God Will Deut28 Tear them from the land Scatter them among the nations No Rest Trembling Heart Despair Dread No Assurance of Life Deuteronomy 2930 God had Provided Brought them out of Egypt ID: 643488
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Covenant
Lesson 9Slide2
Curse for breaking Covenant
God Will:
Deut.28 Tear them from the land
Scatter them among the nations
No Rest
Trembling Heart
Despair
Dread
No Assurance of LifeSlide3
Deuteronomy 29-30
God had: Provided
Brought them out of Egypt
Protected and provided in the wilderness 40 years
Their clothes and sandals did not wear out
IF THEY OBEYED:
God would bless them
Set them high above all nations
Establish them as a holy people to Himself
Multiply and protect them
Inflict curses on their enemies
Give rain on their land and bless the work of their handsSlide4
Context of the promises
Nation of Israel was split into two kingdoms
Northern = Israel Ten tribes
Southern = Judah – Two tribes Benjamin and Judah
Israel fell to Assyria in 722 B.C.
Jerusalem destroyed in 586 B.C. by Babylon
All they had to do was obey Him and walk in His waysSlide5
Promises of the New Covenant
Jeremiah 31 The New Covenant is for the future of Israel and Judah
Not like the Old Covenant
Promised to put His Law within them
Write it on their hearts
He will be their God and they will be His people
They will ALL know Him
He will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more
Israel will never cease from being nation
This Covenant is everlastingSlide6
Promises of the New Covenant
Jeremiah 32 God promised to gather Israel from the nations where He had scattered them
In the future, Israel will be safe dwelling in their land
He will give them one heart and one way
He will not turn away from them
This Covenant is everlasting
The land and the nation are connectedSlide7
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked; who can know it?
God promised to write His Law:
ON their hearts and IN their minds
In the New Covenant their hearts will no longer be deceitful hearts.
Why?
My heart is now indwelt by the Holy SpiritSlide8
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 11:13-21 Question: Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?
God said He would gather them from the nations
Give them the land
Give them one heart
Put a new spirit within them
Replace their heart of stone with a heart of flesh
They will walk in His statutes and keep His ordinances
In the New Covenant there will be obedience to the Lord because of the new condition of the heartSlide9
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 36:24-28 When the Lord gathers Israel to their land, THEN
He will cleanse them from their filthiness and idols
Give them a new heart and spirit
Put His Spirit within them and CAUSE them to obey Him
They WILL live in the land, be His people and He their GodSlide10
New Testament
Eph. 2:11-22 Gentiles were strangers to the covenants in previous times
Separated from the Messiah
Without God in the world
Without Hope
NOW: No longer strangers, but fellow citizens
Brought near to the Messiah
Eph. 3:4-6 Mystery: Gentiles are fellow heirs and partakers of the promise through the gospel of Jesus ChristSlide11
New Testament
Romans, John and Matthew
The gospel first went to the Jews
They were the original heirs of the promise
Hebrews 8
Jesus is our high priest, seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens
Jesus had a more excellent ministry
Jesus is the Mediator of a better Covenant
Founded on Better Promises
Jesus inaugurated the New CovenantSlide12
New Covenant
New:
Kainos
– new as opposed to old or former and hence also implying better because it’s different.
The New Covenant is Salvation
The blood of Jesus draws Gentiles near as well as Jews
The Holy Spirit indwells those believing in Him
There is forgiveness of sins and an ability to obey God