Sunday Devotional: The New Convenant

By Eowyn @DrEowyn

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that 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 bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, saith the LORD: 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. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Hebrews 8:7-8

If that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no room for a second one to replace it. And in fact God does find fault with them; he says: Look, the days are coming, the Lord declares, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah.

Matthew 26:26-28

Now as they were eating,
Jesus took bread,
and when he had said the blessing
he broke it and gave it to the disciples.
“Take it and eat,” he said, “this is my body.”
Then he took a cup,
and when he had given thanks
he handed it to them saying,
“Drink from this, all of you,
for this is my blood,
the blood of the covenant,
poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

Hebrews 9:15

This makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise.

Acts of the Apostles 10:34-35

Peter proceeded to speak to those gathered in the house of Cornelius, saying: “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him….”

Rejoice!

~Eowyn