Behold The Days

are HereJeremiah 31:31-34

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…”

Introduction

Jeremiah 30-31 is a mixture of sorrow and joy

The text emphasizes that the Old Covenant would pass away

Introduction

Why was the Old Covenant to be replaced?

How does the new covenant differ?

What is the effect of this change?

Why was the

covenant replaced

It was a shattered covenant

14 ‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, 15 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if

your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry

out all My commandments, and so break My covenant….

Leviticus 26:14–15 (NASB95)

Why was the

covenant replaced

13 When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made

the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming

obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

Hebrews 8:13 (NASB95)

It was a shattered covenant

It became an obsolete covenant

Why was the

covenant replaced

It was a shattered covenant

It became an obsolete covenant

It was a more “physical” covenant

1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of

the good things to come and not the very

form of things, can never ...

Hebrews 10:1 (NASB95)

How does the New

Covenant Differ

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the

LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the

house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers…Jeremiah 31:31–32 (NASB95)

It was a “new” covenant

“new” – denotes the state of being different, new and superior to a previous state

How does the New

Covenant Differ

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the

LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the

house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers…Jeremiah 31:31–32 (NASB95)

With a new foundation

No longer built on physical promises

Built upon the promise of forgiveness

How does the New

Covenant Differ

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the

LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the

house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers…Jeremiah 31:31–32 (NASB95)

With a new priesthood

A perfect and unchangeable high Priest

Who entered the true holy place

With a new order of priests

How does the New

Covenant Differ

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the

LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the

house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers…Jeremiah 31:31–32 (NASB95)

With A new requirement

A spiritual basis

Entered into by faith

No longer based on the Physical

The Effect of the

New Covenant

Anything specific to the Levitical order has passed away

“God is spirit…”

True worship is now characterized by an offering of the heart and soul

The Effect of the

New Covenant

The need for worship with musical instruments has passed

instruments were tied to the Levitical Priests (2Chron 29:25-26; 1Chron 23:3-6)

In Spiritual Worship the heart becomes the instrument (Eph 5:19)

The Effect of the

New Covenant

the value of Sacraments have passed away

Baptism is not a sign of salvation but a condition

The Lord’s supper is a memorial not a sign

No value in “christening” “Eucharist” “last Rites” etc.