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.

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How are His mercies continually manifested?
What did Jesus say the Spirit of truth would do?
What only does Christ recognize as proper ground for dissolving the marriage relationship?
What is set forth as the basis for hope and comfort?
What promise did God leave for these persecuted ones?
For what did Job say he would wait after death?

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