WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.800 Today's sermon text is Jeremiah 31, starting at verse 29. 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:17.839 As a point of reference, many of you are familiar with the story of Daniel and the Hebrews who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 00:00:19.019 --> 00:00:25.960 When they were growing up and still living in Jerusalem, they would have heard the warnings that God gave to national Israel through the prophet Jeremiah. 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:31.179 But most in Israel would have rejected Jeremiah. They considered him a madman. 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:35.359 And he was bringing only bad news that their kings did not want to hear. 00:00:36.340 --> 00:00:42.640 Because Israel did not repent, national Israel suffered the consequences of breaking God's law. 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:45.040 And they were carried off into exile in Babylon. 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:51.900 In this ministry, Jeremiah was thrown into a muddy pit and left for dead. 00:00:51.899 --> 00:00:56.739 He was rejected by his own people, being a prophet of God. 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:06.819 Some have said that Jeremiah suffered more at the hands of the rulers of Israel and Jerusalem than any other prophet, except for the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:18.780 So this word in this heavy, dark book of Jeremiah brings us some of the most glorious promises of God's enduring covenant faithfulness. 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:27.480 How even though these people are so rebellious and they're trying to kill even the messenger, Jeremiah, that God will bring a new covenant. 00:01:28.019 --> 00:01:30.120 He will be faithful to his people. 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:35.340 And let's hear this promise from Jeremiah 31, beginning at verse 29. 00:01:35.859 --> 00:01:40.700 This is God's inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear and sufficient word. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.939 I'll say this is the word of the Lord. You can respond. Thanks be to God. 00:01:43.939 --> 00:01:49.219 Jeremiah 31, starting at verse 29. 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:54.879 In those days they shall say no more. 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.560 The fathers have eaten our sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.900 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. 00:02:05.479 --> 00:02:10.000 Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.340 Verse 31. 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:11.419 Verse 31. 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:20.060 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 00:02:20.340 --> 00:02:28.439 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.259 My covenant, which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 00:02:33.259 --> 00:02:38.799 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. 00:02:39.099 --> 00:02:43.099 I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:46.340 I will be their God and they shall be my people. 00:02:47.359 --> 00:02:51.699 No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, 00:02:52.399 --> 00:02:58.359 Know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.520 For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:03.420 I will remember no more. 00:03:04.660 --> 00:03:12.220 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day in the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.740 who disturbs the scene and its waves roar. 00:03:16.220 --> 00:03:18.400 The Lord of hosts is his name. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:29.060 If these ordinances depart from before me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me. 00:03:29.580 --> 00:03:30.300 Verse 37. 00:03:30.460 --> 00:03:36.980 Thus says the Lord, if heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:44.800 I will also cast off the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the Lord. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.379 This is the word of the Lord. 00:03:47.379 --> 00:03:47.920 Amen. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:48.520 Amen. 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:49.700 Thanks be to God. 00:03:49.780 --> 00:03:50.340 You may be seated. 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:57.300 The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of the Lord endures forever. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:08.780 Let's pray. 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:27.779 Lord, we believe that your word is powerful. 00:04:28.779 --> 00:04:30.259 Your word is alive. 00:04:30.679 --> 00:04:32.859 It's active and it's sharp. 00:04:32.860 --> 00:04:35.740 The word is the sword of the spirit. 00:04:35.740 --> 00:04:37.580 The word is the sword of the spirit. 00:04:38.220 --> 00:04:44.759 We pray that your Holy Spirit will take the word that you revealed and that you will pierce us, Lord, to the heart. 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.939 Pray that you'll cut away our wrong understanding of you. 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:53.779 And that with your word, Lord, you will prune us. 00:04:53.839 --> 00:05:01.279 You will make us to bear fruit that keeps with the covenant that Jesus cut in his blood. 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:02.279 We know that on our own. 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.119 We know that on our own. 00:05:04.219 --> 00:05:05.539 We have no strength, Lord. 00:05:05.540 --> 00:05:12.400 I confess that as the one standing before your people to minister your word, I have no strength, no words of my own. 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:14.140 I pray for your help. 00:05:14.139 --> 00:05:15.639 I pray that you'll guard my lips. 00:05:16.819 --> 00:05:20.000 That what I preach to your people, Lord, will be edifying. 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:24.339 That it will exalt Christ as the Lord of your people. 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.279 We pray this for his sake alone. 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:27.199 Amen. 00:05:37.479 --> 00:05:40.000 If a child gets adopted into a new family, 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:47.899 one of the first things they need to figure out is how is this family the same or how is this family different from what I'm used to? 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:53.800 In our training to be foster parents, completing all those courses for certification, 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:00.839 it's heartbreaking to learn the different types of backgrounds and families that children in the foster care system come out of. 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:11.319 One of the common mistakes the new foster families make is that when a child arrives with their black trash bag full of all their belongings in life, 00:06:11.779 --> 00:06:16.379 the family wants right away to take all the belongings out of that black trash bag and put them away 00:06:16.379 --> 00:06:20.899 and then throw that old ugly black trash bag away because you're home now. 00:06:20.899 --> 00:06:26.879 But it's it's very comforting to the child to know these are all of my possessions. 00:06:27.539 --> 00:06:31.560 And if I have to run away from this home, I have everything I need right here in this black bag. 00:06:31.799 --> 00:06:38.579 So the counsel to the families receiving a child out of the foster care system is be respectful and understanding of that. 00:06:38.939 --> 00:06:41.979 Let the child keep their belongings in this trash bag. 00:06:42.599 --> 00:06:45.719 Let them keep everything right where they have it, where they're used to it, 00:06:45.719 --> 00:06:49.259 because they've had such bad experiences before this. 00:06:49.259 --> 00:06:50.920 Let them just feel safe in your home. 00:06:54.019 --> 00:06:59.079 All of us who are born as a human being from the line of Adam and Eve, 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.980 we are under the curse of Adam, the federal head. 00:07:03.779 --> 00:07:07.560 We have a baggage, trash that we inherited. 00:07:08.980 --> 00:07:16.219 And if Jesus has saved you and by the power of his spirit has transferred you from the domain of darkness into his kingdom of light, 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:20.580 and he's baptized you with the name of the triune God, you belong to him. 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:23.340 We're sorting that out. 00:07:23.900 --> 00:07:26.260 How new is it to belong to God? 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:29.960 How much baggage do I bring with me? 00:07:30.620 --> 00:07:32.140 Am I really at home here? 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.160 Or will God have a mood and want to kick me out of his family? 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:45.160 Well, my message for you today is about the new covenant that Jesus says he cut in his own blood. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.800 And the question I want to walk through is how new is the new covenant? 00:07:50.220 --> 00:07:51.620 That's the title of today's sermon. 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:53.160 How new is the new covenant? 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.540 This is part one of two. 00:07:57.900 --> 00:08:01.400 So next week we'll be approaching this new covenant from the New Testament. 00:08:01.400 --> 00:08:06.020 But we want to understand what God had promised leading up to the finished work of Christ. 00:08:06.700 --> 00:08:11.100 And so the prophecy of the new covenant, it comes in the old covenant in many places, 00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:14.060 but nowhere more clearly than in Jeremiah 31. 00:08:14.260 --> 00:08:15.840 What we just read is our sermon text. 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:19.660 To the people of God is promised a new covenant. 00:08:19.660 --> 00:08:27.880 And I want to see now, what does God say to the people of Israel in Jeremiah 31 about this new covenant 00:08:27.880 --> 00:08:30.960 that should set their expectation for how new it will be? 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:40.540 The first observation in verse 29 is that the children of believers will stand on their own in the new covenant. 00:08:41.700 --> 00:08:45.240 In the new covenant, the children of believers will stand on their own. 00:08:46.460 --> 00:08:49.279 Let's understand this first in the context of Israel. 00:08:49.659 --> 00:08:54.799 Israel as a nation was in a covenant with God, but it was a covenant based on works. 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:57.620 Moses gave the law from Sinai. 00:08:57.779 --> 00:09:02.679 And if national Israel, a sufficient number in national Israel, obeyed God's law, 00:09:02.959 --> 00:09:05.600 the whole nation would enjoy blessings in the land. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:13.539 The iniquities of the fathers was upon the children in this covenant of works, 00:09:13.539 --> 00:09:15.699 but also were the blessings. 00:09:15.700 --> 00:09:19.640 In other words, if your parents were part of a generation that feared God, 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.840 the next generation could be very spoiled, take it for granted, 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.040 and still get to enjoy living in the land. 00:09:26.300 --> 00:09:28.440 And that was the pattern for national Israel. 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.460 In verse 29, we're told, 00:09:32.460 --> 00:09:37.080 In those days, referring to a future day that will come, 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.080 the fathers have eaten sour grapes, 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.259 but now the principle is going to change. 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:49.000 In the old covenant, when the parents sin, 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.440 the children's teeth get set on edge. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:52.980 But in the new, he says, 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:54.500 In those days, in verse 30, 00:09:54.640 --> 00:09:56.900 Everyone shall die for his own iniquity. 00:09:57.540 --> 00:09:59.120 Every man who eats sour grapes, 00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:01.580 his teeth shall be set on edge. 00:10:01.860 --> 00:10:05.860 So he's creating a distinction relating to the children of believers. 00:10:06.980 --> 00:10:10.700 He's using some Hebrew prophetic idioms here that we need to explain 00:10:10.700 --> 00:10:12.320 to even be able to interpret this correctly. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.740 What does it mean for your tooth to be set on edge 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:16.420 or to eat a sour grape? 00:10:16.419 --> 00:10:23.199 A sour grape refers to the vineyard of God 00:10:23.199 --> 00:10:26.939 and the vineyard being the people of God 00:10:26.939 --> 00:10:30.539 not bearing the fruit that is pleasing to the owner of the vineyard. 00:10:31.379 --> 00:10:36.639 To eat a sour grape is to take something that is displeasing to God 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.679 and receive it for yourself, 00:10:40.839 --> 00:10:43.459 grab it for yourself as a sweet morsel. 00:10:43.460 --> 00:10:47.120 It's to see a grape that you know is not pleasing to God 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:48.320 and to consume it. 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:53.139 Sin is treason against God. 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:55.580 Sin is a sour grape. 00:10:57.259 --> 00:10:59.740 John Gill applied this to the church. 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:00.100 He said, 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:02.800 Sin, though it may be esteemed a sweet morsel, 00:11:03.060 --> 00:11:04.560 is always a sour grape 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:06.560 because it's always committing treason 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:08.280 against the owner of the vineyard. 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:12.679 What does it mean for your teeth to be set on edge? 00:11:14.500 --> 00:11:16.360 I had to do a little study on this one. 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.620 So think of your tooth like this. 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.319 If you put your hand out like this 00:11:20.319 --> 00:11:21.699 and you've got the top of your arm 00:11:21.699 --> 00:11:24.059 with your fingers being your tooth like this, 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:25.839 if you hit the top of your arm, 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:26.939 it's a sharp edge. 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:28.959 But if your tooth were set on edge 00:11:28.959 --> 00:11:30.480 and you try to cut something, 00:11:30.539 --> 00:11:31.079 it won't cut. 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:31.559 It's blunt. 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.259 So for your teeth to be set on edge, 00:11:35.059 --> 00:11:38.579 it means that your teeth are worn down. 00:11:39.339 --> 00:11:43.419 It's the dull side of the tooth that's blunt. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.979 It means that you have been gnashing your teeth so much 00:11:47.979 --> 00:11:50.359 that your teeth are now flat. 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:55.340 So he says in the Old Covenant, 00:11:56.060 --> 00:11:57.060 the parents' sin 00:11:57.060 --> 00:12:01.560 and the children's teeth are set on edge. 00:12:02.539 --> 00:12:05.340 The sins of the parents in national Israel 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:06.779 are going to bring curses 00:12:06.779 --> 00:12:09.340 and a miserable life for the children. 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.000 So the generation in Israel 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.960 that won't listen to the prophet Jeremiah 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:16.159 is bringing curses on the next generation. 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:18.240 They're going to get carried away into exile 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:19.800 because of the sins of their fathers. 00:12:20.359 --> 00:12:21.839 That's the pattern in the Old Covenant. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:24.120 But notice the change. 00:12:24.179 --> 00:12:25.179 He says in those days, 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:26.179 in a future covenant, 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:27.339 the New Covenant, 00:12:29.099 --> 00:12:31.000 your standing will not be based 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.339 on your parents' works or obedience, 00:12:33.779 --> 00:12:34.699 blessing or curse. 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:37.240 It will be based on your own standing, 00:12:37.899 --> 00:12:38.859 your own obedience 00:12:38.859 --> 00:12:40.579 or rebellion against God. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:42.559 Look at verse 30 one more time. 00:12:43.139 --> 00:12:47.120 Everyone shall die for his own iniquity. 00:12:47.500 --> 00:12:49.319 If you have gnashing of the teeth 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:50.420 and your teeth are blunt 00:12:50.420 --> 00:12:54.220 and grinded down from the misery of your sin, 00:12:54.220 --> 00:12:55.460 you don't get to turn 00:12:55.460 --> 00:12:57.160 and blame it on your parents. 00:12:57.300 --> 00:12:58.360 You stand on your own. 00:12:59.540 --> 00:13:00.900 This is a big change. 00:13:01.660 --> 00:13:03.980 Children of believers in those days 00:13:03.980 --> 00:13:05.840 will stand on their own. 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:10.200 In John chapter 8 verse 24, 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:11.420 Jesus says, 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.879 I told you that you would die in your sins 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.560 if you do not believe in me. 00:13:18.980 --> 00:13:21.700 You will indeed die in your sins. 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:23.280 In those days, 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.660 each one within national Israel 00:13:25.660 --> 00:13:28.600 must believe for themselves in Jesus Christ 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.200 if they are to be part of the people of God 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.600 and receive the blessings of Christ. 00:13:34.740 --> 00:13:36.100 So in the new covenant, 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.580 in those days that he's describing 00:13:37.580 --> 00:13:38.660 as a future time, 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:41.040 your blessing or curse 00:13:41.040 --> 00:13:43.540 is not based on whether you're a Jew or a Gentile, 00:13:44.340 --> 00:13:45.620 whether you're in the land 00:13:45.620 --> 00:13:47.020 or you're in exile like Daniel, 00:13:48.020 --> 00:13:51.820 or whether your parents are pagans or believers. 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:55.700 You must believe in Jesus Christ, 00:13:56.340 --> 00:13:58.600 your God and Savior personally. 00:14:00.040 --> 00:14:01.500 That's the first observation. 00:14:01.740 --> 00:14:04.540 Children of believers stand on their own 00:14:04.540 --> 00:14:05.780 in the new covenant. 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:08.200 Do you see what I see in that? 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:09.280 Are you with me still? 00:14:12.460 --> 00:14:13.600 Second observation. 00:14:14.260 --> 00:14:15.800 The terms of the new covenant 00:14:15.800 --> 00:14:18.760 are not according to those of the old. 00:14:19.460 --> 00:14:20.820 The terms of the new covenant 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:22.840 are not according to those of the old. 00:14:23.300 --> 00:14:25.580 Let's read verses 31 and 32 together. 00:14:26.820 --> 00:14:28.760 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.480 when I will make a new covenant 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.060 with the house of Israel 00:14:33.060 --> 00:14:34.400 and with the house of Judah, 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:36.879 not according to the covenant 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:38.740 that I made with their fathers. 00:14:39.220 --> 00:14:41.120 In that day, I took them by the hand 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.080 to lead them out of the land of Egypt. 00:14:43.620 --> 00:14:45.540 My covenant, which they broke, 00:14:45.540 --> 00:14:48.220 though I was a husband to them, 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:49.580 says the Lord. 00:14:50.820 --> 00:14:55.220 The old covenant was made 00:14:55.220 --> 00:14:57.480 according to a certain pattern and principle. 00:14:58.040 --> 00:14:59.540 But he says in the new covenant, 00:14:59.760 --> 00:15:02.440 my covenant with my people in the new covenant 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:04.860 will not be according to that same principle. 00:15:05.400 --> 00:15:06.900 Well, what was the principle of the old 00:15:06.900 --> 00:15:08.760 before we see the contrast with the new? 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:12.580 The pattern of the old covenant, 00:15:12.779 --> 00:15:15.639 we get in Genesis 17, verses 10 through 12. 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.080 God says to Abraham, 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:20.519 this is my covenant with you 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.500 and your descendants after you, 00:15:22.700 --> 00:15:24.600 the covenant you are to keep. 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.519 Every male among you shall be circumcised, 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:30.659 the sign of my covenant. 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:36.579 So the fact that you are related to Abraham by blood 00:15:36.579 --> 00:15:39.399 means that you're going to receive the sign of the covenant. 00:15:39.939 --> 00:15:44.219 It had nothing to do in the person receiving the sign, 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.419 nothing in them in the old covenant. 00:15:46.539 --> 00:15:47.439 It was simply from here. 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.000 You're from the line of Abraham. 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.159 Ethnically, biologically, you're of Abraham. 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.079 You get the sign of the covenant. 00:15:54.299 --> 00:15:55.980 That was the principle in the old covenant. 00:15:56.539 --> 00:15:58.039 But he said in verse 22, 00:15:58.159 --> 00:15:59.719 the new covenant will not be 00:15:59.719 --> 00:16:01.600 according to the covenant that I made. 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:02.799 It'll be different. 00:16:03.059 --> 00:16:04.500 It'll work on a different principle. 00:16:06.019 --> 00:16:08.039 He says he will establish a covenant, 00:16:08.659 --> 00:16:11.319 the covenant that national Israel broke, 00:16:11.539 --> 00:16:13.779 and it will be according to other terms 00:16:13.779 --> 00:16:16.299 based on a different principle. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:18.699 What is that principle? 00:16:19.959 --> 00:16:21.379 Well, that's what he's going to explain 00:16:21.379 --> 00:16:23.360 in the rest of the verses of our sermon text. 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:25.299 He says in verse 33, 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.120 this is the covenant that I will make 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.080 with the house of Israel after those days. 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:33.320 God kept his word. 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.279 National Israel received Jesus Christ. 00:16:37.980 --> 00:16:40.620 And God says, I make this covenant with Israel 00:16:40.620 --> 00:16:44.639 that everyone who will receive Jesus Christ 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.399 as the promised seed, 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:48.240 promised to Abraham. 00:16:48.379 --> 00:16:51.059 And if you believe in him from national Israel, 00:16:51.059 --> 00:16:52.319 this promise is for you. 00:16:53.579 --> 00:16:55.439 In Romans 1 16, 00:16:55.719 --> 00:16:57.079 Paul calls this the gospel, 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.639 the power of God for salvation, 00:17:00.979 --> 00:17:03.019 for everyone who believes, 00:17:03.479 --> 00:17:04.779 for the Jew first, 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.159 and also for the Greek. 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.580 So God is true to his word. 00:17:09.580 --> 00:17:12.560 This new covenant is given to Israel first, 00:17:12.560 --> 00:17:15.480 and all who are appointed to eternal life in Israel 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.140 will receive Christ as the fulfillment of this promise. 00:17:19.380 --> 00:17:21.860 It's much better than the old covenant. 00:17:22.620 --> 00:17:24.980 And it's not based on who your parents are. 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.980 It's based on whether you receive Jesus Christ for yourself. 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:35.000 So the terms of the new covenant are not according to those of the old. 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:36.680 Third observation. 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.700 You belong to the old covenant externally. 00:17:40.700 --> 00:17:43.279 If you're born in national Israel, 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:44.680 your dad, 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:46.640 being a male Israelite, 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:48.380 would have received the sign of that covenant. 00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:49.799 He would have been circumcised. 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.640 So you could belong to national Israel, 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:55.960 being covenant with God, 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:57.980 and have that sign of the covenant, 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.340 the circumcision in the old covenant. 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:02.659 But he says in the new covenant, 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.240 you can't belong externally. 00:18:06.299 --> 00:18:07.939 You will belong to the new covenant 00:18:07.939 --> 00:18:12.159 only by what God does in your mind and in your heart. 00:18:12.740 --> 00:18:13.919 Look at verse 33. 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:15.939 Thus says the Lord, 00:18:16.379 --> 00:18:18.819 I will put my law in their minds 00:18:18.819 --> 00:18:21.199 and write it on their hearts, 00:18:21.199 --> 00:18:23.480 and I will be their God, 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.119 and they shall be my people. 00:18:27.059 --> 00:18:30.099 It's not an external sign any longer. 00:18:30.959 --> 00:18:33.539 The new covenant is put to the inner man. 00:18:34.139 --> 00:18:36.079 God writes it on your mind, 00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:37.519 puts it on your heart. 00:18:38.639 --> 00:18:40.439 Romans 2.25 says, 00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:42.579 If you are a breaker of the law, 00:18:43.019 --> 00:18:46.439 your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.159 If you claim to be in God's covenant 00:18:49.159 --> 00:18:50.899 in the church, 00:18:51.199 --> 00:18:52.959 and you pretend like you're a believer, 00:18:53.099 --> 00:18:53.799 that you're saved, 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:55.799 but you live a life of sin, 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:56.879 of treason to God, 00:18:57.159 --> 00:18:58.519 just eating sour grapes, 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:02.180 it doesn't matter who your parents were. 00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:04.019 It doesn't matter if you're a Jew. 00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:06.480 It doesn't matter if you're circumcised or not, 00:19:06.539 --> 00:19:08.519 because that's what the early church was trying to decide. 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:09.720 How new is the new covenant? 00:19:10.379 --> 00:19:13.279 What matters is if you are united to Christ, 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:14.920 because if you are united to Christ, 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.160 you are a new creation. 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:18.319 The old has gone away. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.319 If you are a breaker of the law, 00:19:21.579 --> 00:19:24.200 your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 00:19:24.679 --> 00:19:27.179 The external sign does not dictate 00:19:27.179 --> 00:19:29.039 whether you're truly in the covenant. 00:19:31.259 --> 00:19:32.779 If by God's grace, 00:19:33.779 --> 00:19:36.639 you were born to parents that God saved, 00:19:36.919 --> 00:19:38.379 you do have many blessings. 00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:42.740 If you're born into a household that loves the Lord 00:19:42.740 --> 00:19:43.700 and fears the Lord, 00:19:44.020 --> 00:19:45.920 if even one of your parents can say, 00:19:46.020 --> 00:19:46.920 I'm a saved sinner, 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:48.740 you have so many blessings. 00:19:49.540 --> 00:19:51.300 These are the parents who will bring you to church. 00:19:51.780 --> 00:19:53.900 These are the parents who will forgive you 00:19:53.900 --> 00:19:55.760 as God forgave them. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.160 These are parents who will read God's word to you 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.000 and pray for you 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:01.820 and teach you to hide God's word in your heart 00:20:01.820 --> 00:20:03.320 that you may not sin against God. 00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:04.660 And through these parents, 00:20:04.760 --> 00:20:06.860 God can minister the saving gospel. 00:20:06.859 --> 00:20:09.039 But having Christian parents 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:11.539 does not put you in covenant with God. 00:20:12.939 --> 00:20:15.899 There is no grace mediated through parents. 00:20:17.579 --> 00:20:18.139 Ultimately, 00:20:18.719 --> 00:20:21.000 Christ is the only mediator between God and man. 00:20:21.479 --> 00:20:22.599 So we have many blessings 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:23.939 of being in a Christian household. 00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:29.719 No one can be born into the covenant of grace. 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.199 You need to be transferred from Adam to Christ. 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:38.299 You need to be taken as a slave under Satan and darkness 00:20:38.299 --> 00:20:42.680 and made a citizen under King Jesus and the new covenant. 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.980 Martin Luther continued that practice 00:20:47.980 --> 00:20:49.220 of the Roman Catholic Church 00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:51.980 of baptizing infant children of believers. 00:20:52.819 --> 00:20:54.860 But his theology was correct 00:20:54.860 --> 00:20:56.759 that he called his children little heathens. 00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:59.900 This is not a sermon against children. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:01.339 We love children very much. 00:21:01.420 --> 00:21:02.400 We love them so much. 00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:04.160 We don't want to give them false assurance. 00:21:04.299 --> 00:21:05.920 We want to preach the full gospel. 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:07.740 You need Christ. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:09.940 You and I were born as heathens. 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:13.279 And just like being baptized in the Roman Empire 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:15.279 didn't make you any less pagan 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:17.539 or citizen of the Roman Empire, 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:20.339 we don't want our children to have the idea 00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:22.500 that because my parents love God and fear him, 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:23.779 I got a ticket. 00:21:23.779 --> 00:21:26.339 You stand on your own. 00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:31.279 You cannot belong to the covenant externally only. 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.960 It must be a work God does in your heart 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:35.220 and in your mind. 00:21:38.379 --> 00:21:39.619 Colossians 1.13 00:21:39.619 --> 00:21:42.480 All the little heathens as we're born 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.759 need to be delivered from the power of darkness 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.819 and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of God's love. 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.119 When the New Testament talks to children in the church 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:53.539 and saying, 00:21:53.699 --> 00:21:55.739 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:57.419 These are letters to the church. 00:21:57.939 --> 00:22:00.199 Yes, children are part of the gathered congregation. 00:22:01.059 --> 00:22:03.500 But if you're not in Christ for yourself, 00:22:03.619 --> 00:22:05.119 you receive that as the law. 00:22:06.139 --> 00:22:07.779 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. 00:22:08.299 --> 00:22:08.899 And you think, 00:22:09.099 --> 00:22:11.079 I didn't obey my mom just this morning. 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:12.679 I'm a sinner. 00:22:13.139 --> 00:22:14.099 I need a savior. 00:22:14.099 --> 00:22:18.059 So it's a blessing that you can hear the law of God 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:19.079 within the congregation. 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.019 Just like we remind ourselves of God's moral law every week 00:22:23.019 --> 00:22:25.459 because it drives us back to the cross. 00:22:26.919 --> 00:22:29.859 The covenant of grace is made between God the Father 00:22:29.859 --> 00:22:31.619 and God the Son. 00:22:33.059 --> 00:22:36.759 And with all of God's elect in Christ 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:38.740 as his seed. 00:22:38.740 --> 00:22:41.180 If you are in Christ, 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:42.859 you are the seed of Christ. 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:45.380 And if you are in Christ, 00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:47.420 you receive all the blessings that God gave 00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:49.299 to the church through Christ. 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:53.259 But the only souls in the covenant of grace 00:22:53.259 --> 00:22:54.500 are those to whom 00:22:54.500 --> 00:22:56.660 the redemption that Christ purchased 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:59.140 has applied by the Holy Spirit. 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:02.259 You cannot be in the covenant of grace 00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:04.200 unless God the Holy Spirit 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:06.299 applies redemption to you. 00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:11.000 because you belong to the old covenant externally, 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.139 but to the new covenant, 00:23:12.139 --> 00:23:13.339 you can only belong 00:23:13.339 --> 00:23:15.220 by the work God does in your mind 00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:16.480 and in your heart. 00:23:18.419 --> 00:23:20.399 Fourth observation about the new covenant 00:23:20.399 --> 00:23:22.759 is that God mediated the old covenant 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:23.759 by sinful men, 00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:26.039 but the new by God, 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:27.680 the Son himself. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:31.480 The old covenant God mediated. 00:23:31.700 --> 00:23:33.659 He had someone stand in between God and man, 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.539 which was Moses. 00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:35.639 In Deuteronomy, 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:36.519 the people begged, 00:23:36.659 --> 00:23:38.879 please don't let God give us the law directly. 00:23:38.980 --> 00:23:39.659 It's terrifying. 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:40.980 We will die 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:43.460 if we have to hear the law from God directly. 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:45.039 So God rose up Moses 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:46.279 as a mediator 00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:47.339 to stand between God 00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:48.180 and the people 00:23:48.180 --> 00:23:49.079 to give them the law. 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:51.359 But in the new covenant, 00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:53.500 there's no other mediator 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:55.859 except Jesus Christ himself. 00:23:57.500 --> 00:23:58.960 Our sermon text was written 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.180 to national Israel, 00:24:00.379 --> 00:24:01.200 Jeremiah 31. 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:05.100 In the non-Jews 00:24:05.100 --> 00:24:06.240 in the church era, 00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:09.039 1 Corinthians 10, 11, 00:24:09.740 --> 00:24:10.600 are told this, 00:24:11.580 --> 00:24:13.039 that the history of God 00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:14.080 redeeming Israel 00:24:14.080 --> 00:24:16.779 happened as an example for you. 00:24:18.380 --> 00:24:21.220 They were written for our admonition 00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:24.160 upon whom the ends of the ages has come. 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:26.860 In 1 Corinthians 10, 00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:27.880 Paul's telling the church, 00:24:28.019 --> 00:24:29.460 when you read about what God did 00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:30.460 with national Israel, 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:31.640 that is for you, 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:32.340 for your good. 00:24:33.140 --> 00:24:34.279 God made promises 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:34.940 and a covenant 00:24:34.940 --> 00:24:36.140 to national Israel. 00:24:36.900 --> 00:24:38.100 And God has kept his word 00:24:38.100 --> 00:24:39.259 and he will keep his word. 00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:40.320 But those promises 00:24:40.320 --> 00:24:41.480 are also for you 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:42.220 to learn from, 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:44.100 to admonish the church, 00:24:44.220 --> 00:24:45.660 which includes Gentiles. 00:24:45.660 --> 00:24:48.420 And so what is it 00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:49.779 that the church needs to learn 00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:50.820 about this promise 00:24:50.820 --> 00:24:51.860 in Jeremiah 31? 00:24:52.320 --> 00:24:53.800 Let's look at verse 34. 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:56.580 In this new covenant, 00:24:57.100 --> 00:24:57.620 God says, 00:24:57.880 --> 00:24:59.560 No more shall every man 00:24:59.560 --> 00:25:00.360 teach his neighbor 00:25:00.360 --> 00:25:01.560 and every man his brother, 00:25:01.700 --> 00:25:01.980 saying, 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:02.920 Know the Lord, 00:25:03.019 --> 00:25:04.840 for they all shall know me, 00:25:05.060 --> 00:25:06.140 from the least of them 00:25:06.140 --> 00:25:07.120 to the greatest, 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:08.160 says the Lord. 00:25:08.800 --> 00:25:10.500 How can sinners know God? 00:25:10.860 --> 00:25:11.380 God says, 00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:13.040 For I will forgive 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:13.859 their iniquity 00:25:13.859 --> 00:25:15.539 and their sin, 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:17.980 I will remember no more. 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:22.299 They shall all know me 00:25:22.299 --> 00:25:23.460 in the new covenant, 00:25:23.659 --> 00:25:24.680 from the least 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:25.799 to the greatest. 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:28.500 You don't need a priest. 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:29.879 You don't need Moses. 00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:30.980 You don't need a pastor 00:25:30.980 --> 00:25:32.920 mediating God to you. 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:34.319 In the new covenant, 00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:35.879 you will know God directly. 00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:38.299 Christ is the great high priest. 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:39.799 He is the mediator. 00:25:40.139 --> 00:25:41.259 And you know God. 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:42.579 You know God himself 00:25:42.579 --> 00:25:44.099 when you know Jesus Christ 00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:45.299 in the new covenant. 00:25:50.639 --> 00:25:52.179 Some of you might be thinking, 00:25:52.399 --> 00:25:53.220 What does this passage 00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:54.179 in Jeremiah 31 00:25:54.179 --> 00:25:55.240 have to do with me 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:56.119 or with the church? 00:25:56.500 --> 00:25:57.220 How do you know 00:25:57.220 --> 00:25:58.000 this is referring 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:59.359 to the new covenant 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:00.439 that Jesus cut? 00:26:02.179 --> 00:26:02.980 And some of you 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:03.559 maybe have 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:05.199 Hebrews 8 memorized, 00:26:05.439 --> 00:26:06.059 but if you don't 00:26:06.059 --> 00:26:06.879 or if you want to see it 00:26:06.879 --> 00:26:07.519 with your own eyes, 00:26:07.639 --> 00:26:09.199 turn to Hebrews chapter 8. 00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:13.539 You just need to know 00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:15.099 it's not a pastor 00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:15.980 up here trying to 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:16.679 twist something 00:26:16.679 --> 00:26:17.639 from the Old Testament 00:26:17.639 --> 00:26:19.000 and make it be 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:19.779 about the church. 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:23.779 Well, Hebrews 8 00:26:23.779 --> 00:26:24.539 is most likely 00:26:24.539 --> 00:26:25.859 Timothy's sermon notes 00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:26.980 of the sermons 00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:27.879 preached by Paul. 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:33.879 And in Hebrews 8, 00:26:34.879 --> 00:26:36.960 starting at verse 7, 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:38.220 he writes, 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.700 For if that first covenant 00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:42.920 had been faultless, 00:26:43.340 --> 00:26:44.620 then no place would have 00:26:44.620 --> 00:26:45.860 been sought for a second, 00:26:46.340 --> 00:26:47.880 because finding fault 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:48.600 with them, 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:49.860 he says. 00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:52.380 Put another way, 00:26:53.059 --> 00:26:54.420 the covenant God made 00:26:54.420 --> 00:26:55.500 through Moses 00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:56.620 and national Israel 00:26:56.620 --> 00:26:58.620 found fault 00:26:58.620 --> 00:26:59.759 in the people of God. 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:01.700 it exposed their ability 00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:02.920 to keep God's law 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:04.200 by their own flesh 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:05.359 and by their own strength. 00:27:06.059 --> 00:27:07.379 So having exposed 00:27:07.379 --> 00:27:08.640 their need for a savior, 00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:10.160 he says, 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:12.559 this is Hebrews 8, 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:13.879 verse 8, 00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:15.400 Behold, 00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:16.359 the days are coming, 00:27:16.500 --> 00:27:17.200 says the Lord, 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:18.039 when I will make 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:18.779 a new covenant. 00:27:19.579 --> 00:27:20.420 And if you notice, 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:22.259 this entire passage 00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:23.220 all the way 00:27:23.220 --> 00:27:24.420 to the end of verse 12 00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:25.859 is word for word 00:27:25.859 --> 00:27:26.900 Jeremiah 31. 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:28.579 The application 00:27:28.579 --> 00:27:29.579 of the new covenant 00:27:29.579 --> 00:27:30.359 to the church 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:32.319 is given in Hebrews 8. 00:27:34.139 --> 00:27:35.259 All that the apostle 00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:36.159 has to say next 00:27:36.159 --> 00:27:37.099 is verse 13. 00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:37.919 In what he says, 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:38.639 a new covenant 00:27:38.639 --> 00:27:39.399 he has made 00:27:39.399 --> 00:27:40.559 the first obsolete 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:42.079 and what is becoming 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:42.579 obsolete 00:27:42.579 --> 00:27:44.000 and growing old 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:44.879 is ready 00:27:44.879 --> 00:27:46.639 to vanish away. 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:49.539 With the finished 00:27:49.539 --> 00:27:50.319 work of Christ, 00:27:50.439 --> 00:27:51.839 there is no more 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:52.659 mediator. 00:27:54.139 --> 00:27:55.279 Church received 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:55.980 this promise 00:27:55.980 --> 00:27:57.119 of Jeremiah 31 00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:58.099 as fulfilled 00:27:58.099 --> 00:27:59.119 in Christ. 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:00.819 And this new covenant 00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:02.059 that fulfills 00:28:02.059 --> 00:28:03.059 what God told Abraham, 00:28:03.579 --> 00:28:04.119 through you 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:04.959 all the nations 00:28:04.959 --> 00:28:05.599 will be blessed. 00:28:05.699 --> 00:28:06.399 How can that be? 00:28:06.879 --> 00:28:07.039 Well, 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:07.500 from the line 00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:08.019 of Abraham 00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:08.579 and David 00:28:08.579 --> 00:28:09.959 comes Jesus Christ 00:28:09.959 --> 00:28:11.679 and he is truly God, 00:28:11.779 --> 00:28:12.240 truly man, 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:13.000 the mediator 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:14.119 of the new covenant. 00:28:15.179 --> 00:28:16.740 Now the ceremonial law, 00:28:17.179 --> 00:28:18.079 the judicial law, 00:28:18.419 --> 00:28:19.039 they're obsolete. 00:28:19.399 --> 00:28:20.240 They've faded away. 00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:21.179 They have no more 00:28:21.179 --> 00:28:22.839 bearing on God's people 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:24.439 to bring a curse 00:28:24.439 --> 00:28:24.799 on them, 00:28:24.879 --> 00:28:25.679 to expose 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.460 how they are 00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:27.420 covenant breakers. 00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:28.240 No longer. 00:28:29.259 --> 00:28:29.560 Instead, 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:30.940 Christ is the only 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:31.500 mediator 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:32.560 and this covenant 00:28:32.560 --> 00:28:33.400 is not a covenant 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:34.019 of works, 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.900 it's a covenant 00:28:34.900 --> 00:28:35.680 of grace. 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:39.080 To be very specific, 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:40.200 parents, 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:41.600 you may not 00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:42.299 mediate 00:28:42.299 --> 00:28:43.060 the covenant 00:28:43.060 --> 00:28:43.700 of grace 00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:45.080 in Christ's place 00:28:45.080 --> 00:28:45.820 to your children. 00:28:48.019 --> 00:28:48.900 Some of you are saying, 00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:49.080 well, 00:28:49.120 --> 00:28:49.400 hold on, 00:28:49.940 --> 00:28:50.759 didn't Peter say 00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:51.380 in Acts 2, 00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:51.880 39, 00:28:52.220 --> 00:28:53.120 this promise 00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:53.660 is for you 00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:54.280 and your children. 00:28:55.760 --> 00:28:56.140 Yes. 00:28:56.320 --> 00:28:56.680 In fact, 00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.340 let's turn there. 00:28:57.840 --> 00:28:58.460 Let's turn to 00:28:58.460 --> 00:28:59.500 Acts chapter 2. 00:29:01.980 --> 00:29:02.820 If you can turn 00:29:02.820 --> 00:29:03.600 in your Bible 00:29:03.600 --> 00:29:04.540 to the New Testament 00:29:04.540 --> 00:29:05.960 after the Gospels, 00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:06.940 the book of Acts 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:07.700 chapter 2, 00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:09.580 and let's read 00:29:09.580 --> 00:29:10.580 exactly what Peter 00:29:10.580 --> 00:29:11.600 says to the church 00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:14.200 about the promise. 00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:16.260 Acts 2, 00:29:16.380 --> 00:29:17.340 verse 39. 00:29:17.340 --> 00:29:17.420 Verse 39. 00:29:21.380 --> 00:29:33.520 Peter preached, 00:29:34.080 --> 00:29:34.540 repent, 00:29:35.620 --> 00:29:36.660 and let every one 00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:37.060 of you 00:29:37.060 --> 00:29:38.320 be baptized 00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:39.320 in the name 00:29:39.320 --> 00:29:40.460 of Jesus Christ 00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:41.820 for the remission 00:29:41.820 --> 00:29:42.760 of sins, 00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:44.180 and you shall 00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:44.840 receive 00:29:44.840 --> 00:29:45.840 the gift 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:47.300 of the Holy Spirit, 00:29:48.100 --> 00:29:49.040 for the promise 00:29:49.040 --> 00:29:50.240 is for you 00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:51.640 and to your children, 00:29:52.299 --> 00:29:53.500 to all who are 00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:54.500 afar off, 00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:55.620 as many 00:29:55.620 --> 00:29:56.660 as the Lord 00:29:56.660 --> 00:29:57.319 our God 00:29:57.319 --> 00:29:58.019 will call. 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:03.460 So parents, 00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:04.480 you can preach 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:04.960 the Gospel 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:05.720 to your children, 00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:06.299 and you can 00:30:06.299 --> 00:30:06.880 encourage them. 00:30:06.940 --> 00:30:07.460 The promise 00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:08.160 of salvation 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:09.460 is for you. 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:11.279 It's for you 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:12.640 who will receive 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:13.620 the gracious 00:30:13.620 --> 00:30:14.680 offer of Christ 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:16.039 to save you 00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:16.819 by His blood. 00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:18.859 And it's not 00:30:18.859 --> 00:30:19.559 only for you 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:20.200 who are 00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:21.500 children of believers 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:22.419 or who are 00:30:22.419 --> 00:30:23.039 ethnic Jews, 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:24.019 it's also for those 00:30:24.019 --> 00:30:24.799 who are far off 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.859 to the islands 00:30:25.859 --> 00:30:26.980 and the coastlands, 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:28.299 as many 00:30:28.299 --> 00:30:29.359 as the Lord 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:30.119 our God 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:30.980 will call. 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:32.779 That's who 00:30:32.779 --> 00:30:33.480 will receive. 00:30:33.819 --> 00:30:34.179 That's who 00:30:34.179 --> 00:30:34.799 will respond 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:35.419 in repentance. 00:30:36.700 --> 00:30:37.419 And the church 00:30:37.419 --> 00:30:38.079 affirms that 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.000 and praises the Lord 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:39.599 and celebrates 00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:40.639 that with baptism. 00:30:42.939 --> 00:30:43.939 So the gracious 00:30:43.939 --> 00:30:45.279 promise of salvation 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:45.799 in Christ 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:46.440 is offered 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:46.980 freely, 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:47.599 genuinely 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:48.519 to all. 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:50.879 And it will 00:30:50.879 --> 00:30:51.879 be received 00:30:51.879 --> 00:30:52.579 by as many 00:30:52.579 --> 00:30:53.099 as the Lord 00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:53.599 our God 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:54.559 will call 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:55.980 by the application 00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:57.259 of that promise 00:30:57.259 --> 00:30:58.200 to their heart 00:30:58.200 --> 00:30:59.119 by the Holy Spirit. 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:03.079 Matthew 27, 25 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:05.019 is a connection 00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:05.659 I hadn't seen 00:31:05.659 --> 00:31:06.500 until this week. 00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:08.059 Peter is saying 00:31:08.059 --> 00:31:08.579 the promise 00:31:08.579 --> 00:31:09.319 is for you 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:10.440 and your children. 00:31:10.639 --> 00:31:11.119 And think about 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:11.940 who Peter's audience 00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:12.359 was. 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:13.480 These were the same 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:13.839 Jews, 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:14.639 the great crowd 00:31:14.639 --> 00:31:15.440 that had cried 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:16.340 crucify him. 00:31:17.180 --> 00:31:17.860 And Pilate said 00:31:17.860 --> 00:31:18.900 I wash my hand 00:31:18.900 --> 00:31:19.820 this man's innocent. 00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:21.880 And in Matthew 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:23.440 27, verse 25 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.640 listen to what 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:25.539 the Jewish crowd 00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:26.140 says. 00:31:26.820 --> 00:31:27.440 May his, 00:31:27.620 --> 00:31:28.519 Jesus' blood 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:29.700 be on us 00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.640 and our children. 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:32.640 They brought on 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.519 a curse on themselves 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:34.320 and their children. 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:35.420 They're eating 00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:36.240 these sour grapes 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:37.320 saying crucify him. 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:38.680 And it's their children 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:39.900 who they're cursing 00:31:39.900 --> 00:31:40.880 by rejecting 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:42.019 the very son of God. 00:31:42.019 --> 00:31:44.819 And Peter stands 00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:45.500 and tells them 00:31:45.500 --> 00:31:46.039 no, 00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:47.420 this promise 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:48.279 is for you 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.519 and your children. 00:31:50.639 --> 00:31:51.599 Turn to the Savior 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:52.480 Jesus Christ 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:53.700 and be washed 00:31:53.700 --> 00:31:54.500 of your sin. 00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:56.180 Your children too 00:31:56.180 --> 00:31:56.960 can be blessed. 00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.019 And as many 00:31:58.019 --> 00:31:58.879 as are far off 00:31:58.879 --> 00:31:59.920 through you 00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:00.980 national Israel 00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:01.859 will all nations 00:32:01.859 --> 00:32:02.440 be blessed 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:03.400 and all those 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:04.579 that are regenerated 00:32:04.579 --> 00:32:05.539 or engrafted in 00:32:05.539 --> 00:32:06.900 they are the seed 00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:08.240 of Jesus Christ. 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:11.140 who is in 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:11.799 the new covenant? 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:13.680 It's all those 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:14.240 who receive 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:14.900 the promise 00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:15.900 of grace 00:32:15.900 --> 00:32:16.700 through faith 00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:17.380 in Christ 00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:18.519 who repent 00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:19.279 of unbelief 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:20.539 because the spirit 00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:21.539 regenerated them 00:32:21.539 --> 00:32:22.779 and they are united 00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:23.420 to Jesus. 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:25.039 That's what's symbolized 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:25.720 in baptism. 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:27.140 You're forgiven 00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:28.000 of your sins. 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:29.559 You've received 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:30.319 the Holy Spirit. 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:33.000 It's not based 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:34.140 on whether 00:32:34.140 --> 00:32:34.920 you're in the land. 00:32:35.059 --> 00:32:35.880 It's also for you 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:36.680 who are far off. 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.200 It's not based 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:39.960 on being born 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:41.060 into a Christian home 00:32:41.060 --> 00:32:41.700 or being part 00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:42.240 of the church 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.299 or being considered 00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:45.000 a citizen 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:45.980 of the Roman Empire. 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:46.940 That's not what 00:32:46.940 --> 00:32:47.360 makes you 00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:48.400 in the new covenant. 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:49.860 It's as many 00:32:49.860 --> 00:32:50.360 as the Lord 00:32:50.360 --> 00:32:50.840 will call 00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:52.160 because no one 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:52.820 can mediate 00:32:52.820 --> 00:32:53.779 the new covenant 00:32:53.779 --> 00:32:54.259 of grace 00:32:54.259 --> 00:32:55.080 except Christ 00:32:55.080 --> 00:32:55.920 himself. 00:32:58.019 --> 00:32:58.560 Well, the fifth 00:32:58.560 --> 00:32:59.600 observation is that 00:32:59.600 --> 00:33:00.840 man could break 00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:01.720 the old covenant 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:04.560 but the promised 00:33:04.560 --> 00:33:05.340 seed himself 00:33:05.340 --> 00:33:06.480 secures the new. 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:08.720 Man could break 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:09.539 the old covenant. 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:10.259 It says it right there 00:33:10.259 --> 00:33:11.160 in our sermon text. 00:33:11.779 --> 00:33:12.160 The covenant 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:12.940 which you broke. 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:15.000 But the promised 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.279 seed himself 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:16.820 is the one 00:33:16.820 --> 00:33:17.519 who secures 00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:18.820 the new covenant. 00:33:19.539 --> 00:33:20.080 Let's look at 00:33:20.080 --> 00:33:20.940 verse 35 00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:22.320 through 37. 00:33:23.140 --> 00:33:23.920 Thus says the Lord 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:24.779 who gives the sun 00:33:24.779 --> 00:33:25.460 for a light 00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:26.080 by day 00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:27.240 the ordinances 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:27.860 of the moon 00:33:27.860 --> 00:33:28.480 and the stars 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.039 for a light 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:29.519 by night 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:30.660 who disturbs 00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:31.240 the sea 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:32.320 and its waters 00:33:32.320 --> 00:33:32.799 roar. 00:33:33.380 --> 00:33:34.240 The Lord of hosts 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:34.960 is his name. 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:36.779 If those ordinances 00:33:36.779 --> 00:33:38.259 the sun 00:33:38.259 --> 00:33:38.740 the moon 00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:40.259 the tides 00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:41.740 if those ordinances 00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:42.519 were to depart 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:43.720 from before me 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:44.380 says the Lord 00:33:44.380 --> 00:33:45.220 in other words 00:33:45.220 --> 00:33:46.240 if God were no longer 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:47.519 sovereign over all 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.220 his creation 00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:49.900 then the seed of Israel 00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:51.120 shall also cease 00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:52.079 from being a nation 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:52.700 before me. 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:54.059 It's not going to happen. 00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:54.759 God will never 00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:56.000 stop being sovereign 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:56.840 over his creation 00:33:56.840 --> 00:33:57.860 and never will 00:33:57.860 --> 00:33:58.799 the seed of Israel 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:00.200 cease from being 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:00.880 a nation 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:01.960 before him. 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:03.460 Thus says the Lord 00:34:03.460 --> 00:34:04.880 of heaven above 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:06.279 if heaven above 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:06.980 can be measured 00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:07.980 and the foundations 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:08.579 of the earth 00:34:08.579 --> 00:34:09.720 searched out beneath 00:34:09.720 --> 00:34:10.579 only then 00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:11.440 would I cast off 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:12.519 all the seed of Israel 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:13.980 for all that they 00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:14.519 have done 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.019 says the Lord. 00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:17.260 He's saying 00:34:17.260 --> 00:34:18.360 you want to know 00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:19.159 how much better 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:20.159 the new covenant is 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:21.079 how gracious 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:22.900 how secure you are 00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:23.900 if you're in the new covenant 00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:26.440 no matter how bad 00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:27.480 national Israel 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:28.099 has been 00:34:28.099 --> 00:34:29.240 this new covenant 00:34:29.240 --> 00:34:30.139 will be secured 00:34:30.139 --> 00:34:31.679 just as I secure 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:32.379 the orderliness 00:34:32.379 --> 00:34:33.599 of my creation 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.119 just as you can't 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:36.159 measure the expanse 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:36.980 or the depths 00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:37.619 of the ocean 00:34:37.619 --> 00:34:40.039 that's how unfathomable 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:41.559 my covenant 00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:42.239 faithfulness 00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:42.960 is to you. 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:45.319 He's saying 00:34:45.319 --> 00:34:46.460 I could cast off 00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:47.359 or throw away 00:34:47.359 --> 00:34:48.420 or break ties with 00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:49.659 and banish forever 00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:50.719 the Israelites 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.199 of Jeremiah's generation 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:53.440 for all the sins 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:54.400 that they have committed 00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:55.440 against me. 00:34:55.900 --> 00:34:56.659 God has every right 00:34:56.659 --> 00:34:57.239 to do that. 00:34:57.579 --> 00:34:58.619 They are covenant breakers 00:34:58.619 --> 00:34:59.559 but God says 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:00.599 I won't do that 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:02.340 just like you can't 00:35:02.340 --> 00:35:02.840 understand 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:04.420 how deep the earth is 00:35:04.420 --> 00:35:06.059 and how to measure 00:35:06.059 --> 00:35:06.539 the distance 00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:07.880 between an expanding 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:08.519 galaxy 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:10.880 so you can't 00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:11.579 understand 00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.880 my covenant 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:13.699 faithfulness 00:35:13.699 --> 00:35:14.840 that I will 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:16.039 I will be faithful 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:16.639 to the seed 00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:17.139 of Israel. 00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:19.340 Well now we need 00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:19.860 to understand 00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:20.920 who is this seed 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:21.739 to whom God 00:35:21.739 --> 00:35:23.000 will be so faithful. 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:26.079 We have three options. 00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.380 One it's the biological 00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:29.519 seed of Abraham 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:31.340 through Isaac 00:35:31.340 --> 00:35:32.179 and Jacob 00:35:32.179 --> 00:35:34.119 ethnic Israelites 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:34.619 today. 00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:37.099 You can be a Christian 00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:37.880 and believe this. 00:35:39.219 --> 00:35:40.039 Second option 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:40.400 is that 00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:41.219 this refers 00:35:41.219 --> 00:35:42.079 to the Christians 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:42.440 now 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:43.739 and their children 00:35:43.739 --> 00:35:44.159 today. 00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:45.719 If you think 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:46.219 that the church 00:35:46.219 --> 00:35:47.000 has replaced 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:48.000 national Israel 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.599 then it's the children 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:50.299 of believers 00:35:50.299 --> 00:35:51.699 who are seeds 00:35:51.699 --> 00:35:52.960 the seed promises 00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:53.679 are fulfilled 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:55.719 ultimately in Christ 00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:56.519 but also then 00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:58.019 to biological children 00:35:58.019 --> 00:36:00.559 or third 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:01.739 that Jesus Christ 00:36:01.739 --> 00:36:02.739 is the capital 00:36:02.739 --> 00:36:04.299 promised seed. 00:36:07.279 --> 00:36:08.440 Let's let the Bible 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:09.679 interpret the Bible 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:10.299 for us 00:36:10.299 --> 00:36:11.000 and would you please 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.339 turn to Galatians 3 00:36:12.339 --> 00:36:13.819 New Testament 00:36:13.819 --> 00:36:15.119 Galatians chapter 3 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:19.500 who is the promised seed? 00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:28.679 Galatians chapter 3 00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:29.859 and verse 16 00:36:29.859 --> 00:36:42.639 Galatians 3 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:43.139 16 00:36:43.139 --> 00:36:44.899 Paul is writing 00:36:44.899 --> 00:36:45.599 to the church 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:46.559 which was disputing 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:47.419 this very thing 00:36:47.419 --> 00:36:48.639 should Gentiles 00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.480 be circumcised 00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:50.379 because that's the sign 00:36:50.379 --> 00:36:51.819 of the old covenant? 00:36:51.820 --> 00:36:54.120 who are God's promises 00:36:54.120 --> 00:36:54.500 for? 00:36:57.220 --> 00:36:58.280 By the inspiration 00:36:58.280 --> 00:36:58.920 of the Spirit 00:36:58.920 --> 00:36:59.840 Paul writes 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.880 now to Abraham 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.260 and his seed 00:37:03.260 --> 00:37:04.800 where the promise 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:05.360 is made 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:06.900 he does not say 00:37:06.900 --> 00:37:08.400 and to seeds 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:09.780 as of many 00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:11.920 but as of one 00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.980 and to your seed 00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:15.180 here it is 00:37:15.180 --> 00:37:15.840 underline this 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:16.680 if you haven't already 00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:17.980 your seed 00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:19.980 who is Christ 00:37:19.980 --> 00:37:23.280 in this Abrahamic covenant 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:25.039 God is promising 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:27.760 blessings 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:28.880 to Christ 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.440 and through Christ 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.679 to all of Christ's seed 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:36.599 man could break 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:37.460 the old covenant 00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:39.860 but this promise 00:37:39.860 --> 00:37:40.119 seed 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:41.039 Jesus Christ 00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:42.599 he himself 00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:43.219 secures 00:37:43.219 --> 00:37:44.019 the new covenant 00:37:44.019 --> 00:37:47.579 well for today 00:37:47.579 --> 00:37:48.860 the last thing 00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:49.400 I want to 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:50.840 encourage you with 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:51.400 is this 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:54.300 you are secure 00:37:54.300 --> 00:37:56.300 if you are in Christ 00:37:56.300 --> 00:37:57.539 in the new covenant 00:37:57.539 --> 00:37:58.840 how secure? 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:01.420 how secure are you 00:38:01.420 --> 00:38:02.559 if you are in Christ's 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:03.039 new covenant? 00:38:04.759 --> 00:38:05.920 I just have four 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:06.480 for today 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.659 in the new covenant 00:38:08.659 --> 00:38:09.920 Christ himself 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:11.019 holds you 00:38:11.019 --> 00:38:11.780 secure 00:38:11.780 --> 00:38:14.260 because Jesus Christ 00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:14.980 undid 00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:15.840 the curse 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.560 of Adam 00:38:16.560 --> 00:38:18.660 Romans 5 17 00:38:18.660 --> 00:38:20.580 since by one man 00:38:20.580 --> 00:38:22.060 Adam's offense 00:38:22.060 --> 00:38:22.900 death reigned 00:38:22.900 --> 00:38:23.580 over all 00:38:23.580 --> 00:38:24.780 much more 00:38:24.780 --> 00:38:25.880 you who receive 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:27.100 abundance of grace 00:38:27.100 --> 00:38:28.240 and of the gift 00:38:28.240 --> 00:38:28.880 of righteousness 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.760 have life 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:30.940 through the one 00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:32.000 Jesus Christ 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.140 because Jesus Christ 00:38:34.140 --> 00:38:35.120 undid 00:38:35.120 --> 00:38:35.900 the curse 00:38:35.900 --> 00:38:36.440 of Adam 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:37.460 for all those 00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:38.019 who are in his 00:38:38.019 --> 00:38:38.960 covenant of grace 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:41.059 how secure are you 00:38:41.059 --> 00:38:42.220 in his new covenant? 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:44.340 well Christ 00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:45.260 holds you fast 00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:46.760 because he signed 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:48.019 your adoption papers 00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:48.860 with his blood 00:38:48.860 --> 00:38:51.679 John 1 12 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:52.519 says as many 00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.380 as received 00:38:53.380 --> 00:38:54.519 Jesus Christ 00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:55.099 to them 00:38:55.099 --> 00:38:56.220 he gave the right 00:38:56.220 --> 00:38:57.179 to be children 00:38:57.179 --> 00:38:57.740 of God 00:38:57.740 --> 00:38:59.179 to those who believe 00:38:59.179 --> 00:38:59.980 in his name 00:38:59.980 --> 00:39:01.500 1 John 3 1 00:39:01.500 --> 00:39:02.340 behold 00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:03.400 what manner 00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:04.519 of love is this 00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:05.360 the father 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:06.159 has bestowed 00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:06.619 on us 00:39:06.619 --> 00:39:07.480 that we should 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:08.039 be called 00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:09.300 children of God 00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:12.099 the seed promises 00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:12.960 fulfilled in Christ 00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:13.619 extend 00:39:13.619 --> 00:39:14.619 to all those 00:39:14.619 --> 00:39:15.099 who believe 00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:15.639 in Christ 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:17.000 first through Israel 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.420 then for the nations 00:39:18.420 --> 00:39:21.139 how secure are you 00:39:21.139 --> 00:39:22.219 in Christ's new covenant? 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:24.739 Christ holds you fast 00:39:24.739 --> 00:39:25.800 in his covenant 00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:26.300 of grace 00:39:26.300 --> 00:39:27.480 because the Holy Spirit 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:28.099 of God 00:39:28.099 --> 00:39:29.920 lives inside of you 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:30.619 who believe 00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:31.980 Romans 8 15 00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:33.800 you have received 00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:34.759 the spirit 00:39:34.759 --> 00:39:35.519 of adoption 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:37.099 by whom we cry out 00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:38.000 Abba Father 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.460 the spirit 00:39:39.460 --> 00:39:40.079 himself 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:40.900 bears witness 00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:41.960 with our spirit 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:42.699 that we are 00:39:42.699 --> 00:39:43.960 children of God 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:45.340 and if children 00:39:45.340 --> 00:39:46.380 then heirs 00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:47.699 heirs of God 00:39:47.699 --> 00:39:48.659 and joint 00:39:48.659 --> 00:39:49.179 heirs 00:39:49.179 --> 00:39:50.579 with Christ 00:39:50.579 --> 00:39:53.539 how secure 00:39:53.539 --> 00:39:53.900 are you 00:39:53.900 --> 00:39:54.920 in Christ's new covenant? 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:57.000 God promised 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:58.619 in Jeremiah 31 00:39:58.619 --> 00:39:59.780 verses 35 00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:00.579 and 36 00:40:00.579 --> 00:40:02.639 as stable 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:03.619 as I have made 00:40:03.619 --> 00:40:04.719 the course of the sun 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.019 the cycle 00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:06.659 of the moon 00:40:06.659 --> 00:40:07.780 the placement 00:40:07.780 --> 00:40:08.659 of the stars 00:40:08.659 --> 00:40:09.820 the movement 00:40:09.820 --> 00:40:10.539 of the waters 00:40:10.539 --> 00:40:11.280 of the oceans 00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.360 so stable 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:14.480 is my promise 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:15.000 to you 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:16.800 just as I show you 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.860 my sovereignty 00:40:17.860 --> 00:40:18.860 over all creation 00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:20.059 so I will sovereignly 00:40:20.059 --> 00:40:20.679 keep you 00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:21.900 by my power 00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:23.000 in my covenant 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:23.639 of grace 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:25.099 through Jesus Christ 00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:26.519 you shall never 00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:27.860 depart from me 00:40:27.860 --> 00:40:28.519 says the Lord 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:29.900 my promised seed 00:40:29.900 --> 00:40:30.900 God the son 00:40:30.900 --> 00:40:31.940 who took on flesh 00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:33.440 to be your mediator 00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:34.619 Jesus Christ 00:40:34.619 --> 00:40:36.619 has secured you 00:40:36.619 --> 00:40:38.440 for himself 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:39.820 you belong to him 00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:41.940 and if you belong 00:40:41.940 --> 00:40:42.480 to Christ 00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:43.679 you shall never 00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:44.500 cease 00:40:44.500 --> 00:40:45.539 from being 00:40:45.539 --> 00:40:46.619 his people 00:40:46.619 --> 00:40:48.380 you are the people 00:40:48.380 --> 00:40:48.920 of God 00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:50.220 before you 00:40:50.220 --> 00:40:51.200 in Christ 00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:52.179 God has a kingdom 00:40:52.179 --> 00:40:53.059 a nation 00:40:53.059 --> 00:40:55.420 and you are firm 00:40:55.420 --> 00:40:56.139 secure 00:40:56.139 --> 00:40:57.000 in his hand 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.579 he says 00:40:58.579 --> 00:40:59.320 just as heaven 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:00.220 cannot be measured 00:41:00.220 --> 00:41:01.760 nor the foundations 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.360 of the earth 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:03.400 searched out beneath 00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:04.720 so you 00:41:04.720 --> 00:41:05.220 Christian 00:41:05.220 --> 00:41:06.579 can trust 00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:07.200 that God 00:41:07.200 --> 00:41:07.980 will never 00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:09.039 cast off any 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:10.480 who are his children 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:11.960 through Jesus Christ 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:13.980 that's how secure 00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:14.440 you are 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:15.680 in the new covenant 00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:19.140 well for many of you 00:41:19.140 --> 00:41:20.320 I hope this is comforting 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:21.920 you are not 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:22.840 in a covenant 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:23.640 of works 00:41:23.640 --> 00:41:25.860 you are not 00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:26.940 that orphaned 00:41:26.940 --> 00:41:27.599 foster child 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:28.400 that needs to fear 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:29.340 being kicked out 00:41:29.340 --> 00:41:29.880 of the home 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:31.559 or having to grab 00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:32.199 all your belongings 00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:32.739 and run 00:41:32.739 --> 00:41:33.460 one more time 00:41:33.460 --> 00:41:37.039 you're in a covenant 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:37.759 of grace 00:41:37.759 --> 00:41:38.420 the principle 00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:39.079 is different 00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:40.360 it's not based 00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:41.299 on your works 00:41:41.299 --> 00:41:42.239 or the works 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:42.980 of your family 00:41:42.980 --> 00:41:44.159 you are secured 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:45.579 by Jesus Christ 00:41:45.579 --> 00:41:46.139 himself 00:41:46.139 --> 00:41:47.900 he came under 00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:48.759 the law 00:41:48.759 --> 00:41:49.880 his own law 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:50.860 and he fulfilled 00:41:50.860 --> 00:41:51.639 all of it 00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:52.759 on your behalf 00:41:52.759 --> 00:41:54.159 so that you could 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:55.139 be a co-heir 00:41:55.139 --> 00:41:55.799 with him 00:41:55.799 --> 00:41:57.320 in his father's home 00:41:57.320 --> 00:41:59.119 you are secure 00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:00.500 in Jesus Christ 00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:01.480 praise him 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:02.339 for his new covenant 00:42:02.339 --> 00:42:02.940 of grace 00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:04.420 and every time 00:42:04.420 --> 00:42:04.960 we come to the 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:05.500 Lord's Supper 00:42:05.500 --> 00:42:06.139 you remember 00:42:06.139 --> 00:42:07.739 your adoption papers 00:42:07.739 --> 00:42:08.480 are signed 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:09.859 with his own blood 00:42:09.859 --> 00:42:12.299 let's spend some time 00:42:12.299 --> 00:42:12.759 praying 00:42:12.759 --> 00:42:13.559 in response 00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:14.179 to the gospel 00:42:14.179 --> 00:42:14.880 you've heard today 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:19.360 good 00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:20.059 thank you 00:42:20.059 --> 00:42:20.200 my God 00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:22.559 let's have a 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:24.180 approximately 00:42:24.180 --> 00:42:24.500 stop 00:42:24.500 --> 00:42:25.420 pom 00:42:25.420 --> 00:42:26.260 amazing 00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:27.539 God 00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:28.360 哲学 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:32.360 joins