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Originally Posted by mfblume
Very good points!
And this brings to mind a very good point. Jeremiah 31 teaches us that the old Covenant was unable to be kept. And that includes the Ten Commandments, just as Paul explained in Romans chapter 7 that he tried to obey the Covenant commandment to not covet, and found that the letter of the law was used by Sin as a weapon to kill him. In other words he was saying exactly the same thing Jeremiah said. People couldn't keep it. And Paul again explained that we are now led by the spirit in the law of the spirit of Life, which does cause the law of sin and death to be overcome, whereas the Mosaic law of Commandments was unable to do that. |
Jeremiah 31:31-34 KJV
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: [32] 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 : [33] 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. [34] And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord : for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah says nothing about anyone's
ability to keep the covenant, only that Israel and Judah broke it (did not keep it).
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