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.

3. Before the giving of the law at Sinai, what did Moses say when Jethro asked him concerning his judging the people?
Of what was this memorial to he a sign?
When, according to the Bible, does the Sabbath begin?
In what language had some of the Old Testament prophets already foretold these signs?
Who are to share this fate?
What classes are we especially enjoined to help?
What parable illustrates practical Christian help work?

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