Jeremiah 31:31-34 The days are coming,” declares the Lord,“when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant,though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God,and they will be my people. 34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me,from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
This passage contains a promise of a New Covenant. Throughout the Bible, God reveals His plan of redemption through a series of covenants. The Covenant is the basis for all biblical history. The term first appears very early in Scripture. Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
Following the account of Adam and his fallen descendants, God makes a covenant with Noah, this is referred to as the Noahic Covenant. This coming Sunday we are going to begin a series on “covenants in the Bible” and we will begin with the covenant that God made with Noah.