What is your understanding of Hebrews 8:10?

Question

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: - Hebrews 8:10.

Answer 1

The first covenant the people tried to keep on their own but could not. This new covenant was the same law of God.....but He promised to put it in their hearts and would help them keep it if they would not turn away from Him. (Heb. 10:9,10)

Answer 2

Hebrews 8:6 tells us the new covenant is better than the old because it contains better promises.

Promises which were never before offered, and thus unique to the new covenant.

Hebrews 8 goes on to enumerates three such promises.

1) A change of nature.
2) Forgiveness of sins.
3) Eternal inheritance.

Israel didn't have the heart or nature to obey God (Deuteronomy 5:29).

The old covenant contained no provision for internal motivation to obey God (Hebrews 8:7-8, Romans 8:3).

1) In the new covenant God promises to put His laws into the mind and write them on the heart (Hebrews 8:10). This change of nature results in an intimate relationship with God (Hebrews 8:10).

2) Forgiveness of sins, also necessary for a relationship with God (Isaiah 59:1-2), is another unique benefit of the new covenant (Hebrews 8:12). The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins (Hebrews 10:4. Therefore, forgiveness of sins was unique to the new covenant.

3) Eternal inheritance is a third unique and better promise offered in the new covenant (Hebrews 9:11-15). Eternal life is more than a chronological event and change of composition. Most importantly, it is a never ending relationship with God (John 17:3).

Answer 3

Start back at the beginning of chapter 8. It begins with the discussion of the new priestly service.

Starting in 8:7, God talks about the New Covenant -" for if the first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second".
See Jeremiah 31:31-34
In 8:10, God's offer of salvation through christ is not to give us a religion to follow but to transform us to be like Christ. God is not satisfied with outward religious activity. He wants our hearts and minds devoted to him.
Verse 11 - opens the door for everyone, not just Jews.
It's important to read on through chapter 9. In my opinion, Hebrews 8 and 9 are right up there in terms of importance to Christians.
I could probably write about these chapters for hours.

Answer 4

It is speaking of a new covenant with a spiritual Israel, not with the earthly nation of Israel. See Matt 21:43, 1 Pet 2:9 along with Zec 8:20-23

Answer 5

In the case of the Law covenant, Jehovah God, by means of the prophet Moses as mediator, gave to natural Israel “the handwritten document . . . , which consisted of decrees.” (Colossians 2:14) What, though, about the law of the new covenant? Its Mediator was not to inscribe it on stone, or to write it in a manuscript. Its Mediator left behind no writings of his own. We ascertain what is the law of the new covenant from the inspired Christian Greek Scriptures. (2 Timothy 3:16) But even before those Greek Scriptures began to be written, from about 41 C.E., Jehovah God began writing his law of the new covenant. When? On the day of Pentecost, 33 C.E. Where? Exactly where he had long before promised to write it: “I will put my laws in their mind, and in their hearts I shall write them.”—Hebrews 8:10.
Being inscribed upon the heart, those laws would be less likely to cease being loved by those who obeyed them. If those laws were put “in their mind,” they would be less likely to forget them. Hence, the keepers of those laws say, in the words of Psalm 119:97: “How I do love your law! All day long it is my concern.” From their most inward being, they set their affections upon Jehovah’s laws as given through his Mediator, Jesus Christ. Thus, with the right motivation, they determine to keep those precious laws. This applies both to the “little flock” in the new covenant and to the “great crowd” of “other sheep” who are, not in the new covenant, but under it.

Answer 6

The Old Covenant was made with Moses on behalf of God's people. It was written on stone. The New Covenant that Jesus brought to God's people would be written on their hearts. The Sermon on the Mount helps explain. For example, it was sin under the Old Covenant to murder...to commit the act. Under the New Covenant, it is wrong to hate...a heart issue. God wants our hearts to be right with Him, not just our actions.

Answer 7

Before Hebrews 8:10 is missing... I could not read the covenant as it proclaimed... before this passage. Maybe you can understand it better if you read the whole Hebrews 8:00 unto its end.

Answer 8

It for tells of the coming of the Holy Spirit. I confess the "House of Israel" makes me wonder if this was God telling the Jewish people that they would no longer need sacrifice and that they had their advocate or if it means those of the line of David through Jesus. Remember Jesus says "who is my mother and brother? Those that do the will of the Father." So, we are his family and we have the Spirit and fellowship with God.

Answer 9

that in the end., God will make believers of the Jews, and return them to their status as the chosen people. Some think that means the jews will be the 144,000 witnesses. I just think in the end, the jews will come to acknowledge the divinity of Christ.

Answer 10

I understand that to be a prophecy of the coming of His gift of the Holy Spirit.