Sue J Love
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Jeremiah 31:31-34 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be like the covenant
I made with their fathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt—
a covenant they broke,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the LORD.
33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the LORD.
I will put My law in their minds
and inscribe it on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother,
saying, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.
For I will forgive their iniquities
and will remember their sins no more.”
The Old Covenant
Who were God’s people under the Old Covenant? They were the Jews. They were Israel. But not all of them were of genuine faith in God. Not all of them obeyed God and served Him as their Lord. They were Israel because they were physical descendants of Abraham. But many of them resisted the Lord, worshipped idols, lived in spiritual adultery, in sexual immorality, in revelry and drunkenness, and in stubbornness of mind and will. They did not bow to God as Lord, and many of them died and did not enter into God’s rest.
[See: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; etc.]
Under the Old Covenant they were under a long list of liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws which we, under the New Covenant, do not have to obey. But they were also under God’s moral laws requiring repentance, submission to God as Lord, and faithfulness to the Lord in obedience to His commands, in holy living, in moral purity, in godliness, uprightness, and in righteousness. Under the New Covenant we must still obey God’s moral laws which did not go away.
The New Covenant
Under the New Covenant, God’s people are all people who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ who have denied self, died to sin (repented of sin), and obeyed our Lord as a matter of life practice, and who are continuing to do so by the grace of God. We who were not born Jews by physical birth were grafted into biblical Israel (into Jesus Christ) and all Jews who rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah were cut out of biblical Israel. But they can be grafted into Israel by faith in Jesus Christ, and together we are “All Israel.”
Israel Today: [Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9; see also Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19]
Under the New Covenant, God, in the person of the Holy Spirit, comes to live within the lives of all who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ. So the Word of God is living within us, not just something we read in the Scriptures. We have the Holy Spirit living within us teaching, instructing, encouraging, counseling, leading, and guiding us in the ways of the Lord, directing our paths, cautioning us against making wrong choices and encouraging us in the ways of the Lord, empowering us to live holy lives in the power of God.
Who Knows The Lord?
So, if we are of genuine faith which saves, we have, by the grace of God, denied self, died to sin, and we are walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands in life practice. So we know the Lord. It is not like under the Old Covenant where the people of God were His by physical birth, and when so many of them rejected the Lord and refused to obey Him. All of us who are of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus know the Lord, so we don’t have to teach one another to know the Lord, if our faith is biblical faith.
Nonetheless, many profess faith in Jesus Christ based off lies they were taught, and their faith is not biblical, for they did not deny self, die to sin, and obey God in practice, but they continued in their deliberate and habitual sins and in disobedience to our Lord’s commands. So they do not know God and God does not know them. And they do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God guaranteed them because they did not submit to Him as Lord and follow in His ways, but they continued in their willful sins.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
So, if you have not, by faith in Jesus Christ, died with Him to sin, and if you are not now, by the grace of God, walking in obedience to His commands, as a matter of life practice, then you do not know God. And this is not saying that we will never sin (1 John 2:1-2), but the Scriptures make it quite clear that if sin is our practice, our habit, and not obedience to our Lord, that no matter what our lips profess, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. So make your heart right with God today while you still can.
Old Covenant vs New Covenant
An Original Work / August 20, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Mighty in Power
An Original Work / June 17, 2019
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Jesus, our Savior, reigneth forever;
Mighty in power, His name we honor.
He’s our refuge from all evil.
God our righteous, He’s our fill.
He satisfies us with all His blessings.
We magnify Him. Our praise to Him sing.
Glory and honor, praise to the Father,
Perfect in wisdom, He is our vision.
He delivered us from all sin
So, in Christ, we’d be forgiven.
He purifies us. His love will guide us.
He is beside us, holy and righteous.
Our Holy Spirit, comfort in sorrow,
Strength in our weakness, hope for tomorrow.
He gives courage to be bold in
Witnessing for Jesus Christ.
He teaches all things about our Savior.
New life in Jesus, we found His favor.
“31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be like the covenant
I made with their fathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt—
a covenant they broke,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the LORD.
33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the LORD.
I will put My law in their minds
and inscribe it on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother,
saying, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.
For I will forgive their iniquities
and will remember their sins no more.”
The Old Covenant
Who were God’s people under the Old Covenant? They were the Jews. They were Israel. But not all of them were of genuine faith in God. Not all of them obeyed God and served Him as their Lord. They were Israel because they were physical descendants of Abraham. But many of them resisted the Lord, worshipped idols, lived in spiritual adultery, in sexual immorality, in revelry and drunkenness, and in stubbornness of mind and will. They did not bow to God as Lord, and many of them died and did not enter into God’s rest.
[See: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; etc.]
Under the Old Covenant they were under a long list of liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws which we, under the New Covenant, do not have to obey. But they were also under God’s moral laws requiring repentance, submission to God as Lord, and faithfulness to the Lord in obedience to His commands, in holy living, in moral purity, in godliness, uprightness, and in righteousness. Under the New Covenant we must still obey God’s moral laws which did not go away.
The New Covenant
Under the New Covenant, God’s people are all people who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ who have denied self, died to sin (repented of sin), and obeyed our Lord as a matter of life practice, and who are continuing to do so by the grace of God. We who were not born Jews by physical birth were grafted into biblical Israel (into Jesus Christ) and all Jews who rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah were cut out of biblical Israel. But they can be grafted into Israel by faith in Jesus Christ, and together we are “All Israel.”
Israel Today: [Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9; see also Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19]
Under the New Covenant, God, in the person of the Holy Spirit, comes to live within the lives of all who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ. So the Word of God is living within us, not just something we read in the Scriptures. We have the Holy Spirit living within us teaching, instructing, encouraging, counseling, leading, and guiding us in the ways of the Lord, directing our paths, cautioning us against making wrong choices and encouraging us in the ways of the Lord, empowering us to live holy lives in the power of God.
Who Knows The Lord?
So, if we are of genuine faith which saves, we have, by the grace of God, denied self, died to sin, and we are walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands in life practice. So we know the Lord. It is not like under the Old Covenant where the people of God were His by physical birth, and when so many of them rejected the Lord and refused to obey Him. All of us who are of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus know the Lord, so we don’t have to teach one another to know the Lord, if our faith is biblical faith.
Nonetheless, many profess faith in Jesus Christ based off lies they were taught, and their faith is not biblical, for they did not deny self, die to sin, and obey God in practice, but they continued in their deliberate and habitual sins and in disobedience to our Lord’s commands. So they do not know God and God does not know them. And they do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God guaranteed them because they did not submit to Him as Lord and follow in His ways, but they continued in their willful sins.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
So, if you have not, by faith in Jesus Christ, died with Him to sin, and if you are not now, by the grace of God, walking in obedience to His commands, as a matter of life practice, then you do not know God. And this is not saying that we will never sin (1 John 2:1-2), but the Scriptures make it quite clear that if sin is our practice, our habit, and not obedience to our Lord, that no matter what our lips profess, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. So make your heart right with God today while you still can.
Old Covenant vs New Covenant
An Original Work / August 20, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Mighty in Power
An Original Work / June 17, 2019
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Jesus, our Savior, reigneth forever;
Mighty in power, His name we honor.
He’s our refuge from all evil.
God our righteous, He’s our fill.
He satisfies us with all His blessings.
We magnify Him. Our praise to Him sing.
Glory and honor, praise to the Father,
Perfect in wisdom, He is our vision.
He delivered us from all sin
So, in Christ, we’d be forgiven.
He purifies us. His love will guide us.
He is beside us, holy and righteous.
Our Holy Spirit, comfort in sorrow,
Strength in our weakness, hope for tomorrow.
He gives courage to be bold in
Witnessing for Jesus Christ.
He teaches all things about our Savior.
New life in Jesus, we found His favor.
