This is the New Covenant Hebrews 8:10

The writer of Hebrews showed how the “second covenant” of God was “not according to the covenant that” He “made with their fathers”, and in chapter eight and verse ten of Hebrews, the writer shares how God declared “this is the covenant I will make” where we read:

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

The verse begins, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord;”. The writer began with the word, “For” which means “even as, indeed, no doubt, seeing then, verily and therefore” “this is the covenant” or “this is the disposition, arrangement, compact or testament” “that I will make” which means “that God would furnish, produce, fulfill, arrange and dispose of by will” “with the house” or “the habitation and dwelling place” “of Israel” which means “he shall be a prince of God” and was “the name given to the patriarch Jacob and his descendants” “after those days” which means “among, afterwards and behind the days in general”, “says” or “speaks, affirms and maintains” “the Lord” which refers to “he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master and the title given to God the Messiah”. God was to declare what His “new covenant” would be like for the “house of Israel” when He issued it.

The verse continues, “I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:”. The writer added the words, “I will put” or “God will grant, bestow, supply, furnish and deliver over” “my laws” which means “God's rule producing a state approved of God” “into their minds” or “the people's understanding, feelings an desires”, “and write them” which means “inscribe the laws” “in their hearts” or “in the people's centre of all physical and spiritual life ”: “and I will be” which means “God shall follow up with and come to pass” “to them” which refers to “to the people” “a God” which refers to “the Godhead bodily or trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”, “and they shall be” or “the people shall follow up and come to pass” “to me” which refers to God “a people” or “group, tribe, nation as well as all those who are of the same stock and language”. Rather than the “law of God” being written on tablets of stone, God would now “put” His “laws into their minds” and “write them in their hearts”. This caused the relationship between people and God to be in its proper position.

When we meditate upon these words in Hebrews, we see how God desired to have a relationship with people even when they did not and could not keep His “first covenant” with them. God supplied a “new covenant” with people that would be based upon His Son Jesus keeping the law, and now people may have a relationship with God simply by believing in, relying upon, trusting in and clinging to Jesus Christ. God's law is now “written” upon the “hearts” and “minds” of people, and unless they harden their “hearts” against the Lord, they know what He desires from them. Let us rejoice in the provision of the “new covenant” God has offered to all who shall receive.

Next time the writer tells his readers “they shall not teach every man his neighbor”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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