Rainbows & Blood Jeremiah 31:34 (S3-Episode #10)

Covenants were often sealed with blood.  A sacrifice was often associated with covenants to commemorate their seriousness. 

At the (His) Last Supper and (Our) First Supper, Jesus mentions the Blood of the Covenant.  1 Cor 11:23-27 calls it a NEW covenant.  Apparently, the temporary, imperfect, sin-represented covenant of Moses just didn't quite cut it.

The NEW COVENANT is beautifully described in Jeremiah.  There we hear of an indwelling God, with our hearts changed.  I will be their God and they shall be my people.  Wow!  Rainbows! Eureka! Jackpot!   Bingo!  BE WITH ME!  Where do I sign up for that?

Not so fast.  There is this sin problem we gotta fix first.  You cannot stand in unfettered fellowship with God when there is SIN between you.  You have got to get to "I will remember their sin no more" status.  So then, how do I get there?  You gotta have a perfect, one time, for-all sacrifice.  Of course that is Jesus...and His suffering...and His crucifixion...and His blood.

Then, the JUSTICE of God is satisfied by the Just sacrifice . Then we get the BE WITH ME.  We get unfettered, unencumbered access to God who now is written on our hearts. 

Do you see that we get the RAINBOW of relationship via the BLOOD of Jesus?  That is the "NEW COVENANT in my Blood" that is the essence of the Lord's supper.  The celebration then of communion is then both a PARTY and a FUNERAL. A Rainbow and Blood.  Listen please.  Subscribe and share please.
 

Transcript

Michael Smith: 0:01

Good morning, my brothers and sisters, welcome to Episode 10. Season Three, be with me. We're in the Last Supper, we yesterday looked at the expensiveness of the fellowship of God and the expensiveness of the forgiveness of God, what it cost to get to that relationship? So we're in the Last Supper. We're doing a passage that's talking about the Lord's Supper. Let me read just another one. This is from First Corinthians chapter 11, which Paul describes what happened at the Lord's Supper. Here's what I want to look at today. I was wondering when I finished yesterday of it talks about a covenant and new covenant. And it is established by blood. So my question is, what is the new covenant? So just follow with me, and we'll get started. This is First Corinthians chapter 11. And this is verse 23, I received from the Lord, what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed to bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, this my body, which is for you, Do this in remembrance of me in the same way. He took the cup after supper saying This cup is the new covenant, in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. So Jesus is saying, there's a new covenant, there's a covenant that happens with my death and resurrection and the blood that's going to be spilled in just a few hours. So my question is, what is this new covenant? What is the covenant? And wouldn't? Wouldn't we like to know we want to know this because the Old Testament writers predicted this. So this back in Jeremiah chapter 31. This is described, this is one of the most quoted verses in the Old Testament or passages from the Old Testament, and you'll see why, because there's a lot of rainbows and puppies in this in this verse, Jeremiah 3131, Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah. So this is the time Jesus is connecting Jeremiah 3131, to him sitting at the last supper with his disciples. Then he's going to describe here that the covenant is not like the one I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke whoops, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. So he's saying that the covenant that the original covenant, which is the Mosaic Covenant, which is how should we deal with our sin, which is by the whole sacrificial system, imperfect, temporary, done by sinners, so it was just a shadow of the thing to come, which is Jesus. He's the perfect sacrifice, read Hebrews, if you want to get this all all laid out for you. So Jesus is going to be the perfect sacrifice the one time sacrifice, the eternal sacrifice. So this is what we get out of this new covenant. So listen to this, this is the rainbows and puppies part. This is Jeremiah 3133. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put my law within them, I will write it on their hearts, I will be their God, they shall be my people, and no longer shall one teaches neighbor and each his brother saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me. From the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more. This is something that Jeremiah prophesies hundreds and hundreds of years before Jesus comes. Then Jesus comes to the Last Supper and says, I am making the New Covenant. Now, I'm going to give you this presence. I'm going to give this writing on your hearts it's going to describe and in a few hours here, probably maybe even the same hour of Jesus's time on earth. He described as more in depth with the coming of the Holy Spirit. Basically, what he's saying is you get me how how do I but how do you get this presence of the Lord How do you get this new relationship that Moses couldn't quite pull off with his imperfect priests and imperfect temporary sacrifices? Well, you get it by the forgiveness of sins, we find that the last part of that passage for I will forgive their iniquity. And I will remember their sin. The more we talked a little bit about it yesterday, where the critical element is how do we get to have this intimate fellowship with God of the New Covenant? Well, sin has to be taken care of, well, how is sinned taken care of? Well, unfortunately, it's done with blood. And it's done with Jesus's blood, the perfect sacrus sacrifice, the one time eternal, perfect sacrifice. So the good news in the New Covenant, so what is the new covenant, the New Covenant is you that you get Rainbows, unfettered, unhindered, justified in good relationship? indwelling, Holy Spirit, the Lord looks at you as sinless, sinless, or at least that your sins are taken care of. You get this unfettered fellowship with the Lord, you get the be with me? Well, that's great. How do I get that? Well, where do I swipe my credit card to buy that? Where do I put my man hours of works to earn it? Well, you can't if it was about us, if you could do that, then it would be about us and it's not about us. It all points back to the sacrifice that's represented in the in the Last Supper, this last meal, the breaking of the bread, the the, the wine that even looks like blood, that we remember what Jesus did. And it's our faith in him. That makes it count for us. So this is in Romans, chapter 25, that we are justified by His grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation as a satisfaction by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness because in his divine forbearance, he passed over former sins, it was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just, and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. So it's all in that passage. He is a just God, he needs to be satisfied from sin. Only he can do it. So he has to be the justifier. And how do we get there we get by faith. So ladies and gentlemen, all we can say is I'm with him. That's what faith is saying. I'm with him. And then, after he does all this worse, we ask how should I live? Stick around. See you tomorrow.