This was me just a few years ago. It is amazing how even if we don’t use a black highlighter in our Bibles, that we end up mentally blacking out parts we don’t want to read or don’t understand.

In both Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8, which is just a quoting of Jeremiah 31, it plainly states that when this New Covenant is in place that we will no longer have to teach each other. We are still in an age that there are people alive today who do not know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They never heard of Him. We can’t even use this verse to say “well, that just means people that are in the Covenant, we don’t have to teach them.” Have you been to a church? There is a lot of teaching about who God is there. You can look on Amazon and find several books dedicated to teaching the character of God. This isn’t something we all know.

Another key thing about this New Covenant is that God’s Law is on our hearts. If you have been following my comic for any portion of time, you will see that a lot of what I cover is showing how the church isn’t following God’s Law. Most aren’t even keeping all of the 10 Commandments, which is all that they associate with God’s Law. If both of these are the case, how can we say it is on our hearts?

An argument that would be used here is that outside the 10 commandments, those are the Old Covenant laws, so they won’t be on our hearts. However, there is no distinction of that listed when God gives the commands. In fact, directly after giving the 10, the people saying they don’t want to hear him anymore, He goes right into more. No stop, no “these will be covenant laws”, no nothing. He picked up where He left off. It wasn’t about covenants, they are His Laws. You can find numerous examples in Genesis of people keeping and breaking those same laws. One I use here often is Cain and Abel. Abel brought the first fruits of his works, while Cain did not. Cain just brought something. God says in His Law He gets the first fruits. Those are His. Cain didn’t provide this. That is why God didn’t look favorably on his offering.

The thing about God is He doesn’t change. His Laws are a reflection of Him, they also do not change. If we want to be in Covenant with Him, we have to keep His Laws. The Old Covenant, the Laws were told to us and we were supposed to put them on our hearts. In the New Covenant, He will put them on our hearts instead of us trying to do it.