Jeremiah 31:31-34

Jeremiah 31:31. 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: 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: 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.

The old covenant was written on tables of stone; but the Lord said, concerning the new covenant, «I will put my law in their inward parts.» The old law was hidden from sight when it was written a second time, and placed in the ark of the covenant; and God says of his new law, «I will write it in their hearts.» They were always rebelling against God, and wandering away from him; but in this new, gracious covenant, he says, «I will be their God, and they shall be my people.»

Jeremiah 31:34. 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:

God gives to all his people a knowledge of himself. «Whatever else they know or do not know,» saith the Lord, «they shall all know me.» Though they differ as to their growth in grace, yet «they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord.»

Jeremiah 31:34. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

If God has pardoned your sins, you will be sure to know him; there will be no mistake about that point. Men shrink back, and hide away from an angry God punishing sin, for they do not care to know him; but when he comes forth, dressed in the silken robes of love, to bestow free pardons upon the chief of sinners, then they know him. God grant that all of us may have this blessed knowledge! Now kindly turn over the leaves of your Bibles until you come to then 36 th chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, and the 25 th verse, where you can read still further about this same gracious new covenant of Jehovah.