From the greatest to the least
Hebrews 8:10-12 NKJV
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. [11] None of them shall teach his neighbour, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. [12] For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
This promise is from Jeremiah 31:31-34 and is lovingly restated here in Hebrews.
We can be absolutely sure that the people of Israel WILL come to know the Lord for themselves because God has promised.
In Jeremiah He gives the guarantee:
Jeremiah 31:35-37 NKJV
Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): [36] "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever." [37] Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
Threaten all you want, shake your national fist at Israel, but it will rebound on your national face, because God, the only true and living God has promised that Israel will continue as a nation.
We, who are grafted in, also stand in the same promises - the true believers are included in this new and better covenant.
We can come to God through Jesus and actually know Him personally from the greatest to the least.
Yesterday I visited some elderly clients who were very well off, but nearing the end of their lives. All their possessions and social standings means nothing now.
I realised just how poor they really are.
They are proud atheists, but where has that brought them - now death stands ready to great them?
Yet wonderful riches are still within reach through the Lord Jesus - the door is wide open - what does it say....
"for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them."
All for surrendering to Jesus the horizon is bright for eternity.
I can't begin to tell you how rich I am in Him - no worries about death and eternity
You can have this assurance too.
Believe the One who never lies.
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