I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenantwith the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 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: 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. 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 31:31-34).
THE TRUE SIN OF SODOM
“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride [Hebrew, gaon,
arrogancy, majesty, pomp,
proud, swelling, haughtiness, highness], fulness
[Hebrew, sibah, satiety, abundance, plentyousness, gluttony] of bread, and
abundance
of idleness [Hebrew, shaqat, repose, quite, be at or take rest, be still]
was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen
the hand of the
poor and needy. And they were haughty [Hebrew, gabahh, to soar, be lofty,
exalt, be high, lift up, be proud, raise up
to great height], and committed
abomination [Hebrew, toebah, morally disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry,
abominable custom] before
me: therefore I took them away [Hebrew, sur,
bring, depart, be past, pluck away, put down, take away, turn aside or away,
withdraw from]as I saw good. Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy
sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and
hast
justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame
for
thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are
more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and
bear thy
shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters"
(Ezekiel 16:49-52).
"And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and
his disciples, to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto
her, Woman, what have I to do
with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
His mother saith
unto the servants, Whatsoever he
saith unto you,
do
it"
(John 2:1-5).
"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator [Greek, mesites, a go between, an internunciator,
a reconciler, intercessor] of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under
the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must
also of necessity be the death of the testator”
(Hebrews 9:13-16).