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Apr '24

Jeremiah 31

Posted on Apr 25, 2024 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

25
Apr '24
Day 1500

Herald the New Covenant!

Jeremiah 31

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, April 25.
 
Today is Day #1,500 in the daily phone calls, which started with the international COVID pandemic in March 2020. Thank you for listening to the daily calls and I pray you have been growing in your relationship with Jesus through the good fruit of this herculean pastoral effort to provide you with a daily Seize the Moment devotional. I encourage you to pick up my devotional books, published by AGF publishing, which are based on these phone calls and commemorate our epic Bible study journey together, which will come to an end later this year.

 

In Jeremiah 31:31-33, the prophet heralded the New Covenant between God and His people:

 

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

 

What makes the New Covenant different is that it was to be written on the hearts of the people. When God gave the Mosaic Law, He wrote it upon stone tablets. This time He was going to do it differently. When God gave the Abrahamic Covenant, He commanded all the men to be physically circumcised as a sign of the covenant. This time He was going to do it differently. The Holy Spirit would circumcise their hearts, causing them to be sensitive to the conviction of the Holy Spirit, the One who seals the New Covenant by establishing God’s rule from within their hearts, leading them into His rest. Different from King David’s kingdom, it was no longer a nation to be ruled, because Jesus’ Kingdom transcends all geographical boundaries and human constructs. And His banner over us is love!

 

Seize the moment and herald the New Covenant. Be sensitive to the conviction of the Holy Spirit as He leads you to exalt Jesus, seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness.
 

God bless you!

 

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