Deuteronomy 5:3 Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:3

3: The LORD did not make this covenant long ago with our ancestors, but with all of us who are alive today.

All of you--your tribal leaders, your judges, your officers, all the men of Israel--are standing today before the LORD your God.
With you are your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
You are standing here today to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God. The LORD is making this covenant with you today, and he has sealed it with an oath.
He wants to confirm you today as his people and to confirm that he is your God, just as he promised you, and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
But you are not the only ones with whom the LORD is making this covenant with its obligations.

This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise.
For if the inheritance could be received only by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God's promise. But God gave it to Abraham as a promise.
Well then, why was the law given? It was given to show people how guilty they are. But this system of law was to last only until the coming of the child to whom God's promise was made. And there is this further difference. God gave his laws to angels to give to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
Now a mediator is needed if two people enter into an agreement, but God acted on his own when he made his promise to Abraham.
Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.

He always stands by his covenant--the commitment he made to a thousand generations.
This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty:

But my covenant is with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year."

I assure you, many prophets and godly people have longed to see and hear what you have seen and heard, but they could not.

They will be my people, and I will be their God.
And I will give them one heart and mind to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants.
"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, promising not to stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me.

"I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

But God himself found fault with the old one when he said: "The day will come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain faithful to my covenant, so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.

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