Tue June 9

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words I have, I will, and covenant.

Reading

Jeremiah 31:1-6, 31-40—God’s Better Covenant

Optional Reading

Hebrews 8:7-13

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

God loves His people—forever.
In His forever love, God made a new & better covenant.
This new covenant is made certain in Jesus.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

Why did God determine to make a new covenant?
What are some promises of this new covenant?
Who will be the mediator (go-between) of this new covenant?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

Consider for a minute the best promise someone has made to you. Now imagine it being even better. Maybe you can’t. It was too good, too special. God made a promise to His people—to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses and Israel, to David. And now in Jeremiah, in the final days of the siege of Jerusalem by Babylon, in the midst of the judgment of God being poured out in a dreadful way on His people because of their sin, we hear—from God Himself—the promise of God’s better covenant.

At the heart of the covenant theme in Scripture, occurring literally from Genesis to Revelation, are these words from God: I will be your God, and you shall be my people. God loves His people with an everlasting love. In His everlasting love, God promises His people a better covenant. This is so much better an administration of God’s covenant of grace as to require a completely separate listing.

In this new and better covenant, God promises a heart change, a heart knowledge of God, and a heart cleansed.

God loves, saves, and comforts his people, and he builds and promises His people a better covenant with better promises and a better mediator. If you are in the new covenant, your heart has been, and continues to be, changed to conform to God’s laws. You truly know God through Christ, and God remembers your sins no more.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 105a, 111d

Prayer

Rejoice with your family, in God's new covenant in Jesus.
Give thanks for something from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.