“‘Behold, the days come,’ saith the Lord, ‘that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt. . . . For this is the new 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 on their heart also will I write them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. . . . For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins will I remember no more’” (Hebrews 8:8-9, 10, 12).
Read MoreHenry Rogers, a brilliant lawyer of a few years ago, wrote a book entitled The Eclipse of Faith, in which he imagined that some powerful hand had wiped the influence of Christ out of our civilization, as a hand might wipe the writing from a chalkboard in a classroom. He imagined himself going into his library to discover that every vestige of Christ’s life and influence had wholly disappeared. He opened his law books which had contained the legal standards protecting children, the poor, and the innocent only to find that these laws had disappeared.
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