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Hebrews
8:6 - But the ministry Jesus
has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator
is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises
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Here
we see three comparisons :
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The (priestly) ministry of Jesus is superior to the priestly
ministry of the Jewish (Levitical) priesthood
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Because: The covenant of which Jesus is a mediator
is superior to the old covenant
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Because: The new covenant (of
which Jesus is a mediator) is founded on better promises than the old covenant.
Questions:
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According to this verse, what is the basic thing that makes
the Jewish priestly ministry so inferior and Christ's so superior?
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Christ's ministry is better because it is based on a better covenant. Christ
is the “mediator of a better covenant” (KJV).
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What was the covenant under which the Jews ministered? (Hint:
Look at the next few verses, especially verse 9)
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The "old covenant" given to
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What is the covenant under which Christ ministers? (Hint look
at the following verses, especially verses 8b-13)
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The new, and better covenant based on grace that was
established by Christ in His obedient life and vicarious death. It is "not
like" the old covenant (Heb. 8:6-13).
Hebrews
8:7-9 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first
covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault
with the people and said: "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of
Questions:
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According to this text, why did God promise another (new)
covenant?
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Because there was something wrong with the first one.
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What was wrong with the first (old) covenant?
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There is nothing wrong with the covenant per se, the problem
was with the people (see verse 8). Sinful man cannot keep covenant.
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What Old Testament text records the promise that God would
make a new covenant, since
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Jeremiah 31:31-34
Hebrews
8:10-13 This is the covenant I will make with the house of
Questions:
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How are the qualities of the new covenant that are listed in
this text different in the old covenant?
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The new covenant is written on the heart, the old covenant
was written on stone
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In the new covenant everyone “knows the Lord” (is saved), in
the old covenant there were saved and unsaved Jews
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In the new covenant everyone in it is forgiven, in the old
covenant everyone in it is proven guilty
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What happened to the Old Covenant as a result of the New
Covenant being introduced?
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It became obsolete and disappeared.