What reason is given for making the new covenant?

Answer

"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For
finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant."
Heb. 8:7,8.
NOTE - The chief fault in connection with the old covenant lay with the People. They were not
able, in themselves, to fulfil their part of it, and it provided them no help for so doing. There was no Christ
in it. It was of works and not of grace. It was valuable only as a means of impressing upon them their
sinfulness and their need of divine aid.

For what purpose was Christ manifested?
Whom does Christ say He came to call to repentance?
In what language had some of the Old Testament prophets already foretold these signs?
What does Christ proclaim Himself to be?
How may one grow in grace?
Upon whom was the name Israel first bestowed?
Of what are the streets of the city composed?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle