The Christians receiving the letter to the Hebrews were found to be drifting away from who they are in Christ, and turned back to things that were familiar and comfortable to them. The passage in Hebrews chapter 8 we looked at this week is almost entirely a quote from Jeremiah 31. Contained in that quote to the Jewish people hundreds of years prior, there was a promise given of something better- a new covenant. That new covenant would make obsolete the old ways they tried to obey and make themselves ‘right’ with God. A better way was here, ushered in through Jesus obeying God perfecting and making us ‘right’ with God through the finished work on the cross.