March 27, 2022 - A Trail of Broken Promises - Pastor Paul Vallee

Jeremiah 11, Jeremiah Series Most people are confused about the difference between an idea of a covenant versus a contract. Some use the terms interchangeably; however, God deals with them based on a covenant. What is amazing is that when as human beings, we were unable to keep the Old Covenant, God, who is so loving and faithful, created a New covenant based upon better promises. It was Jeremiah that revealed to God’s people this beautiful expression of love found in Jeremiah 31:31-33: “The days are coming, declares the LORD, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time. I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Yet, as we see here in Jeremiah 11, the story of God’s people is a trail of broken promises to God while God continued to be faithful to His pledge to His people. However, there is a cost to neglecting our part of the covenant. It is this that we are going to address not just in the lives of those ancient Jewish people but in our lives today.