When we considered the Covenant of Law given through Moses, we detected a major problem that we have with God’s law: we cannot keep it. In light of this fact, in Jeremiah 31:31-34, God announced a New Covenant that would transform our relationship to the law by providing what we all need – complete forgiveness for all our sins.
God grows his church usually by ordinary and sometimes extraordinary means.
God is free to define Israel, to show mercy or wrath, and to add to Israel from the nations.
In response to all of God‘s mercies described in the first 11 chapters, we are to present our bodies and be renewed in our...