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December 3, 2019

Hebrews 8:10-12
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.
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.
For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more.”
New International Version (NIV)

“My religion is the ten commandments.” Have you ever heard that? Keeping the ten commandments is a great goal. But God desires more for us than that we keep the law. This is why simply posting the ten commandments in public places as a new law will not make the world right. If it could have, Jesus would not have had to come.

Jesus came as the mediator of a better covenant (8:6). Quoting Jeremiah 31:31-34, the writer of Hebrews envisions Jesus as the fulfillment of the Old Covenant. With God’s laws written on our minds and hearts and not just on stone, God has made us his people. In this new covenant, we not only know and keep God’s rules, but best of all we know God.

The Apostle Paul put it best when he said, “I want to know Christ, yes to know the power of his resurrection and the participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death and so somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead." The new covenant Jesus mediates offers us forgiveness for our failures and freedom from the power of sin. We are becoming the kind of people who do what God wants us to do because we know his love so well we don’t want to grieve him. This is not religion at all, but relationship.

Pray with me:

Father, we want to know you better at the end of this day than we did at the beginning. Write your law not on our walls but on our hearts and minds. Transform us into Christlikeness so that we want what you want and do what you would do if you were living our lives for us. Thank you for forgiveness from our failures. Free us by your Spirit to live differently. For Christ’s sake we pray. Amen.

This year our Every Day with Jesus readings will follow The Bible Project Read Scripture Plan. Copies of this reading plan are available at Tallowood Baptist Church, or download
the app at readscripture.org. Read through the Bible with us in 2019!
Joyfully,
Duane

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