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More than five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the prophet Jeremiah promised that God was going to make a "new covenant" with his people (Jeremiah 31:31). This new covenant would have a far greater reach and depth than the previous one. It was so different, in fact, that Jeremiah proclaimed: "The Lord has created a new thing upon the earth" (31:22). It would be as if God had re-created his people all over again.
In our previous article, we saw that in this covenant God promised to place his law in our hearts. We saw, too, that he promised to give us a new heart and a new spirit. Finally, we saw that this covenant would find its highest fulfillment in Jesus.
In this article, we want to explore this covenant more deeply. We want to see how it stands as God’s greatest act of reaching out to his people. We want to see how it is a better covenant than the one God made with Israel. And we want to see how this covenant unites us with God.
Our Divine Mediator. One of the things a mediator does is bring estranged parties together. Scripture uses the image of a mediator to describe Jesus and his work of reconciling us to God. We can…
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