Welcome to our new project, the Daily Bible Devotional. The goal is to help you understand and apply

scripture as you go through a New Testament Bible read five days a week, Monday through Friday,

as we move from Matthew straight through to Revelation. In under four minutes each morning, we will recap the chapter,

make some application, present thought questions for the day, and offer a prayer together.

I'm excited about exploring God's word with you, so let's get started. I hope you're doing great

today, and I'm thankful to be with you as we dig in together in Hebrews

chapter 8. Jesus serves as the true high priest, seated at the right hand of God in heaven,

ministering in the eternal sanctuary established by the Lord, not by man.

Earthly priests served in a copy and shadow of what exists in heaven following patterns given to Moses. However,

Jesus has received a superior ministry based on a better covenant, established on better promises.

The old covenant was not without faults, and God promised a new one. This new covenant is not written

on stone, but on hearts. God declared that he would be their God and they would

be his people. Everyone would know him and he would remember their sins no more. With this new covenant,

the old one becomes obsolete and is ready to vanish, replaced by something far greater. So a lot of

comparisons in this chapter between the old high priests and the new, the old

law, which wasn't designed to fully redeem and the new law in Christ. Which one are you a part of?

And we want to see really the value and all that. Here's our follow-up paragraph. We are part of

something greater than any system built by human hands. Jesus is not a distant figure in a temple made of stone.

He is our high priest, seated with God, always interceding for us.

We are not bound by the rules of the old law written on tablets.

Instead, God has inscribed his truth on our hearts.

We know him personally, and he knows us completely. His promises are superior.

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