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Jan 07, 2024

Hebrews: Powerful Covenant

Passage: Hebrews 8:1-13

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Hebrews: Fulfilled in Christ

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: promise, covenant, secure

From the very beginning God has created a "covenant" (and agreement) essentially as marital vows for us to live in Right Relationship. And from the beginning we have failed on our end. And so God kept not just his end of the vows, but our end as well, paying for our faithlessness on the cross and writing a new covenant on our hearts, which will be finally and fully fulfilled not just now but eternally.

Heb 8
1 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6 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. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

8 For he finds fault with them when he says:

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah,
9 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.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more.”

13 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.

 

 

SERMON DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1) What is a “covenant” -- similar to an agreement or contract?

2) How are we in social and civil covenants everyday? Like what?

(think about “social contracts” and how we are “supposed” to behave in public)

3) How are “covenants” essentially contracts to stay in “right relationships”?

4) What are consequences and blessings for breaking/keeping these “ covenants?

5) How did God create an Eden Covenant? What did it say? Why did he do this?

6) How is “The Law” (10 commandments) another covenant? What was the point of it?

7) What is this New Covenant? Why did God make it?

8) What power does the Law have? How is that different than the New Covenant?

9) What does the New Covenant reveal about God’s and our Identity?

10) How is it encouraging? What response should it produce?