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Summary by Darrin Koehler

Continued from Epic 10…

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. But 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. (Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV)

We live in the day that this prophecy is fulfilled. Though God was gracious to make a covenant with his people, no one kept it. In the days of the Judges, everyone did what was right in their own eyes. The kings did evil in the sight of the Lord. God sent prophets to speak to His people, but they were killed. Therefore, we see that in the New Covenant God will do something different: The Law will be written on our minds and hearts; We will all know Him, from the least to the greatest; There will be forgiveness and removal of sins.

Indeed, that time is now. Jesus signified the beginning of this at the last supper: “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” (Luke 22:19-20 ESV)

In Hebrews we read that this New Covenant is superior to the Old One: “But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second…. In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” (Hebrews 8:6-13 ESV)

To be continued in Epic 12…

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