What Law is Jeremiah 31:33 talking about? If this Law is written in your heart, what outward actions show?

Question

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Answer 1

From "Why I Keep Torah" at http://www.historycarper.com/wordpress/?p=23 . My apologies for my wordiness.


The New Covenant does not replace the old so much as it adds to it. Abraham’s covenant did not overturn Noah’s covenant, which did not overturn Adam’s covenant. Hebrews says that the high priesthood was transferred (the Greek word translated as “changed” in the King James Version is closer to “transferred” in today’s English) to Yeshua and that there was a transfer of the law also. This transfer isn’t a change in the requirements of the law, but a transfer of our allegiance. Like Paul, we are under the law for Christ (1 Corinthians 9:21) rather than under the law for the law itself. We are not to be lawless, but to continue to keep Torah as a sign of our allegiance to our Messiah. Yeshua said that he did not come to abolish the law, and Paul continued in that same vein when he wrote that we do not make the law void through faith, rather we establish it.

The Torah is an expression of God’s character in that it defines his standards of behavior. If God never changes (Malachi 3:6), then neither do his standards. The Torah says that no one can add or remove anything from its rules. (Deuteronomy 4:2 & 12:32) If any prophet were to preach against the Torah, leading people away from the proper worship of God, then the Torah commands that he be stoned. If Yeshua taught against Torah, then he was a sinner and ineligible as the Messiah. If Paul taught against Torah, then he too must be disqualified as a prophet of God. If Stephen taught against Torah, as only false witnesses were able to testify, then his punishment was just. (Acts 6:13-14) Since no true witnesses could be found to testify either against Stephen or Yeshua, the only logical explanation is that they never did teach against Torah. Even the Temple sacrifices only appear to have been suspended and not forever done away with. Ezekiel prophesied that the daily sacrifices will resume under the direct supervision of Yeshua our Messiah. (Ezekiel 40:41-43, 46:20) We are not made whole or justified by such sacrifices, but we never were, because Yeshua’s death was sufficient for all human rebellion from the beginning of time. (Hebrews 11, Revelation 13:8)

Jeremiah prophesied specifically that the Torah would carry over into the New Covenant, only transferred from tablets of stone to hearts of flesh. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) In that prophecy, God based the continuity of his covenant with the nation of Israel on the heavens and the earth. As Yeshua said, “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Well, heaven and earth are still here, and all has not been fulfilled. The Messiah has not yet returned the second time, Israel and Judah have not yet been reunited in the land, and men still have to teach each other about God.

All scripture is inspired of God and profitable for doctrine. None of it has been annulled. Obedience to God’s laws is required under both the old and the new covenant. Through faith I will continue to establish the Law (Romans 3:31) and repudiate lawlessness. Through faith in Yeshua and through the power of the Holy Spirit, I will continue to try to live closer to God’s standards of perfections every day that I am able. So long as one man tells another to know God, so long as the earth continues to move through the heavens, I will continue to put my faith in God and his eternal standards rather than in the love of transient men.

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Answer 2

The Ten Commandments and all the other associated laws of the covenant mediated by the imperfect man Moses were recorded on manuscripts but did not really get inscribed on the hearts and minds of the circumcised fleshly Jews, or Israelites. Noting that failing with respect to the Mosaic Law covenant, Jehovah God foretold the making of a new covenant by means of the prophet Jeremiah, as recorded at Jeremiah 31:31-34.
Jesus Christ sealed that promised “new covenant” with his own lifeblood when he died with a broken heart on the torture stake outside Jerusalem. The night before, when celebrating his last Passover supper with his faithful apostles in obedience to the Mosaic Law covenant, Jesus passed the cup of wine to them and gave a new significance to it by saying: “This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf.” (Luke 22:20) In this way he became the Mediator of that new covenant, which proved to be a “better covenant” than the Mosaic Law covenant. So ever since he presented the value of his perfect lifeblood in heaven in 33 C.E. he has served as the Mediator for those disciples whom Jehovah God brings into the new covenant.

Answer 3

Was God referring specifically to his "chosen people." Those of Hebrew heritage whom we refer to as Jews even today, were given God's laws, including the 10 Commandments and the Ark of the Covenant. The Lord promises to keep His people safe without assault because they will be intensely acquainted with His laws, inwardly and outwardly. This is a "positive" thing.

What shall we then say to these things? If GOD be for us, WHO can be against us? - Romans 8:31. The Lord daily loadeth us with BENEFITS, even the GOD of our salvation. Selah. - Psalm 68:19.

May you and your loved ones have a prosperous,
healthy, God-endowed, Happy New Year.

Answer 4

This marvelous feature of the new covenant, with God’s law written “not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart” (II Corinthians 3:3), has specific application to Israel, but also applies to all believers. Also its quotation and application in Hebrews 8:10-13 and 10:15-17, the promises therein clearly applying to all believers in Christ.

Answer 5

I think that this verse is talking about the re-newed covenant,
that Yeshua would bring & preach the goodnews to all Israel
& then to all nations. vs 34 is what John 6:45 is refering to," It
is written in the prophets, And they shall be taught by YHWH
God, therefore everyone who has heard & learned from the
Father comes to me.
Ps 40:7-10 THis is talking about Yeshua Messiah, Behold I
come, in the scroll of the Book it is written of me.I delight to
do your will, And your law is within my heart. I have proclaimed
the goodnews of righteousness in the great congregation.
I do not restrain my lips, I have not hidden your righteousness,
I have declared your faithfulness & salvation, I have not
concealed your lovingkindness & your truth from the great
congregation.
If this law is written in our hearts we will do as Yeshua did &
tell people of YHWH's lovE & salvation & not hide the truth
from them. To love people is to want the best for them & not
to let them perish.

Answer 6

See verse 31 of the same chapter.
It's the new covenant made with the house of Judah, which is the throne of David, inherited by Christ Jesus.

The Levitical Law will be done away with (Colossians 2:13-17) and the Two Great Commandments are promoted and revealed to contain the whole Law. These are the Laws which everyone will be able to keep in their hearts, and consider as they interact with others.

Answer 7

i love that one....

it describes the new covenant, and when taken with the next verse "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them" proves that the new covenant is NOT here yet! thus the old law still applies, even according to the words of jesus!

Answer 8

This foretold the of the New Covenant, which the Lord Jesus instituted in His own bllood:

(Luke 22:20) "Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you."

(Heb 9:16-17) "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. {17} For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth."

In so doing, He enabled the Spirit of God to be poured out upon all true believers, those who have contritely asked and trsuted the crucified and risne Lord Jesus to save them, and given their heart to Him.

And then, like as God engraved His basic commands upon the two tablets of stone that Moses was given, and ou of which approx. 600 more "details" came, so God writes upon our heart His law, by which we obey not just the letter of the law of Moses, but it's full intent, or "spirit."

(2 Cor 3:3-8) "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. {4} And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: {5} Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; {6} Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. {7} But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: {8} How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?"

Yet i believe v. 34 of Jer. 31 speaks a yet future realization of the New Covenant has to it in the millennial kingdom.

Answer 9

Jeremiah was a bull frog and was a good friend of mine. He always had some mighty fine wine. Joy to the World to all the boys and girls.

Answer 10

Anything that God said for them to do.....whether it is a law as you know it today....or Right/Good.

Sometimes this is also referred to having this law in your forehead.