Covenant

Romans 11:23,26-27 - And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again…And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

Isaiah 59:20 - “And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 - “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Zechariah 13:1 - “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Application:

·         Just as my salvation involves forgiveness of sins, so the Jews, when they are saved, are forgiven by the mercy of God—His forgiveness based only on their repentance and faith.

·         The deliverer will come from Zion, in the person of Christ.

·         As the old covenant was made solemn by the blood of sacrificial animals, so the new would be made solemn by the blood of Christ.

·         The new covenant does not abolish the old but supersedes it in the sense that through the new covenant the old is fulfilled and its purpose achieved.

·         True knowledge of the Lord will be shared by all—young and old, the peasant and the powerful.

·         Cleanse them from sin is one of the provisions of the new covenant.

·         Paul holds out hope for the Jews—God is able.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV