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THE NEW COVENANT.
LESSON WI, FIRST QUARTER, fNTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB -.


a. Behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, that will SOW the house of Israel.
and the house Of Judah with the seed of
man, and with the seed Of beast Jere
miah propheSied during the last forty years
of Judah's history ere the two tribes were
carried captive during the last eighteen
years of Josiah's reign and the twenty-five
years. CT the fSuF kings following. He was
simply Gods messenger speaking GodI
message. Chapter i, I, 0, II, chapters XXX
and XXI have been called "a book within
book" like Rom. TX to XII, and any kind
of careful reading shows its peculiar ref
erence to Israe's future. Compare this
verse with chapter XXX, Is and take
Israel aud Judah TO mean only Israel and
Judah the ten tribes and the two of all
Israel The Spirits own commentary upon
this verse is found in Ezek xxXvi, ell
%. "And it shall come to pass, that like
as have watched over them to pluck up
30 will watch over them to build and to
plant, saith the Lord" No one can ques
ton the plucking up and scattering and
no more should any one question the gath
ering and rebuilding Put verse 10 with
this and say how anything can be more
clearly or emphatically stated with a
"Thus saith the Lord" and His will" and
SHALL"
20. "In those days they shall say no
more. The fathers have eaten a scnr grape
and the children's teeth are set on edge
They considered themselves as suffering
for their fathers sins and therefore used
this proverb. See Lam. v, Z; Ezek. xviii,
2,3.
30. But every one shall die for his own
iniquity; every man that eateth the sour
grape, his teeth shall be set on edge
Compare Deut. xiv, 10; Gal. vi, 3,
Personal responsibility is taught every
where in Scripture every one of us
shall give account of himself 10 God
(Rom. xiv, 1877
81. Behold the days come, saith the
Lord, that | will make new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah" Remember that He is speak
ing not of the church, nor of the days in
which we live, but of literal Judah and
Israel in the days of the restoration, yet
future, but now very near.
80 mot according to the covenant that
l made with their fathers, which my coy
enant they brake" He refers now to the
Horeb covenant of Deut. V, 2, 3, to make
them kingdom of priests and peculiar
people above all people, upon condition of
their obedience (Ex, xix, 3, g. This was
different from the covenant with Abra
ham, Isaac and Jacob, which was uncon
ditional and shall yet be fulfilled to the
letter; a covenant made with an oath, and
therefore eternal and Interchangeable Mic
vii, 20).
30. After those days saith the Lord
will put my law in their inward parts, aid
write it in their hearts; and will be I'll. ir
God, and they Shall be my people" "ThOsa
days" probably refer to the days Of tribu.
lation which will precede Israel's national
conversion Chapter xxx, Z; Dan. xii, |.
Math. xiv, 2D, for it is Immediately after
the tribulation of those days that He shll
come in power and glory for Israe's deliv
erance (Math. xiv, 20-31 Luke xxi, 25 -2S)
Observe how the work is entirely the Lords
from first to last; | will put, will write,
will be; and compare Jer xiv, 6, Z; Eek,
xxxvi, A-30
"a. "rhey shall all know me- from the
least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the Lord for | will forgive their in |
tquity and ! will remember their sins no |
more" This verse Is often quoted as if it |
referred to all people on the whole earth, |
and would be result of the Gospel as now
preached; whereas it refers clearly to Israel
be all righteous, and the central nation
upon earth in millennlal days lsa. TX, 9t |
Xvi, 81, who shall make known thename of |
the Lord to all the world that so the earth
may be filled with his glory (Num. xiv. 81 |
lisa. XII, o; Heb. H. 14) But until the new
earth all the world shall not be righteous, |
for even in milennial days many shall |
yield only feigned obedience ops Xvi, !
margn).
85. THUS saith the Lord, which giveth |
the sun for light by day The Lord of |
Hosts is His name" However great a
promise may be, it is Of no weight unless
the promiser is able to fulfil it. The Lord |
of Hosts is the creator of all things and
"He Is able"
86. IF those ordinances depart from be-
fore me, saith the Lord, then the seed of
Israel also shall cease from being q nation
before me forever" Read the parallel pas
sage in chapter XxXiii 1926. Israel is not
now and has not been for over 500 years
q nation in the eyes of other nations, but
Israel has never ceased to be nation be-
fore God, for 1.-THE Lord seeth not rs man
seeth," and soon she will be a nation be-
fore all nations admired, honored aud
sought unto, because of jehovah, her King.
b. THUS saith the Lord, II heaven
above can be measured, | will
also cast Off all the seed of Israel for Sil
that they have done, saith the Lord" 1t
is often said when we speak of lsrael's
future glory, "But consider all that they
have DONE they have forfeited everything"
Yes, truly, they have forfeited all that was
conditioned upon their obedience, but the
unconditional promises TO Abram, Isaac
and Jacob, God will keep and fuldll for
His own great names sake lisa. xiii, 25
Eek. xxxvi, %, 80 Note carefully that
when Jerusalem shall be rebuilt in the
restoration it shall never be thrown down
again Oversees $40; Ps. eli, lG). II you
would see and enjoy those days of lsrae's
glory you must now be redeemed by
1srael's King Then, being redeemed, re-
member that you are redeemed not
simply to go to heaven when you die,
but to live here as long as the Lord
sees fit, to do your part in making
Christ known in all the world that SO
the church, His body, may be gathered
out Of the nations. Being ignorant Of
the mystery that blindness in part is
happened unto Israel until the fullness Of
the Gentiles be come in" and that then all
Israel shall be saved (Rom. xi, 25, 26), the
church has become conceited and vainly
imagines that her mission is to convert I'll
whole world. Let no preacher, pastor or
think that he is commissioned
to convert all within his reach, but rather
TO be faithful witness in the power of the
Spirit, that he may by all means save
some" q Cor. tx, -; Rom. Xi, Ia And
let every preacher lay to heart what the
writer received through DR.. A. L. PierSou,
that our parish is not our field, but por-
ton of the field, which is the world from