The Blessing of Living in the New Covenant

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The Blessing of Living in the New Covenant
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Gen 159-21NLT

• 9 The LORD told him, "Bring me a three-year-old
  heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a
  three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young
  pigeon." 10 So Abram presented all these to him
  and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the
  middle and laid the halves side by side

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Gen 159-21NLT

• 12 As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a
  deep sleep
• 17 After the sun went down and darkness fell,
  Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch
  pass between the halves of the carcasses.

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Gen 159-21NLT

• 18 So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that
  day and said, "I have given this land to your
  descendants, all the way from the border of
  Egypt to the great Euphrates River

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Gen 173-11NLT

• Then God said to him, 4 "This is my covenant with
  you I will make you the father of a multitude of
  nations! 5 What's more, I am changing your name.
  It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be
  called Abraham

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Gen 173-11NLT

• 9 Then God said to Abraham, "Your responsibility
  is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all
  your descendants have this continual
  responsibility. 10 This is the covenant that you
  and your descendants must keep

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Gen 173-11NLT

• Each male among you must be circumcised. 11 You
  must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign
  of the covenant between me and you.

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Jer 3417-20 NLT

• 17 "this is what the LORD says Since you have
  not obeyed me by setting your countrymen free, I
  will set you free to be destroyed by war,
  disease, and famine. You will be an object of
  horror to all the nations of the earth.

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Jer 3417-20 NLT

• 18 Because you have broken the terms of our
  covenant, I will cut you apart just as you cut
  apart the calf when you walked between its halves
  to solemnize your vows.

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Jer 3417-20 NLT

• 19 Yes, I will cut you apart, whether you are
  officials of Judah or Jerusalem, court officials,
  priests, or common peoplefor you have broken
  your oath. 20 I will give you to your enemies,
  and they will kill you. Your bodies will be food
  for the vultures and wild animals.

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Prov 217 NIV

• 17 who has left the partner of her youth and
  ignored the covenant she made before God.

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Isa 5920-21 NLT

• 20 "The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem to buy
  back those in Israel
• who have turned from their sins," says the LORD.
• 21 "And this is my covenant with them," says the
  LORD.

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Isa 5920-21 NLT

• "My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will
  these words I have given you. They will be on
  your lips and on the lips of your children and
  your children's children forever.

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Jer 3131-34 NLT

• 31 "The day is coming," says the LORD, "when I
  will make a new covenant with the people of
  Israel and Judah.

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Jer 3131-34 NLT

• 32 This covenant will not be like the one I made
  with their ancestors when I took them by the hand
  and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They
  broke that covenant, though I loved them as a
  husband loves his wife," says the LORD.

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Jer 3131-34 NLT

• 33 "But this is the new covenant I will make with
  the people of Israel on that day," says the LORD.
  "I will put my instructions deep within them, and
  I will write them on their hearts. I will be
  their God, and they will be my people.

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Jer 3131-34 NLT

• 34 And they will not need to teach their
  neighbors, nor will they need to teach their
  relatives, saying, 'You should know the LORD.'
  For everyone, from the least to the greatest,
  will know me already," says the LORD.

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Jer 3131-34 NLT

• "And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will
  never again remember their sins."