Hebrews 8 Unrepentant, Old or New?

The New Covenant
6Now, however, Jesus has received a far superior ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is superior and is founded on better promises. 7For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. 8But when God found fault with the people, He said:
“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.
9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
because they did not abide by My covenant,
and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
10This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord.
I will put My laws in their minds,
and inscribe them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
11No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother,
saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12For I will forgive their iniquities,
and remember their sins no more.”b
13In speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

The old covenant covered sin with blood and put a fence around it, the new covenant forgives sin.

Have you ever considered what happens to your trash? You put it in a garbage can, set it out at the street or alley and then it disappears. It's picked up and taken to a landfill, dumped into a huge hole and covered with dirt. Your trash is still there, it's just covered up.

But what if you recycle your trash, it gets sorted, paper, plastics and glass that become recycled. It becomes new. New products such as recycled paper products, glass bottles and all kinds of innovative plastic products that can now be used.

Under the old covenant your sins are like the trash that gets covered with dirt, they are still there, just covered up.

Under the New Covenant your sins are taken away, YOU are in a sense recycled, made new!  Now you can be used by God for godly purposes!

Now consider what unrepentant sin looks like, thrown out trash, dirty, filthy, stinky covered with flies and maggots!

You have three choices when it comes to your sin, unrepentant, old covenant or new covenant. Which do you choose?

Blessings, David