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Welcome to Day 2256 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nHebrews-13 Christ's Covenant...New-Never Obsolete \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nPutnam Church Message \u2013 07/23/2023\n\n\u201cChrist\u2019s Covenant\u2026New, Never Obsolete\u201d \n\nHebrews 8:1-13\n\nAs we continue our extended series through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament, we compared the Levitical and Melchizedekian priesthood last week. We saw that Jesus Christ established a perfect and permanent priesthood as our Great High Priest.\n\nThis week we move beyond to the New Covenant that Christ brings to us. The New Testament, or New Covenant, is the Good News, commonly called the Gospel.\n\nLet\u2019s read Hebrews 8:1-13.\n\nNow the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest,\xa0who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, \xa0and who serves in the sanctuary, the true Tabernacle\xa0set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.\n\nEvery high priest\xa0is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices,\xa0and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.\xa0If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.\xa0They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy\xa0and shadow\xa0of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned\xa0when he was about to build the Tabernacle: \u201cSee to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.\u201d But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant\xa0of which he is mediator\xa0is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.\n\nFor if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.\xa0But God found fault with the people and said:\n\n\u201cThe days are coming, declares the Lord,\nwhen I will make a new covenant\nwith the people of Israel\nand with the people of Judah.\nIt will not be like the covenant\nI made with their ancestors\nwhen I took them by the hand\nto lead them out of Egypt,\nbecause they did not remain faithful to my covenant,\nand I turned away from them,\ndeclares the Lord.\nThis is the covenant\xa0I will establish with the people of Israel\nafter that time, declares the Lord.\nI will put my laws in their minds\nand write them on their hearts.\nI will be their God,\nand they will be my people.\nNo longer will they teach their neighbor,\nor say to one another, \u2018Know the Lord,\u2019\nbecause they will all know me,\nfrom the least of them to the greatest.\nFor I will forgive their wickedness\nand will remember their sins no more.\u201d\n\nBy calling this covenant \u201cnew,\u201d\xa0he has made the first one obsolete;\xa0and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.\n\nPaula and I started working with technology in 1980, so we have been involved with business and personal computers from the beginning. I\u2019m still constantly astonished by the technology we take for granted today\u2014everyday devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops that we used to see only in science fiction. Over the decades, I\u2019ve observed an endless parade of new technology come and go, each advancement growing old and being replaced by the newest development. Little thumb drives replaced 8\u201d floppy disks with millions more storage capacity. Cassette tapes replaced records; CDs replaced