597 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 50 - Once, By His Own Blood

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 50 Once, By His Own Blood We left off in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 9. Even Romans chapter 3 when Paul says: Romans 3:21 Hebrews 8:6a Hebrews 8:6b Yes, the Law was good. Now verse 7. Hebrews 8:7 "For if (conditional) that first covenant (the Covenant of Law) had been faultless, (if it had been perfect) then (there) should be no place have been sought for a second." Hebrews 8:8 "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will (future) make a new (better) covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:" Now that’s not addressed to the Church. The new covenant, even in Jeremiah (we’re going to look at it after a bit), was never addressed to the Gentile Church; it was addressed to Israel and we’ll look at that. Oh if only people could separate Israel and the Church, how the Scriptures would just open up to them. Hebrews 8:9 Now verse 10 for something totally fresh. Hebrews 8:10 Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold the days come, (a promise for the future) saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:" See how perfectly the Apostle Paul quoted this? Jeremiah 31:32 When God gave the Law to Israel, and as we’re going to see when we get into chapter 9, He gave them the Tabernacle and the whole sacrificial system of worship. God was present, remember, in that pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day. Alright, now verse 33. Jeremiah 31:33a Jeremiah 31:33b Jeremiah 31:34a "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,…" Teach it, and teach it. Jeremiah 31:34 What a promise! Now verse 35. Jeremiah 31:35 "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:" In other words, the God of Creation. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He’s speaking. Many people think that Israel should be driven into the sea. Jeremiah 31:36 "If those ordinances (the sun, moon, and stars) depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever." Jeremiah 31:37a "Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can me measured,…" Jeremiah 31:37b So if all that could happen then Israel might cease to be a nation, so it’ll never happen. Forty-eight of them involve the Muslim people. Jeremiah 31:37 "Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also search out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD." But it’s not going to happen because this New Covenant is a covenant set from the eternal Sovereign God and He will never go back on His Word. Alright, back to Hebrews chapter 8 verse 11. Hebrews 8:11-12 Here again, you and I in the human realm cannot comprehend the Grace of God, even concerning Israel. My, God should have cast them out of His thinking centuries and centuries ago. They have no reason to still be in God’s favor. They’ve been a rebellious people, an ungodly people. God has never changed. He has never even had a thought of casting away His People, Israel. Even as Paul says in Romans 11, "hath God cast away His People?" God forbid. That even though they had rejected Him and crucified Him, yet God has not cast away His people, Israel. Alright and the promise begins way back here in II Samuel chapter 7 verse 14 where God is addressing King David and He tells David concerning the Nation of Israel: Verse 15: Now go back to Exodus chapter 33 verse 19. "I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy. Now, Hebrews 8 again, verse 12 - with what we’ve just been seeing from the Old Testament, for God says: Hebrews 8:12a You go back to the Old Testament and you wonder how God ever put up with it. "Lord, take my life, I’m the last one left in Israel. Take me and forget about the nation." And what was God’s answer, "Elijah, I have seven thousand that have not bowed their knee to Baal." Eight people. Now I have to feel that that was most, if not all, of the TRUE believers in Israel concerning Christ. God has always had to settle for that tiny little remnant. Hebrews 8:12 "For (God says,) I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." See, God can forget. Our own memory will, but God won’t. And always remember that God doesn’t hold (I don’t care how black the past) that against us. Well, He did the same thing with Israel. Hebrews 8:13 "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old, (like a garment that’s ready to be folded up and cast aside.) Well, what’s He still trying to impress upon these Jewish people? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible