Date: 07-10-2020

Title: The New Is Superior

(S) cripture:
    Hebrews 8:13 (NASB) When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

(O) bservation:
    The writer has said that Jesus is superior to all other priests and this new covenant is superior to the old one. The old covenant required continual animal sacrifices, but the new covenant is in Jesus’ sacrifice once for all. The old was temporary but the new covenant is permanent. Jesus is superior in every way. The old was the way of the law but the new is the way of grace.

(A) pplication:
    Grace is superior to law and is permanent. I wonder why I so often want to reduce my relationship with the Lord to a list of rules or think that keeping the rules earns his favor. Today I will rely on God’s grace and trust His Spirit to live and work in and through me. I desire the superior and permanent to the inferior and temporary.

(P) rayer:
    Lord, I trust your Grace to sustain me and hold me up. Thank you for providing a permanent solution for my sin. Amen