31:29,30
31:29 was apparently a common saying, Ezekiel quotes it as well in Ex 18:2. The Ten Commandments teach that our sins can affect future generations, “down to the third and fourth generations” (Ex 20:5). The people of the time felt that they were suffering for the sins of previous generations. Now the sins of the past generations did have an effect, there had been a record of persistent rebellion. However, the present generation was as guilty as any, and their first priority needed to be to accept their own guilt. Today critical race theory, and all the other critical theories, start by blaming someone else. In fact, they never get beyond blaming someone else. When you are obsessed with someone else’s guilt above your own you are going down a wrong and dangerous path.
A key point on the road to redemption and restoration is acknowledgment of our own sin.
31:31
We now come to a famous section in Jeremiah, one that is quoted in Heb 8:8-12. How can salvation possibly happen? How can a righteous people come about? They always sin. There may even be a short time of change, but they always fall back to their old sinful ways? And we are all like that. What can be done?
The answer is that God will make a new covenant. Here it is looked in terms of Judah and Israel, in Hebrews we see that it applies to all. It is significant that it is made with Judah and Israel. God’s new covenant brings unity. Unity is found only in Christ.
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