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12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.Hebrews 8:12; KJV. Hebrews 8 explains that Jesus serves as our Great High Priest in the true heavenly sanctuary. His ministry is superior to that of the Old Testament priests because He is the Mediator of a better covenant founded on better promises. Quoting Jeremiah's prophecy, the writer shows that God promised a New Covenant in which His law would be written on human hearts, sins would be fully forgiven, and people could know Him personally. Through Jesus Christ, that New Covenant has been established. Jesus is our heavenly High Priest and the Mediator of a better covenant that brings heart transformation, personal knowledge of God, and complete forgiveness of sins. In today's verse, God's mercy and forgiveness are promised; God, through Christ, forgives sins completely, removing them from His remembrance. This is God promising, through Christ the Son, that there is a guarantee of a full pardon of sins for all who come to Christ. Regarding practical application for believers, the New Covenant is based on the promise of God through Christ. Jesus represents believers before God continually, so we can rest in God's forgiveness; Christ opened the door and did what the Law could not do: He redeemed us back to God, having taken our sins upon His body unto death. Lessons learned: Jesus makes the New Covenant superior to any other promise, God has forgiven sin because of Jesus, and Jesus stands between us and God as Mediator, telling God the Father Almighty that we are not guilty. Now we as believers can know God personally. Amen.