Sins Remembered No More

Hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Visions. Although I'm out of coffee, let's have some coffee. We'll pray. No, we're not gonna have it. You could have coffee. I'm gonna pray. We'll get into Jeremiah and we'll wrap up chapter 31. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for your word, and we pray that your Holy Spirit would please instruct us, help us to understand, help us to love you, to walk in your ways. You are a good God. Thank you for your gifts and your grace to us. In Jesus's name. Here we go, Jeremiah chapter 31, beginning at verse 31.
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant, which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law in their minds, and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they all shall know me. From the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sins will be remembered no more. Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea and the waves roar. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.
If those ordinances depart from before me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before me forever, says the Lord. If heaven can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all they have done, says the Lord.
Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that the city shall be built for Jehovah from the tower of Hananel to this corner gate. The surveyor's line shall extend straight forward over the hill Gerib. Then it shall turn towards Goath. And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron to the corner of the horse gate toward the east shall be holy to the Lord.
It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore, forever. Oh, we need to ask our ABCs. A, what's this about? B, what's the best verse to summarize this? And C, what are we called to do? So A, what's this about? Well, we just, this is this amazing passage, right? We've talked about in this future, or in this earlier part, right?
Verse 15, a voice of Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more, right? This, we talked about, this is the covenant promises that God had made to bring his people back from exile. He said, for I have satiated the weary soul and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. God is gonna care for and satisfy his people. And now he makes a promise of a new covenant.
Not like the one, not the same way dealing with the specific land of Israel, right? He redeemed his people out of Egypt. brought them up, gave them the law, tried to show them their sin, their need for Him, follow these commands, you'll be my people, and they abandoned the Lord. He was like a husband to them, and they, well, go read the book of Hosea, see the spiritual adultery that they committed against Him.
And the Lord says, I'm gonna remember your sins no more. Did you notice here, I will put my law in their minds, and write it on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people. And then I love this part, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sins. I will remember no more. The God who's omniscient, the God who knows all things, how can he forget something? How can he remember no more? He actively does not think upon his people in their sin, but in his grace he looks upon them.
Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinance of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea and its waves roar. Who's able to do this? It's only God. It's only God, it's only the Lord of hosts who's able to pull this off.
And so he says, behold, a day is coming, says the Lord. And then he talks about the city that's just massive. He's gonna return his people. He's gonna care for them. He's gonna create a new covenant. He's gonna remember his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It's not all over, it's not done. God hasn't forsaken them. He never has. He never will. It's a wonderful promise the Lord makes. Something big's gonna change.
And this is what I was talking about earlier with Nathan when I was saying when Matthew quotes the weeping of Rachel, he's not just talking about that specific verse 31, 15. He's talking about this whole section. And then he's pointing us back to realizing that even though there was weeping, God was going to redeem his people. God was going to create a new covenant, a better one.
And this was the announcement of Jesus' birth. Tragedy. Out of the mire and the ugliness of the tragedy of Herod's bloodthirst and power-hungry plays of killing all the children comes a beautiful gospel of God remembering our sins no more. What's the best verse to summarize this? Well, I don't think it's a surprise. I have 33 and 34 underlined. Maybe you would underline something else. That's okay. Let me know down in the comments.
What are we called to do? Do we listen to the Lord? Do we go to Emmanuel? Do we go to the one who fulfilled all of these prophecies? All of this was written to point us to Jesus, because it's in Jesus that our sins are remembered no more. It's in Jesus that God brings us back to himself. And even we Gentiles are welcomed into the holy city, made into a living temple, living stones, hewn out by God himself.
So do you look to Christ? Do you know that if you are in Christ, you remember your sins no more? Man, it's beautiful. It's great. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much that in Jesus Christ, there is no remembrance of sins before you. You remembered our sins upon the cross. when your son bore the full consequences, weight, wrath that our sins deserved. And out of the disgusting, bloody, horrible tragedies of his life, both surrounding his birth and his death, you bring beauty out of ashes. Thank you, Lord, for hope. But we pray that you would bury your good news in our hearts, and that we would walk before you in love for all that you have done for us. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, may God bless you, the one who rose up that great shepherd of the sheep. May he watch over you. May you rejoice in him and walk in his ways. I'll see you next time.