I agree with you Joe, a whole lot written for our admonition in the 78th Psalm. Thank God for sending His Son to usher in a new covenant of faith. Our forefathers could not keep the law and forsook God, and so have we. Thank God we are no longer under the law, but grace. Not that we are not under any kind of law, but a new spiritual law, which hinges on faith, love, forgiveness, and mercy.
Our Lord came to declare the Father. There were many, many hints of it throughout the OT. He was constantly forgiving their shortcomings and showed mercy. Now it's fully known by the ministry of Jesus. He came not to condemn as the law states, but to forgive and save us. To be obedient, we take it on faith, and that faith not our own, but a gift from God. So there can be no boasting or accusing each other.
Yet, the ones who still see themselves under the law of Moses are constantly accusing each other, as if there is something they did to deserve the gifts of God. His gifts are freely given, not that we did this, or did that, but only by the sacrifice of Jesus, who fulfilled the law. He not only fulfilled the negative side of the law, but the positive side also.
Now we have a high priest, who was tempted as we are, being perfect in Gods eyes, who declared the perfect will and character of the Father. Who was always willing to heal, forgive, admonish, and teach of the love of God.
He was never like the ones today we constantly hear of, who want us to love God out of fear. He spoke the truth, and the greatest thing is He will come again in Spirit and power and testify to your spirit, that He is the Way, Truth, and Light.
I love these words in these verses:
(Heb 8:1 LITV) Now a summary over the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who sat down on the right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven, Psa. 110:1
(Heb 8:2 LITV) Minister of the Holy of Holies, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man.
(Heb 8:3 LITV) For every high priest is set in place to offer both gifts and sacrifices; from which it is necessary for this One also to have something which He may offer.
(Heb 8:4 LITV) For if indeed He were on earth, He would not even be a priest, there being those priests offering gifts according to the Law,
(Heb 8:5 LITV) who serve the pattern of and shadow of heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely warned, being about to make the tabernacle: For He says, "See that you make all things according to the pattern being shown to you in the mount." Exodus 25:40
(Heb 8:6 LITV) But now He has gotten a more excellent ministry, also by so much as He is a Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
(Heb 8:7 LITV) For if that first was faultless, place would not have been sought for a second.
(Heb 8:8 LITV) For finding fault, He said to them, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will make an end on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah; a new covenant shall be,
(Heb 8:9 LITV) not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.
(Heb 8:10 LITV) Because this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving My Laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
(Heb 8:11 LITV) "And they shall no more teach each one their neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know Me, from the least of them to their great ones.
(Heb 8:12 LITV) For I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and I will not at all remember their sins and their lawless deeds." LXX-Jer. 38:31-34; MT-Jer. 31:31-34
(Heb 8:13 LITV) In the saying, New, He has made the first old. And the thing being made old and growing aged is near disappearing.
The God we worship has mercy that endures forever.
God bless,
Gary