Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
July 11, 2023: SOAP #4968: Isaiah 8-10; Hebrews 8

SCRIPTURE:  Hebrews (NIV) 8:8 But God found fault with the people and said: “The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah….
10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people….
13 By calling this covenant “new”, he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete, and ageing, will soon disappear.

OBSERVATION:  The old covenant had been completed.  On the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished!” …and IT WAS FINISHED!!!   No more sacrifice of animals; the perfectly holy sacrifice for sin had been completed!  Now God could move forward in His plan—the plan He had for man when He created him in the garden!   Now God could do a NEW thing!  More than living among them; He would live IN them!   This was a BIG change!  This was NEW! 

APPLICATION:  The more I understand about God’s plan, the more I am amazed at God’s willingness to share His life, His fellowship, His purpose, His work, His joy, His sense of accomplishment—all this He shares with me!  

He lives in me!  I have the life of God in me!  

PRAYER:  Lord, I want to live my life showing my appreciation for what I have on the inside.  It is my great honor to have you alive in me.  May my attitudes, my words, and my actions communicate the great esteem I have for you.  Speak through me, Lord.  Touch through me.  Be glorified in me, I pray,  Amen.

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