The
promises of God are given in Ezekiel 16 - “I will remember the
covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will
establish an everlasting covenant with you ... So I will establish My
covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 16:60,62).
These promises are fulfilled in “Christ ... the Mediator of a new
covenant.” Through Him, we “receive the promised eternal inheritance.”
Through His death “as a ransom”, we are “set ... free from the sins
committed under the first covenant” (Hebrews 9:15). “Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger” (Proverbs 27:13)
- Through faith in Christ, we receive the garment of His perfect
righteousness. Trusting in Him, we are no longer strangers to God. We
are secure in His salvation.
" ... Will you ... come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, We are safe" - safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears My Name become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 7:8-11). “God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site” ( R K Harrison , Jeremiah ).
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