It began as the prophet Isaiah had written: "God said, 'I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.'

He promised through his holy prophets long ago

Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going to Jerusalem where everything the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will come true.

and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the LORD, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the LORD's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."

"I myself will teach your people and give them prosperity and peace.

The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the LORD, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the LORD, have spoken."

and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the LORD, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the LORD's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."

You certainly heard about him, and as his followers you were taught the truth that is in Jesus.

So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to---the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.

There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.

Now, this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

None of them will have to teach their friends or tell their neighbors, 'Know the Lord.' For they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.

"This is the covenant that I will make with them in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds."

Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me,

And he added, "This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so."

and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

Yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life.

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

He will give me glory, because he will take what I say and tell it to you.

All that my Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit will take what I give him and tell it to you.

"My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

While he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased---listen to him!"

and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.

My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere.

But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already.