8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 1/12

 

Jeremiah

the new covenant

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 2/12

Jeremiah

 

Jeremiah 31:31-34

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD,

“when I will make a new covenant with the

house of Israel and with the house of Judah.It will not be like the covenant I made with

their ancestors when I took them by the

hand to lead them out of Egypt, becausethey broke my covenant, though I was a

husband to them,” declares the LORD.

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 3/12

 

“This is the covenant I will make with the house

of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I

will put my law in their minds and write it on their 

hearts. I will be their God, and they will be mypeople. No longer will they teach their 

neighbours, or say to one another, ‘Know the

LORD,’ because they will all know me, from theleast of them to the greatest,” declares the

LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and

will remember their sins no more.”

Jeremiah 31:31-34

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 4/12

 

God makes covenants

God is not like the gods of other ancient nations

Pagan gods were seen to hide their wills from

humankind, operating in the shadows, playing with

people's lives in mysterious and unpredictable ways,you never knew where you stood. They were feared

and would not be seen to love mortal humans.

God's means of engagement with us has always

been fundamentally the sameGod in his love has always desired to enter into

relationship with his created beings.

He has done this through forming covenant

relationships.

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 5/12

 

God makes covenants

The idea of a committed relationship betweentwo persons is woven into the fabric of creation

Marriage is not a human or simply a social construction

but an intentional creation of God

It expresses commitment, love, knowledge,

faithfulness, over the long term. It provides one of the

key experiences through which God reveals desire to

relate to us.Throughout history God has sought relationship

The term “covenant” appears more than 330 times

across both Old and New Testaments (Ie. covenants)

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 6/12

 

Features of a covenant

• Promise given: Commitment to bless, to dogood, to love, to watch over, to protect.

• A ceremony marks the beginning of the

covenant – in early times, a sacrifice.• A sign was given to recall, renew or 

remember the covenant commitment

• The covenant was a basis for knowing theother, growing in love, it carried clear 

expectations and could be broken.

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 7/12 

God's covenants

God’s covenant relationships• The covenant with Noah (Gen 9:9-17)

Promise never to flood again, sacrifice offered, rainbow

sign.

• The covenant with Abraham (Gen 12, 15, 17)Promise of family which will bless all nations, the cutting

of the covenant (sacrifices), sign of circumcision.

• The covenant with Israel at Mt Sinai (Ex 20, Deut)Promise of being a holy nation, God's treasured

possession, God reveals himself, altar at the foot of the

mountain (Ex 24), expectations (10 Commandments),

Sign of the Sabbath (Ex 31).

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 8/12 

2 aspects of covenant

God desires to be known and to love

• He reveals himself 

 – (Heb. Yada, He reveals his name, character, personhood)

• He enters into covenant love and faithfulness

 – “Chesed” - Loving kindness, everlasting love, mercy, enduring

love, covenant faithfulness.

 – A theme of the Psalms in worship and praise.

• NB The charge God brings in Hosea:

Hosea 4:1 The LORD has a charge to bring against you who

live in the land:

“There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement

(knowledge) of God in the land. Cf Jer 9:24

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 9/12 

The New Covenant

• Made with house of Israel and Judah (all who seekGod by faith) Cf: Eph 2, Heb 7-10, Esp 8.

• I will put my law in their hearts and minds. This is

the presence and ministry of the Holy Spirit within

us...whose purpose is to help us “know God”.

• People will know God in a new way

• This will be based on the forgiveness of sin which

God will undertake to provide. This is complete inand through Jesus Christ. (Heb 10)

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 10/12 

The New Covenant

• Promise: That human beings might experience the graceand love of God forever becoming his loved children and

members of his family, knowing him as Father!

• Basis: The once for all sacrifice of Jesus Christ by which our 

sin is forgiven.• Expectation / Commitment: That we extend this grace to

all, sharing the good news with others, living as God's

children in responsiveness and obedience to him.

• Sign / Remembrance / Renewal of the New Covenant1 Cor 11:25 “This is the new covenant in my blood” 

Remembering the new covenant in worship, renewing

commitment to God each Sunday.

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 11/12 

Benediction (Hebrews 13:20-21)

Now may the God of peace, who throughthe blood of the eternal covenant brought

back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that

great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you witheverything good for doing his will, and may

he work in us what is pleasing to him,

through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

8/6/2019 Jeremiah 2 Covenant

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/jeremiah-2-covenant 12/12 

The Old Covenant is revealed in the New,and the New Covenant is veiled in the Old.

— Saint Augustine