1. Superiority of the New Covenant
The superiority of the new covenant is based on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

2. What is a Covenant?

3. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Weakness”
Hebrews 8:7-13
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

4. The Law = Our Schoolmaster
Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Weakness”
Galatians 3:24-25
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
The Law = Our Schoolmaster

5. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Weakness”
Hebrews 8:7-13
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 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:

6. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Weakness”
Hebrews 8:7-13
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

7. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Weakness”
Jeremiah 31:31-34
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.
34 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, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

8. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “New Covenant Strength”
Hebrews 8:7-13
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; (1st Promise of the New Covenant) 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:
Jeremiah 31:31-34
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.

9. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “New Covenant Strength”
Hebrews 8:7-13
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: (2nd Promise of the New Covenant) for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

10. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Superseded”
Hebrews 8:7-13
12 For (3rd Promise of the New Covenant) I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Many of the punishments were harsh even unto death.
The New Covenant would be marked by Love and Mercy!

11. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Superseded”
Exodus 21:15
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 21:17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

12. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Superseded”
Deuteronomy 21:19-21
19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

13. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Superseded”
Exodus 31:14
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

14. Superiority of the New Covenant Need for the New Covenant- “Old Covenant Superseded”
Hebrews 8:7-13
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
The first Covenant was old, out-of-date and ready to be discarded.

15. Superiority of the New Covenant Establishment of the New Covenant- “By Christ’s Redemptive Ministry”
Hebrews 9:11-15
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

16. Superiority of the New Covenant Establishment of the New Covenant- “By Christ’s Redemptive Ministry”
Isaiah 57:15
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite (repentant) and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite (repentant) ones.

17. Superiority of the New Covenant Establishment of the New Covenant- “By Christ’s Sacrificial Blood”
Hebrews 9:11-15
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

18. Superiority of the New Covenant Establishment of the New Covenant- “By Christ’s Mediation”
Hebrews 9:11-15
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called (Those under the Old and New Covenant) might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

19. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Testator’s Death”
Hebrews 9:16-28
16 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.

20. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Testator’s Death”
Hebrews 1:2
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

21. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Testator’s Death”
Hebrews 9:16-28
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

22. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Cleansing From Sin”
Hebrews 9:16-28
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

23. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Cleansing From Sin”
Isaiah 59:2
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Proverbs 5:22
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

24. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Cleansing From Sin”
Psalm 38:3
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Jeremiah 5:25
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

25. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Cleansing From Sin”
Numbers 32:23
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.

26. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Cleansing From Sin”
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Under the Law there were symbols and types of spiritual things. But under the new covenant there were no symbols and types- only realities.

27. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Based on the Cleansing From Sin”
Hebrews 9:16-28
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

28. Superiority of the New Covenant Basis of the New Covenant- “Established Once for All Time”
Hebrews 9:16-28
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

29. Superiority of the New Covenant Conclusion
Everything in the Old Covenant
-Tabernacle
-Law of God
-High Priest
-Blood Sacrifices
Pointed to what Jesus Christ would be and do in the establishment of the New Covenant