556 --> 00:10:57.140 That's why it's not a reference to Scott. 00:10:57.140 --> 00:10:57.864 All right, 00:10:58.684 --> 00:11:00.236 but you see the point he's making, 00:11:00.236 --> 00:11:03.556 that the new covenant is a different covenant. 00:11:03.740 --> 00:11:05.828 It's not a continuation covenant. 00:11:05.916 --> 00:11:06.984 It's new. 00:11:08.204 --> 00:11:12.960 It's going to be a different kind of covenant because the old covenant, 00:11:12.992 --> 00:11:14.364 the first covenant, 00:11:14.704 --> 00:11:15.872 is passing away. 00:11:15.928 --> 00:11:17.336 Now. Why is it passing away? 00:11:17.336 --> 00:11:17.696 It says, 00:11:17.696 --> 00:11:18.848 see, the days are coming, 00:11:18.848 --> 00:11:19.736 says the Lord, 00:11:19.736 --> 00:11:23.296 when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the 00:11:23.296 --> 00:11:24.404 house of Jacob, 00:11:24.784 --> 00:11:28.144 not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors. 00:11:28.184 --> 00:11:29.472 So not a continuation, 00:11:29.472 --> 00:11:30.536 not a renewal. 00:11:30.680 --> 00:11:30.976 You know, 00:11:30.976 --> 00:11:35.266 I get asked from time to time to do like marriage vow renewals. 00:11:35.824 --> 00:11:39.784 Do you know what we don't do in a marriage vow renewal? 00:11:39.844 --> 00:11:41.904 We don't change the agreement. 00:11:44.124 --> 00:11:46.356 Right? So if it's just a renewal, 00:11:46.356 --> 00:11:49.676 then everything of the first vow remains the same. 00:11:49.740 --> 00:11:51.720 We're just renewing the first vow. 00:11:51.780 --> 00:11:55.788 The new covenant is not about renewing the old covenant. 00:11:55.876 --> 00:11:57.436 It's a new and different covenant, 00:11:57.436 --> 00:12:01.396 not like the one that I made with their ancestors on the. 00:12:01.348 --> 00:12:03.028 On the day I took them by the hand. 00:12:03.028 --> 00:12:04.300 Now, I love that. 00:12:04.300 --> 00:12:05.660 I love that expression. 00:12:05.732 --> 00:12:07.382 Took them by the hand. 00:12:08.144 --> 00:12:09.656 That was God the father, 00:12:09.656 --> 00:12:15.124 taking his people by the hand to lead them out of slavery, 00:12:15.544 --> 00:12:17.008 out of bondage, 00:12:17.176 --> 00:12:20.324 through miraculous signs that the people saw. 00:12:21.024 --> 00:12:26.444 The people saw the flies and the frogs and the yuck, 00:12:27.024 --> 00:12:28.176 bloody river water, 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:29.064 all of that stuff. 00:12:29.064 --> 00:12:29.764 You see, 00:12:30.064 --> 00:12:31.488 they saw God work. 00:12:31.536 --> 00:12:35.320 They saw God take them by the hand and lead them out of the land of 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:38.118 Egypt. But then God says this. 00:12:38.166 --> 00:12:40.006 Now here's the interesting thing, 00:12:40.030 --> 00:12:40.646 all right? 00:12:40.238 --> 00:12:42.110 So in the Old Testament, 00:12:42.142 --> 00:12:43.334 the old covenant, 00:12:43.374 --> 00:12:44.834 the first covenant, 00:12:45.654 --> 00:12:50.662 we know from the first two chapters of Hebrews that God spoke through 00:12:50.718 --> 00:12:52.114 angels and prophets, 00:12:52.894 --> 00:12:54.878 okay? That's what it says. 00:12:55.046 --> 00:12:58.634 The first covenant was delivered by angel. 00:12:59.494 --> 00:13:02.150 And the prophets were the one who spoke. 00:13:02.222 --> 00:13:06.842 The prophets were the ones who spoke on behalf of God to the people. 00:13:07.284 --> 00:13:10.004 So when a prophet spoke and said, 00:13:10.164 --> 00:13:12.504 thus saith the Lord, 00:13:12.844 --> 00:13:13.500 did y'all know? 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:14.260 The prophets were all. 00:13:14.260 --> 00:13:15.900 King James didn't know. 00:13:15.932 --> 00:13:18.156 Okay? Thus saith the Lord, 00:13:18.260 --> 00:13:18.904 right? 00:13:19.244 --> 00:13:22.940 When a prophet would deliver God's word, 00:13:23.092 --> 00:13:25.584 it was unquestionable. 00:13:26.364 --> 00:13:28.344 He didn't challenge the prophet. 00:13:28.644 --> 00:13:30.860 And the prophets of God, 00:13:30.892 --> 00:13:32.716 though they were unpopular. 00:13:32.780 --> 00:13:36.740 And Jeremiah in particular gets buried up to his neck in mud, 00:13:36.804 --> 00:13:41.064 right? Because they didn't like what he had to say. 00:13:41.564 --> 00:13:44.824 He was the prophet of warning for the exile. 00:13:45.364 --> 00:13:48.932 He was the one telling them that you have broken the covenant with God 00:13:48.932 --> 00:13:52.664 and God is going to punish you and destroy this city. 00:13:54.124 --> 00:13:55.436 They didn't like that, 00:13:55.436 --> 00:13:57.020 right? How many of you know, 00:13:57.020 --> 00:14:00.504 people love to be challenged and given bad news, 00:14:01.444 --> 00:14:05.192 right? That's why we don't practice a lot of church discipline these 00:14:05.192 --> 00:14:06.182 days, isn't it? 00:14:06.328 --> 00:14:07.604 You're in sin. 00:14:08.704 --> 00:14:10.024 We don't like that. 00:14:10.040 --> 00:14:11.600 Well, that's what the prophet would do. 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.560 And so his word was not questioned. 00:14:13.560 --> 00:14:15.128 And so it comes down in verse nine. 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:15.376 It says, 00:14:15.376 --> 00:14:17.592 I showed no concern for them, 00:14:17.688 --> 00:14:18.424 says the Lord, 00:14:18.424 --> 00:14:22.684 because they did not continue in my covenant. 00:14:24.264 --> 00:14:25.644 So what was faulty? 00:14:26.264 --> 00:14:28.428 Faulty? It's faulty, 00:14:28.476 --> 00:14:29.324 it's obsolete, 00:14:29.364 --> 00:14:30.140 it's old, 00:14:30.212 --> 00:14:35.540 it's passing away because there was a dependence on the people to keep 00:14:35.572 --> 00:14:36.504 the covenant, 00:14:37.244 --> 00:14:38.624 to do their part. 00:14:39.964 --> 00:14:42.274 So this new covenant's different from that. 00:14:43.084 --> 00:14:44.504 It's different from that. 00:14:45.044 --> 00:14:46.180 You can't earn this one, 00:14:46.180 --> 00:14:47.220 you can't work for this one, 00:14:47.220 --> 00:14:49.530 you can't accomplish this on your own. 00:14:49.564 --> 00:14:52.836 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after 00:14:52.836 --> 00:14:53.332 those days, 00:14:53.332 --> 00:14:54.292 says the Lord, 00:14:54.292 --> 00:14:58.864 I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. 00:14:58.864 --> 00:15:00.280 How is that different? 00:15:00.472 --> 00:15:02.600 This is the promised covenant of God. 00:15:02.432 --> 00:15:03.056 You ready? 00:15:03.056 --> 00:15:07.248 How is that statement different from the law and the covenant that God 00:15:07.248 --> 00:15:10.084 made with his people in Egypt? 00:15:11.744 --> 00:15:13.648 He chiseled that one on stone, 00:15:13.648 --> 00:15:14.444 didn't he? 00:15:14.824 --> 00:15:16.474 Guess what he's doing now. 00:15:16.632 --> 00:15:18.484 He's chiseling on our hearts. 00:15:20.184 --> 00:15:21.964 He's writing on our hearts. 00:15:23.144 --> 00:15:25.128 See, that's why in the New Testament, 00:15:25.128 --> 00:15:26.480 when you see him say, 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.364 I will create in you a new heart, 00:15:30.624 --> 00:15:31.524 you see, 00:15:32.384 --> 00:15:35.964 there is this new creation that God's working on. 00:15:36.784 --> 00:15:41.816 That's why the rest of this text from Jeremiah falls hand in hand with 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:42.952 each part of it. 00:15:42.952 --> 00:15:43.612 He says, 00:15:43.712 --> 00:15:49.084 I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. 00:15:49.544 --> 00:15:51.168 What does he mean by that? 00:15:50.976 --> 00:15:53.884 Do you know that the. 00:15:54.754 --> 00:15:58.014 The expectation of God doesn't actually change? 00:15:58.994 --> 00:16:00.814 Jesus confirms it. 00:16:01.194 --> 00:16:01.954 He says, 00:16:02.074 --> 00:16:05.658 love the Lord your God with all your heart, 00:16:05.826 --> 00:16:07.130 soul, mind, 00:16:07.242 --> 00:16:10.014 strength. Right? 00:16:11.354 --> 00:16:13.050 And love your neighbor as yourself. 00:16:13.050 --> 00:16:14.210 The second great command, 00:16:14.210 --> 00:16:14.866 it's the same. 00:16:14.866 --> 00:16:16.194 And that's why Jesus says, 00:16:16.194 --> 00:16:20.154 all of the law and the prophets hang on these two commands. 00:16:20.844 --> 00:16:22.212 So what you're doing is you're saying, 00:16:22.212 --> 00:16:22.916 I love God. 00:16:22.916 --> 00:16:23.412 Do you? 00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:24.210 Act like it, 00:16:25.364 --> 00:16:27.184 right? Does it show? 00:16:27.604 --> 00:16:27.988 You know, 00:16:27.988 --> 00:16:28.644 I've often said, 00:16:28.644 --> 00:16:29.020 you know what? 00:16:29.020 --> 00:16:33.640 There's no husband walking into his house at the end of a workday and 00:16:33.844 --> 00:16:34.732 says to his wife, 00:16:34.732 --> 00:16:35.620 I love you. 00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:36.940 And it smacks her. 00:16:39.564 --> 00:16:40.904 Cause that's not love, 00:16:41.964 --> 00:16:44.504 okay? It's not. 00:16:46.384 --> 00:16:47.752 So it's not like we can say, 00:16:47.752 --> 00:16:48.224 hey, God, 00:16:48.224 --> 00:16:48.840 I love you, 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.150 and then smack him in the face. 00:16:52.384 --> 00:16:53.168 All right? 00:16:53.296 --> 00:16:54.400 So when we look at this thing, 00:16:54.400 --> 00:16:55.136 we see it says, 00:16:55.136 --> 00:16:55.796 I will. 00:16:55.704 --> 00:16:57.272 And then he finishes it with this, 00:16:57.272 --> 00:16:58.352 I will be their God, 00:16:58.352 --> 00:16:59.384 and they will be my people. 00:16:59.384 --> 00:17:03.840 Then we see that sentence in several places throughout scripture. 00:17:03.872 --> 00:17:04.984 So what's it talking about? 00:17:04.984 --> 00:17:06.360 The promised covenant. 00:17:06.472 --> 00:17:10.024 The new covenant is a relational covenant. 00:17:10.184 --> 00:17:14.720 It was a relational covenant when God offered it to his people in the Old 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.309 Testament. But they, 00:17:17.421 --> 00:17:18.741 what did they do? 00:17:19.333 --> 00:17:24.405 They made it all about the 613 laws to follow. 00:17:24.509 --> 00:17:25.353 Oh, look, 00:17:25.973 --> 00:17:27.453 I keep more than you do, 00:17:27.453 --> 00:17:29.763 so that makes me better than you. 00:17:30.453 --> 00:17:31.797 That's what they were trying to do. 00:17:31.661 --> 00:17:33.645 It became this achievement system. 00:17:33.749 --> 00:17:35.893 And yesterday we had a great men. 00:17:35.893 --> 00:17:38.181 If you missed yesterday's men's breakfast, 00:17:38.317 --> 00:17:40.233 you should have been there. 00:17:41.514 --> 00:17:42.174 But anyway, 00:17:42.194 --> 00:17:45.458 it was one of the things that we were talking about yesterday was kind of 00:17:45.458 --> 00:17:52.058 this idea that God has called us to genuinely and sincerely love him 00:17:52.146 --> 00:17:55.334 back. You see, 00:17:55.874 --> 00:17:57.534 he loved us first. 00:17:58.194 --> 00:18:00.258 And I appreciate Scott's song and everything, 00:18:00.258 --> 00:18:01.770 but mama doesn't even know how to love you, 00:18:01.770 --> 00:18:03.750 except that God loved us first. 00:18:04.514 --> 00:18:07.066 Okay, we love. 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:08.482 That's one john four. 00:18:08.482 --> 00:18:10.792 We love because he first loved us. 00:18:11.034 --> 00:18:12.684 That's how we know it. 00:18:12.506 --> 00:18:14.402 See, so when we look at the laws, 00:18:14.402 --> 00:18:20.690 it's not about the fact that we can delineate 613 laws and have sort of a 00:18:20.722 --> 00:18:25.826 performance review once a year and have a high priest walk into the holy 00:18:25.850 --> 00:18:27.994 of holies with some blood for his own sin, 00:18:27.994 --> 00:18:29.194 some blood for my sin, 00:18:29.194 --> 00:18:29.602 and say, 00:18:29.602 --> 00:18:30.834 yes, you know, 00:18:30.874 --> 00:18:34.614 Bobby broke 612 of them. 00:18:36.514 --> 00:18:41.106 So we're going to accomplish and achieve forgiveness on the day of 00:18:41.130 --> 00:18:42.930 atonement? No. 00:18:43.002 --> 00:18:43.986 What is it? 00:18:43.986 --> 00:18:45.274 The command of God, 00:18:45.274 --> 00:18:46.482 the expectation of God, 00:18:46.482 --> 00:18:53.394 the desire of God is that we obey a heart that has been renewed and 00:18:53.434 --> 00:18:57.214 reconstructed and carved our love for him. 00:18:58.554 --> 00:19:01.914 Do we act as if we love God? 00:19:04.134 --> 00:19:05.430 See, I'm not gonna, 00:19:05.430 --> 00:19:05.678 you know, 00:19:05.678 --> 00:19:06.534 I always say this. 00:19:06.534 --> 00:19:10.494 I'm not gonna follow you around and tell you when you're not. 00:19:10.614 --> 00:19:12.294 The spirit does that with you. 00:19:12.294 --> 00:19:19.594 The spirit lives inside of you to inform you when you're not. 00:19:21.014 --> 00:19:24.854 Each person will not teach his fellow citizen and each his brother or 00:19:24.854 --> 00:19:25.526 sister saying, 00:19:25.590 --> 00:19:26.674 know the Lord. 00:19:26.984 --> 00:19:30.048 Cause they'll all know me from the least to the great. 00:19:30.048 --> 00:19:33.204 You know what I think in the world today? 00:19:34.584 --> 00:19:38.184 I happen to be one of those folks that believes ecclesiastes when it says 00:19:38.184 --> 00:19:42.644 that a knowledge of something greater than ourselves is innate. 00:19:43.744 --> 00:19:46.324 I think everybody knows there's a God. 00:19:46.624 --> 00:19:51.840 I think that's why we see so many godless people fight that innate 00:19:51.912 --> 00:19:53.644 knowledge that they have. 00:19:55.184 --> 00:19:58.976 I think we see people in the world that want to deny the existence of God 00:19:58.976 --> 00:20:00.124 because they know. 00:20:00.784 --> 00:20:05.524 They know there's something larger than themselves. 00:20:07.544 --> 00:20:11.084 Right? There's a book out there somewhere that says, 00:20:11.464 --> 00:20:15.084 talks about the clockmaker. 00:20:16.504 --> 00:20:20.514 Because clockmaking used to be a really intricate and detailed thing. 00:20:20.664 --> 00:20:24.954 And all the little pieces had to work together to keep perfect time, 00:20:27.174 --> 00:20:27.702 you know? 00:20:27.702 --> 00:20:29.350 And we look at the world around us, 00:20:29.350 --> 00:20:31.000 and we see the detail, 00:20:31.574 --> 00:20:34.998 and we see the intricacy of the way it works together. 00:20:34.798 --> 00:20:36.430 And then even in our own bodies, 00:20:36.430 --> 00:20:38.934 that prior to the aging process, 00:20:39.054 --> 00:20:40.114 it works. 00:20:40.814 --> 00:20:42.318 Right? There's a point in time. 00:20:42.318 --> 00:20:44.846 I don't know whether it's 40 or 75, 00:20:44.910 --> 00:20:48.684 Mike, but somewhere it just gets to the point where it just doesn't work 00:20:48.684 --> 00:20:50.004 like it used to. 00:20:50.324 --> 00:20:51.064 Right? 00:20:51.444 --> 00:20:53.172 But the designer, 00:20:53.348 --> 00:20:54.260 now, remember, 00:20:54.412 --> 00:20:55.892 remember we said this last year, 00:20:55.892 --> 00:20:57.092 because the creation, 00:20:57.148 --> 00:20:58.196 the garden, 00:20:58.380 --> 00:21:01.344 was the sanctuary of God's creation. 00:21:01.964 --> 00:21:04.304 It was perfect when God made it, 00:21:06.844 --> 00:21:07.584 right? 00:21:09.844 --> 00:21:14.244 We were perfect in humanity when we were made. 00:21:15.464 --> 00:21:18.256 But sin corrupted not only us, 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:19.744 but God's creation. 00:21:19.784 --> 00:21:23.564 And God's creation groans under the weight of the fall. 00:21:24.904 --> 00:21:25.804 You see? 00:21:27.104 --> 00:21:28.472 So I look at this and I go, 00:21:28.472 --> 00:21:31.248 wow, we're not going to have to tell our fellow citizens, 00:21:31.248 --> 00:21:32.928 see, that's why it's really funny. 00:21:32.792 --> 00:21:33.800 And they get mad at me. 00:21:33.800 --> 00:21:34.072 You know, 00:21:34.072 --> 00:21:35.432 people who don't believe in God, 00:21:35.432 --> 00:21:36.422 and I go, 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:37.444 yeah, you do. 00:21:39.524 --> 00:21:41.504 I turn around and walk off. 00:21:42.884 --> 00:21:50.144 Because the covenant is relational. 00:21:50.844 --> 00:21:53.384 I will be their God. 00:21:53.884 --> 00:21:55.624 They will be my people. 00:21:57.044 --> 00:21:59.476 And we won't have to tell other people to know the Lord, 00:21:59.476 --> 00:22:00.692 because they'll all know me, 00:22:00.692 --> 00:22:02.704 from the least to the greatest. 00:22:03.124 --> 00:22:05.764 And then here's the superior covenant statement. 00:22:05.844 --> 00:22:11.834 You ready for I will forgive their wrongdoing and I will never again 00:22:12.214 --> 00:22:13.634 remember their sins. 00:22:15.854 --> 00:22:17.834 God's the one doing the work. 00:22:18.454 --> 00:22:20.764 God's the one who's done the work. 00:22:21.134 --> 00:22:24.234 When Jesus on his cross said, 00:22:24.894 --> 00:22:26.314 it's finished, 00:22:28.334 --> 00:22:29.094 you know, 00:22:29.214 --> 00:22:29.878 I've studied, 00:22:29.926 --> 00:22:30.494 I've heard, 00:22:30.494 --> 00:22:33.422 I've read other writers and heard other people talk about it and all that 00:22:33.422 --> 00:22:33.902 sort of thing. 00:22:33.902 --> 00:22:37.206 But the Tetelestai is like, 00:22:37.270 --> 00:22:47.254 is like that paid stamp on a contract that Jesus paid the debt for our 00:22:47.294 --> 00:22:49.794 sin. God did it. 00:22:50.414 --> 00:22:51.734 You didn't earn it. 00:22:53.294 --> 00:22:54.382 You don't deserve it. 00:22:54.382 --> 00:22:55.062 I don't deserve, 00:22:55.062 --> 00:22:56.374 none of us do. 00:22:56.374 --> 00:22:58.422 God made it. 00:22:58.598 --> 00:23:00.222 God did the work. 00:23:00.278 --> 00:23:01.158 Nick shared with me, 00:23:01.158 --> 00:23:01.878 and I'll go ahead and tell you. 00:23:01.878 --> 00:23:03.734 Nick shared with me a cool illustration. 00:23:03.734 --> 00:23:08.024 Cause he studies for this in case I get hit by a bus. 00:23:11.094 --> 00:23:12.062 Nick studied this. 00:23:12.062 --> 00:23:12.486 He said, 00:23:12.486 --> 00:23:14.174 you know what this is like? 00:23:14.174 --> 00:23:16.734 And this is contemporary modern illustration. 00:23:16.814 --> 00:23:17.302 Get ready. 00:23:17.302 --> 00:23:18.292 Here we go. 00:23:18.974 --> 00:23:22.474 Jesus got the carfax on you. 00:23:24.774 --> 00:23:28.594 And the carfax told him all our flaws, 00:23:29.334 --> 00:23:32.114 all our shortcomings and all our failures, 00:23:33.234 --> 00:23:35.414 and he still paid full price. 00:23:38.834 --> 00:23:39.866 I was like, 00:23:40.050 --> 00:23:43.694 that's pretty cool illustration right there, 00:23:45.114 --> 00:23:48.146 right? Listen to this last. 00:23:48.210 --> 00:23:49.434 By saying a new covenant, 00:23:49.434 --> 00:23:51.642 he's declared that the first is obsolete. 00:23:51.642 --> 00:23:54.706 What is obsolete and growing old is about to pass away. 00:23:54.706 --> 00:23:56.734 God planned, 00:23:57.154 --> 00:24:04.214 prepared, inaugurated and completed the new covenant. 00:24:04.954 --> 00:24:08.618 It is finished now. 00:24:08.666 --> 00:24:14.094 Love him back because that's the law that he's written on our hearts, 00:24:14.514 --> 00:24:16.164 that we love him back. 00:24:16.282 --> 00:24:18.018 If you don't know Jesus this morning, 00:24:18.018 --> 00:24:21.146 you need Jesus because he is our high priest. 00:24:21.290 --> 00:24:23.642 He's the one that did the work. 00:24:23.738 --> 00:24:24.398 Let's pray. 00:24:24.474 --> 00:24:27.882 Father, thank you for today and for all that you're accomplishing and 00:24:27.882 --> 00:24:29.532 doing. And God help us. 00:24:31.594 --> 00:24:35.224 God help us just to love you and act like it. 00:24:35.554 --> 00:24:39.534 God, let our lives be a testimony to what you've accomplished. 00:24:39.874 --> 00:24:43.014 God, that indeed we have a new heart, 00:24:44.274 --> 00:24:44.914 that God, 00:24:44.914 --> 00:24:47.094 you have made us new creations. 00:24:48.314 --> 00:24:58.034 That God is not about some sort of earning or some sort of point system. 00:24:59.294 --> 00:25:00.674 God, you loved us. 00:25:01.574 --> 00:25:05.074 You died for us so that we might have life. 00:25:06.014 --> 00:25:06.542 So, God, 00:25:06.542 --> 00:25:07.430 this morning I lift up. 00:25:07.430 --> 00:25:09.494 If there's even one person here that doesn't know Jesus, 00:25:09.494 --> 00:25:11.804 God, we want them to know Jesus. 00:25:12.814 --> 00:25:17.334 God, if there are those who know Jesus and have at least established that 00:25:17.334 --> 00:25:18.914 relationship. But still, 00:25:19.454 --> 00:25:24.304 there's a performance model in there somewhere where, 00:25:24.344 --> 00:25:27.712 God, we tend to find fault with ourselves. 00:25:27.848 --> 00:25:29.800 And we're going to look at Romans in the next year, 00:25:29.800 --> 00:25:34.164 and so we're going to find out what the contract looks like. 00:25:34.784 --> 00:25:35.320 So, God, 00:25:35.320 --> 00:25:39.616 I pray that we would recognize this morning that you've done the work for 00:25:39.616 --> 00:25:42.912 us, help us respond to you in love. 00:25:43.088 --> 00:25:44.536 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:25:44.536 --> 00:25:44.704 Amen.