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NOVEMBER 12
60 “Nevertheless I will remember My covenant Hebrews 8:1–13
with you in the days of your youth, and I will Now this is the main point of the things we
establish an everlasting covenant with you. 8 are saying: We have such a High Priest,
61 Then you will remember your ways and be who is seated at the right hand of the throne of
ashamed, when you receive your older and your the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the
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younger sisters; for I will give them to you for sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which
daughters, but not because of My covenant with the Lord erected, and not man.
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you. And I will establish My covenant with you. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, that both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is neces-
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you may remember and be ashamed, and never sary that this One also have something to
open your mouth anymore because of your offer. For if He were on earth, He would not be
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shame, when I provide you an atonement for all a priest, since there are priests who offer the
you have done,” says the Lord GOD.’ ”
gifts according to the law; who serve the copy
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and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses
was divinely instructed when he was about to
make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that
16:60 I will remember My covenant. God is you make all things according to the pattern
gracious and He always finds a covenant basis shown you on the mountain.” But now He has
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on which He can exercise His grace. The Lord obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch
will remember the Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. as He is also Mediator of a better covenant,
12:1ff.) made with Israel in her youth. which was established on better promises.
Restoration will be by grace, not merit. an
everlasting covenant. This is the New
Covenant, which is unconditional, saving, and
everlasting (37:26; Is. 59:21; 61:8; Jer. 31:31–34;
Heb. 8:6–13). The basis of God’s grace will not 8:5 The quote is from Exodus 25:40. copy and
be the Mosaic Covenant,which the Jews could shadow. This does not mean that there are
never fulfill, even with the best intentions (Ex. actual buildings in heaven which were copied
24:1ff.). When God establishes His eternal in the tabernacle,but rather that the heavenly
covenant, Israel will know that God is the Lord realities were adequately symbolized and rep-
because of His grace. resented in the earthly tabernacle model.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless,
Psalm 123:1–4
then no place would have been sought for a
A Song of Ascents. second. Because finding fault with them, He
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U nto You I lift up my eyes, says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the
LORD, when I will make a new covenant with
O You who dwell in the heavens.
2 the house of Israel and with the house of Ju-
Behold, as the eyes of servants 9
look to the hand of their masters, dah— not according to the covenant that I
As the eyes of a maid to the hand made with their fathers in the day when I took
of her mistress, them by the hand to lead them out of the land
So our eyes look to the LORD our God, of Egypt; because they did not continue in My
Until He has mercy on us. covenant, and I disregarded them, says the
LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make
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3 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have with the house of Israel after those days, says
mercy on us! the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and
For we are exceedingly filled with write them on their hearts; and I will be their
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contempt. God, and they shall be My people. None of
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled them shall teach his neighbor, and none his
With the scorn of those who are at ease, brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall
With the contempt of the proud. know Me, from the least of them to the great-
est of them. For I will be merciful to their
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Proverbs 28:20
unrighteousness, and their sins and their law-
20 less deeds I will remember no more.”
A faithful man will abound with
blessings, 13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has
But he who hastens to be rich made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming
will not go unpunished. obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
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