NOTES for Jer 31:33
If to proceed from, how much is opened variously and widely to people God's lovingkindness and how God opened a lot to us about Him (indeed, in Christ is manifested all the plenitude of the Divinity bodily), then is imperative the conclusion that with the birth of the Church, the religious history of humanity has ended. Properly, it is like that: in fact, what can God give us again, having given His Son for our sake? God’s gift in Christ is so immense that we need centuries to realize and contain it. The possibility to find a genuine life in the Church is so real that nothing more is required indeed. But it is only a part of the affair: Divine’s.
If we read attentively what God said about the New Testament in the Bible, especially the above mentioned words by the prophet Jeremiah, or the words of the prophet Ezekiel pronounced a few years later (Ezekiel 36:26-27), becomes quite evident the rightness of one modern saint, who said that Christianity is only beginning. The prophets speak about such a deep transformation of people, when the fulfillment of the will of the Creator will be for us an internal necessity, and not an external. The action of the Holy Spirit on the participants of the New Testament is called, as it seems to fill us such that the realization of human freedom should be not sin, but unity with God so that the fulfillment of our destination could become our free choice.
A great dream since the antiquity has inflamed the spirits and hearts of the best of people: to do that sin does not reign in us. For that were created religious systems and philosophic doctrines, but mostly for that people tried to create a perfect society. Those who grew upon the Bolsheviks, will remember here of their promise that in communism work will become a voluntary need of all the members of the society. In fact, they were very unoriginal, simply did as monkeys. Then it turned out that to do such thing, without violating the freedom of the person is impossible. And only God fulfilling all His promises, says through the prophets that it will be like that, because it is our freedom to be holy, paid by the Blood of His Son. It is clear that the fulfillment of this promise in us hasn’t yet come true, but it already depends on ourselves. Among other things, we therefore received a mighty perspective – if not the whole humanity, then every person.