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「耶穌作更美之約的中保，這約原是憑著更美之應許立的。」（來八：6）「你們來到新約的中保耶穌以及所灑的血。」（來十二：24）
我們有更美之應許所立的新約，耶立米書三十一章三十三節說道：「所立的約乃是這樣，我要將我的律法放在他們裏麵，寫在他們心上。」「我必隨著他們施恩並不離開他們，且使他們有敬畏我的心不離開我。」（耶三十二：40）。以西結書三十六章二五至二七節寫著：「我要潔淨你們......賜給你們一個新心......，我必將我的靈放在你們裏麵，使你們順從我的律例，謹守遵行我的典章。」「那時我耶和華修造那毀壞之處，培植那荒廢之地，我耶和華說過，也必成就。」（結三十六：36）
我們有這些更好更多並如此明確的應許，就是神要親自把敬畏的心如此完全地放置在祂子民的心中，使他們不離棄祂，祂也要幫助他們謹守遵行祂的律例典章。
這是以主耶穌為中保的新約，藉著聖靈祂住在我們心裏，保守我們脫離罪惡的轄製，使我們願意也有能力凡事照著神的旨意去做，我們要來思想撒迦利亞從神那兒得到有關基督的默示：「叫我們旣從仇敵手中被救出來，就可以終身在祂麵前，坦然無懼用聖潔公義事奉祂。」（路一：74，75）這些神的話指示我們，祂要幫助那些尋求祂的人，祂決不失信，這位中保先後賜給我們祂的寶血和聖靈，祂看見更美之約應驗在那些全心全意渴望從祂得到此應許的人身上，唉！我們是何等的少聽到或經歷這種生命！
“He is the Mediator of a better Covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.” – HEB. viii. 6. “ Ye are come to Jesus the Mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling.” – HEB. xii. 24.
We have here some of the better promises of the New Covenant. Jer. xxxi. 33:” This is the covenant: I will put My law in their inward parts, and in their hearts will I write it.” Jer. xxxii. 40:”I will put My fear in their hearts, and they will not depart from Me.” Ezk. xxxvi. 25, 27: “From all your filthiness will I cleanse you, and I will give you a new heart, and I will put My Spirtit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments to do them.” Ezk. xxxvi. 36:”I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. For this moreover will I be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them.”
Could there be better or more definite promises than these, that God Himself would put His fear into the hearts of His people so absolutely that they would not depart form Him, and that He would cause them to keep His judgments and do them?
This is the New Covenant of which Jesus is Mediator. Through the Holy Spirit He dwells in us and will keep us from sin, so that we shall have the desire and the power to do God’s will in all things. Think of “Zacharias’s inspired words as the prophesied the deliverance Christ would bring. Luke i. 74:”That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies should serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.” These are the words of God and show what He will do for those who enquire of Him. The promises are sure. The Mediator gave first His blood and then His Spirit. He sees to it that the better promises are fulfilled to those who whole-heartedly and confidently desire and claim them from Him. Alas how seldom is such a life either preached or experienced!
