Exodus 20:1-17;
Jeremiah 31:31-34
"'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.'"
(HEBREWS 8:8)
Jewish tradition holds that God gave the Ten Commandments to Israel at Sinai exactly on the Feast of Weeks, 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. Scripture says that "When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear (Exodus 20:18).
The first Pentecost was on a mountaintop, where God wrote His words on tablets of stone. And the LORD promised that there would be a time when He would write His laws not on stone, but on the hearts of His people. The law was given so that man could see the condition of his heart and his broken relationship with God. However, the law could only condemn; it couldn't save.
Now we can have confidence through Jesus Christ before God, "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant-not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life (2 Corinthians 3:5-6)."
INSIGHT
THE PENALTY OF SIN IS DEATH AND NOTHING LESS. SOMEONE HAD TO PAY THAT DEBT.
READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Hosea 12-14
Proverbs 15
1 Peter 4-5
Exodus 20:1-17
New Living Translation (NLT)
Ten Commandments for the Covenant Community
20 Then God gave the people all these instructions[a]:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
3 “You must not have any other god but me.
4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. 6 But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those[b] who love me and obey my commands.
7 “You must not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.
8 “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 You have six days each week for your ordinary work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
12 “Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
13 “You must not murder.
14 “You must not commit adultery.
15 “You must not steal.
16 “You must not testify falsely against your neighbor.
17 “You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.”
Footnotes:
a. Exodus 20:1 Hebrew all these words.
b. Exodus 20:6 Hebrew for thousands of those.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
New International Version (NIV)
31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to[a] them,[b]”
declares the Lord.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
Footnotes:
a. Jeremiah 31:32 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac / and I turned away from
b. Jeremiah 31:32 Or was their maste
SAVIOR MESSIAH LORD
with Dr. Mark Strauss
Names have significance. Names of God have divine significance and at Christmas time we look at the names of Jesus. This gives us a deeper understanding of who He is and what He came to do.
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