CovenantLesson 9

Curse for breaking Covenant• God Will:• Deut.28 Tear them from the land• Scatter them among the nations• No Rest• Trembling Heart• Despair• Dread• No Assurance of Life

Deuteronomy 29-30• God had: Provided • Brought them out of Egypt• Protected and provided in the wilderness 40 years• Their clothes and sandals did not wear out• IF THEY OBEYED:• God would bless them• Set them high above all nations• Establish them as a holy people to Himself• Multiply and protect them• Inflict curses on their enemies• Give rain on their land and bless the work of their

hands

Context of the promises• Nation of Israel was split into two kingdoms• Northern = Israel Ten tribes• Southern = Judah – Two tribes Benjamin and Judah• Israel fell to Assyria in 722 B.C.• Jerusalem destroyed in 586 B.C. by Babylon• All they had to do was obey Him and walk in His

ways

Promises of the New Covenant• Jeremiah 31 The New Covenant is for the future of

Israel and Judah• Not like the Old Covenant• Promised to put His Law within them• Write it on their hearts• He will be their God and they will be His people• They will ALL know Him• He will forgive their iniquity and remember their

sins no more• Israel will never cease from being nation• This Covenant is everlasting

Promises of the New Covenant• Jeremiah 32 God promised to gather Israel from the

nations where He had scattered them• In the future, Israel will be safe dwelling in their

land• He will give them one heart and one way• He will not turn away from them• This Covenant is everlasting• The land and the nation are connected

Jeremiah 17:9• The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked; who

can know it?• God promised to write His Law:• ON their hearts and IN their minds• In the New Covenant their hearts will no longer be

deceitful hearts.• Why?• My heart is now indwelt by the Holy Spirit

Ezekiel• Ezekiel 11:13-21 Question: Will you completely

destroy the remnant of Israel?• God said He would gather them from the nations• Give them the land• Give them one heart• Put a new spirit within them• Replace their heart of stone with a heart of flesh• They will walk in His statutes and keep His

ordinances• In the New Covenant there will be obedience to the

Lord because of the new condition of the heart

Ezekiel• Ezekiel 36:24-28 When the Lord gathers Israel to

their land, THEN• He will cleanse them from their filthiness and idols• Give them a new heart and spirit• Put His Spirit within them and CAUSE them to

obey Him• They WILL live in the land, be His people and He

their God

New Testament• Eph. 2:11-22 Gentiles were strangers to the

covenants in previous times• Separated from the Messiah• Without God in the world• Without Hope• NOW: No longer strangers, but fellow citizens• Brought near to the Messiah• Eph. 3:4-6 Mystery: Gentiles are fellow heirs and

partakers of the promise through the gospel of Jesus Christ

New Testament• Romans, John and Matthew• The gospel first went to the Jews• They were the original heirs of the promise• Hebrews 8• Jesus is our high priest, seated at the right hand of

the throne of the Majesty in the heavens• Jesus had a more excellent ministry • Jesus is the Mediator of a better Covenant• Founded on Better Promises• Jesus inaugurated the New Covenant

New Covenant• New: Kainos – new as opposed to old or former and

hence also implying better because it’s different. • The New Covenant is Salvation• The blood of Jesus draws Gentiles near as well as

Jews• The Holy Spirit indwells those believing in Him• There is forgiveness of sins and an ability to obey

God