For this is the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind,
and write them in their hearts;
and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people:
and they shall not teach every man
his neighbor, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the Lord:
for all shall know me, from the
last to the greatest.
Hebrews 8:10-11]
I need to clear some things up that are translated that might, and has in some cases, not understood according to the Greek and cause false teaching, even heresy. The English word, "put," indicates that something was placed by another thing, or person, but this is not the Greek word, for it comes from the word: δίδωμι, from which the word in the text is: διδούς, a nominative, singular, masculine, participle, in the present tense, active. This word is to give, or bestow, or present, and can be used, to give, or cast, to supply, to entrust, and more, but in all uses this word is to give, not just "put" into rather to give and how this is given is by the word of God, His revelation about Himself, His purposes, and how we are to live in order to be pleasing to Him. For God to "write" upon the hearts is not to say that He does so by His hand, it could mean this but to "write' upon the heart indicates more than pressing into the flesh of the heart, rather the heart being the seat of emotion and in a large way is connected to the mind, then when His word is taken in by the mind, which is connected to the heart, the heart is said to have been imprinted, to have pressed into them something and that something is that they will know that the one giving, imprinting is God, God to them and that they are one of His people. When this occurs life changes and this world with all its pleasures and sins will no longer be desired and practiced by a child of God.
This covenant, this New Covenant, is so different from all other covenants of God for this Covenant is eternal and has its root in Jesus Christ the eternal One, the Wisdom of God, the Only Begotten of God. This writing on the heart is in the future tense in Greek, so it is something that is going to happen in a greater way, for when Jesus Christ returns for His bride no longer will there be a need to teach for God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Godhead, will be known by all of God's children. We can live now, in the present knowing that God's word is always true, and His promises are always fulfilled (Try and find a promise that has not been fulfilled except for those promises that are future), you will find there is none.
We have been studying about Jesus Christ, Who He is, and what has been found is that Jesus Christ is greater than Melchisedec, although Melchisedec was the example and illustration, and that by Jesus Christ and Him instituting a New Covenant, albeit that the previous covenants pointed to Him, we can have salvation and eternal life: "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that He saith, A new covenant, He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away" (Hebrews 8:12-13). No angel, not other being can offer salvation, and salvation can come by no other than God Himself for only He has the right to forgive sins, therefore Jesus must be God to be able to forgive sins and this He did on the cross, Himself, for Himself to satisfy this debt of sin and the to be able with this satisfaction of His debt apply mercy and forgiveness to those who believe upon His Only Begotten Son and Savior, the One He sent to do His will: "For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).
There is only one explanation of the forgiveness of God and His forgetting of our iniquities, unrighteousness, and sins, and this is by the death of Jesus Christ. No matter who you are, what your station in life is, or any other thing, for with God, through Jesus Christ there is absolute reinstatement to God, no other way, not because Jesus pleads, as some teach, no, but because He died. You cannot earn this forgiveness, you can accept. If a person does not recognize the cross, then the cross is of no avail. There is no other name by which man can be saved, only Jesus Christ, and their is no forgiveness except by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We must, if we are to be Authentic Christians, become identified with the death of Jesus Christ, not just to be identified with Jesus Christ, but by His death, and then we must become dead to everything that is not in Him. The Atonement is a propitiation whereby God through the death of Jesus Christ makes an unholy man holy.
Put the word of God into your heart and be inscribed so that you will know who you are and Whose you are, and then sanctify your sanctification. Live, be a witness for God, for Jesus Christ, there is no other life that will bring to you a sense of completeness and joy.
Hold thy peace at the presence
of the Lord God: for the day
of the LORD is at hand: for the
LORD hath prepared a sacrifice,
He hath bid His guests.
Zephaniah 1:7
Sanctify your life for God
Richard L. Crumb
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