Hebrews 8:13 (NAS): When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
Devotional Thought: That which is obsolete is the law that condemns. It is weak in that it is not able to stop us from sinning. The New Covenant, which is God’s covenant with Israel, is based upon the removal of all sin in the cross and results in a perfect relationship with God and sinless living.
We non-Jewish people receive the benefits of the New Covenant as recipients of the Abrahamic covenant, “in Him all the nations will be blessed.” The two covenants are linked by the same foundation of Christ’s death to remove sin.
However, we, as opposed to Israel, who will realize the full benefits of the New Covenant in the Millennial Kingdom, still struggle with sin, because we live in a time when the world, the flesh, and the devil still surround us with evil intent. So, although we have a heart that desires God and hates sin, we often fail allowing the world and the flesh and the devil to lead us astray.
What should we do then: 1) we don’t revert to the law, which says we deserve death. 2) we do confess our sin receiving forgiveness and start again, standing up straight realizing that Christ death is “far greater than all our sin”.
So we then exercise dominion