What's In a Covenant | New Testament | Hebrews 8

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

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What is so important about God's covenant? How do you see the impacts of covenants in your life? Are covenants more binding or freeing? In today's episode, Tanya talks on God's new covenant as discussed in Hebrews 8. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Hebrews 8

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Sometimes there's words that we use as Christians, as
0:17.2	believers in Bible study and small groups that we just throw around and assume everybody
0:21.5	knows what they mean and sometimes we need to look at those words and we just
0:25.0	unpack what they mean and sometimes we need to look at those words and just unpack what they mean in the Bible and what they mean for us as followers of Christ.
0:31.0	So in Hebrews, one of the words we're looking at today in chapter 8 is the word
0:34.8	covenant. So what is a covenant? What's in a covenant? Well we do read a lot
0:40.9	about them in the Bible but what are they? Well let's start in the Bible, but what are they?
0:43.7	Well, let's start in the Old Testament.
0:45.9	So in the days of the law, God made a covenant with Israel
0:48.9	and it was founded on his grace.
0:51.7	When God was giving the law, he said, I am the Lord your God who rescued
0:55.4	you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery. And then God set the terms of
1:00.6	the covenant with Israel. He said, if you will in fact obey my voice and
1:05.1	keep my covenant, then you shall be my own special possession and
1:08.3	treasure from among all peoples of the world, for the earth is mine.
1:13.2	Basically, God said, if you obey me, I will bless you.
1:17.2	And if you disobey me, I will curse you.
1:21.2	Well, of course, they did not obey. They were unfaithful over and over again. But God did not
1:27.4	give up on them. The problem with the Old Covenant was that people were unfaithful. They were covenant breakers. But God's
1:35.9	heart was to pursue unfaithful people. God then made a new covenant with them through
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