The high priest of a new covenant
1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: we do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.
3 Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. 4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. 5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: ‘See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.’ 6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said:
‘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.
9
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 did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.
10
This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11
No longer will they teach their neighbours,
or say to one another, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12
For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.’
13
By calling this covenant ‘new’, he has made the first one obsolete;
and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
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Word by Word Meditations
by Fred Ursell
Hebrews 8: “obsolete” (v.13)
Both this chapter (v.8) and the 10th (vv.15-20) place a heavy emphasis on “a new covenant” in line with what was promised, including its 3 main facets listed in Jeremiah 31 vv.31-34, as quoted here, that:
[a] God would write his laws “in their minds and … on their hearts” (v.10);
[b] they would “all know” the Lord, “from the least … to the greatest” (v.11);
[c] and furthermore God would ”forgive their wickedness and … remember their sins no more” (v.12).
Small wonder, then, the first covenant under the Law through Moses is declared “obsolete” (v.13)! This new one is infinitely better!
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READING
A Letter to the HEBREWS
Chapter Eight
Read by David Suchet
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OVERVIEW
A Letter to the HEBREWS
Overview
(The Bible Project)
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STUDIES
A Letter to the HEBREWS
Part 1
Study by David Pawson
A Letter to the HEBREWS
Part 2
Study by David Pawson
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Hebrews 8 :6-13
What Was the Flaw in the Old Covenant?
John Piper -
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The New Covenant | John MacArthur | 1972
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