In this message, Stephen explores the profound promises of the new covenant as foretold by Jeremiah and fulfilled through Jesus Christ. He emphasizes that God's covenant with Israel was initially external, based on laws inscribed on tablets, which the people failed to keep due to their rebellious hearts. However, God, in His mercy, promised a new, inward covenant where His law would be written on our hearts, enabling us to truly know Him from within, without external instruction. This new covenant is characterized by God's unconditional grace, where He promises to forgive sins, forget iniquities, and establish a personal relationship with His people. Stephen highlights that this covenant is established through the blood of Jesus, making it unbreakable and available to believers today. He stresses that the articles of this covenant include inward law-writing, spiritual knowledge, and complete forgiveness—each a divine provision for believers to live victorious lives. He encourages believers to claim these promises by faith, understanding that God's promises are based on His faithfulness, not our performance. The message concludes with a call to live in the power of the resurrection life, love for God, and the assurance that we are no longer slaves but children of God, living under a better, grace-based covenant.
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.