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Monday, July 1, 2013

Proper 9 (OT)


Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 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, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

God is making a new covenant with his people. It is necessary for him to make this new covenant, because the people have rejected or broken or discarded the old covenant. Similar to how many people today have rejected or abandoned the commandments of the LORD. We have all committed rebellion against God.

In verse 34 Jeremiah (or God) says something interesting. He says he will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. Now most of us would just glace over those two singular nouns. I am surprised grammar check does not indicate that with a plural possessive there should be multiple iniquities. Likewise, with the plural possessive or singular possessive there are multiple acts of sin.

We all commit many transgressions, but the new covenant is not concerned with remembering any of them. The new covenant is not about your keeping it. The new covenant is not like the old covenant. God keeps this covenant. God provides the lamb of price or perfect sacrifice. God does it all for you.

Whatever transgression you may have committed is forgiven. Your sin is removed. Your iniquity is put away. Similarly, the group or collectives sin and iniquity is forgiven. This new covenant is all about Jesus Christ doing what he came to do for you. He has finished and fulfilled this Covenant.

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