Justice and the Future
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In this clip Jeff shows that there was more than just salvation and forgiveness promised in the OT. This is a highlight taken from our weekly broadcast. You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com. Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video. #ApologiaStudios
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- I also think it's important because there are promises, we're going to talk about them today, there are promises in the
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- Word of God about the new covenant, about what God's going to do when he brings Messiah to bring salvation, forgiveness to the ends of the earth and draw the nations to God.
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- There are promises contained there that are not just about salvation and forgiveness. A promise that I just read at the start of this episode, and that is about what
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- God's going to do through this Messiah to bring justice to the world. The Messiah is not going to grow faint or weary until he's established justice.
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- And one of the final parts of that, that I read there, you heard that, Isaiah 42, 4, he will not grow faint or be discouraged until he's established justice in the earth and the coastlands wait for his
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- Torah. They wait for his law. That's significant. It's important. We're going to talk about some of those.
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- The fact that the law of God is a constituent element of what God is going to do in the new covenant economy, what
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- God's going to do in the new covenant is something new that's different from what was before, but does not negate the justice and the goodness of God's law from before.
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- He's going to do it in a new way. Jeremiah 31, 31, I'm already getting into it here, but just to just give you a little bit of a teaser here in Jeremiah 31, 31, in that, that promise of the
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- Messiah's kingdom and the new covenant itself. Of course, the promise there is about forgiveness and salvation.
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- I'll forgive their sin, forgive their iniquity. That's there. But before God talks about what he's going to do in the new covenant, in terms of forgiveness and salvation, he says the new thing he's going to do, he's going to put a spirit within us.
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- He actually does something in the new covenant where the God's going to take the law, the known law, the law that Jeremiah knew about, the law they were accustomed to, the law that was spoken by God.
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- He was going to take that law and he was going to put it within the people of God. He was going to write it on their hearts.
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- So now we go from having stone tablets outside the people of God, exerting pressure from the outside to now the spirit empowered obedience to that law.
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- And that law now actually coming and taking residence within the people of God. So just think about it in terms of what
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- God says is so unique about the new covenant is not that now it's a lawless covenant. Now that it's, it's not that it's a, it's a covenant that now negates the law and the goodness of God's law that he gave in those commandments.
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- But now it's those commandments now taking residence within us empowered by the spirit of God. The law, the known law is going to be written within the people of God.
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- God with his finger is putting it on your heart. Now, now, now, not just on stone tablets outside the people of God.
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