³¹ The time is coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. ³² It won’t be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant with me even though I was their husband, declares the LORD.³³ No, this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel after that time, declares the LORD. I will put my Instructions within them and engrave them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴ They will no longer need to teach each other to say, “Know the LORD!” because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD; for I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sins. (Jer. 31:31-34, CEB)

The longing of God’s heart is to have people who know him. It is not about the land. It is about the heart. Move the covenant from the land to the heart. Israel didn’t learn that. The people of God need to learn it! It is about having the ways of God written on our heart. It is being able to live out the Sermon on the Mount daily, knowing what it means to bring “Kingdom rightness” into our situations.

Jesus came so we can know him. It’s not about our view of power, or our view of covenant. It is his view. It is his Kingdom.

He has come to declare the goodness of the Kingdom. We need to hear him.