Don W

Do you also answer questions that those involving themselves in your excellent Bible studies have on the meaning of certain Scriptures quoted in your studies? I was wondering what Jeremiah 31:34 means when he stated that "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother...." because you are a pastor/teacher yourself and most likely all of us participating in these studies has at least one other Bible teacher at their church to teach them the Word? I don't think that we should rely entirely on the teaching of the Holy Spirit directly to teach us the Word because we need gifted men such as yourself to teach us what it means and then the Holy Spirit will apply it to our lives as He wills to do so, but this verse doesn't seem to me to involve human teachers any longer but only the Holy Spirit to teach us all His Word. Am I reading too much into the verse or what does it say exactly for us who are not Bible teachers? Thank you for your reply because I've wondered about this verse for awhile now.

The promises of the New Covenant differ a lot from the Old Covenant primarily with a new relationship with God as our heavenly Father through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; and obedience and love for God internalized in our hearts by the Holy Spirit living within us constantly to help us walk with our Lord in obedience to Him, and when we don

By the blood of their sacrifices poured out on the altar to God and sprinkled on the Israelites. The people twice promised to listen and obey all of the words of the LORD in which Moses wrote them all down. They sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings of the oxen unto the LORD, sprinkled the blood first on the altar in worship of God, and then the blood was sprinkled on the people as part of the blood (offering) of the covenant between the LORD and the Israelites. They ate the offerings of oxen meat after the blood was sprinkled on the altar and themselves.

It tells of us who believe and trust in Christ Jesus that He completely forgives our sins, past, present and future by His precious blood shed from the cross at Calvary. But just as Jesus told His disciples that their feet needed cleansing from the dirt (a picture of sin) from the everyday world where they

His disciples, when pointed to the Isaiah 53 passage about the Suffering Servant, knew that the passage was a prophesy about Jesus

At the time when His disciples saw the wickedness of the Lord

Besides being a picture of the ultimate sacrifice for sin in God giving His only Son in sacrifice for our sins, the Old Testament sacrifices are the way God showed His grace and mercy in that it was either the blood shed by the sacrificed animals or the people

It is a proclamation to everyone who either participates (believers) or observes (unbelievers) the Lord

When we keep remembering Christ

The purpose for remembering the Passover meal was to give God all of the glory in setting Israel free from the slavery of the Egyptians back in the Pharaoh

Probably for several reasons, but I think the main reason was so we would remember Jesus

Since Jesus voluntarily laid His life down for me to take on the wrath (or judgment) of God upon our sins that was meant for me, I can put on His life as I voluntarily serve Him as my Lord and Savior in praise and thanksgiving for all that He did for me. We are His own people since He voluntarily gave His life up for our lives, and thus we are more valuable then the sparrows and other birds in the air, the lilies and the grasses of the field or anything else in this world because the Lord redeemed us to be His own people and will someday soon clothe us to be in heavenly glory with Him forever. This inspires me to praise, worship and thank Him for all that He did for me, and to serve Him better here and throughout eternity. Amen!

The purposes are there in all of the verses listed, that include: as a ransom for all of our sins; to rescue us from this present evil age; according to God the Father

One reason is that Jesus Christ went through this whole thing for our benefit and without Him being physically born, suffering, and His resurrection from the dead, we physical beings wouldn

For several reasons, but a couple of them are because He was the perfect sacrifice as the Lamb of God so His body was spotless and sinless; and because He died physically on the cross at Calvary and was bodily resurrected again from His death as He took all of our sins upon Himself so we might be forgiven for them. The picture of animal sacrifices of spotlessly perfect animals in the Old Testament was a picture or representing the perfect sacrifice of the Lord Jesus in the New Testament, and these sacrifices took place with the physical bodies of the animals just as did the final and complete sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary, and this is a couple of reasons why Paul emphasized the sacrifice of Jesus

The remembrance of Christ

To me, the meaning of His body broken for us in His sacrifice of His body in His death at the cross at Calvary; and His blood poured out for us, also in His death sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. He willingly went to His death on the cross as He is the ultimate sacrifice of Himself for all of our sins; and the pain and agony of His separation from His Father in heaven, and of His death on the cross to pay for our sins all teach us to think of Jesus

When on one side the elements mean only the symbols of every day living (such as when we eat bread with our usual meals or drink wine with our friends), then they lose all the holiness of Christ

Because the elements are, to me, figurative and non-literal, when I am partaking of the Lord