New Covenant

Hebrews is a book talking a lot about Jesus being the High Priest which the writer write really interestingly. No one knows who is the writer of this book but the thoughts and ideas are similar to Paul's writings but the style it was written was not Paul's writing. Many scholars today think that it might be Paul's close friend and disciple, Titus or Timothy but some scholars think that it could be Apollo or Barnabas or Paul himself.

Anyway, Hebrews talks a lot about the Old and New Covenant that we have now. That now we all have one High Priest which is Jesus Christ. And we all now cover in this New Covenant that Jesus Christ has done for us.

Let's look into scripture and see what it say...

Hebrews 8

The High Priest of a New Covenant

¹The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, ²and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.

³Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. ⁴If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already men who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. ⁵They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain." ⁶But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.

⁷For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. ⁸But God found fault with the people and said:
"The time is coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
⁹It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
¹⁰This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
¹¹No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
¹²For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."

¹³By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Isn't this great. Now that Jesus Christ has done all this things for us because He wants us to be part of His family and be a part of His legacy that reigns forever. If we live in the old covenant, we must do the many offerings and stuff to get right with God, so which one you want to be in?

So get your life style straight with God. Good things will happen to you.

Verse for the day

Zephaniah 3:17

¹⁷ The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."

God loves you