Friday, May 18, 2007

Ready to Vanish


Hebrews 8:13 KJV
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

The "old covenant"
The one that God made through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
The covenant of Moses

The Bible says is old and "ready to vanish away."

Verse 7 says that covenant was faulty. It was not able to take away sin. It was not able to reconcile men with God. It was a covenant based on man's promises to obey the Lord and that was its fault. Man cannot keep that promise.

So God brought in a second "new covenant" established on better promises. These promises are all made by the Lord and not man.
God promises to put our sins as far as the east is from the west
God promises to never remember our sins and iniquities.
God promises to write His laws in our minds and heart.

And He promises to do all of this through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Over the course of the years, the Jews, and some Christians, have held on to that old covenant, finding in it some form of satisfaction concerning what they can do. God's Word says it is decaying and vanishing away.

One day men will come to understand that God's promises to us are completely based in His graciousness and not our good deeds. Then we will be free to serve the Lord for the right reasons and not to try to make Him happy with our good works.

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