The title of my message tonight
is The New Covenant. Our text will be Hebrews chapter
8, verses 7 through 13. Now it is very, very difficult
for us to realize how important the book of Hebrews is in the
written revelation of our God in Holy Scripture. Here in this
book, the Holy Spirit shows us how that all things relating,
all things relating to the carnal, ceremonial, outward, legal aspects
of Jewish worship, all things relating to the carnal, ceremonial,
legal, outward aspects of Old Testament worship were both fulfilled
and forever abolished by the gospel of Christ. fulfilled and
forever abolished. by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ. When he came into this world,
he came here to fulfill those things set forth in the prophecies
and in the types and pictures of the old covenant. By his accomplishments
in death and resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ has both put
away our sins and ascended up to heaven where he is exalted
and seated upon the right hand of the throne of God himself.
And there he sits as king in Zion, saving his people, gathering
his elect from the four corners of the earth. Now he demonstrates
this plainly, fulfilling the prophecy given in Joel chapter
2, by the outpouring of his Holy Spirit. That outpouring of the
Spirit upon all peoples was a declaration that the King, the Messiah, has
come and is enthroned. And when Peter saw it, he said,
boys, this is what Joel is talking about. The gospel now is going
into all the world. The Messiah has come. The King
is sitting upon his holy hill of Zion. Now that is what the
8th chapter of Hebrews is all about. In these 13 verses, the
Holy Spirit declares plainly that God has abolished the old
covenant and everything pertaining to the old covenant by fulfilling
it, by fulfilling its types, its shadows, its pictures, its
prophecies, by bringing in the new. Now, as I said, our text
will be Hebrews 8, verses 7 through 13, but I think it would be wise
for us to read the entire chapter together. So let's begin in verse
1, and let me make brief comments on the things that we've already
studied. Now, the things which we have spoken, this is the psalm.
This is the main point. This is what I've been getting
to. This is what I've been working my way up to. We have such a
high priest. We have the kind of priest that
was typified and portrayed and set forth as a necessity by the
Levitical priesthood. We have a priest in heaven who
is able both to save and forever secure all who come unto God
by him because this priest lives forever in heaven, who is set
at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens.
The Lord Jesus Christ is a priest on his throne. He sits upon the
throne of God himself, ruling the world as God, to give eternal
life to as many as God the Father has given him. All right, read
on. A minister of the sanctuary and
of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man.
For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices,
wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also
to offer. For if he were on earth, he should
not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer
gifts according to the law, who serve in the tabernacle. They
serve as an example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses
was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle.
For see, saith he, that thou make all things according to
the pattern shown to thee in the mount. make all things according
to the picture of redemption by Christ the Lord. Now all those
carnal earthly priests in the Old Testament, all those ceremonies
of legal worship were ordained for and served only one purpose. They pointed to Christ. That's
all. That's their only purpose. They
had absolutely no other function. They could not save anyone. They
could not put away any sin. They could not make the conscience
at peace with God. They could not reconcile sinners.
They could not bring men to God. That's the reason throughout
the Old Testament until Christ died when he said it's finished
and said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. He bowed
his head, gave up the ghost. And at that moment, that veil
went from top to bottom, split in two. And the word is now declared,
men come to God. Now, there's a new and living
way. Jesus Christ, the God-man, has
brought men in complete reconciliation to God Almighty. He has both
established judgment and righteousness in the earth, and God's satisfied. Look at verse 6 now. But now
hath he, the Lord Jesus, obtained a more excellent ministry, by
how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
mediator of this better covenant established upon better promises.
And now in verses 7 through 13, the Holy Spirit gives us both
an explanation of those promises, the superior quality of this
better covenant, and shows us the necessity why the new covenant,
the better covenant, must be established. As I was looking
at this just a moment ago, it occurred to me I could have titled
this message The Replacement. That would have been a good title.
Because I want you to see four things in these verses. First,
there is a needed replacement in verse 7. And then in verse
8, there's a promised replacement. And verses 9 through 12, a better
replacement. And then in verse 13, a permanent
replacement. All right, let's look at these
verses together. First in verse 7, we see that the old covenant
had to be replaced by a new covenant because the old covenant was
faulty. The replacement was needed. For
if that first covenant had been faultless, if everything had
been all right with it, if it had done anything for men, then
should no place have been sought for the second. If righteousness
could come by the law, then Christ died in vain. If righteousness
comes by the law, then the grace of God is frustrated. But that
old covenant could never bring in righteousness. That old covenant
could never execute judgment. That old covenant could never
give guilty sinners peace with God. That old covenant could
never take away sin. It was faulty. Not faulty in
the sense that it failed in its purpose. It served its purpose
well. It was faulty in the sense that
it was weak. In the sense that it could not bring men and women
to God Almighty in perfect reconciliation. That first covenant was the covenant
of the Levitical priesthood. It was the covenant made with
the physical nation of Israel. With the physical seed of Abraham.
And it was delivered to them by the hand of Moses. Now look
in chapter 7 in verse 11. Understand that this first covenant
was a typical covenant, only typical. It served no function
but as a picture. If this, therefore, perfection
were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received
the law, what further need was there that another priest should
rise after the order of Melchizedek and not be called after the order
of Aaron? In other words, the Holy Spirit saying, if perfection
could have come this way, there wouldn't be any need for another
covenant. If perfection could have come by one of Aaron's sons,
there wouldn't be any need for anybody else to come as a priest.
If Aaron's priesthood was good enough, there was no need for
a priest after the order of Melchizedek. Verse 18. Chapter 7, verse 18. For there is verily a disannulling
of the commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness
thereof. Now, the law is holy and just
and good. The commandment is perfect. No
question about that. And all things relating to the
Old Covenant is holy, just, and good. Perfect for its purpose.
for its purpose. Not good for the abuses that
men make of it. Not good for the constraints
men now put upon God's people because of it. Not good when
we revert back to it once it's fulfilled. But it's holy, just,
and good to point us to and show us beautiful pictures of the
Lord Jesus Christ. The people with whom the old
covenant of the law was made were only a typical people. The
nation of Israel, I wish, oh how I wish we could get this
fixed in our minds and in our hearts. Those folks over in Palestine,
the Jews no more than the Arabs are God's covenant people. Did
you hear me? The Jews, no more than the Arabs,
are God's covenant people. Now that's not anti-Semitism,
that's just fact. That's kind of like saying white
folks no more than black folks are God's covenant people. There's
absolutely no distinction to be made, no advantage to be made
before God Almighty because of whose son you are. Absolutely
none. God's covenant people were represented
by the physical seed of Abraham during the Old Testament economy.
In this age, those folks over in Palestine do not even typically
represent God's people. God's holy nation is a spiritual
nation. God's Israel is His elect. God's Israel is His church. And the promises of God to Abraham,
as they are conveyed to us in gospel grace, conveyed to us
in covenant grace, are spiritual promises, not physical promises. And they are given to spiritual
people, not to carnal people. Not to Abraham's physical seed,
but to his spiritual seed. Well, who are they? All who believe.
Read the book of Galatians, we which believe are the children
of Abraham. It's just that simple. God's
Israel is the Israel of God. God's Israel is that holy nation,
that holy priesthood, that peculiar people whom he has purchased
and chosen and called by his grace. All the blessings promised
to Abraham's physical seed in the Old Covenant were only shadows,
types and pictures of good things to come in Christ. So that whenever
God made a promise of physical blessedness to Abraham's physical
seed, conditioned upon their obedience to God in this earth,
Those promises were pictures of his unconditional, immutable,
spiritual blessings of grace given to us because of Christ's
perfect obedience as our representative. The sacrifices of the Old Testament
were just pictures of Christ, our sacrifice, who put away our
sins by the sacrifice of himself. The priest, the mediators of
that covenant, were only typical of the Lord Jesus Christ, our
great high priest. Indeed, the king whom God sent
in Zion, David and his son Solomon after him, and those who followed
them, were but pictures of Christ, our great king and our mediator. All right, now notice this too.
That old covenant was faulty. It was deficient. That means
it was a non-saving, non-effectual covenant. It was weak and faulty
simply because it was only typical. The priests of the Old Testament
were all sinful men. The sacrifices were just animals
blood. Just animals blood. The offerings
that were made day by day, morning by morning, evening by evening,
week by week, year by year could never put away sin. If this covenant,
its priest and its sacrifices, its laws and its ceremonies,
its commandments and its ordinances could have redeemed anyone, then
there would have been no need for Christ to come. Look at Hebrews
chapter 10. We've looked at it a number of
times and we'll look at it a number of times more. But please turn
to Hebrews 10 verse 1. For the law having a shadow,
a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image or substance
of those things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers therein too perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Well, sure
they would. Sure they would. Once sin's put away, put away. Once the debt's paid, it's paid.
Once justice is satisfied, it's satisfied. And there's no need
for another offering. because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sins, verse
3. But in those sacrifices there
is a remembrance made of sins every year. For it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Now look at verse 9, Hebrews 10, 9. Then said I, Lo, I come
to do thy will, O God, He taketh away the first. Now look at the
next line. That. Don't ever think that God
put words into Philip's face. That word that means something.
This is why he took away the first. Indeed, he could not do
what he's about to state to us if he had not first taken away
the first. He taketh away the first that
he may establish the second. The old covenant is put away
to make room for the new. The old covenant is taken away
that he may establish the new. Alright, here's the second thing.
This promise is not only needed, or this replacement is not only
needed, but it was promised. Promised way back in Jeremiah
chapter 31. Here in verse 8, the new covenant,
this gospel covenant, this covenant of grace was promised to us. And here in the 8th chapter in
verse 8, we have a direct quotation from the passage we read earlier
in Jeremiah 31. Look at it. For finding fault
with them. Finding fault with who? The covenant,
the sacrifices, the priest, the people, the way they did things,
the tabernacle, the temple, everything. In fact, all of it was faulty. Because none of it was the reality. None of it could put away sin.
None of it could make God known. None of it could bring men to
God. Finding fault with them. He saith, Behold, the days come,
saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah. Let's go back and read
Jeremiah 31 one more time. Just those three or four verses
beginning at verse 31. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord. Now remember this is Jeremiah
the prophet, he's still in prison, he's thrown in prison because
folks didn't want to hear what he had to say. He said God's
going to take you down to Babylon, and God's going to put you in
Babylon for 70 years, and the false prophet said no, God wouldn't
do that. God wouldn't do that to you,
you're good folks. You're God's people. Well, you're
Abraham's seed. God wouldn't send you down to...
No, Jeremiah needs to be shut up. Prophesy smooth things to
us, they said Jeremiah, and I'll tell you what God said. And they
threw him in prison. And they threw him in prison
because he was faithful to God's word. Declaring what must be
as a picture of redemption. In order for Israel to represent
and typify God's covenant people, they've got to be put in captivity
and delivered from captivity by a man by the name of Cyrus,
who represents perfectly the Lord Jesus Christ in his deliverance
of Babylon. A man called Cyrus 200 years
or more before he was ever born. Called Cyrus by God Almighty.
And the Lord God said, now this is the way Cyrus is going to
go into Babylon, and this is the way he's coming out. And
you know what he did? He went in on the street where God said
he was going in and he came out on the road where God said he
was coming out. He did exactly, and you know when he did it?
Exactly when God said he'd do it. After 70 years. After the
appointed time of bondage and misery and woe. Then God will
bring his people out. And the Lord speaks to Jeremiah
and he said, now this is what I'm talking about. This is what
I'm talking about. After those days, saith the Lord, It shall
come to pass that I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which
my covenant they broke. That is, I'm not going to make
a covenant with them. They can mess up. I'm not going to give you something
you can ruin, which my covenant they broke, although I was a
husband unto them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith
the Lord. I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God,
and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord. For they shall all know me from the least of them
unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. The same passage
is referred to in Hebrews chapter 10. We won't look at it now,
but you can look at it at your leisure in verses 15 through
17. Holy Spirit goes back to the
same passage and says this covenant, now this is what God was talking
about. This covenant, this new covenant, this promise, this
is what God said he was going to do way back in Jeremiah's
day. In fact, this is the same covenant
of which David sang when David lay on his deathbed dying. This
covenant is called the new covenant, not because it's new in origin,
not because it's newly made, but rather it is called the new
covenant because it is newly revealed in this gospel age.
It is that which is revealed now, though it was certainly
the first covenant. In fact, we're clearly told that
this covenant was the everlasting covenant. Turn over to chapter
13. Chapter 13 of Hebrews, verse
20. What he calls in Hebrews 8 the
new covenant, he calls in Hebrews 13 20 the everlasting covenant.
Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, get it now, through
the blood of the everlasting covenant. How could he say that? Because this blood was shed according
to the stipulations and terms of that covenant made between
God the Father and God the Son in everlasting mercy before the
world began. Now this is the covenant he's
talking about. It's the new covenant. It's called new because it's
always new. Our Lord Jesus is described in
the Song of Solomon as that one, our beloved, whose the hair of
his head is black. Always young. Always young. Full of vigor. He has the dew
of his youth. Yet in Revelation 1, he's described
as one whose hair is gray and white. the ancient of days, full of
wisdom. And so the terms are used in
a picturesque allegorical sense to describe for us both the age
of our Savior as the eternal God who knows no age, and the
everlasting youth of our Savior as that one who has the dew of
his youth. And he speaks in the same way of this covenant. It's
new because it's constantly new, it's constantly fresh, it's constantly
flowing to us from the heart of God. It's called a new covenant
because in this covenant you and I who are by nature children
of wrath even as others are given a new record with no sin and
perfect righteousness. We're given a new nature by the
power of His grace, a new heart, a new will, a new way that we
may walk before Him together forever given a new spirit. All
right, thirdly, look in verses 9, 10, 11, and 12. Not only is this a replacement
to the old, a needed replacement, promised replacement, it's a
better replacement. This new everlasting covenant
is a covenant of pure, free, immutable grace. Everything about
it depends on God. Everything. David said, although
my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things insure, and this is all my salvation
and all my desire. This new covenant is immutable,
insure. Its blessings are infallibly
secured to God's elect because it's a one-way covenant. It's
a one-way covenant as far as we're concerned. Let me explain
that. A covenant of necessity involves two or more people.
If you have a covenant, you've got to have contracting parties.
That's what a covenant is. And the contracting parties in
this covenant are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. The Lord Jesus Christ being the mediator, the surety
of the covenant, upon whom all the stipulations and blessings
of the covenant depend for their fulfillment. So insofar as it
is a covenant between the three persons of the Holy Trinity,
it is a bilateral covenant. But insofar as this covenant
which we benefit from, insofar as the blessings of the covenant
to us are concerned, our experience of the covenant, it's a unilateral
covenant, Bob. We've got nothing to do with
it. We don't even receive it. We will the covenant the blessings
of the covenant do not even depend on us reaching out and taking
them the covenant is a unilateral Declaration of grace from the
throne of God Almighty to his people Let's see if that's not
what it's what it reads like look in chapter 8 verse 9 Here's
the covenant. Not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by
the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they
continued not in my covenant. And I regarded them not, saith
the Lord. I threw them away. I cast them off. Because they
did not keep the covenant. God gave his word to Moses. And
they said, Moses, what does God tell us to do? Go find out. We'll do it. It's a piece of
cake. All it requires is righteousness.
Well, we can handle that. All God requires is perfection.
That's not too tough. We can do that. Go ask somebody
to help us do it. We'll do it. God spoke his word
before Moses got back with the law. They were dancing naked
around an idol. And God demonstrates their weakness
and their frailty and their sin and their corruption. They broke
my covenant. And I cast them off and they
perished in the wilderness in their unbelief. And they continued
throughout their days for 2,000 years to break my covenant. And
when the fullness of time demonstrated they could not keep my covenant,
then God sent forth His Son, made of a woman made under the
law, to redeem them that were under the law. And He did it
by this covenant. Look at it. They continued, not in my covenant.
I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith
the Lord. Look at it. I will put. I will
put. I won't say to them, do you want?
I will put. I won't say to them, now I'm
pretty pleased, won't you accept? I will put. I won't give them
at all. I will put. I will. Oh, how I love God's shalls and
wills, don't you? Nothing depends on you. Nothing
is going to be accomplished by you, and listen to me, nothing
thwarted by you. Not if you're named in this covenant.
I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their
hearts, and I will, I will be to them a God, and they shall,
they shall be to me a people. And they shall not teach every
man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, O the Lord,
for all shall know me from the least to the greatest. For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. Now this is what the Lord God
declared he would do for his people. I'll put my laws in their
minds and write them on their hearts. But wait a minute. Didn't he tell us back in Romans
1 and chapter 2 as well, that all men by nature have his law
written on their hearts? That's the reason the heathen
who walk around in darkness without any knowledge at all of God,
who he is, his word, his gospel, are yet condemned because they
do not walk according to the law inscribed on their hearts.
They know God demands righteousness, but they don't do it. They know
that God's going to punish sin, and they've tried to atone for
sin, but they can't do it. And they're condemned because they
do not answer the revelation of God given in creation stamped
on their own hearts. Obviously then he's not here
talking about writing his moral law or his ceremonial law on
their hearts. What's he talking about? He's
talking about writing on their hearts the law of Christ revealed
in the gospel. What is that? Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ. First John chapter 3 verse 23.
Love your neighbor as yourself. And you know what the believer
says? His commandments aren't griefless. He's talking about
inscribing upon the believer's heart the whole principle of
submission to and love for the character of God revealed in
the totality of his word. And the believer does. Oh, how
I love thy law, O Lord my God. True statement from every believer.
We delight in the law. His moral law, yes. But we delight
in more than just the Ten Commandments. We delight in the whole revelation
of the being, character, and work of God Almighty. We delight
in knowing who He is, what He's done, and what He's doing. I'll
write my law in their hearts. I'll stamp it on their minds.
The laws of God here referred to, then, are those laws which
the believer bows to and submits to as he takes the yoke of Christ
upon himself and learns of Him. Read on. I will be to them a
God, and they shall be to me a people. What on earth does that mean?
Isn't He God of everybody? Yeah. Aren't all people His people? Yeah. He's talking about something
special here. I'm going to be their God and
Father just exactly as I am the God and Father of Jesus Christ,
their Redeemer. Get hold of that, Bobby, if you
can. In exactly the same way, to exactly
the same degree, for exactly the same reason, in exactly the
same strength of bond, He said, I'm your God, you're my son. Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed on such maggots of the earth as we are,
that we should be called the sons of God. Read on. And all shall know me. from the least of them to the
greatest of them. Now what on earth does that mean?
They shall need no more every man his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the Lord. Another passage says they'll
not anymore need a priest or prophet. Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1, you
remember? God hath now spoken to us by his Son. In the old
days of the old covenant, If men wanted to worship God and
wanted to offer a sacrifice to God, they had to go get a priest.
And they had to go to God through a priest. If they wanted to hear
from God, they had to go fetch a prophet and find out if God
had given the prophet any word. These days, God has given us
his son. And we still need pastors and
preachers, teachers to grow in the grace and knowledge of our
God and Savior by the ministry of the word. And it doesn't imply
in any way that we don't need that. But we don't need priests,
and we don't need someone to give us a new revelation from
God, because we've got it all, and we are made by Jesus Christ
to be priests unto God. To offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God by Christ. And every believer has an unction
from the Holy One. Every believer is indwelt by
his spirit, and is taught of God, and knows all things. That's what the book says. Read
1 John 2.20. Every believer has the mind of Christ and understands
all things. Read 1 Corinthians 2. What do
you mean? Has the mind of Christ? Understands
all things? Yeah. Understands all things
spiritual. Has the mind of Christ. He understands
the believer looks at the providence of God in this world. And he
understands that's the finger of God. Everybody else in the world,
religious and otherwise, looks at what God does and they scratch
their head and try to figure out some way to attribute that
to some freak chance of nature. The believer says that's the
finger of God. It's the finger of God. The believer looks at
every experience in his life and says, my father did that.
My father did that. He said, well, not all believers
understand it. Well, you can say that if you want to. The
book says otherwise. The book says we understand all things.
We have the mind of Christ. Talk to believers about works.
I don't mean they're all theologians. My soul. I wouldn't want to be
married to a theologian, and I wouldn't want to pastor a congregation
full of theologians. I've had my belly plumb full
of them. Plumb full of them. What does it mean then, know
all things? Knows everything he needs to know. He hears somebody
talk about works. He says, well God ain't in that. How do you know? Well, I know
and pity you if you don't. I say no. That's not according
to this book. That's not according to the spirit
of Christ. That's not my shepherd's voice. He hears free graces,
that's it. That's it. He hears about the
blood of Christ being something that somehow
maybe might possibly be accepted of God. Nah, that's not God's
truth, no. He hears the blood of Christ
to put away our sins. Bless God, that's what gives
my soul peace. That's what speaks peace to my
heart. They shall all know me. Every
believer is a son. Every believer is a student of
the word. Every believer has the spirit
of God. Every believer is taught of God.
Every believer worships God. Every believer does business
with God himself. We don't need any priest. And
we don't need someone to come with a revelation from God for
us. We have his son. Look at the next line. I will
be merciful. to their unrighteousness. I'll tell you what that refers
to. All unrighteousness is sin. And this praise tells us that
God will forgive our sins He freely pardons us of our transgressions,
and he does so not only because he is merciful, but because he
is faithful and just, faithful to his covenant and just in his
Son. And then the last line of the
covenant is this, their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more. Now, if you'd like to add a DSF
paraphrase, you can stick this on the end of the sentence. For
any reason, forever. That's what he said. Their sins,
past, present, and future, inward and outward, original and actual,
thought, word, and deed, before conversion and after conversion,
I'll never remember against them anymore forever. How come? Rex Bartley, he remembered your
sins one day 2,000 years ago when he nailed your sins to the
tree in the person of his son and punished them until he said
that's enough. And now he says, I won't remember
them anymore. Blessed, oh, blessed is the man
to whom the Lord will not impute sin. One more thing. This is a needed replacement.
It's a promised replacement. It's a better replacement. And
bless God, it's a permanent replacement. Verse 13, in that he saith, a
new covenant He hath made the first old, he made it old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth
old is ready to vanish away. It's wearing out. And what he's
talking about is in that transition period Before the temple at Jerusalem
was destroyed by God's hand in 70 A.D., he said this thing is
wearing out. I'm fixing to fold it up like
a worn out garment. I'm not just going to fold it
up, I'm going to burn it to ashes and there will not be one stone
left on top of another. You won't even be able to find
out where the gate of the temple was, much less the walls that
alter the mercy seat. I'm going to destroy the whole
thing forever. All the priests, all the sacrifices,
all the ceremonies, all the law, all the types, all the ordinances,
all the symbols, all the physical places, everything! Fold it up,
put it in a pile, and burn it at one time. How come? Because
I fulfilled it. I fulfilled it. The Lord Jesus,
by his one great sacrifice, entered in once into heaven with his
own blood and sat down. And yonder he is. Prophet, priest,
king, temple, tabernacle, altar, mercy seat, sacrifice, everything,
everything. We worship God in him, in a new
covenant. And God's covenant in him is
forever sure. Forever sure. Amen.