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\nHe worked at the school and my
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\nWe have a lot to do with each
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\nHe’s got kids, are friends with
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\nspatially close is the word
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\nSo as I said, I can I can walk
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\nI don’t, don’t worry about that.
\nI haven’t done that yet, but I <\/p>\n
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\ncould theoretically walk to his
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\nIt’s that close.
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\nthat point of view, but we know
\nthat’s not what I totally meant <\/p>\n
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\nwhen I said to somebody or
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\nAnd Matt and I are not just
\nspatially close, which we are, <\/p>\n
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\nbut we’re also relationally
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\nWe’re we’re, we’re good friends,
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\nWe talk about the the truth a
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\ntogether.
\nWe go to the same meeting and <\/p>\n
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\nare involved in things at the
\nmeeting together. <\/p>\n
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\nWe go on holidays together
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\nSo when we got similar sense of
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\nthings as well.
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\nphysically or spatially to use
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\nrelationally.
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\nelements that make up that that
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\nwe’re going to see presence
\nworks exactly the same way and <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to have to work
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\nus spatially and also close to
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\nWe’ll we’ll look at that as we
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\ntonight.
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\nAnd that’s not tonight’s
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\nThat’ll be God willing in our
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\nBut God dwells with us.
\nGod never leaves us. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s made promises to that
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\nYou know, Hebrews talks about he
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\nHow does that work?
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\nHe’s, He’s in Him.
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\nHe’s right here with us. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Him everything exists and
\nconsists and there’s these <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting from the Lord’s
\nPrayer in John 14151617, this, <\/p>\n
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\nthis this emphasis there, God
\nbeing in US and Christ and God <\/p>\n
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\nbeing in US and us and we being
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s this spatial
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\nthroughout the Bible between US
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\nAnd that’s a little bit of a a
\ntweaking that subject when we <\/p>\n
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\nget to it.
\nI’m just trying to change our <\/p>\n
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\nperspective of God being up in
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\nsee us all the way down here.
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\nmore sophisticated than that and
\nwe’ll get to that in in due <\/p>\n
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\ncourse.
\nTonight we’re going to focus on <\/p>\n
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\nthis part of the of the subject,
\nthe relational connection we <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we come into relationship <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll try and unpack what that
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\nand that’s a really powerful
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\nAnd I hope, as I said, it’s a
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\nsense.
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\nconcepts and try and unpack what
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\nessential to lay the foundation
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\nconsiderations.
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\ndimensions and how they work
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\nHe’s a really famous quote from
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\ntemple references saying that we
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\nJust got all presence and God’s
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\nconcept, and it’s Paul Wright
\nsays you are the temple of the <\/p>\n
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\nliving God as God has said.
\nI will dwell in them and walk <\/p>\n
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\namong them.
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\nThe spatial connection with God.
\nGod says I will dwell and I’m <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to walk among you.
\nThere’s echoes back to Eden <\/p>\n
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\nGod walking in the cool of the <\/p>\n
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\ngarden and God’s dwelling.
\nThere’s like there’s temple <\/p>\n
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\nechoes there and references and
\nreferences back to the Lord <\/p>\n
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\nNow that little phrase is the
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\nIt’s in every recital of the <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant, whether it’s covenant
\nGod makes back in Genesis with <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we get there, eventually
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\nin this full sense, that’s God <\/p>\n
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\nrepeats those words, I will be
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\nHere we are in Revelation 21,
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\nSo this chart here is our road <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they feed into the temple
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\ntemple of God as as Jesus was. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we touched on that a little
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\nall the Father aspects of God
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\nBut we’ll get to that later on. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re going to talk about the
\nNew Covenant. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know about you and it’s
\ncould just be me. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I’ve been to every Bible
\nschool, Bible camp, Bible <\/p>\n
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\nconference, Bible weekend, study
\nweekend that’s ever that I could<\/p>\n
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\never get to all my life.
\nAnd I’ve never really heard much<\/p>\n
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\nabout the New Covenant.
\nNow that could because I wasn’t <\/p>\n
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\nThat could be it. <\/p>\n
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\nThat could be it Mica.
\nOr it’s something we find hard <\/p>\n
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\nit’s an interesting concept and <\/p>\n
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\nit a lot even in our literature
\nas far as I can find most <\/p>\n
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\nreferences to the New Covenant
\nbecause it’s anchored back in <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah 31.
\nAnd the context there is the <\/p>\n
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\nthe natural people of Israel and<\/p>\n
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\nlook on Christ today of peace. <\/p>\n
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\npushed into the future as <\/p>\n
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\nnatural Israel and yet we’re <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to see tonight that’s
\ndefinitely not the only <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s definitely something we are<\/p>\n
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\nwith today. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact they are we talk just
\ntalk about covenant. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know if you know that
\nwhen we talk about the Old <\/p>\n
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\nthe word testament is just the <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant, if that makes a bit of
\nsense. <\/p>\n
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\nTestamanus and it comes through
\nas testament. <\/p>\n
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\nstructure, the terminology and <\/p>\n
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\ntime, we’re referring to the Old<\/p>\n
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\nthat goes goes right back to <\/p>\n
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\nconcept of calling half the <\/p>\n
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\nAnd new covenant covenants also <\/p>\n
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\npush the storyline of the Bible
\nright through, don’t they? <\/p>\n
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\nSo we see there’s a, there’s a,
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\nCovenant and see it’s rather
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:18:23,160 –> 00:18:27,080
\nSo come to Hebrews 8, which
\nMicah read for us. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:18:28,400 –> 00:18:32,040
\nAnd the first thing I want us to
\nsee in the commentary here by <\/p>\n
339
\n00:18:32,040 –> 00:18:36,880
\nthe writer of Hebrews is a very
\nbig statement that he makes in <\/p>\n
340
\n00:18:36,880 –> 00:18:39,160
\nverse nine when he talks about
\nthis New Covenant. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:41,640 –> 00:18:44,640
\nAnd when I say a statement, he’s
\nactually quoting verbatim from <\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:44,640 –> 00:18:46,920
\nJeremiah 31, which we’ll get to
\nin a minute, but he’s inserting <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:46,920 –> 00:18:51,760
\nthis here, and he says, not
\nverse nine, I should say, Yep, <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:51,760 –> 00:18:54,320
\n9.
\nThis one not according. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:54,320 –> 00:18:57,840
\nSo this is this new covenant
\nhe’s going to articulate here <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:58,520 –> 00:19:00,480
\nfrom Jeremiah.
\nBut this covenant’s rather <\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:00,480 –> 00:19:03,360
\ndifferent.
\nHe says It’s not like it’s not <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:03,360 –> 00:19:06,760
\naccording to the covenant I made
\nwith their fathers when I took <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:06,760 –> 00:19:08,880
\nthem out of Egypt, which we just
\nread in Exodus 19. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:09,320 –> 00:19:14,240
\nIt’s something different.
\nThat covenant had a flaw in the <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:14,240 –> 00:19:17,800
\nsense that it required that
\nobedience in order to make it <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:17,800 –> 00:19:21,200
\nwork.
\nIf you keep my commandments and <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:21,200 –> 00:19:23,880
\nobey them, then I can be your
\nGod and you can be in my <\/p>\n
354
\n00:19:23,880 –> 00:19:26,640
\npresence, and we can have this
\nrelationship and you can. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:27,160 –> 00:19:29,840
\nI can show my loving kindness to
\nyou and all those things. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:29,840 –> 00:19:33,520
\nBut that covenant wasn’t a it
\nwas conditional, wasn’t sort of <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:33,520 –> 00:19:35,760
\npermanent, and you could fall
\nout of it, and it was, and it <\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:35,760 –> 00:19:38,480
\nhad had issues.
\nAnd so there’s nothing wrong <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:38,480 –> 00:19:40,560
\nwith that covenant.
\nOf course it was wholly just and<\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:40,560 –> 00:19:44,320
\ngood, but because of the
\nweakness of us, because the <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:44,320 –> 00:19:47,880
\nweakness of the people of
\nIsrael, of course it didn’t have<\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:47,880 –> 00:19:50,760
\nthe mechanism in it to to to
\nhelp them in that in that <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:50,760 –> 00:19:53,520
\nsituation.
\nSo this is, you could say, a <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:53,520 –> 00:19:56,080
\nwhole this, this new covenant is
\nreally new. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:56,080 –> 00:20:00,240
\nIt’s it’s a whole new ball game
\nto use that, that that cliche. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:20:00,240 –> 00:20:02,480
\nIt’s a whole new.
\nIt’s not like I’ve said here, <\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:02,480 –> 00:20:07,360
\nnot Judaism 2.0.
\nIt’s not just an upgrade to the <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:07,400 –> 00:20:09,760
\nOld Covenant, it’s a whole new
\nthing. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:09,760 –> 00:20:12,200
\nIt’s something totally different
\nthat has been introduced here, <\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:12,680 –> 00:20:15,760
\nand he’s just a quick structure
\nof Hebrews 8. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:16,760 –> 00:20:20,440
\nThis code in verse 6 here, a
\nbetter covenant. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:20,440 –> 00:20:23,600
\nWe talked about that last class,
\nthis better theme that runs of <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:23,600 –> 00:20:27,440
\ncourse through Hebrews, this
\nreference in verse seven and <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:27,440 –> 00:20:29,560
\neight, that there was an issue
\nwith the first covenant, because<\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:29,560 –> 00:20:32,440
\nif the first covenant could do
\nthat, then we wouldn’t need a <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:32,440 –> 00:20:34,120
\nnew one.
\nSo he says in verse seven, for <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:34,120 –> 00:20:37,320
\nthe first covenant had been
\nfaultless, then there’d be no <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:37,320 –> 00:20:38,960
\nplace for a second.
\nYou wouldn’t have needed a new <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:38,960 –> 00:20:42,640
\none.
\nVerse 8 For finding fault with <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:42,640 –> 00:20:46,480
\nthem he says, Behold the days
\ncome, saith the Lord that I will<\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:46,480 –> 00:20:49,960
\nmake a new covenant, and he then
\ngoes on to say the work. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:49,960 –> 00:20:53,800
\nThe fact he calls it new, the
\nvery fact God labels it a new <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:53,800 –> 00:20:58,760
\ncovenant, is an indication that
\nthe old one is obsolete. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:58,760 –> 00:21:01,840
\nThe old one is no longer in
\nforce. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:02,200 –> 00:21:05,600
\nSo these, the fact he called it
\nthat it wasn’t just the covenant<\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:05,600 –> 00:21:10,800
\nmade to Paul or to he didn’t
\njust relabel it like the other <\/p>\n
387
\n00:21:10,800 –> 00:21:13,200
\ncovenants had a progressive
\nnature about the name the <\/p>\n
388
\n00:21:13,200 –> 00:21:16,560
\ncovenant to nowhere, the
\ncovenant to Abraham, David, <\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:16,560 –> 00:21:18,640
\netcetera.
\nThis, this, this one is not like<\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:18,640 –> 00:21:22,200
\na progression in a sense.
\nIt’s not like an upgrade. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:22,200 –> 00:21:26,400
\nIt’s totally new, totally unique
\nand totally amazing and it’s <\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:26,400 –> 00:21:30,000
\nvery, very powerful.
\nAnd then from verses 9 to 12, <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:31,080 –> 00:21:34,640
\nit’s literally a cut and paste.
\nSo Paul, sorry, I don’t know if <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:34,640 –> 00:21:36,880
\nit’s Paul.
\nThe writer of Hebrews has has <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:37,320 –> 00:21:41,480
\njust basically picked up
\nJeremiah 31 and picked up the <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:42,480 –> 00:21:45,000
\nthe references of this new
\ncovenant picked them up and <\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:45,000 –> 00:21:50,200
\npasted them here into Hebrews 8
\nand I got that in my new King <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:50,200 –> 00:21:51,440
\nJames.
\nIt’s all in capitals for some <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:51,440 –> 00:21:54,480
\nreason when it quotes Old
\nTestament’s got these capitals <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:54,480 –> 00:21:56,640
\nwhich is very hard to read.
\nIt’s like someone screaming at <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:56,640 –> 00:22:03,520
\nyou, but it’s all it’s all there
\nin capitals, this nine. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:03,520 –> 00:22:05,440
\nFor this is a covenant that I
\nwill make with the House of <\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:05,440 –> 00:22:07,160
\nIsrael after those days, says
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:07,280 –> 00:22:11,520
\nI will put my law into their
\nhearts, into their minds, and <\/p>\n
405
\n00:22:11,520 –> 00:22:14,240
\nI’ll write it in their hearts,
\nand I’ll be to them a God, and <\/p>\n
406
\n00:22:14,240 –> 00:22:16,520
\nthey shall be to me a people.
\nThere’s our there’s our covenant<\/p>\n
407
\n00:22:16,520 –> 00:22:20,280
\nformula.
\nThey shall not teach every man, <\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:20,280 –> 00:22:22,760
\nhis neighbor and his brother to
\nsay no the Lord. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:22,760 –> 00:22:25,360
\nBecause everyone under that
\ncovenant, there’s no need for <\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:25,680 –> 00:22:28,120
\nintermediaries.
\nEverybody has a relationship <\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:28,120 –> 00:22:30,080
\nwith God.
\nEveryone knows the Lord from the<\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:30,080 –> 00:22:31,960
\nleast of the greatest.
\nI’ll be merciful. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:31,960 –> 00:22:33,320
\nSo it’s got mercy building to
\nit. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:33,320 –> 00:22:37,200
\nVerse 12 and their sins and
\ntheir iniquities I will remember<\/p>\n
415
\n00:22:37,200 –> 00:22:40,000
\nno more.
\nAnd then verse that in in that <\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:40,000 –> 00:22:42,400
\nhe says a new covenant and gives
\nit a label new. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:42,800 –> 00:22:46,680
\nHe’s made the first one old by
\ndefault and therefore indicated <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:46,680 –> 00:22:52,800
\nthat it would pass away.
\nSo there it is in Hebrews 8. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:52,800 –> 00:22:55,720
\nAs I said, a cut and paste
\ndirectly from Jeremiah 31. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:55,720 –> 00:23:00,280
\nNow what do we make of this new
\ncovenant reference? <\/p>\n
421
\n00:23:00,280 –> 00:23:05,160
\nIt’s it’s challenging, isn’t it?
\nBecause the context where it’s <\/p>\n
422
\n00:23:05,160 –> 00:23:09,360
\ntaken from, where the writer of
\nHebrews takes it from, is a is <\/p>\n
423
\n00:23:09,360 –> 00:23:16,360
\nis sort of a future event.
\nIt’s talking the context both in<\/p>\n
424
\n00:23:16,360 –> 00:23:19,280
\nJeremiah 31 and it’s we’re going
\nto see in Ezekiel 36 and other <\/p>\n
425
\n00:23:19,280 –> 00:23:23,000
\nplaces as well.
\nThe context is the new, the 2nd <\/p>\n
426
\n00:23:23,000 –> 00:23:26,200
\nExodus if you like, where the
\nnatural people of Israel, the <\/p>\n
427
\n00:23:26,200 –> 00:23:27,920
\nnatural Jews, if you like, come
\nback. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:23:27,920 –> 00:23:32,160
\nAnd we talked a bit about that
\non Sunday, though I think Frank <\/p>\n
429
\n00:23:32,160 –> 00:23:34,120
\ntalked about that they’ll come
\nback and they’ll look on him and<\/p>\n
430
\n00:23:34,120 –> 00:23:38,280
\nthey have pierced and they will
\nturn their hearts back to God <\/p>\n
431
\n00:23:38,280 –> 00:23:40,000
\nand accept Jesus as their
\nMessiah. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:23:40,520 –> 00:23:43,400
\nThat’s the that’s the context
\nthat’s couched in there in <\/p>\n
433
\n00:23:43,640 –> 00:23:46,200
\nJeremiah 31.
\nAnd that’s why all the study <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:46,200 –> 00:23:49,760
\nnotes I could get my hands on
\nseem to emphasize that side of <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:49,760 –> 00:23:52,720
\nit.
\nIt’s all it’s considered part of<\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:52,720 –> 00:23:55,520
\nour event, subsequent studies.
\nIt’s all something in the future<\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:56,040 –> 00:23:59,000
\nand yet there’s much more to it
\nthan that. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:59,600 –> 00:24:02,080
\nSo how do we, how do we read
\nthis new covenant here in <\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:02,080 –> 00:24:03,720
\nHebrews 8?
\nHow do we apply it? <\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:03,720 –> 00:24:07,680
\nWhat do we think about it?
\nOption one, we could just take <\/p>\n
441
\n00:24:07,680 –> 00:24:10,320
\nthat approach because it’s from
\nJeremiah 31, Jeremiah 31’s <\/p>\n
442
\n00:24:10,320 –> 00:24:12,240
\ntalking about the 2nd Exodus,
\netcetera. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:24:12,240 –> 00:24:15,960
\nIt’s all in the future and it
\nrelates to natural Israel who <\/p>\n
444
\n00:24:15,960 –> 00:24:19,440
\nhave finally repented and God
\nthen gives them new heart and <\/p>\n
445
\n00:24:19,840 –> 00:24:22,560
\nall those terms in Jeremiah 31
\nrelate to them. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:24:22,560 –> 00:24:25,200
\nSo it’s something we’re looking
\nforward to in the future. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:24:27,000 –> 00:24:30,000
\nSome, and particularly other
\nreligions take it very literally<\/p>\n
448
\n00:24:30,040 –> 00:24:34,320
\nbecause they think God will
\nliterally, miraculously insert <\/p>\n
449
\n00:24:34,320 –> 00:24:38,480
\nHis spirit into us and insert
\nhis lore into our hearts and <\/p>\n
450
\n00:24:38,480 –> 00:24:41,560
\nminds in some miraculous,
\nsupernatural way. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:24:41,560 –> 00:24:45,560
\nAnd again, that that is would
\ncontradict other parts of <\/p>\n
452
\n00:24:45,560 –> 00:24:48,160
\nscripture and the concept of
\nfree will and all those sorts of<\/p>\n
453
\n00:24:48,160 –> 00:24:50,080
\nthings.
\nTo read that hyper literally, it<\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:50,080 –> 00:24:51,960
\ndoesn’t.
\nThat would make sense, but it <\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:51,960 –> 00:24:53,440
\nneeds to be understood in some
\nway. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:54,960 –> 00:24:57,520
\nThe third option is which, Which
\nwhich I believe is the right <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:57,520 –> 00:24:58,480
\noption.
\nWe’ll follow this through a <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:58,480 –> 00:25:02,120
\nlittle bit tonight, is the
\nconcept of imputed righteousness<\/p>\n
459
\n00:25:02,240 –> 00:25:06,920
\nfrom God and the, the and the
\nresult of that and and the <\/p>\n
460
\n00:25:06,920 –> 00:25:10,560
\ngratitude that’s generated if we
\nreally, really get it and really<\/p>\n
461
\n00:25:10,560 –> 00:25:13,840
\nunderstand it and really
\nappreciate it and fall in love <\/p>\n
462
\n00:25:13,840 –> 00:25:16,760
\nwith what God has done and just
\nbe so grateful there’s a power <\/p>\n
463
\n00:25:16,760 –> 00:25:21,680
\nthat God’s God is working in us
\nat that at that point. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:25:21,680 –> 00:25:26,280
\nSo we believe, which is faith.
\nWe have faith in God’s ways. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:25:26,280 –> 00:25:28,480
\nWe finally say, man hasn’t got
\nthe answers. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:25:28,480 –> 00:25:29,840
\nI’m a Sinner.
\nI need God. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:25:30,200 –> 00:25:33,680
\nWe have faith in what God’s
\npromised and his promises God <\/p>\n
468
\n00:25:33,680 –> 00:25:35,160
\ndeems us.
\nWe’re going to talk about this <\/p>\n
469
\n00:25:35,160 –> 00:25:38,040
\nin a minute.
\nGod deems us to be righteous and<\/p>\n
470
\n00:25:38,040 –> 00:25:42,280
\nto be sinless and perfect.
\nAnd because of that, if we <\/p>\n
471
\n00:25:42,280 –> 00:25:45,360
\nreally appreciate that and we
\nreally, really take that to <\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:45,360 –> 00:25:50,000
\nheart and make it real, not just
\ntheoretical, then there’s some <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:50,000 –> 00:25:52,000
\nmajor power in that for us.
\nAnd that. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:52,000 –> 00:25:57,560
\nThat’s that’s really at the very
\nheart of this New Covenant <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:57,560 –> 00:25:59,760
\nreally explains the New Covenant
\nperfectly. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:26:00,520 –> 00:26:02,280
\nLet’s just make a few other
\nobservations about the New <\/p>\n
477
\n00:26:02,280 –> 00:26:04,000
\nCovenant.
\nIs it all about the future or is<\/p>\n
478
\n00:26:04,000 –> 00:26:08,680
\nit about us today?
\nThere are hints throughout <\/p>\n
479
\n00:26:08,680 –> 00:26:10,320
\nJeremiah.
\nWe haven’t got time tonight to <\/p>\n
480
\n00:26:10,320 –> 00:26:13,160
\nlook them up.
\nWhere Jeremiah talks in the in <\/p>\n
481
\n00:26:13,160 –> 00:26:15,800
\nwhen he when he refers to the
\nthese, when he refers to these <\/p>\n
482
\n00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:19,840
\ncovenant passages about God
\nmaking his covenant, There are <\/p>\n
483
\n00:26:19,840 –> 00:26:23,320
\nreferences inserted about the
\nGawi, about the Goyi is when you<\/p>\n
484
\n00:26:23,320 –> 00:26:27,080
\nread that in Hebrew the Gentiles
\nor Goyim is the plural. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:26:27,080 –> 00:26:32,200
\nSo this new covenant is
\nconnected to Gentiles. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:35,680
\nSo to push it all into the
\nfuture and say it’s to do with <\/p>\n
487
\n00:26:36,480 –> 00:26:40,320
\nrepentant Israel, which it is,
\nis not the full story. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:26:40,320 –> 00:26:44,200
\nThere’s something else going on.
\nAnd here throughout the book of <\/p>\n
489
\n00:26:44,200 –> 00:26:48,560
\nHebrews, the repetition of it,
\nthe emphasis on it, the power <\/p>\n
490
\n00:26:48,560 –> 00:26:50,800
\nthat he’s drawn from the writer,
\nHebrews is joined from it. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:51,320 –> 00:26:56,560
\nThere is no doubt at all that it
\nis, it is relevant and enforced <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:56,560 –> 00:26:59,960
\nnow.
\nAnd he’s a verse we sort of read<\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:59,960 –> 00:27:02,680
\nvery quickly.
\nBut in Hebrews 8, verse six, it <\/p>\n
494
\n00:27:02,680 –> 00:27:06,280
\nsays as Christ has obtained a
\nministry that is much more <\/p>\n
495
\n00:27:06,280 –> 00:27:10,400
\nexcellent than the old, as a
\ncovenant he mediates is better. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:27:10,560 –> 00:27:13,040
\nThis is, this is from I think
\nthe ESV. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:27:14,520 –> 00:27:18,320
\nThe New covenant is enacted on
\nbetter promises. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:27:18,320 –> 00:27:21,280
\nNow just that word enacted, just
\nkeep that in your mind for a <\/p>\n
499
\n00:27:21,280 –> 00:27:23,440
\nminute.
\nEnacted is a word we still use <\/p>\n
500
\n00:27:23,440 –> 00:27:28,280
\ntoday in in the legal system.
\nEnacted legislation means it’s <\/p>\n
501
\n00:27:28,280 –> 00:27:30,960
\nbeen given royal assent and it’s
\nin force. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:27:30,960 –> 00:27:34,960
\nIt’s actually happening.
\nSo they change the the penalties<\/p>\n
503
\n00:27:34,960 –> 00:27:39,000
\nfor speeding and it takes effect
\nmidnight last night and I get <\/p>\n
504
\n00:27:39,000 –> 00:27:41,040
\ncaught speeding on the way home
\nfrom here. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:27:41,520 –> 00:27:43,920
\nI get hit with this new penalty,
\ndon’t I? <\/p>\n
506
\n00:27:43,920 –> 00:27:45,640
\nBecause it’s now enacted
\nlegislation. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:27:45,640 –> 00:27:50,320
\nIt’s enacted, it’s in force and
\nthat word, it indicates that the<\/p>\n
508
\n00:27:50,320 –> 00:27:52,920
\nNew Covenant is in force.
\nWhen the book of Hebrews is <\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:53,080 –> 00:27:55,120
\nwritten, this new covenant is
\nnow in force. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:55,120 –> 00:27:57,800
\nIt’s not something we’re waiting
\nfor events subsequent to happen.<\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:58,280 –> 00:28:01,440
\nYes, the Jews will get the
\nbenefit of the in due course, of<\/p>\n
512
\n00:28:01,440 –> 00:28:05,280
\ncourse, but it’s something that
\nis in force right now and <\/p>\n
513
\n00:28:05,280 –> 00:28:07,200
\nsomething that we are under, we
\nare part of. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:28:07,200 –> 00:28:10,360
\nAnd that’s why we really need to
\nthink about it and love it. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:28:12,880 –> 00:28:15,280
\nSorry, I’m pressing the wrong
\nbutton there all the way through<\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:15,280 –> 00:28:17,840
\nHebrews and I haven’t got time
\ntonight to look at every <\/p>\n
517
\n00:28:17,840 –> 00:28:20,600
\nreference, but there’s so many
\nreferences to the New Covenant <\/p>\n
518
\n00:28:20,600 –> 00:28:25,240
\nor a better covenant.
\nHebrews 9 He’s a mediator of the<\/p>\n
519
\n00:28:25,240 –> 00:28:27,400
\nNew Covenant.
\nHe is the mediator of the New <\/p>\n
520
\n00:28:27,400 –> 00:28:30,240
\nCovenant.
\nHebrews 10, this is the covenant<\/p>\n
521
\n00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:32,600
\nthat I will make after them in
\nthose days and repeats the <\/p>\n
522
\n00:28:33,000 –> 00:28:36,320
\nJeremiah 31 reference and it
\napplies it to the believers then<\/p>\n
523
\n00:28:36,560 –> 00:28:39,960
\nand not just apply it but says
\nto them As a result of this New <\/p>\n
524
\n00:28:39,960 –> 00:28:42,280
\nCovenant, you can have
\nconfidence and boldness to come <\/p>\n
525
\n00:28:42,280 –> 00:28:44,800
\ninto the presence of God.
\nThat’s why we need to get a head<\/p>\n
526
\n00:28:44,800 –> 00:28:46,760
\naround this because it’s linked
\nto the presence of God. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:28:46,960 –> 00:28:49,360
\nVery much so, and we’ll get to
\nthat in due course. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:28:49,360 –> 00:28:52,240
\nBut the new covenant makes it
\npossible to be in God’s presence<\/p>\n
529
\n00:28:53,040 –> 00:28:56,680
\nfor a non perfect being like me,
\nto be in the presence of God. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:28:56,680 –> 00:28:58,840
\nThe new covenant enables that to
\nhappen. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:28:58,960 –> 00:29:02,800
\nWithout it, I would not be in
\nGod’s presence, whatever that <\/p>\n
532
\n00:29:02,800 –> 00:29:06,200
\nmeans.
\nHebrews 12 talks about Jesus, <\/p>\n
533
\n00:29:06,200 –> 00:29:08,040
\nthe mediator of the new
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:29:08,040 –> 00:29:10,920
\nIt’s a very important thing and
\nhe’s that famous little prayer <\/p>\n
535
\n00:29:10,920 –> 00:29:12,960
\nat the end of Hebrews.
\nNow may the God of peace have <\/p>\n
536
\n00:29:12,960 –> 00:29:16,120
\nbrought again from the dead Our
\nLord Jesus, the great shepherd <\/p>\n
537
\n00:29:16,120 –> 00:29:18,880
\nof the sheep by the blood of the
\neternal covenant uses eternal <\/p>\n
538
\n00:29:18,880 –> 00:29:20,360
\ncovenant there.
\nObviously not to referring to <\/p>\n
539
\n00:29:20,360 –> 00:29:22,600
\nthe law of Moses.
\nIt’s an eternal covenant. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:29:22,600 –> 00:29:25,120
\nIt’s this new covenant that we
\nare now under. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:29:25,120 –> 00:29:28,680
\nWe’re thanking God for we’re
\nbenefiting from we’re praising <\/p>\n
542
\n00:29:28,680 –> 00:29:32,640
\nGod for it and we it’s part of
\nour should be part of the very <\/p>\n
543
\n00:29:32,640 –> 00:29:35,560
\nfabric of our life.
\nRemember the quotes I looked at <\/p>\n
544
\n00:29:35,560 –> 00:29:38,440
\nearlier on every single Sunday?
\nVirtually we are talking about <\/p>\n
545
\n00:29:38,440 –> 00:29:41,080
\nthe new covenant.
\nSo it’s not we’re not taking the<\/p>\n
546
\n00:29:41,080 –> 00:29:43,800
\nemblems going this is the blood
\nof the new covenant that the <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:43,800 –> 00:29:45,800
\nJews are going to get in the in
\nthe future. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:29:45,800 –> 00:29:46,880
\nAre we?
\nWe’re not we’re not doing that. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:29:46,880 –> 00:29:48,360
\nAnd we take the wine of the new
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:29:48,360 –> 00:29:51,440
\nWe’re saying this is the wine of
\nthe new covenant for my sins and<\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:51,440 –> 00:29:53,480
\nfor me and for my benefit and
\nfor my connection and <\/p>\n
552
\n00:29:53,480 –> 00:29:55,720
\nrelationship to God.
\nRight now it’s something that we<\/p>\n
553
\n00:29:55,720 –> 00:29:59,040
\nare we are totally under.
\nAnd in fact Paul in Second <\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:59,040 –> 00:30:02,800
\nCorinthians says our mission is
\nambassador, we’re ambassador, <\/p>\n
555
\n00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:07,120
\nwe’re New covenant ambassadors.
\nSo this new thing called the New<\/p>\n
556
\n00:30:07,120 –> 00:30:12,080
\nCovenant, he says in Second
\nCorinthians, show that you as <\/p>\n
557
\n00:30:12,400 –> 00:30:15,920
\npeople are a living letter.
\nYou’re not a dead letter or <\/p>\n
558
\n00:30:15,920 –> 00:30:18,600
\nwritten on stone.
\nYou are living the the word of <\/p>\n
559
\n00:30:18,600 –> 00:30:22,120
\nGod in your life, not written
\nwith ink, but with the Spirit of<\/p>\n
560
\n00:30:22,120 –> 00:30:25,280
\nthe living God, not on tables of
\nstone, but on on our human <\/p>\n
561
\n00:30:25,280 –> 00:30:27,520
\nhearts.
\nAnd he says such is the <\/p>\n
562
\n00:30:27,520 –> 00:30:31,200
\nconfidence that we have through
\nChrist towards God that not that<\/p>\n
563
\n00:30:31,200 –> 00:30:33,960
\nwe are sufficient in ourselves
\nand that’s a very powerful part <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:33,960 –> 00:30:37,320
\nof this, but our sufficiency
\ncomes from God who has made us <\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:37,320 –> 00:30:40,160
\nsufficient to be ministers and
\nsome translations have <\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:40,160 –> 00:30:44,840
\nambassadors of a new covenant.
\nSo we are that that’s that’s <\/p>\n
567
\n00:30:44,840 –> 00:30:46,160
\nlike what we’re all about
\nreally. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:30:46,160 –> 00:30:48,080
\nWe’re a new covenant
\nambassadors. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:30:48,080 –> 00:30:51,000
\nSo we really should get a handle
\non what this new covenant is and<\/p>\n
570
\n00:30:51,000 –> 00:30:53,920
\nhow it relates to us now and the
\npower of it in our lives. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:30:53,920 –> 00:30:57,640
\nAnd how it then relates to the
\nwhy in Hebrews tenets is because<\/p>\n
572
\n00:30:57,640 –> 00:31:00,040
\nof that new covenant.
\nYou can come with boldness into <\/p>\n
573
\n00:31:00,040 –> 00:31:03,680
\nthe presence of God and and
\nthat’s really important for us <\/p>\n
574
\n00:31:03,680 –> 00:31:06,080
\nto get a handle on pressing the
\nwrong button. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:31:08,840 –> 00:31:10,480
\nIt’s very interesting.
\nAs I said before all the <\/p>\n
576
\n00:31:10,480 –> 00:31:13,880
\ncovenants in the Old Testament
\nare all converging on this new <\/p>\n
577
\n00:31:13,880 –> 00:31:15,200
\ncovenant.
\nNone of them are. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:31:16,040 –> 00:31:19,160
\nNone of them are perfect in
\nthemselves or holistic in <\/p>\n
579
\n00:31:19,160 –> 00:31:22,520
\nthemselves.
\nThey all, they all are giving us<\/p>\n
580
\n00:31:23,240 –> 00:31:26,200
\nan insight into God’s promises
\nand what God plans to do. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:31:26,200 –> 00:31:30,680
\nAnd all of them together,
\nwhether it’s a Noah covenant or <\/p>\n
582
\n00:31:30,680 –> 00:31:33,480
\nthe Abrahamic covenant, they’re
\nthey’re part of the everlasting <\/p>\n
583
\n00:31:33,480 –> 00:31:36,240
\ncovenant that will that that
\nconverges onto the new covenant.<\/p>\n
584
\n00:31:37,440 –> 00:31:38,720
\nI’ve got to stop pressing the
\nwrong button. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:31:40,120 –> 00:31:43,160
\nSo the covenant got made to Noah
\nin Genesis 9. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:31:43,160 –> 00:31:47,040
\nHe calls it an everlasting
\ncovenant because it’s it’s still<\/p>\n
587
\n00:31:47,040 –> 00:31:52,720
\nhere.
\nIt’s it’s merged into the new <\/p>\n
588
\n00:31:52,720 –> 00:31:55,400
\ncovenant.
\nGod made certain guarantees <\/p>\n
589
\n00:31:55,400 –> 00:31:58,360
\nabout the planet, about, about
\nhis people, etcetera. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:31:59,000 –> 00:32:02,400
\nThe Abrahamic covenant.
\nIt’s also called in Genesis 17 <\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:02,440 –> 00:32:06,120
\nan everlasting covenant.
\nIt’s there, it’s a permanent <\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:06,120 –> 00:32:11,640
\neverlasting covenant, but it it
\nit, it finds it’s out working in<\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:11,640 –> 00:32:16,640
\nthe new covenant which takes it
\ninto the new, the new era if you<\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:16,640 –> 00:32:19,640
\nlike, and David’s covenant.
\nAlthough in Second Samuel 7 the <\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:19,640 –> 00:32:23,520
\nterm everlasting is not there
\nparticularly the word forever is<\/p>\n
596
\n00:32:23,520 –> 00:32:26,080
\nthough in in other words that
\nhave a similar idea. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:32:26,360 –> 00:32:29,960
\nBut Isaiah 50 five talks about
\nDavid’s covenant being an <\/p>\n
598
\n00:32:29,960 –> 00:32:32,640
\neverlasting covenant.
\nSo all these covenants are <\/p>\n
599
\n00:32:32,720 –> 00:32:35,800
\neverlasting as they feed into if
\nyou like, the the new covenant <\/p>\n
600
\n00:32:35,800 –> 00:32:37,920
\nthat we are through Christ under
\nright now. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:32:38,200 –> 00:32:40,520
\nThe only covenant that’s not
\ncalled an everlasting covenant <\/p>\n
602
\n00:32:40,520 –> 00:32:44,200
\nof course is the Lord of Moses
\nthe the the old the covenant <\/p>\n
603
\n00:32:44,320 –> 00:32:46,600
\nunder Moses or Hebrews calls it
\nthe old covenant. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:32:46,720 –> 00:32:49,680
\nThe rest are everlasting.
\nThey all will find their way <\/p>\n
605
\n00:32:49,680 –> 00:32:52,720
\nthrough into the new covenant
\nand we get the Hebrews 13 which <\/p>\n
606
\n00:32:52,720 –> 00:32:54,720
\nwe’ve talked about already
\nthrough the blood of the <\/p>\n
607
\n00:32:54,760 –> 00:32:58,440
\neverlasting covenant.
\nIt’s the it’s the it’s the thing<\/p>\n
608
\n00:32:58,440 –> 00:33:01,920
\nthat we are in now.
\nIt’s part of our relationship to<\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:01,920 –> 00:33:04,440
\nGod.
\nNow it’s interesting, you <\/p>\n
610
\n00:33:04,440 –> 00:33:09,560
\nremember how how conditional the
\nold covenant was, all those if <\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:09,560 –> 00:33:15,240
\nthen else conditional clauses
\nthat were there, all these other<\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:15,240 –> 00:33:18,600
\ncovenants are not conditional in
\nthe sense that you don’t fall in<\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:18,600 –> 00:33:20,600
\nand out, in the sense of
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:20,600 –> 00:33:22,360
\nYou don’t.
\nYou don’t start off in the <\/p>\n
615
\n00:33:22,360 –> 00:33:24,400
\ncovenant then end up out and
\nthen come back in again and pop <\/p>\n
616
\n00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:26,160
\nin, pop out.
\nThey that once you are in these <\/p>\n
617
\n00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:29,960
\ncovenants, they are there for
\nfor God has set them in motion <\/p>\n
618
\n00:33:29,960 –> 00:33:31,800
\nand his covenant people are in
\nthem. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:33:32,400 –> 00:33:34,040
\nThe covenant to Noah for
\nexample. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:33:34,200 –> 00:33:36,720
\nThere’s no conditions.
\nGod says this is it. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:33:36,720 –> 00:33:38,040
\nI’m not going to destroy the
\nworld again. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:33:38,040 –> 00:33:40,440
\nHe doesn’t say.
\nIf you don’t do this, it’s like <\/p>\n
623
\n00:33:40,840 –> 00:33:44,120
\nI’ve already destroyed it
\nbecause of wickedness and man’s <\/p>\n
624
\n00:33:44,120 –> 00:33:46,400
\nheart still evil continually.
\nI’m not going to destroy it <\/p>\n
625
\n00:33:46,400 –> 00:33:48,880
\nagain and and that covenant’s
\nnot a conditional covenant. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:33:48,880 –> 00:33:51,880
\nIt’s what God has deemed to do
\nthe Abrahamic covenant. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:33:53,800 –> 00:33:54,920
\nWe’ll look at Romans 4 in a
\nminute. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:33:54,920 –> 00:33:58,960
\nBut it again is not conditional.
\nIt’s it’s in the sense that it’s<\/p>\n
629
\n00:33:59,040 –> 00:34:01,360
\nit’s given to us by God.
\nIt’s a gift that we have from <\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:01,360 –> 00:34:05,680
\nGod.
\nDon’t confuse conditions with be<\/p>\n
631
\n00:34:05,960 –> 00:34:09,000
\naccessing the covenant.
\nWe need to respond in faith and <\/p>\n
632
\n00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:10,800
\nbe baptized, etcetera, be part
\nof the covenant. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:34:11,040 –> 00:34:14,120
\nBut the covenant itself, we do
\nnot fall in and out of it in <\/p>\n
634
\n00:34:14,120 –> 00:34:17,440
\nthat in that sense as you could
\nhave and Israel did under the <\/p>\n
635
\n00:34:17,440 –> 00:34:19,480
\nold covenant that would.
\nYou know all those Sunday school<\/p>\n
636
\n00:34:19,480 –> 00:34:22,440
\nstories about sin, suffering,
\nsupplication, and what are the <\/p>\n
637
\n00:34:22,440 –> 00:34:25,600
\nother S was and all that exiles
\nout of the land and then returns<\/p>\n
638
\n00:34:25,600 –> 00:34:28,679
\nare all indication of the the
\nfact that under the old covenant<\/p>\n
639
\n00:34:28,679 –> 00:34:31,080
\nyou fell out of it and then you
\nhad to find your way back in. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:34:31,239 –> 00:34:34,719
\nWe are in Christ.
\nWe are in the New Covenant in a <\/p>\n
641
\n00:34:34,719 –> 00:34:39,440
\nfar more permanent sense.
\nAnd this covenant is not <\/p>\n
642
\n00:34:39,440 –> 00:34:43,239
\nconditional in that sense.
\nThere’s a there’s a recital of <\/p>\n
643
\n00:34:43,239 –> 00:34:45,480
\nthe New Covenant.
\nIt’s a little bit different, but<\/p>\n
644
\n00:34:45,639 –> 00:34:47,960
\nit’s similar.
\nAnd you’ll see the similarity <\/p>\n
645
\n00:34:47,960 –> 00:34:51,280
\nstraight away in Ezekiel 36 and
\nlook at the language here. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:34:51,280 –> 00:34:55,520
\nI’ll give you a new heart, same
\nas Jeremiah 31, a new spirit. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:34:55,520 –> 00:34:59,240
\nI’ll put in you exactly the same
\nas again I’ll remove the heart <\/p>\n
648
\n00:34:59,240 –> 00:35:02,440
\nof stone, same idea from your
\nflesh, give you a heart of <\/p>\n
649
\n00:35:02,440 –> 00:35:05,120
\nflesh.
\nI’ll put my spirit within you so<\/p>\n
650
\n00:35:05,120 –> 00:35:07,480
\nyou can see the internal nature
\nof the New Covenant. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:35:08,720 –> 00:35:11,160
\nThe old covenant had all these
\nblessings and conditions about <\/p>\n
652
\n00:35:11,360 –> 00:35:16,400
\ncrops and put into flight the
\nenemies of of Israel. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:35:16,400 –> 00:35:19,960
\nOne man chasing 1000 and your
\ncrops being very productive and <\/p>\n
654
\n00:35:20,280 –> 00:35:23,960
\nall these all these conditional
\nblessings, physical blessings. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:35:23,960 –> 00:35:26,360
\nThe new covenant’s about the
\ninner man it’s it’s it’s <\/p>\n
656
\n00:35:26,360 –> 00:35:27,960
\ninternal.
\nI’m going to put my spirit <\/p>\n
657
\n00:35:27,960 –> 00:35:32,480
\nwithin you and of course you
\nwalk in my statutes and be <\/p>\n
658
\n00:35:32,480 –> 00:35:35,080
\ncareful to obey my rules.
\nNow, interestingly enough, <\/p>\n
659
\n00:35:35,080 –> 00:35:39,200
\nobedience is still there.
\nBut it’s taken us a little while<\/p>\n
660
\n00:35:39,200 –> 00:35:40,880
\nin that verse to get to
\nobedience, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
661
\n00:35:40,960 –> 00:35:44,360
\nSo obedience isn’t the condition
\nthat leads us into it. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:35:44,520 –> 00:35:47,280
\nIt’s a result of something that
\nhappens within this new <\/p>\n
663
\n00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:50,040
\ncovenant.
\nObedience is still part of it, <\/p>\n
664
\n00:35:50,720 –> 00:35:53,480
\nbut not the condition that makes
\nit makes the relationship <\/p>\n
665
\n00:35:53,480 –> 00:35:56,120
\nhappen.
\nAnd you, You’ll dwell in the <\/p>\n
666
\n00:35:56,120 –> 00:35:57,840
\nland I gave your father’s.
\nYou shall be my people. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:35:57,840 –> 00:36:01,000
\nThere’s a covenant recital.
\nYou should be my people and I’ll<\/p>\n
668
\n00:36:01,000 –> 00:36:03,960
\nbe your God.
\nSo notice the internal nature of<\/p>\n
669
\n00:36:04,240 –> 00:36:07,000
\nof the New Covenant.
\nAnd here I’ve just taken it from<\/p>\n
670
\n00:36:07,000 –> 00:36:11,840
\nthe NIV verse 27 of Ezekiel 36
\nAnd I just want you to focus on <\/p>\n
671
\n00:36:12,880 –> 00:36:16,360
\nGod’s involvement under the new
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:36:16,800 –> 00:36:19,200
\nRemember, the old covenant was
\nvery much up to you. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:36:20,200 –> 00:36:24,320
\nGod was there offering things,
\nbut it was all but you must <\/p>\n
674
\n00:36:24,320 –> 00:36:27,280
\nobey, you must do, you must walk
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:36:27,280 –> 00:36:30,320
\nIf you want me to be your God
\nand to be my people, this is <\/p>\n
676
\n00:36:30,400 –> 00:36:35,000
\nthis is the the focus is
\ndifferent now, he says. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:36:35,080 –> 00:36:39,840
\nI will put my spirit within you
\nand I will cause you. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:36:39,880 –> 00:36:43,800
\nThe NIV has moved you.
\nSomething God’s going to do is <\/p>\n
679
\n00:36:43,800 –> 00:36:46,160
\ngoing to cause you or move you
\nto obey. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:36:47,120 –> 00:36:51,280
\nYou’re not obeying as the first
\nbase to get into the <\/p>\n
681
\n00:36:51,280 –> 00:36:53,960
\nrelationship.
\nThe obedience is coming as a <\/p>\n
682
\n00:36:53,960 –> 00:36:56,600
\nresult of the relationship.
\nSomething God’s doing in your <\/p>\n
683
\n00:36:56,600 –> 00:37:01,520
\nlife or for you personally
\ngenerates moves you, causes you <\/p>\n
684
\n00:37:01,520 –> 00:37:03,720
\nto obey.
\nAnd that’s the power of the New <\/p>\n
685
\n00:37:03,720 –> 00:37:06,160
\nCovenant.
\nAnd I will give you a new heart.<\/p>\n
686
\n00:37:06,920 –> 00:37:08,400
\nI just put I just because it
\ncome out on there. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:37:08,880 –> 00:37:11,080
\nI just put.
\nI just highlighted the word I in<\/p>\n
688
\n00:37:11,080 –> 00:37:13,400
\nred just to tell you this is
\nYahweh speaking. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:37:14,160 –> 00:37:16,880
\nI will put my laws in their
\nminds. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:37:17,840 –> 00:37:20,200
\nThat’s from Hebrews 8 quoting
\nJeremiah 31. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:37:20,560 –> 00:37:22,640
\nEzekiel 36.
\nI will give you a new heart. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:37:22,760 –> 00:37:25,440
\nI will put a new spirit in you.
\nI will remove your heart of <\/p>\n
693
\n00:37:25,440 –> 00:37:26,960
\nstone.
\nI will put my spirit within you <\/p>\n
694
\n00:37:26,960 –> 00:37:28,800
\nand cause you to cause you to
\nwalk in my statue. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:37:28,800 –> 00:37:30,680
\nI will cause you to walk in my
\nstatutes. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:37:31,160 –> 00:37:33,920
\nSo not putting them out there.
\nYou must walk in my statues if <\/p>\n
697
\n00:37:33,920 –> 00:37:37,240
\nyou want anything to do with me.
\nIt says under this New covenant <\/p>\n
698
\n00:37:37,240 –> 00:37:39,280
\nI will cause you.
\nI will move you. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:37:39,480 –> 00:37:44,080
\nI will motivate you to obey me
\nand to to walk in my ways. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:37:46,080 –> 00:37:49,920
\nI just want to talk quickly
\nabout the idea of the the <\/p>\n
701
\n00:37:49,920 –> 00:37:51,880
\nmechanism here that makes this
\npossible. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:37:51,880 –> 00:37:55,360
\nI think it explains the power of
\nthe New Covenant is the idea of <\/p>\n
703
\n00:37:55,760 –> 00:38:02,440
\ndeemed or imputed righteousness.
\nI I remember once there was a <\/p>\n
704
\n00:38:02,520 –> 00:38:05,840
\nthere was a there was many years
\nago back 1520 years ago I was a <\/p>\n
705
\n00:38:05,840 –> 00:38:09,000
\nbrother he was going through a
\nreally tough time and he was <\/p>\n
706
\n00:38:09,000 –> 00:38:12,880
\ngoing to move up the NT and and
\nhe and he was in tears and God, <\/p>\n
707
\n00:38:13,120 –> 00:38:14,520
\nI’m I’m useless.
\nI’m hopeless. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:38:14,520 –> 00:38:18,280
\nI can’t I sin and I God would
\nnot be interesting me and he’s <\/p>\n
709
\n00:38:18,280 –> 00:38:23,120
\njust he was totally depressed
\nand I was trying to encourage <\/p>\n
710
\n00:38:23,120 –> 00:38:27,400
\nhim and he says I do all these
\nstupid things and I sin and how <\/p>\n
711
\n00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:29,120
\nwhat would God even be slightly
\ninteresting me. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:38:29,520 –> 00:38:31,440
\nAnd I was, I remember trying to
\nencourage him. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:38:31,440 –> 00:38:35,720
\nAnd I said, oh, but remember,
\nwe’re deemed, because I picked <\/p>\n
714
\n00:38:35,720 –> 00:38:37,480
\nup this word before we’re deemed
\nrighteous. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:38:38,120 –> 00:38:39,240
\nYou know, you don’t have to be
\nright. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:38:39,240 –> 00:38:41,360
\nYou’re deemed righteous.
\nHe sort of looked at me through <\/p>\n
717
\n00:38:41,360 –> 00:38:43,800
\nhis tears and smiled like, are
\nyou off your rocker? <\/p>\n
718
\n00:38:43,800 –> 00:38:47,040
\nLike, and I I wasn’t convinced
\nenough either to really push it <\/p>\n
719
\n00:38:47,040 –> 00:38:49,000
\nbecause it’s like, oh, yeah,
\nthat sounds a bit weird. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:38:49,000 –> 00:38:50,480
\nLike, what does that?
\nWhat’s that all about? <\/p>\n
721
\n00:38:50,920 –> 00:38:55,680
\nAnd And it was hard to to make
\nthat brother see that there’s <\/p>\n
722
\n00:38:55,680 –> 00:38:59,160
\nsome power here because it was
\nsort of a weird concept and I <\/p>\n
723
\n00:38:59,160 –> 00:39:01,520
\ncouldn’t really define it or
\narticulate it properly. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:39:01,520 –> 00:39:05,440
\nAnd it never quite resonated
\nwith him in that sense. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:39:06,280 –> 00:39:09,800
\nBut it is really the underlying
\npower of the new covenant. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:39:09,920 –> 00:39:13,000
\nGod’s going to cause you.
\nHow does he do that? <\/p>\n
727
\n00:39:13,440 –> 00:39:17,040
\nIt’s this idea of imputed
\nrighteousness or deemed similar <\/p>\n
728
\n00:39:17,040 –> 00:39:19,200
\nsort of word.
\nThese words are accounting <\/p>\n
729
\n00:39:19,200 –> 00:39:20,760
\nwords, actually.
\nIf you want to get really <\/p>\n
730
\n00:39:20,760 –> 00:39:24,000
\nboring, those on a pension will
\nknow that they can. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:26,520
\nYou can have your income, you
\ncan have your assets deemed to <\/p>\n
732
\n00:39:26,520 –> 00:39:28,840
\nbe generated income.
\nThis is the point of it. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:39:28,840 –> 00:39:33,000
\nDeeming is something that’s not
\nreal and literal is deemed to be<\/p>\n
734
\n00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:35,800
\nreal.
\nSo any of the pensioners here <\/p>\n
735
\n00:39:35,800 –> 00:39:38,080
\nwill know if they’ve got, they
\nhave an assets test that says <\/p>\n
736
\n00:39:38,080 –> 00:39:41,080
\nhow much pension they get and
\nthey have an income test. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:39:41,600 –> 00:39:44,720
\nNow the income test, the more
\nincome they have, the less <\/p>\n
738
\n00:39:44,720 –> 00:39:46,280
\npension they get.
\nSo the pensioner could say, <\/p>\n
739
\n00:39:46,280 –> 00:39:48,960
\nwell, I’m going to fix that.
\nI’m going to convert all my <\/p>\n
740
\n00:39:48,960 –> 00:39:51,960
\nmoney into diamonds and just
\nkeep it in a safe. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:39:52,360 –> 00:39:54,640
\nAnd it’s not generating income.
\nIt’s getting just capital <\/p>\n
742
\n00:39:54,640 –> 00:39:57,120
\ngrowth, but there’s no income.
\nAnd therefore I get the full <\/p>\n
743
\n00:39:57,120 –> 00:40:00,040
\npension and I don’t lose any.
\nAnd the government goes, no, no,<\/p>\n
744
\n00:40:00,040 –> 00:40:01,480
\nno, no, no, no, no.
\nNo. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:40:01,520 –> 00:40:03,480
\nWe’re deeming.
\nYou’ve got you’ve got $1,000,000<\/p>\n
746
\n00:40:03,480 –> 00:40:05,480
\nof diamonds.
\nWe’re deeming you. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:40:05,480 –> 00:40:07,160
\nAnd every year they put out a
\ndeeming rate. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:40:07,360 –> 00:40:09,080
\nWe’re deeming you to earn 3%
\ninterest. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:40:09,080 –> 00:40:10,520
\nBut I didn’t earn any interest.
\nWe’re deeming you. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:40:10,520 –> 00:40:12,320
\nBut that’s that’s not true.
\nBut we’re deeming you. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:40:12,320 –> 00:40:15,160
\nBut it does.
\nThat’s not literally true, but <\/p>\n
752
\n00:40:15,160 –> 00:40:16,680
\nit has real life effects,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n
753
\n00:40:16,720 –> 00:40:20,120
\nThat pensioner, his pension
\ndisappears and he goes hungry. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:40:21,440 –> 00:40:24,960
\nIt has real effects.
\nDeeming is, it’s not real. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:40:25,920 –> 00:40:30,080
\nBut the power that the
\ngovernment has gives that really<\/p>\n
756
\n00:40:30,080 –> 00:40:34,400
\nincredible negative effects.
\nAnd so deeming is a is a <\/p>\n
757
\n00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:39,960
\npowerful concept if the power
\nwho is deeming is powerful and <\/p>\n
758
\n00:40:39,960 –> 00:40:45,480
\nhas the power to do it.
\nThere’s other examples what <\/p>\n
759
\n00:40:45,480 –> 00:40:48,440
\nwe’re running out of time.
\nSo the word comes. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:40:48,520 –> 00:40:55,200
\nThe word is really listed a few
\ntimes here in Romans 4 in a very<\/p>\n
761
\n00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:59,120
\nfamous chapter of Romans 4,
\nsaying that Abraham believed God<\/p>\n
762
\n00:40:59,800 –> 00:41:02,160
\nand as a result of his faith
\nwasn’t anything he did. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:41:02,160 –> 00:41:07,720
\nIt was his faith that on the
\nbasis of that faith, God deemed <\/p>\n
764
\n00:41:07,720 –> 00:41:10,720
\nhim on the I’ve got the new King
\nJames saying it counted him. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:41:11,320 –> 00:41:14,200
\nAnd the next verse says counted.
\nVerse five says it was counted <\/p>\n
766
\n00:41:14,200 –> 00:41:16,960
\nhim for righteousness.
\nAnd verse six says imputed, <\/p>\n
767
\n00:41:17,360 –> 00:41:20,440
\nwhich is the word we sort of
\npick up on a news imputed to <\/p>\n
768
\n00:41:20,440 –> 00:41:22,920
\nhim.
\nGod imputed righteousness to him<\/p>\n
769
\n00:41:23,280 –> 00:41:25,280
\nand all the benefits of being
\nrighteous. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:41:26,000 –> 00:41:28,560
\nAnd it’s real.
\nIt’s absolutely real and it’s <\/p>\n
771
\n00:41:28,560 –> 00:41:31,920
\npowerful because God has the
\npower to do that through the <\/p>\n
772
\n00:41:31,920 –> 00:41:35,120
\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nSo Thayer’s definition of that <\/p>\n
773
\n00:41:35,120 –> 00:41:38,120
\nword is highlighted, deem and
\nimpute from Strong’s. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:41:38,560 –> 00:41:40,160
\nIt’s got it.
\nIt’s something that’s not <\/p>\n
775
\n00:41:40,160 –> 00:41:41,760
\nliterally real and literally
\ntrue. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:41:41,760 –> 00:41:43,440
\nLike Darren, he’s not literally
\nrighteous. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:41:43,440 –> 00:41:45,760
\nI can assure you.
\nI know you, you’ll go, what? <\/p>\n
778
\n00:41:45,760 –> 00:41:49,680
\nThat’s not true, but it’s not.
\nBut God deems me to be <\/p>\n
779
\n00:41:49,680 –> 00:41:52,640
\nrighteous, and all the benefits
\naccrue to me of being righteous,<\/p>\n
780
\n00:41:53,280 –> 00:41:55,680
\nwhich also, which as Hebrews 10,
\nwe’ll get to in a moment. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:41:55,680 –> 00:41:58,120
\nWe’ll get not tonight.
\nWe’ll get to another night, says<\/p>\n
782
\n00:41:58,120 –> 00:41:59,720
\nI can have boldness in the
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:41:59,720 –> 00:42:02,360
\nI can have euphoria in the
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:42:02,360 –> 00:42:04,400
\nI can have no shame in the
\npresence of God. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:42:04,400 –> 00:42:06,880
\nMy conscience can be purely
\nclear in the presence of God <\/p>\n
786
\n00:42:07,480 –> 00:42:10,120
\nbecause he deems me righteous.
\nHe deems me perfect. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:42:10,440 –> 00:42:14,040
\nIt’s not theory, brothers and
\nsisters, until it’s got to move <\/p>\n
788
\n00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:17,080
\nfrom theory into reality for the
\npower of it to work. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:42:17,360 –> 00:42:24,880
\nAnd that’s our that’s our job to
\ndo one more example I just this <\/p>\n
790
\n00:42:24,880 –> 00:42:26,760
\nis really important to get
\ndeeming worked out. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:42:26,800 –> 00:42:34,480
\nSo OK, Michael wake up then he
\nwas asleep there on the very <\/p>\n
792
\n00:42:34,480 –> 00:42:35,760
\nminute.
\nAll of a sudden he’s away. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:42:39,320 –> 00:42:41,080
\nThis is a bit of paper, right
\nwith a bit of ink on it. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:42:42,680 –> 00:42:45,800
\nI did a quick calc, thinking of,
\nyou know, amortizing floor space<\/p>\n
795
\n00:42:45,800 –> 00:42:51,520
\nand and and and other overheads
\nand the and the amount of income<\/p>\n
796
\n00:42:51,520 –> 00:42:53,760
\nof using.
\nIt’d be lucky to be worth $0.03.<\/p>\n
797
\n00:42:53,760 –> 00:42:55,880
\nThat’d be lucky to be worth
\n$0.03 worth of paper. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:42:56,160 –> 00:42:58,600
\nIf it wasn’t a $50 note and I
\ndropped it, I wouldn’t pick it <\/p>\n
799
\n00:42:58,600 –> 00:43:01,680
\nup at all.
\nI would responsibly put it into <\/p>\n
800
\n00:43:02,040 –> 00:43:04,680
\na receptacle, but.
\nBut I would not value it in any <\/p>\n
801
\n00:43:04,680 –> 00:43:05,440
\nway.
\nIt’s not worth. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:43:05,480 –> 00:43:06,960
\nIt’s a bit of paper, is that
\nright? <\/p>\n
803
\n00:43:06,960 –> 00:43:08,480
\nIt’s just a bit of paper, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
804
\n00:43:09,120 –> 00:43:10,640
\nRip it up.
\nIt’s just a bit of paper. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:43:12,880 –> 00:43:17,080
\nOur government, because of its
\npower, has deemed that bit of <\/p>\n
806
\n00:43:17,080 –> 00:43:19,720
\npaper.
\nIt’d be worth 50 Australian <\/p>\n
807
\n00:43:19,720 –> 00:43:22,880
\ndollars.
\nDoes that have real life <\/p>\n
808
\n00:43:22,880 –> 00:43:23,760
\neffects?
\nIs that true? <\/p>\n
809
\n00:43:23,760 –> 00:43:26,120
\nIs that powerful?
\nDoes that have buying power? <\/p>\n
810
\n00:43:26,920 –> 00:43:30,720
\nCould I go to Kohl’s and buy?
\nWhat do you get from Kohl’s? <\/p>\n
811
\n00:43:30,720 –> 00:43:34,320
\nYou know, like stuff like like
\nwashing up detergent and things <\/p>\n
812
\n00:43:34,320 –> 00:43:39,480
\nand and things and groceries.
\nCould I get, do I get a coffee <\/p>\n
813
\n00:43:39,480 –> 00:43:41,640
\nshop and buy?
\nCould I get a pizza, pizza shop <\/p>\n
814
\n00:43:41,640 –> 00:43:44,280
\nand buy a pizza with that?
\nProbably not in Sydney, but up <\/p>\n
815
\n00:43:44,280 –> 00:43:45,520
\nmy way.
\nYou can probably just squeeze <\/p>\n
816
\n00:43:45,520 –> 00:43:48,960
\nthe pizza in.
\nThat has real power, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
817
\n00:43:48,960 –> 00:43:52,960
\nThat has real power, but it’s a
\n3 cent bit of paper because the <\/p>\n
818
\n00:43:53,080 –> 00:43:57,040
\ngovernment has deemed it such.
\nSo deeming is real and powerful <\/p>\n
819
\n00:43:57,240 –> 00:44:01,320
\nand has very real effects.
\nIt’s not just theory if the <\/p>\n
820
\n00:44:01,320 –> 00:44:05,320
\ndeeming authority has the power
\nor has the ability to do that. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:44:06,240 –> 00:44:08,840
\nSo deeming is very real and very
\npowerful. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:44:11,880 –> 00:44:16,920
\nHowever, let’s say some tin pot
\ndictator in Africa, somewhere in<\/p>\n
823
\n00:44:16,920 –> 00:44:21,360
\nsome little African state, makes
\nup his own, makes up his own <\/p>\n
824
\n00:44:21,360 –> 00:44:27,160
\ncurrency, gets a bit of paper.
\nAnd he says, I got to make this <\/p>\n
825
\n00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:31,640
\na 10 billion dollar, $10 billion
\ncurrency. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:44:32,160 –> 00:44:34,480
\nI’m going to deem, I’m going to
\ndeem that to be worth 10 <\/p>\n
827
\n00:44:34,480 –> 00:44:38,400
\nbillion, $10 billion, OK, so he
\nsays that’s a $10 billion piece <\/p>\n
828
\n00:44:38,440 –> 00:44:41,280
\nof Now is that does that deeming
\neffective? <\/p>\n
829
\n00:44:41,280 –> 00:44:43,080
\nDoes that work?
\nThat’s nonsense. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:44:43,160 –> 00:44:45,480
\nThat deeming doesn’t work
\nbecause he doesn’t have the <\/p>\n
831
\n00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:48,560
\nability to underwrite that.
\nThat he doesn’t have an economy <\/p>\n
832
\n00:44:48,560 –> 00:44:50,120
\nthat can underwrite $10 billion.
\nSo. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:44:50,560 –> 00:44:54,000
\nSo Demi isn’t Demi is not
\nliteral and not not literally <\/p>\n
834
\n00:44:54,000 –> 00:44:58,520
\ntrue, but where the authority,
\nthe demon authority has the <\/p>\n
835
\n00:44:58,520 –> 00:45:00,480
\npower, it is very true and very
\nreal. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:45:00,920 –> 00:45:04,240
\nAnd where they don’t have the
\npower, it is not true at all. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:45:04,240 –> 00:45:08,440
\nSo our notes are actually
\nunderwritten. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:45:08,440 –> 00:45:12,000
\nAnd in the old days, before the
\nWorld War One, there was a thing<\/p>\n
839
\n00:45:12,000 –> 00:45:13,760
\ncalled the gold standard, if you
\nremember that. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:45:13,760 –> 00:45:16,680
\nSo anyone heard of Fort Knox,
\nsay all the gold people say the <\/p>\n
841
\n00:45:16,680 –> 00:45:19,240
\ngold.
\nNow the government would hold a <\/p>\n
842
\n00:45:19,240 –> 00:45:22,920
\ncertain ratio of of actual
\nbullion, gold bullion in Fort <\/p>\n
843
\n00:45:22,920 –> 00:45:26,400
\nKnox. the US government and
\nissued currency, they’d given up<\/p>\n
844
\n00:45:26,400 –> 00:45:27,680
\non that, don’t worry about that
\nanymore. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:45:27,680 –> 00:45:30,000
\nBut that was that was before
\nWorld War One that had this gold<\/p>\n
846
\n00:45:30,000 –> 00:45:32,440
\nstandard.
\nAnd so the currency, although <\/p>\n
847
\n00:45:32,440 –> 00:45:36,440
\nit’s a bit of paper worth three
\ncents, it was underwritten by <\/p>\n
848
\n00:45:36,520 –> 00:45:39,000
\nthis gold bullion that was kept
\nat Fort Knox. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:45:39,000 –> 00:45:46,120
\nIt was a real underwritten, you
\ncould say a surety or some sort <\/p>\n
850
\n00:45:46,120 –> 00:45:49,480
\nof guarantee that was physically
\nthere behind the scenes. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:45:49,840 –> 00:45:53,960
\nThat mean I could walk around
\nManhattan or you know somewhere <\/p>\n
852
\n00:45:53,960 –> 00:45:57,800
\nin New York and I could get
\nmoney for my USI could get goods<\/p>\n
853
\n00:45:57,800 –> 00:46:00,880
\nand services, my U.S. dollar.
\nSince World War One, there’s a <\/p>\n
854
\n00:46:01,640 –> 00:46:03,520
\nnew scheme called the Fiat
\nscheme and it’s based on the <\/p>\n
855
\n00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:06,520
\nunderlying value of the economy
\nand the interest rates and <\/p>\n
856
\n00:46:06,520 –> 00:46:08,640
\ninflation, all the all those
\nsorts of things. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:46:08,640 –> 00:46:10,960
\nBut it still is based on the
\npower of the economy. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:46:10,960 –> 00:46:15,040
\nAs I said, that dictator could
\ncome up with a $10 million note <\/p>\n
859
\n00:46:15,040 –> 00:46:20,040
\nand it’s not worth to Bob.
\nSo you can see how there’s faith<\/p>\n
860
\n00:46:20,040 –> 00:46:23,640
\ninvolved here, isn’t there?
\nBecause we are acknowledging <\/p>\n
861
\n00:46:23,640 –> 00:46:26,120
\nthrough faith the power of the
\nauthority. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:46:26,120 –> 00:46:30,120
\nWho says I will deem you?
\nI deemed Abraham righteous, And <\/p>\n
863
\n00:46:30,120 –> 00:46:33,920
\nthose that are Abraham’s through
\nfaith and baptized into through <\/p>\n
864
\n00:46:33,920 –> 00:46:37,840
\na baptized into Christ, I will
\ndeem them righteous as well. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:46:37,840 –> 00:46:40,360
\nAnd we go, I don’t think you
\ncan. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:46:40,360 –> 00:46:42,000
\nI don’t think you.
\nI don’t think you got the power <\/p>\n
867
\n00:46:42,000 –> 00:46:45,760
\nto do it because I’m really not
\nthat good like my friend I’ve <\/p>\n
868
\n00:46:46,280 –> 00:46:52,600
\nbeen Darwin.
\nSo it’s it’s a faith in the <\/p>\n
869
\n00:46:52,600 –> 00:46:56,680
\npower of God that he can do that
\nand he does that righteously <\/p>\n
870
\n00:46:56,680 –> 00:46:59,800
\nwhich means he does it not just
\nas a he’s not just winking at <\/p>\n
871
\n00:46:59,800 –> 00:47:01,760
\nseeing he does it through
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
872
\n00:47:02,000 –> 00:47:05,920
\nAnd just like this gold is the
\nsurety or the, the guarantee <\/p>\n
873
\n00:47:05,920 –> 00:47:10,560
\nunderwriting, underwriting the
\nin the old days, underwriting <\/p>\n
874
\n00:47:10,560 –> 00:47:11,800
\nthe notes and the value of the
\nnotes. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:47:12,400 –> 00:47:15,720
\nSo there is something in the new
\ncovenant which is called the <\/p>\n
876
\n00:47:15,720 –> 00:47:17,640
\nblood of the Christ, the blood
\nof the new covenant. <\/p>\n
877
\n00:47:17,640 –> 00:47:20,880
\nThere’s something about Christ
\nthat he’s sacrificed that acts <\/p>\n
878
\n00:47:20,880 –> 00:47:24,440
\nas an underwriting power
\nunderwriting value if you like, <\/p>\n
879
\n00:47:25,280 –> 00:47:27,920
\nthat allows Darren, because of
\nmy connection with the Lord <\/p>\n
880
\n00:47:27,920 –> 00:47:30,960
\nJesus Christ to be deemed to be
\nrighteous. <\/p>\n
881
\n00:47:31,800 –> 00:47:32,920
\nHope I haven’t butchered that
\ntoo much. <\/p>\n
882
\n00:47:32,920 –> 00:47:35,640
\nAnd I hope it’s coming through a
\nlittle bit, because it really is<\/p>\n
883
\n00:47:35,640 –> 00:47:39,200
\nthe power upon which the New
\nCovenant works and the <\/p>\n
884
\n00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,440
\nforgiveness of sins and the
\nimputation of sins. <\/p>\n
885
\n00:47:41,840 –> 00:47:44,040
\nGod says I’m not holding sins
\nagainst them anymore. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:47:44,240 –> 00:47:47,360
\nIn fact, I’ve perfected them.
\nIt says in Hebrews perfected <\/p>\n
887
\n00:47:47,360 –> 00:47:49,760
\nforever.
\nThese people that are in Christ <\/p>\n
888
\n00:47:49,760 –> 00:47:53,880
\nbecause of Christ because he he
\nis perfect, but he became <\/p>\n
889
\n00:47:53,880 –> 00:47:56,680
\nperfect through suffering.
\nWe are imputed perfect because <\/p>\n
890
\n00:47:56,680 –> 00:47:58,920
\nof our connection with him.
\nAnyway, I better rush. <\/p>\n
891
\n00:47:58,960 –> 00:48:02,560
\nWe’re just about finished.
\nSo if we break break the New <\/p>\n
892
\n00:48:02,560 –> 00:48:07,240
\nCovenant down into its into its
\ncomponents, this first one here <\/p>\n
893
\n00:48:07,240 –> 00:48:09,920
\nis really the the driving power
\nof the New Covenant. <\/p>\n
894
\n00:48:09,920 –> 00:48:12,040
\nIt’s the, it’s the engine I
\nthink that makes it work. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:48:12,720 –> 00:48:15,480
\nIt’s the new covenant says I’ll
\nremember their sins no more. <\/p>\n
896
\n00:48:16,240 –> 00:48:19,240
\nAnd God says in Ezekiel 36 I’ll
\ndeliver you from an uncleanness,<\/p>\n
897
\n00:48:19,240 –> 00:48:20,520
\nI’ll cleanse you from your
\niniquity. <\/p>\n
898
\n00:48:20,520 –> 00:48:24,480
\nSo that’s the underlying power
\nthat makes the New covenant work<\/p>\n
899
\n00:48:25,040 –> 00:48:28,800
\nas opposed to that old Covenant
\nthat made you achieve that God <\/p>\n
900
\n00:48:28,800 –> 00:48:31,640
\nsaying no, I’m going to forgive
\nyou your sins and not hold sin <\/p>\n
901
\n00:48:31,640 –> 00:48:35,840
\nagainst you.
\nAnd there the result of that if <\/p>\n
902
\n00:48:35,920 –> 00:48:39,560
\nbelieved and loved and
\nemotionally taken into your <\/p>\n
903
\n00:48:39,560 –> 00:48:43,560
\nheart and mind and and responded
\nto develops this internal <\/p>\n
904
\n00:48:43,560 –> 00:48:47,080
\ntransformation.
\nAnd that’s what the New Covenant<\/p>\n
905
\n00:48:47,080 –> 00:48:50,760
\nmeans when it says, I’ll put my
\nlaw into their hearts. <\/p>\n
906
\n00:48:50,760 –> 00:48:53,280
\nRemember that quote we looked at
\nin Corinthians as not written on<\/p>\n
907
\n00:48:53,280 –> 00:48:56,840
\nstone, but it’s in it’s a living
\nletter written in the in the in <\/p>\n
908
\n00:48:56,840 –> 00:48:58,760
\nyour heart.
\nIt’s something that changes your<\/p>\n
909
\n00:48:59,400 –> 00:49:02,120
\nyour desires and your affection
\nand what you think is important <\/p>\n
910
\n00:49:02,120 –> 00:49:03,640
\nand what you’re going to devote
\nyour life to. <\/p>\n
911
\n00:49:03,640 –> 00:49:06,800
\nIt’s it’s a response to the fact
\nthat you’ve got this incredible <\/p>\n
912
\n00:49:06,800 –> 00:49:10,680
\ngift and God has given you a new
\nheart and a new spirit that <\/p>\n
913
\n00:49:10,680 –> 00:49:14,360
\ncomes as a result of that, that
\namazing gift from God. <\/p>\n
914
\n00:49:15,080 –> 00:49:19,320
\nAnd then it develops this, this
\nintimacy where we all know God <\/p>\n
915
\n00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:22,640
\nindividually.
\nAll of us Israel had priests and<\/p>\n
916
\n00:49:22,640 –> 00:49:24,680
\nprophets and all these
\nintermediaries. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:49:24,680 –> 00:49:27,440
\nWe are all connected to God
\nthrough the power of the New <\/p>\n
918
\n00:49:27,440 –> 00:49:30,880
\nCovenant.
\nSo here’s the power of deeming <\/p>\n
919
\n00:49:31,200 –> 00:49:33,960
\nin its outworking.
\nGod deems us righteous. <\/p>\n
920
\n00:49:34,840 –> 00:49:39,040
\nWe respond.
\nHe’s just a quick diagram. <\/p>\n
921
\n00:49:39,240 –> 00:49:43,800
\nWe respond with gratitude to the
\nto what God’s given us through <\/p>\n
922
\n00:49:43,800 –> 00:49:46,120
\nChrist.
\nAnd that response generates in <\/p>\n
923
\n00:49:46,120 –> 00:49:49,640
\nus this new spirit and this new
\nheart and makes us just thank <\/p>\n
924
\n00:49:49,640 –> 00:49:52,240
\nGod from literally the bottom of
\nour hearts. <\/p>\n
925
\n00:49:52,240 –> 00:49:55,400
\nIf you want to use that, because
\nit’s the terminology here in in <\/p>\n
926
\n00:49:55,400 –> 00:49:57,440
\nthe New Covenant, it’s heart,
\nheart, heart all the way <\/p>\n
927
\n00:49:57,440 –> 00:49:59,880
\nthrough.
\nSo why is it so powerful? <\/p>\n
928
\n00:49:59,880 –> 00:50:01,960
\nJust a few points.
\nWe’ve got about 5 minutes before<\/p>\n
929
\n00:50:01,960 –> 00:50:06,120
\nwe finish up.
\nWhy is it so much more powerful <\/p>\n
930
\n00:50:06,120 –> 00:50:09,440
\nthan the Old Covenant?
\nThink about the Old Covenant for<\/p>\n
931
\n00:50:09,440 –> 00:50:10,920
\na minute.
\nThe Old Covenant started with <\/p>\n
932
\n00:50:10,920 –> 00:50:13,520
\nAbraham.
\nSo Abraham was the one in the <\/p>\n
933
\n00:50:13,520 –> 00:50:18,600
\nrelationship with God and
\nAbraham’s genealogical <\/p>\n
934
\n00:50:18,600 –> 00:50:22,920
\ndescendants were offered to be
\nto have access to this covenant <\/p>\n
935
\n00:50:23,200 –> 00:50:25,720
\nand there was a sign that would
\ngive them connection to it. <\/p>\n
936
\n00:50:26,160 –> 00:50:29,240
\nBut it was a was part Jew and
\nvirtue to the fact that they <\/p>\n
937
\n00:50:29,240 –> 00:50:30,800
\nwere descendants of that of
\nAbraham. <\/p>\n
938
\n00:50:30,800 –> 00:50:35,400
\nSo they they would circumcise
\ntheir their sons as a sign of <\/p>\n
939
\n00:50:35,400 –> 00:50:37,440
\nthat covenant.
\nYou see it’s all related to <\/p>\n
940
\n00:50:37,440 –> 00:50:43,320
\nreproduction processes isn’t so.
\nSo people under the old covenant<\/p>\n
941
\n00:50:44,480 –> 00:50:48,040
\nwe’re really connected to
\nAbraham who was the friend of <\/p>\n
942
\n00:50:48,040 –> 00:50:52,280
\nGod, who was The Who connected
\nto God in in a covenant in the <\/p>\n
943
\n00:50:52,400 –> 00:50:54,000
\nthat we call it the Abrahamic
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
944
\n00:50:54,320 –> 00:50:59,120
\nAnd so there was this.
\nThe connection was distributed, <\/p>\n
945
\n00:50:59,120 –> 00:51:00,800
\nwasn’t it?
\nThrough through the population, <\/p>\n
946
\n00:51:00,800 –> 00:51:05,920
\nthrough through genealogical
\nconnection, and within that <\/p>\n
947
\n00:51:06,080 –> 00:51:10,120
\ngrouping of people that came
\nfrom Abraham I’ve just <\/p>\n
948
\n00:51:10,120 –> 00:51:11,880
\nhighlighted in blue.
\nIf you like, there were people <\/p>\n
949
\n00:51:11,880 –> 00:51:14,400
\nthat were faithful to the terms
\nof the covenant, or attempted to<\/p>\n
950
\n00:51:14,400 –> 00:51:17,040
\nbe faithful to that covenant.
\nThere were others who rejected <\/p>\n
951
\n00:51:17,040 –> 00:51:19,880
\nit, even though they were all
\nnatural descendants of Abraham. <\/p>\n
952
\n00:51:20,520 –> 00:51:22,720
\nAnd so we have something under
\nthe Old Covenant called the <\/p>\n
953
\n00:51:22,720 –> 00:51:27,040
\nRemnant and the remnant of those
\nwho are faithful to the <\/p>\n
954
\n00:51:27,040 –> 00:51:32,240
\ncovenant, even though everyone
\nin Israel was part of that <\/p>\n
955
\n00:51:32,240 –> 00:51:36,000
\ncovenant, through the natural
\nreproduction process, there was <\/p>\n
956
\n00:51:36,000 –> 00:51:37,760
\na remnant who were faithful to
\nthe covenant. <\/p>\n
957
\n00:51:38,720 –> 00:51:40,400
\nNow that’s old covenant
\nterminology. <\/p>\n
958
\n00:51:40,400 –> 00:51:43,520
\nYou see sometimes how we slip
\ninto using old covenant <\/p>\n
959
\n00:51:43,520 –> 00:51:47,320
\nterminology when we’re trying to
\nexplain our connection to God <\/p>\n
960
\n00:51:47,320 –> 00:51:49,720
\nunder the new covenant.
\nThe new Covenant is <\/p>\n
961
\n00:51:50,320 –> 00:51:54,280
\nsignificantly different.
\nWe all of us as individuals are <\/p>\n
962
\n00:51:54,280 –> 00:51:58,400
\nin Christ and under the new
\ncovenant we have the connection <\/p>\n
963
\n00:51:58,400 –> 00:52:02,800
\nto God under this new covenant.
\nAnd the ritual, if you like, is <\/p>\n
964
\n00:52:02,800 –> 00:52:05,680
\nbaptism.
\nIt’s the it’s the token that we <\/p>\n
965
\n00:52:05,880 –> 00:52:08,560
\nwe undertake.
\nAnd at baptism God says you are <\/p>\n
966
\n00:52:08,560 –> 00:52:12,800
\nmy people and I am your God and
\nand the relationships made. <\/p>\n
967
\n00:52:12,800 –> 00:52:16,160
\nBut it’s done because we are and
\nit works because we are in <\/p>\n
968
\n00:52:16,160 –> 00:52:19,560
\nChrist and connected through
\nChrist to God in that way but <\/p>\n
969
\n00:52:19,560 –> 00:52:25,680
\ndirectly to Christ and in any
\nrelationship to God and added to<\/p>\n
970
\n00:52:25,680 –> 00:52:29,240
\nthe new covenant is the is the
\nwhole concept of sonship. <\/p>\n
971
\n00:52:29,680 –> 00:52:33,480
\nWe are now children we’re we’re
\nadopted. <\/p>\n
972
\n00:52:33,480 –> 00:52:35,840
\nIf you want to use the the
\nphrase from you know Ephesians <\/p>\n
973
\n00:52:35,840 –> 00:52:38,680
\none and Romans 8 etcetera in
\nGalatians 4 that talks about the<\/p>\n
974
\n00:52:38,760 –> 00:52:40,520
\nspirit of adoption the power of
\nadoption. <\/p>\n
975
\n00:52:41,760 –> 00:52:46,240
\nWe are we are we are now in
\nChrist as a as children and <\/p>\n
976
\n00:52:46,240 –> 00:52:48,080
\nchildren is a whole different
\nball game. <\/p>\n
977
\n00:52:48,080 –> 00:52:51,400
\nIt really helps explain both the
\npower of the new covenant, but <\/p>\n
978
\n00:52:51,400 –> 00:52:53,520
\nalso the presence.
\nWhen we get to trying to put the<\/p>\n
979
\n00:52:53,520 –> 00:52:57,920
\npractical side together, We are
\nchildren connected to a father. <\/p>\n
980
\n00:52:58,720 –> 00:53:00,240
\nAnd that changes everything,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n
981
\n00:53:00,720 –> 00:53:03,040
\nBecause you don’t.
\nYou have children. <\/p>\n
982
\n00:53:04,160 –> 00:53:07,080
\nThose of us who do, and they
\nthey don’t always obey us. <\/p>\n
983
\n00:53:07,320 –> 00:53:10,080
\nThey drive us a bit crazy, but
\nthey’re always our children. <\/p>\n
984
\n00:53:10,080 –> 00:53:12,360
\nWe always love them.
\nIt’s not like I come home and <\/p>\n
985
\n00:53:12,360 –> 00:53:15,080
\nsay right, Phoebe, you’re no
\nlonger my daughter. <\/p>\n
986
\n00:53:15,080 –> 00:53:16,480
\nGet out of the house.
\nGo. <\/p>\n
987
\n00:53:16,480 –> 00:53:19,640
\nAnd then 5 minutes later she
\ncomes back in and she’s back <\/p>\n
988
\n00:53:19,640 –> 00:53:20,320
\nagain.
\nNo, go. <\/p>\n
989
\n00:53:20,320 –> 00:53:22,200
\nGet out of there.
\nShe’s always my daughter, even <\/p>\n
990
\n00:53:22,200 –> 00:53:24,920
\nif she’s doing things that I’m
\nnot totally excited about. <\/p>\n
991
\n00:53:25,120 –> 00:53:29,040
\nSo once we get that idea that we
\nare God’s children as a <\/p>\n
992
\n00:53:29,240 –> 00:53:32,840
\nconsequence of this covenant,
\nand that’s how when we get to <\/p>\n
993
\n00:53:32,840 –> 00:53:34,440
\nRevelation 21, we’re going to
\nsee the language. <\/p>\n
994
\n00:53:34,440 –> 00:53:37,960
\nIt’s interesting that covenant
\nformula says I’ll be their God, <\/p>\n
995
\n00:53:37,960 –> 00:53:41,280
\nthey will be my children.
\nAnd the next verse says, and <\/p>\n
996
\n00:53:41,280 –> 00:53:44,440
\nI’ll be a father unto them.
\nSo it’s the fatherhood of God <\/p>\n
997
\n00:53:44,440 –> 00:53:47,880
\nthat comes into force under the
\nUnder the New Covenant. <\/p>\n
998
\n00:53:48,160 –> 00:53:51,840
\nIsrael.
\nIsrael as individuals were not <\/p>\n
999
\n00:53:51,840 –> 00:53:54,400
\nsons of God in that same sense.
\nSo we’re not born again. <\/p>\n
1000
\n00:53:55,240 –> 00:53:58,000
\nThey were a collective son,
\nthough out of Egypt, I’ve called<\/p>\n
1001
\n00:53:58,000 –> 00:54:01,560
\nmy son, Hosea says.
\nSo they were a collective son, <\/p>\n
1002
\n00:54:02,000 –> 00:54:03,320
\nbut they weren’t.
\nThey didn’t have that <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:54:03,320 –> 00:54:10,560
\nrelationship to God like we do
\nin our relationship with God <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:54:10,560 –> 00:54:13,520
\nUnder the New Covenant.
\nOK, I’m going to flick through <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:54:13,520 –> 00:54:14,560
\nthis because we’re running out
\nof time. <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:54:16,760 –> 00:54:20,240
\nWhere do you look at that?
\nThe New Covenant has a change of<\/p>\n
1007
\n00:54:20,240 –> 00:54:22,240
\nmindset from the Old Covenant,
\nwhich is really powerful. <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:54:22,240 –> 00:54:25,200
\nAnd as I said, sometimes a lot
\nof our language, even our views <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:54:25,200 –> 00:54:29,240
\nof Providence, our our views of
\nhow we got to keep God happy or <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:54:29,440 –> 00:54:31,720
\ngood things happening happening
\nto us because we’ve been good. <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:54:31,720 –> 00:54:35,000
\nAnd all these these are old
\ncovenant concepts that are <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:54:35,000 –> 00:54:38,160
\ncoming into our thinking and
\nwe’re because we love the Old <\/p>\n
1013
\n00:54:38,160 –> 00:54:39,680
\nTestament.
\nWe love the stories of the Bible<\/p>\n
1014
\n00:54:39,680 –> 00:54:43,000
\nand the ancient the Old
\nTestament and we bringing across<\/p>\n
1015
\n00:54:43,000 –> 00:54:47,640
\nthings that may not be relevant
\nin the new Covenant. <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:54:47,760 –> 00:54:53,200
\nRemember every lesson you find
\nin the Old covenant has to be <\/p>\n
1017
\n00:54:53,640 –> 00:54:58,080
\nhas to be funneled through and
\nfiltered by the new covenant or <\/p>\n
1018
\n00:54:58,080 –> 00:55:00,920
\nthe new commandment which
\nunderlies the the new covenant <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:55:01,320 –> 00:55:05,960
\nnew commandment, the love one
\nanother to turn the other cheek.<\/p>\n
1020
\n00:55:06,000 –> 00:55:07,600
\nAll all these concepts are new
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
1021
\n00:55:07,600 –> 00:55:10,320
\nSo you can’t just look at the
\nold covenant go well Elijah. <\/p>\n
1022
\n00:55:10,320 –> 00:55:14,160
\nElijah killed prophets of Baal
\nand spilt their blood. <\/p>\n
1023
\n00:55:14,440 –> 00:55:17,040
\nTherefore I’m allowed to go
\naround beating people up. <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:55:17,040 –> 00:55:19,760
\nAnd you’ve taken an old covenant
\nconcept and under the New <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:55:19,760 –> 00:55:23,000
\ncovenant you esteem others
\nbetter than yourself And you. <\/p>\n
1026
\n00:55:23,240 –> 00:55:27,680
\nYou teach those who are who
\ndisagree with with with humility<\/p>\n
1027
\n00:55:27,680 –> 00:55:29,080
\nand gentleness trying to win
\nthem over. <\/p>\n
1028
\n00:55:29,080 –> 00:55:33,000
\nSo all old covenant concepts
\nhave to be funneled through and <\/p>\n
1029
\n00:55:33,000 –> 00:55:34,680
\nfiltered through the new
\ncovenant mindset. <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:55:35,080 –> 00:55:37,600
\nSo Jesus in the Sermon on the
\nMount makes his very clear. <\/p>\n
1031
\n00:55:37,600 –> 00:55:41,160
\nHe says you shall not murder.
\nThat was what the Old Covenant <\/p>\n
1032
\n00:55:41,440 –> 00:55:43,840
\nsaid and that’s what the and
\nit’s true. <\/p>\n
1033
\n00:55:43,840 –> 00:55:45,960
\nThere’s nothing wrong with that
\nUnder the old covenant that was <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:55:45,960 –> 00:55:48,320
\nyou could not murder and the
\nteachers in Israel would <\/p>\n
1035
\n00:55:48,480 –> 00:55:52,560
\nemphasize that but Jesus says no
\nI’m I’m adding another filter. <\/p>\n
1036
\n00:55:52,560 –> 00:55:55,160
\nThat new covenant filter says
\nyou don’t even call someone a <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:55:55,160 –> 00:55:58,520
\nfool you don’t even get angry
\nwith someone you should not <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:55:58,520 –> 00:56:00,040
\ncommit adultery under the old
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
1039
\n00:56:00,040 –> 00:56:02,440
\nUnder the new covenant you don’t
\neven look lustfully at somebody.<\/p>\n
1040
\n00:56:02,440 –> 00:56:06,560
\nIt’s it’s a the genius of God is
\nthat he’s lifting the lifting <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:56:06,640 –> 00:56:10,520
\nour our objective.
\nHe’s lifting us up to to to <\/p>\n
1042
\n00:56:10,800 –> 00:56:14,760
\ngreat heights but at the same
\ntime he’s he’s got the safety <\/p>\n
1043
\n00:56:14,760 –> 00:56:18,400
\nnet underneath us that we are
\nsaved in his through his grace <\/p>\n
1044
\n00:56:18,400 –> 00:56:23,400
\nwe’re deemed through his mercy
\nand he’s declared righteous and <\/p>\n
1045
\n00:56:23,400 –> 00:56:27,080
\nthat has inspired us to reach
\nthese these heights that he’s <\/p>\n
1046
\n00:56:27,080 –> 00:56:29,520
\ncalling us to.
\nUnder the old covenant you <\/p>\n
1047
\n00:56:29,520 –> 00:56:32,560
\ncouldn’t swear falsely under the
\nnew covenant just let every day <\/p>\n
1048
\n00:56:32,560 –> 00:56:36,160
\nyes be yes be no be no don’t no
\nspecial occasions for telling <\/p>\n
1049
\n00:56:36,160 –> 00:56:39,280
\nthe truth.
\nAn eye for an eye that was it’s <\/p>\n
1050
\n00:56:39,280 –> 00:56:41,560
\nactually in the Bible and and
\nand it’s in the Old Testament. <\/p>\n
1051
\n00:56:41,560 –> 00:56:44,000
\nYou could quote it.
\nAnd Jesus says no resistance, <\/p>\n
1052
\n00:56:44,000 –> 00:56:46,840
\nnot evil turned the other cheek.
\nLove your neighbor. <\/p>\n
1053
\n00:56:46,840 –> 00:56:48,040
\nHate your enemy.
\nNo. <\/p>\n
1054
\n00:56:48,040 –> 00:56:50,240
\nLove your enemy.
\nBless them that curse you, do <\/p>\n
1055
\n00:56:50,240 –> 00:56:51,680
\ngood to them and hate you.
\nPray for them. <\/p>\n
1056
\n00:56:51,720 –> 00:56:52,800
\nThat’s spiteful.
\nUsual. <\/p>\n
1057
\n00:56:52,800 –> 00:56:57,080
\nSo God is called us.
\nChrist has called us on behalf <\/p>\n
1058
\n00:56:57,080 –> 00:57:00,200
\nof God to a higher level of
\nobedience. <\/p>\n
1059
\n00:57:00,200 –> 00:57:05,440
\nIronically, ironically, it’s not
\na high level of obedience to be <\/p>\n
1060
\n00:57:05,440 –> 00:57:08,880
\nin a relationship with God.
\nIt’s because of the gift of the <\/p>\n
1061
\n00:57:08,880 –> 00:57:11,240
\nrelationship with God, because
\nwe are in his presence with <\/p>\n
1062
\n00:57:11,240 –> 00:57:13,280
\nboldness and have no shame
\nbefore him. <\/p>\n
1063
\n00:57:14,000 –> 00:57:17,920
\nBecause of that, he’s calling us
\nto a higher behavioral response,<\/p>\n
1064
\n00:57:17,920 –> 00:57:19,720
\nwhich is just powerful.
\nAnd I’m. <\/p>\n
1065
\n00:57:19,760 –> 00:57:22,000
\nI feel I’m not getting it
\nacross, as powerful as it really<\/p>\n
1066
\n00:57:22,000 –> 00:57:23,680
\nis.
\nBut hopefully you can take that <\/p>\n
1067
\n00:57:23,680 –> 00:57:27,880
\ninto your hearts and minds.
\nSo here’s a new covenant ethic. <\/p>\n
1068
\n00:57:27,880 –> 00:57:30,680
\nIf you like the new commandment,
\na new commandment I give to you <\/p>\n
1069
\n00:57:30,680 –> 00:57:37,800
\nthat you love one another and
\nnotice this the syntax here as I<\/p>\n
1070
\n00:57:37,800 –> 00:57:40,920
\nhave loved you.
\nSo under the new covenant Christ<\/p>\n
1071
\n00:57:40,920 –> 00:57:44,480
\nhas lived this out and all of a
\nsudden there’s a the new, you <\/p>\n
1072
\n00:57:44,480 –> 00:57:46,440
\nknow, the new.
\nWe call it the new commandment, <\/p>\n
1073
\n00:57:46,440 –> 00:57:50,160
\nbut we know it was always seated
\nthere under the old covenant. <\/p>\n
1074
\n00:57:50,160 –> 00:57:54,800
\nBut now Christ has lived it out.
\nAnd so he says love one another <\/p>\n
1075
\n00:57:54,800 –> 00:57:57,400
\nas I have loved you.
\nAnd then he goes on the next <\/p>\n
1076
\n00:57:57,400 –> 00:58:01,040
\nverse says, by this shall all
\nmen know that you are my <\/p>\n
1077
\n00:58:01,040 –> 00:58:04,520
\ndisciples.
\nThat’s a that’s huge, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
1078
\n00:58:05,400 –> 00:58:07,120
\nNot by.
\nAnd I’m not saying that’s wrong,<\/p>\n
1079
\n00:58:07,120 –> 00:58:10,080
\nnot by your lectures and and all
\nthat sort of stuff. <\/p>\n
1080
\n00:58:10,160 –> 00:58:13,840
\nIt’s by the fact that you love
\none another and all those other <\/p>\n
1081
\n00:58:13,840 –> 00:58:16,000
\nthings are necessary.
\nBut if they’re missing love, as <\/p>\n
1082
\n00:58:16,000 –> 00:58:19,280
\nwe know from First Corinthians,
\nstudying everything else is not <\/p>\n
1083
\n00:58:19,280 –> 00:58:23,040
\nworth anything in God’s sight.
\nSo just a circumcision was a <\/p>\n
1084
\n00:58:23,040 –> 00:58:25,800
\nsign of the old covenant.
\nLove is the power and the sign <\/p>\n
1085
\n00:58:25,800 –> 00:58:29,520
\nof the new covenant.
\nSo all the imperatives and <\/p>\n
1086
\n00:58:29,520 –> 00:58:32,280
\ncommandments in the new covenant
\nare all based on Jesus. <\/p>\n
1087
\n00:58:32,280 –> 00:58:34,200
\nWalk like he walked.
\nLove as he loved. <\/p>\n
1088
\n00:58:35,120 –> 00:58:36,880
\nLove your wife as Christ.
\nLove the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
1089
\n00:58:36,880 –> 00:58:38,360
\nHe follows with me as I’m of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
1090
\n00:58:38,440 –> 00:58:40,080
\nI’ve given you an example.
\nYou love one another. <\/p>\n
1091
\n00:58:40,080 –> 00:58:42,640
\nIt’s all based on Christ.
\nThis is a new covenant. <\/p>\n
1092
\n00:58:42,640 –> 00:58:46,520
\nThe blood of the new covenant is
\na powerful dynamic force that <\/p>\n
1093
\n00:58:46,720 –> 00:58:50,440
\nbrings us to a point of
\ngratitude and thankfulness that <\/p>\n
1094
\n00:58:50,440 –> 00:58:56,000
\nwe are transformed and changed
\nto be people that reflect God to<\/p>\n
1095
\n00:58:56,000 –> 00:59:00,280
\nbe perfect as he is perfect
\nbecause we are perfect. <\/p>\n
1096
\n00:59:00,800 –> 00:59:06,280
\nThink about that.
\nSo he’s our road map. <\/p>\n
1097
\n00:59:06,280 –> 00:59:09,320
\nWe’ll just finish up with this
\npresence of God, these two <\/p>\n
1098
\n00:59:09,320 –> 00:59:12,800
\ndimensions.
\nThe relationship with God comes <\/p>\n
1099
\n00:59:12,800 –> 00:59:14,480
\nabout because of this new
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
1100
\n00:59:15,000 –> 00:59:18,920
\nIt’s a powerful thing that has
\nhappened to us. <\/p>\n
1101
\n00:59:18,920 –> 00:59:23,000
\nWe are now in covenant with God,
\nthe creator of the universe, and<\/p>\n
1102
\n00:59:23,000 –> 00:59:25,400
\nit’s not conditional of us
\nkeeping him happy all the time <\/p>\n
1103
\n00:59:25,400 –> 00:59:26,880
\nand having to earn it and live
\nup to it. <\/p>\n
1104
\n00:59:26,880 –> 00:59:29,920
\nThere’s a virtue to the There’s
\na virtue in the fact that we are<\/p>\n
1105
\n00:59:29,920 –> 00:59:32,640
\nHis children.
\nThere’s a compassion, there’s a <\/p>\n
1106
\n00:59:32,640 –> 00:59:37,000
\nchess, which is the the covenant
\nword in the old under the old <\/p>\n
1107
\n00:59:37,000 –> 00:59:40,080
\ncovenant, this chesed or this
\nlove and kindness that God has <\/p>\n
1108
\n00:59:40,240 –> 00:59:44,680
\nto his covenant people and we
\nare recipients of that chesed or<\/p>\n
1109
\n00:59:44,680 –> 00:59:46,560
\nhesed or hesed or whatever you
\nwant to say it. <\/p>\n
1110
\n00:59:46,560 –> 00:59:51,360
\nSo this is the power of the new
\ncovenant that is lived out and <\/p>\n
1111
\n00:59:51,360 –> 00:59:56,080
\nexperienced by us now and then
\nwe’ll look at the spatial side <\/p>\n
1112
\n00:59:56,080 –> 00:59:57,600
\nof it.
\nGod willing that our next class.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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