Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hi friends, welcome back to a year of the Bible. My name is Beth and I am here with my co-host,

Alexa. Hello, today we are going to wrap up our discussion of Jeremiah 31, 31 to 34 and Luke 22, 14 through 20.

We have seen how Christ is the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy that God will establish a new covenant with his people, where he will forgive their sins and write his law

on their hearts. So today we're going to talk about what this means for our daily lives.

So Beth, how do you plan to apply these passages moving forward? Yeah, so one kind of different

takeaway I have is that I want to better notice how the spirit has been working in my life

to produce obedience. I think when

we talk about application on this podcast, as well as just like generally in our churches, we often

focus on things that we do wrong or ways that we could do better. But that's not always the whole

picture. God has established a new covenant with us through the blood of Christ and he has given us

his spirit, which means that I can

reasonably look back at my life and see ways that God has worked in my heart to produce obedience to

his laws. So one example of this in my life is that the spirit has helped me to overcome some

pretty serious bad habits I had of comparison. So about three years ago, I felt convicted about the ways that I

would send when I was scrolling through my Instagram specifically. With a lot of resistance

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