Would yo please pretty please explane to me how make a new covenant is not according to to the covenant made with their fathers?
Ok, if you will please consider...
Now therefore,
if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine: Exodus 19:5
A covenant is an agreement between two or more parties.
God said,
"...IF ye will obey, and keep my covenant, THEN..."
The terms of the agreement were based upon the Ten Commandments, the moral standard of God's eternal Kingdom, and the promises of life, and blessings of it only to be given ""if", "then", but if not, then death, evil, cursings.
The peoples said, in their own strength,
"...we will do...", but they did not, even right at the start - golden calf, etc. So were the Ten Commandments then null and void, or did God set His righteousness before them again?
Old Covenant:
And all the people answered together, and said,
All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. Exodus 19:8
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said,
All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. Exodus 24:3
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said,
All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. Exodus 24:7
Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us
all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it]. Deuteronomy 5:27
"all... we will do."
New Covenant:
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jeremiah 31:31
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 brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: Jeremiah 31:32
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. Jeremiah 31:33
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
And
I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them]. Ezekiel 36:27
"I will put... I will write..."
The 'old covenant' that the "fathers" made with God was "we will do", but God found fault with their faulty promises, found fault with the them, the peoples. This was why God saiod that there was need of better promises, his own promises.
But now hath
he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also
he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises. Hebrews 8:6
For
if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. Hebrews 8:7
For
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: Hebrews 8:8
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. Hebrews 8:9
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: Hebrews 8:10
This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord,
I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; Hebrews 10:16
Therefore the New Covenant is not based upon our faulty promsies [as the rewards of the old covenant was based upon their fulfilling it in their strength], but now rather by His faithful promises. These are still based upon conditions,
If, then,...
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God, Not of works, lest any man should boast. [Ephesians 2:8-9...] and yet it continues by saying, because it is of "faith", by his grace, we must choose to believe His Promises to write His law in our hearts, to make of us the new creature, to re-create us, and to make anew the image of God.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. [Ephesians 2:10]
If only ye will believe that Christ Jesus can recreate you, and that He will write His eternal law in your heart, so that because of this, you will desire to obey Him in His Commandments.
If only, people will take hold of the True and Everlasting Gospel, God is Mighty to save, and believe that
"...he shall save his people from their sins. " [Matthew 1:21;p]
If only, people, so named after Christ, will believe,
"...him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy," Jude 1:24;p
The Everlasting Gospel is ever so much more than merely salvation from "the wrath of God"... [that is only half of the Gospel], for He is able to save us from temptation and sinning, and it is by His loving Grace which is the Awesome Power to live the new and resurrected Life in Christ Jesus, walking in the Law of the Lord from a heart atoned with God.
God is true and faithful, whether men are so or not... look unto Christ and believe...
