What’s New About the New Covenant

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In the old covenant, the gracious enabling power to obey God was not poured out as fully as it is since Jesus.

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0:00.0	September 4, what's new about the new covenant?
0:04.4	This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days to clear
0:09.8	the Lord.
0:11.3	I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts and I will be their
0:19.4	God and they will be my people, Jeremiah 31, 33.
0:24.8	Jesus shatters any absolute dissociation of commandments and love.
0:32.2	He says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
0:37.8	Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he is who loves me.
0:45.1	And he who loves me will be loved by my father, John 14, 15, and 21.
0:52.9	If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love.
0:57.9	Just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love, John 1510.
1:05.4	Thinking in terms of commandments and obedience, did not stop Jesus from enjoying the love
1:12.6	of his father and he expects that our thinking of him as one who commands will not jeopardize
1:21.1	our love relationship with him either.
1:25.5	This is crucial to realize because the new covenant relationship that we have with God
1:31.2	through Jesus Christ is not a covenant without commandments.
1:36.9	The basic difference between the old covenant offered by God through the Mosaic Law and
1:43.3	the new covenant offered by God through Christ is not that one had commandments and the
1:49.9	other doesn't.
1:51.9	The key differences are, one, the Mosaic Jesus has come and shed the blood of the covenant
1:59.5	Matthew 2628, Hebrews 1029, so that henceforth he is the mediator of a new covenant so that
2:08.1	all saving covenant-keeping faith is conscious faith in him.
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