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We have been spending our time looking at the meaning of the blood of the covenant. The reason this is an important study is because Jesus proclaimed that when we take the cup in the Lord’s Supper, that cup is representing his blood of the covenant. We looked at the use of this term in Exodus 24 and Zechariah 9. But today we are going to look at how the writer of Hebrews uses the term. Open your copies of God’s word to Hebrews 9 and we are going to look at verses 19-21.

For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. (Hebrews 9:19-21 ESV)…

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We are reading the last days of Jesus’ life on earth. The chief priests and the elders of the Jewish people have been plotting to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. However, they do not want to do this during the Passover to prevent an uproar from happening. But an opportunity has presented itself to them. One of Jesus’ disciples, Judas Iscariot, has gone to these religious leaders and asked them how much he could get from them if he would betray Jesus to them. They offer Judas 30 pieces of silver. The paragraph ends by telling the reader that now Judas is now seeking an opportunity to betray Jesus…

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When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night when he was betrayed, he called for his disciples to remember him and proclaim his death until he returned. When Jesus took the unleavened bread, he said to his disciples to eat the bread, remembering that this was his body given for them. But then he took the cup after eating the bread. In every record of the institution of the Lord’s Supper we are told that Jesus said that the cup is the blood of the covenant. The Matthew and Mark accounts say, “This is my blood of the covenant.” The Luke and 1 Corinthians accounts say, “This is the new covenant in my blood.” What did Jesus mean when he said that this cup represented the blood of the covenant?

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Matthew 26 begins the final act of this gospel’s recording of Jesus’ life. You see this in the first verse of Matthew 26 with the words, “When Jesus had finished all these sayings.” This is the fifth and final time that Matthew marks off his gospel in this way. Our setting is the final week of Jesus’ life. Up to this point Jesus has been telling his disciples that his death is coming. You might remember that Peter argues with Jesus when Jesus plainly reveals this truth. In Matthew 26:2 Jesus tells his disciples this truth again. But Jesus makes the timing very clear. Jesus is going to be delivered up and crucified during the Passover…

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When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night when he was betrayed, he called for his disciples to remember him and proclaim his death until he returned. When Jesus took the unleavened bread, he said to his disciples to eat the bread, remembering that this was his body given for them. But then he took the cup after eating the bread. In every record of the institution of the Lord’s Supper we are told that Jesus said that the cup is the blood of the covenant. The Matthew and Mark accounts say, “This is my blood of the covenant.” The Luke and 1 Corinthians accounts say, “This is the new covenant in my blood.” What did Jesus mean when he said that this cup represented the blood of the covenant? It should be worth noting that Jesus did not say that the cup represented his blood. The full expression is that the cup represented the blood of the covenant..

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This is our final lesson on how to have a fresh, renewed faith for the new year. The Lord has been announcing important truths to the people about their spiritual condition. However, the people have questioned those declarations, not seeing their own sinful condition. The Lord has then given remedies for the people so that they can return to the Lord with a renewed faith. We are presented with one more declaration from the Lord and one more questioning of the Lord from the people. Open your copies of God’s word to Malachi 3 and we will look at God’s final faith message in this prophecy…

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We have been looking at how to have a renewed, fresh faith for the new year. Our text that we have been considering is from the prophecy of Malachi. God has making statements about the faith problems of the people. But the people are questioning everything God says because they do not believe they have a spiritual problem. So God continues to work on the people’s hearts by telling them the truth and trying to move them to repentance. You will notice that this is how God starts this next paragraph of teaching. Open your copies of God’s word to Malachi 3:7 and notice what God says to the people…

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We have been looking at what a life of sin does to us from Jeremiah 2. The people had expressed the feeling that they were captured by their sins and it was hopeless to return to the Lord. In Jeremiah 2 God is describing to the people what their sins have done to them. We are using these descriptions to help us be strong in the Lord and combat sin. We are going to look at the final three pictures God gives about sin which we will use for the fight against Satan and his schemes…

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We have been spending this month talking about how to have a fresh, renewed faith for the new year. Everyone likes the opportunity to restart. It is one reason we look forward to a new year. It is the chance to have a better year than the prior year. This is a time of year when people talk more about Jesus’ coming. However, there is not much talk about why Jesus came. This morning we are going to continue looking at how we can have a fresh faith for the new year and God is going to tell us how his coming is supposed to achieve that renewed faith. Open your Bible to Malachi 2 and that is page 954 in the pew Bibles. From Malachi 2 we are going to look at how God answers our greatest question…

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We are looking at how to overcome sin addiction from the second chapter of Jeremiah. We are seeing this problem expressed in Jeremiah 2:25.

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, “It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!” (Jeremiah 2:25 NET)

How did the people of God get themselves so enslaved into sin that they admit that they cannot stop? How did they get so deep into their sins that they cannot stop? In our last lesson we looked at the first 13 verses of Jeremiah 2. God asks the people to explain to him what he did for us to make such a bad exchange. Why would you trade glory for worthlessness? Why would you trade satisfying waters to work to catch stale, dirty water? Why would you trade the truth for a lie? Why would you trade the Creator for the created? God is teaching us how to overcome our sin addiction by showing us what we are doing to ourselves by continuing in our sins. Let’s continue in Jeremiah 2 and notice what else God teaches us about our sin problems and how to overcome…

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