Hebrews 8:8-10,12 “…I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel… not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers [Moses]. I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be My people… For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
Have you ever caught yourself thinking that God is happy with you one day and then at other times He is mad with you? Or maybe you feel God has forgiven all your sins today, but another day you feel He is not as forgiving?
This is how a lot of sincere Christians live and think. But this is what we call “schizophrenic Christianity”.
If you find yourself going back and forth between thinking that one day God is happy with you and the next He is unhappy with you, it is because you are stuck in between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. As a consequence, you believe in a mixed message that tells you there are times when God is happy with you and times when He is unhappy with you.
Let me clear this up once and for all by referring back to Hebrews 8.
Hebrews 8 is talking about the New Covenant of grace that Jesus replaced the Old Covenant of the law with. When Jesus said, “It is finished” at the cross, what is now finished is the Old Covenant of the law.
Listen to God’s choice of words and the tone of His voice in the New Covenant of grace. He says:
“I will make a new covenant”
“I will put my laws in their heart”
“I will be their God”
“I will be merciful to their unrighteousness (sinfulness)”
“I will remember their sins no more”
This is God’s New Covenant with you! Many Christians have been robbed of fellowship and intimacy with God because they have believed the lie that God is not happy with them, but angry because of their sins.
But God says in this New Covenant of grace, "I will remember their sins no more"! Why can God say this? Because on the cross God remembered all of humanity's sin and then His Son, Jesus fully paid the price for all sin through His blood.
Today God says, “I will… I will... I will… I will… I will …” He says it five times which is the number of grace! God is the One doing all the work here. God has done it all for you.
All you have to do is believe it and receive it!