May 24
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SURETY OF A BETTER TESTAMENT
“By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.” (Heb. 7:22)
The Father made His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be the surety of the covenant of grace. The covenant of grace is better than the covenant of the law in every way. The law can only reveal our guilt. The covenant of grace makes sinners to be not guilty by the sacrifice of Christ. The law can only demand our death. The covenant of grace demands life for God’s elect because Christ already died for them. The law can never forgive sin, but the covenant of grace demands forgiveness of all the sin that was laid on Christ. Thank God that Christ did for His people everything that the law cannot do.