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Today, we're reading Jeremiah 31 through 33, and I want us to focus on one specific topic for this episode, which can be summed up in a question.

What is the new covenant covenant and how is it different

from the old covenant? I want you to think, have you ever ignored an Apple software update for a little

too long? Like your phone keeps bugging you, update available, and you're like, remind me later,

and it's like update overnight, and you're like, no, for the hundredth time. But eventually what happens is your phone gets so glitchy or outdated that you can't

even use certain apps anymore. But when you finally give in an update, your phone's smoother,

faster, and just works better. That doesn't mean your phone was bad before or that the last system was entirely

useless. It just means that something better has come along that fixes what wasn't working

and brings out what the phone was really meant to do. And that's kind of what's happening in

Jeremiah 31 through 33. God isn't throwing away his promises or

deleting the past. He's showing us his plan to, quote-unquote, update the covenant. The old covenant

wasn't insufficient because God messed up. It was insufficient because people couldn't keep it.

So he introduces us to something better, the new covenant. Same God, same people,

but now the system works. Not because we figured it out or we fixed it ourselves, but because

Jesus fulfilled it for us. The new covenant is the update humanity needed and one that finally

gets to the heart. So today, we're in Jeremiah

chapters 31 through 33. And these chapters are full of hope, especially in the middle of a book

that, let's be honest, has been pretty heavy. But in the middle of warnings, judgment and exile,

we get one of the most important promises in the entire Bible, the new covenant.

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