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Explain using examples from St. Luke’s Gospel how Jesus fulfilled Jeremiah’s teachings about the new covenant.

      

Explain using examples from St. Luke’s Gospel how Jesus fulfilled Jeremiah’s teachings
about the new covenant.

  

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Kavungya
i) Jesus inaugurated the new covenant during the Last Supper. He said, "This cup is poured out for you in the new covenant in my blood". (LK 22:20)
ii) The death of Christ on the cross shows that God will not remember their sins anymore.
iii) Jesus summarized the Mosaic Law into the double commandment of love of God and love of one's neighbour LK10: 27. The law of love is eternal.
(iv) Jesus established the kingdom of God, a new community of God's people based on faith and obedience is his teachings.
(v) Jesus established an everlasting covenant through his death and resurrection.
(vi) In Jesus, people have direct relationship with God
(vii) Jeremiah gave hope about restoration which found fulfillment in Jesus who came from the Davidic lineage to set up God’s rule on earth.
(viii) Jesus established the new beginning in the New Testament, which is the basis of his doctrine of the new covenant.
Kavungya answered the question on March 11, 2019 at 07:59


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