Hebrews 8:1-13
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Jesus, High Priest of a Better Covenant
1 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 8 For he finds fault with them when he says:"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more." 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Study Notes: These will be added as I am able.
8:4 Under the old Jewish system, priests were only chosen from the tribe of Levi, and sacrifices were offered daily on the altar for forgiveness of sins (see 7:12-14). This system would not have allowed Jesus to be a priest, because he was from the tribe of Judah. But his perfect sacrifice ended all need for further priests and sacrifices.
8:5 The pattern for the tabernacle built by Moses was given by God. It was a pattern of the spiritual reality of Christ's sacrifice, and thus it looked forward to the future reality. There is no tabernacle in heaven of which the earthly one is a copy, but rather the earthly tabernacle was an expression of eternal, theological principles. Because the temple at Jerusalem had not yet been destroyed, using the worship system there as an example would have had a great impact on this original audience.
8:8-12 This passage is a quotation of Jeremiah 31:31-34, which compares the new covenant with the old. The old covenant was the covenant of law between God and Israel. The new and better way is the covenant of grace--Christ's offer to forgive our sins and bring us to God through his sacrificial death. This covenant is new in extent--it goes beyond Israel and Judah to include all the Gentile nations. It is new in application because it is written on our hearts and in our minds. It offers a new way to forgiveness, not through animal sacrifice but through faith. Have you entered into this new covenant and begun walking in a better way?
8:10 If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant and difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wantto obey God (see Philippians 2:12, 13). With new hearts, we find that serving God is our greatest joy.
8:10,11 Under God's new covenant, God's Law is inside of us. It is no longer an external set of rules and principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our consciences, influences our motives and desires, and makes us want to obey. Now doing God's will is something we desire with all our heart and mind.
We are imperfect. Every one of us except God's Son is imperfect. But through God's new covenant, made possible to us through Jesus, God puts His laws into our hearts and minds and forgives our iniquities, remembering them no more. "...When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." (1 Corinthians 13:10). When Christ occupies our hearts and minds, we are complete. And Jesus promised to send His Holy Spirit of Truth to be with us and in us. (John 14). And Jesus, Son of God, keeps His promises. So invite Him in.
My dear Savior, thank You for occupying my brain 100%, and for Your purifying work in my heart through Your Holy Spirit of Truth and love. You made the new covenant personal. Bless this day, Lord, to glorify You. Bring out the truth so that we can live with each other as You would have us do, honoring You. Give us an inclination to love and serve others like You did and do. Help us have a steady mind, God-focused, as You had when under trials. We praise Your holy name for Your presence with us. We ask all these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
A Song: https://youtu.be/3CCa5ieUWHU
Have a blessed day.
Hebrews 8:1-13
https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/hebrews/8.html
Jesus, High Priest of a Better Covenant
1 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 8 For he finds fault with them when he says:"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more." 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Study Notes: These will be added as I am able.
8:4 Under the old Jewish system, priests were only chosen from the tribe of Levi, and sacrifices were offered daily on the altar for forgiveness of sins (see 7:12-14). This system would not have allowed Jesus to be a priest, because he was from the tribe of Judah. But his perfect sacrifice ended all need for further priests and sacrifices.
8:5 The pattern for the tabernacle built by Moses was given by God. It was a pattern of the spiritual reality of Christ's sacrifice, and thus it looked forward to the future reality. There is no tabernacle in heaven of which the earthly one is a copy, but rather the earthly tabernacle was an expression of eternal, theological principles. Because the temple at Jerusalem had not yet been destroyed, using the worship system there as an example would have had a great impact on this original audience.
8:8-12
8:10 If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant and difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wantto obey God (see Philippians 2:12, 13). With new hearts, we find that serving God is our greatest joy.
8:10,11 Under God's new covenant, God's Law is inside of us. It is no longer an external set of rules and principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our consciences, influences our motives and desires, and makes us want to obey. Now doing God's will is something we desire with all our heart and mind.
We are imperfect. Every one of us except God's Son is imperfect. But through God's new covenant, made possible to us through Jesus, God puts His laws into our hearts and minds and forgives our iniquities, remembering them no more. "...When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." (1 Corinthians 13:10). When Christ occupies our hearts and minds, we are complete. And Jesus promised to send His Holy Spirit of Truth to be with us and in us. (John 14). And Jesus, Son of God, keeps His promises. So invite Him in.
My dear Savior, thank You for occupying my brain 100%, and for Your purifying work in my heart through Your Holy Spirit of Truth and love. You made the new covenant personal. Bless this day, Lord, to glorify You. Bring out the truth so that we can live with each other as You would have us do, honoring You. Give us an inclination to love and serve others like You did and do. Help us have a steady mind, God-focused, as You had when under trials. We praise Your holy name for Your presence with us. We ask all these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
A Song: https://youtu.be/3CCa5ieUWHU
Have a blessed day.
Hebrews 8:1-13
https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/hebrews/8.html
Jesus, High Priest of a Better Covenant
1 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 8 For he finds fault with them when he says:"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more." 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Study Notes: These will be added as I am able.
8:4 Under the old Jewish system, priests were only chosen from the tribe of Levi, and sacrifices were offered daily on the altar for forgiveness of sins (see 7:12-14). This system would not have allowed Jesus to be a priest, because he was from the tribe of Judah. But his perfect sacrifice ended all need for further priests and sacrifices.
8:5
8:8-12
8:10
8:10,11 Under God's new covenant, God's Law is inside of us. It is no longer an external set of rules and principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our consciences, influences our motives and desires, and makes us want to obey. Now doing God's will is something we desire with all our heart and mind.
We are imperfect. Every one of us except God's Son is imperfect. But through God's new covenant, made possible to us through Jesus, God puts His laws into our hearts and minds and forgives our iniquities, remembering them no more. "...When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." (1 Corinthians 13:10). When Christ occupies our hearts and minds, we are complete. And Jesus promised to send His Holy Spirit of Truth to be with us and in us. (John 14). And Jesus, Son of God, keeps His promises. So invite Him in.
My dear Savior, thank You for occupying my brain 100%, and for Your purifying work in my heart through Your Holy Spirit of Truth and love. You made the new covenant personal. Bless this day, Lord, to glorify You. Bring out the truth so that we can live with each other as You would have us do, honoring You. Give us an inclination to love and serve others like You did and do. Help us have a steady mind, God-focused, as You had when under trials. We praise Your holy name for Your presence with us. We ask all these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
A Song: https://youtu.be/3CCa5ieUWHU
Have a blessed day.
Hebrews 8:1-13
https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/hebrews/8.html
Jesus, High Priest of a Better Covenant
1 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 8 For he finds fault with them when he says:"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more." 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Study Notes: These will be added as I am able.
We are imperfect. Every one of us except God's Son is imperfect. But through God's new covenant, made possible to us through Jesus, God puts His laws into our hearts and minds and forgives our iniquities, remembering them no more. "...When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." (1 Corinthians 13:10). When Christ occupies our hearts and minds, we are complete. And Jesus promised to send His Holy Spirit of Truth to be with us and in us. (John 14). And Jesus, Son of God, keeps His promises. So invite Him in.
My dear Savior, thank You for occupying my brain 100%, and for Your purifying work in my heart through Your Holy Spirit of Truth and love. You made the new covenant personal. Bless this day, Lord, to glorify You. Bring out the truth so that we can live with each other as You would have us do, honoring You. Give us an inclination to love and serve others like You did and do. Help us have a steady mind, God-focused, as You had when under trials. We praise Your holy name for Your presence with us. We ask all these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
A Song: https://youtu.be/3CCa5ieUWHU
Have a blessed day.