Jeremiah 31:31-4

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   This is the sole instance of new covenant in the OT. Newness is in Ezek11:19, Is. 43:19, and the idea of a circumcised heart in Dt. 30:6.

   
   
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   Notice that God speaks if being a husband to Israel. This is as good a metaphor of intimacy as possible for Israel. It explains why adultery gets used when speaking of idolatry.

   
   
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   When has something been engraved on your heart? Job spoke of a pen of iron in a similar vein.

   
   
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   New covenant, of course, looks toward the new covenant of the Lord’s supper on the seder meal of long ago.

   
   
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   Law can also mean teaching/instruction

   
   
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   I like the vision of a time when teaching won’t be necessary, because people will all know God fully.

   
   
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   Why hasn’t the word been inscribed more deeply after all this time?



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   this is in a section called the book of comfort. How does it work as comfort for us now?



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   Jesus uses the phrase new covenant for the lord's supper. Thsi could be a good place to consider the



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    Reformed view of the Lord's Supper.



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    Remember covenant has a sense of cutting a covenant, cutting a deal. Describe how or when God's way cuts into one'slife.