What's New in the New Covenant?
Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The prophets promised a new covenant for God's people, and Jesus announced its arrival. But what change did this new covenant bring? Today, Sinclair Ferguson expounds on the glory that has come to us in the coming of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Friday's edition of Things Unseen. All this week we've been reflecting in various |
| 0:13.8 | ways on the topic of God's covenant and especially his covenant of grace, the covenant that |
| 0:19.3 | stretches back into Genesis 315, and then all the way forwards until the Lord Jesus Christ |
| 0:25.9 | who is Himself God's covenant. Now, whole books have been written on the covenant |
| 0:32.0 | and all we've been trying to do this week is to see in one or two ways that God's covenant |
| 0:37.7 | of grace unfolds in a series of covenants from start to finish. They all have their distinct |
| 0:43.7 | shape and style, but they're all the unfolding of one single promise. And I think what becomes |
| 0:52.0 | clear to us is that in all of these different covenants grace is the foundation for our |
| 0:59.4 | response of unreserved total joyful obedience to the Lord. Sometimes He gives us great |
| 1:07.1 | details about what we are to do as for example in the Mosaic Administration. Sometimes He gives |
| 1:13.7 | us principles as in the Ten Commandments that are carried over into the New Covenant. He binds us |
| 1:20.3 | to Himself so that we will become like Him and reflect His character in our lives. In other |
| 1:26.1 | words, so that we'll become more and more like the Lord Jesus, because it doesn't all say that |
| 1:31.7 | God has predestined us to be conformed to the image of His Son. That's what He has in view |
| 1:38.7 | in making His covenants with us. So what makes the New Covenant so new? It's not that it presents |
| 1:47.0 | a different way of salvation from the Old Covenant. We've seen that. It's new in the sense that it |
| 1:53.0 | fulfills everything that was promised in the earlier covenants God made. It's new in the sense |
| 1:59.4 | that when it comes, it makes all previous covenants seem old. Of course, the great promise about the |
| 2:07.1 | New Covenant is found in Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 31 to 34, a passage that's referred to in |
| 2:14.1 | several occasions in the New Testament, not least by Jesus Himself when He inaugurated the Lord's |
| 2:19.3 | Supper, and said, this is the New Covenant in my blood. But I want us to notice two features of |
| 2:27.2 | this promise given through Jeremiah. The first is that God promises a special location for His law. |
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