Sunday October 28 2018

Sermon “New Covenant People, Part 2”
    Pastor Kim Wenzel

 Christ Jesus in The New Covenant

Introducing New

-way to see women

-way to see children

-way to see enemies

-new way to love people

-new way lead people

-new way to comprehend sin

-new way to worship God

-new way to pray - in Jesus name

-new spirit given to live inside you

-new species of human

-new mind - like Christ - new creation

-new heart - like Christ- new creation

-new relationship with God - New Covenant

-new future - eternal life

-new home - paradise

-new citizenship - heaven

NEW NEW NEW NEW - Doesn’t go over well, takes time to adjust to them.

Jesus: hints at first and later very open and blunt teaching about the future.

Paul: Refers back to Jesus and love. Paul uses phrases like - in Christ Jesus, with Christ Jesus, for Christ Jesus etc at least 78 times.

Galatians 5:6  For in Christ Jesus (new covenant) neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

 Christ Is Our High Priest Of The New Covenant

Hebrews 8:1-13 

1Here is the main point: We have a High Priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven. 2 There he ministers in the heavenly Tabernacle,[a] the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands.

3 And since every high priest is required to offer gifts and sacrifices, our High Priest must make an offering, too. 4 If he were here on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there already are priests who offer the gifts required by the law.5 They serve in a system of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven. For when Moses was getting ready to build the Tabernacle, God gave him this warning: “Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.”[b]

6 But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises.

7 If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it. 8 But when God found fault with the people, he said: See (Jeremiah 31)

“The day is coming, says the Lord,
    when I will make a new covenant
    with the people of Israel and Judah.
9 This covenant will not be like the one
    I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
    and led them out of the land of Egypt.
They did not remain faithful to my covenant,
    so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.
10 But this is the new covenant I will make
    with the people of Israel on that day,[c] says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds,
    and I will write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
11 And they will not need to teach their neighbors,
    nor will they need to teach their relatives,[d]
    saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’
For everyone, from the least to the greatest,
    will know me already.
12 And I will forgive their wickedness,
    and I will never again remember their sins.”[e]

13 When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear. (possibly 70 AD with destruction of Temple) 

“New Covenant People, Part 3” Next Week

Footnotes

a. Hebrews 8:5 Exodus 25:40

b. Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts may be translated fault and said to the people.

c. Hebrews 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31-34

Today's Verse

1 John 5:14
This is the confidence
we have in approaching
God: that if we ask anything
according to his
will, he hears us.