Thoughts on Hebrews Study Questions from 10/22
THOUGHTS ON HEBREWS STUDY QUESTIONS
My Sunday School Life Group is studying Hebrews. Every Monday, I post questions that were discussed the day before in Sunday School. I invite you to ponder/think about them and jot down your thoughts.
On Wednesdays, I post some of the ideas that came up in the Life Group's discussion for you to consider and compare with your thoughts.
These questions were discussed in my Life Group Monday. This post presents thoughts from the class discussion.
Chapter 8Vv 1-13
List the differences between the Old and New covenants.
More details about the covenant. Verse 6 is the key verse.
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33
Below is John Wesley's verse-by-verse commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34 . http://www.christianity.com/bible/commentary.php?com=wes&b=24&c=31 The text is from the King James Bible.
Verse 31
[31] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Behold — And not only with the Jews, but all those who should be ingrafted into that Olive. It is not called the new covenant, because it was as to the substance new, for it was made with Abraham, Genesis 17:7, and with the Jews, Deuteronomy 26:17,18, but because it was revealed after a new manner, more fully and particularly, plainly and clearly. Nor was the ceremonial law any part of it, as it was to the Jews, a strict observance of that. It was likewise new in regard of the efficacy of the spirit attending it, in a much fuller and larger manner.
Verse 32
[32] Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Not according — The covenant which God made with the Jews when they came out of the land of Egypt, was on God's part the law which he gave them, with the promises annexed; on their part (which made it a formal covenant) their promise of obedience to it.
Verse 33
[33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
With — That is, with those who are Jews inwardly.
And write it — The prophet's design is here to express the difference betwixt the law and the gospel. The first shews duty, the latter brings the grace of regeneration, by which the heart is changed, and enabled for duty. All under the time of the law that came to salvation, were saved by this new covenant; but this was not evidently exhibited; neither was the regenerating grace of God so common under the time of the law, as it hath been under the gospel.
Verse 34
[34] And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
I will forgive — God makes the root of all this grace to be the free pardon, and the remission of their sins.
Verse 11. Does it mean that everyone is now a Christian automatically? Why or why not?
No. Saying they are a Christian does not make a person a Christian.
A person must believe and accept Jesus in both heart and mind.
Salvation is an individual gift.
"I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.” Zachariah 8:8
A person must believe and accept Jesus in both heart and mind.
Salvation is an individual gift.
"I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.” Zachariah 8:8
What's the great news in v12?
Mercy. God chooses not to remember sins of someone who ask for forgiveness.
Without God's mercy, we are all doomed.
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. Micah 7:18-19
Whats the fate of the Old Covenant?
The first covenant had no provision for a lasting forgiveness of sin.
Its destiny was obsolescence from its implementation.
Here's how Paul refers to this:
Its destiny was obsolescence from its implementation.
Here's how Paul refers to this:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17
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