Heb 8:8  For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

We were made for communion with the Trinity.  We were made to know and be known, where the Father partakes of us through the Son, in the Spirit and we partake of the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.  

John says in chapter 1 of his gospel, no one has seen the Father, but the Son.  Seeing there isn’t talking about seeing with your eyes as in i see you.  The word seen is a Hebraism that means to experience.  To see is to become acquainted with by experience.  It means to experience.  When John says no one has seen the Father but the Son he’s saying no one has experienced the Father but the Son.  He’s telling us no one has been experienced by the Father but the Son.  The Son is come so we can experience the Father through him.  The Word was made flesh that through the humanity of the eternal Son we can experience the Father, and we can be experienced by the Father.  

“And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.”

This is contrasting knowing God in the old covenant with knowing God in the new covenant.  In the old covenant only the highpriest went into the presence of God, and he could only go once a year.  When the highpriest went into the holiest place once a year and met with God at the mercy seat, he was communing with God.  The communing wasnt about talking.  It was a form of communication, but it was depicting intimacy between God and man.  It was a shadow of mankind knowing and being known by God.  It was a shadow of partaking of God and his divine nature, and God partaking of us and our humanity.  Thats why you see the mercy seat made of wood, and overlaid in gold, symbolizing the fullness of deity joined together as one with humanity.  Thats why you see Moses come down from the mountain with his face shining with the glory of God.  

To a lesser degree the people could be intimate with God through the works of the law.  The works of the law were never meant to be something we performed to make God happy so he would bless us.  The idea behind the washings and the rituals and the sacrifices and the observances of the feast days was remembrance.  It was for the people to be kept by Gods love, through the remembrance of His work, when He led them out of Egypt and gifted them the promised land, a land that was married to God, so it flowed with milk and honey.  The idea was that the people could be intimate with God; they could participate in Gods love by touching and handling and seeing His work to perfect them and make them whole.  Their humanity being sanctified by the presence of God, through all these things that point to Him providing Himself a lamb to cleanse them from the defilement of death.  But as we know this is not the way to the true communion, it was only a shadow of the good things to come.  

Remembrance is a powerful thing.  It’s participation in communion with God. The remembrance of God is us partaking of God, as He is partaking of us.  

The author of Hebrews pointing to the coming of Christ, says the days are coming when all will be able to know God, having communion with God, through God engraving His laws in our hearts and in our minds.  This is a direct reference to Ezekiel 36 where God says he will put His Spirit in us, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth.  It’s the Holy Spirit that causes us to know God.  It’s the Holy Spirit that gives us intimacy and communion with God.  The Holy Spirit is the Helper.  

The will of the Father is to know you and be known by you.  He wants to have communion with you in everything.  He wants to experience you in everything.  He wants to partake of all of you, in the good times, and the bad.  It’s like with marriage vows, we say for better or for worse.  The Father’s not ashamed of your weaknesses or insecurities.  He’s not ashamed of the frailty of your flesh, or the infirmities of your flesh.  He’s wanting to know all of your humanity, even the broken parts, so your humanity can be fully known by Him. He wants to give all of Himself to you, so you can partake of Him and His divinity.  So the Father sends the Son from His bosom, so you can know Him through the Son.

The Father opened Himself up fully to us in Jesus.  The Son poured Himself out for the world because the Father wanted to give Himself to us.  We were sown in corruption by Adam, and because we were dwelling in darkness and corruption, the only way the Son could fully know us in the depth our humanity, is if he partook with us in all our brokenness.  The cross is the Son giving himself to us, holding nothing back, pouring himself out as a drink offering, partaking of us in the depth of our humanity; in the depth of our brokenness; so we can partake of him; so we can be gathered into his person, him in us and us in him, and through our communion with him, through his humanity, we can partake of the Father and the divine nature in him. 

Hebrews 8 says every high priest must have something to offer for the sin of the people.  The offering isn’t about there needing to be punishment for the sin of the people.  The offering is about there being something given that can heal the people; it’s about something given that can make our humanity whole.  The psalmist says he sent his word and healed them.  

Hebrews 2:10 says it was fitting for Jesus, if he was going to be able to bring us to glory, it was fitting for Jesus if we were going to be able to partake of the Father in him, that he partake with us in our sufferings.  Hebrews 2:14 says as much as the children partook of flesh and blood, likewise the Son took part in the same.  

Christ came down from heaven to partake with us in flesh and blood.  The eternal Son was made flesh.  A body was prepared for the Son by the Father, in the Spirit, so the Son can have something to offer that can heal our humanity.  Jesus offered his humanity to the Father on the cross.  He wasnt offering His humanity to the Father to appease some false concept of anger or wrath.  He was offering His humanity to the Father so the nature of human can be fully known by the divinity he shared with the Father from before the world was.  

Remember it’s an everlasting communion between the Father and the Son.  Jesus was always knowing the Father and being known by the Father.  Jesus was always giving all of himself to the Father, and the Father was always giving all of Himself to the Son.  Just as Jesus was eternally opening himself up to be known by the Father, in the Spirit, giving all of himself to the Father, holding nothing back.  Jesus offered himself to the Father on the cross through the eternal Spirit.  But this time it’s different, this time when He gives Himself to the Father, he’s partaken of flesh and blood.  This time he’s adopted our humanity in his person.  This time He’s partaken with us in the depth of our humanity.  So now when Jesus gives Himself; all of Himself to the Father, opening himself up fully to be known of the Father.  He’s also giving our humanity to the Father, so the Father can fully partake of our humanity in him.  Brokenness and ugliness and all.

The Father pours Himself into us through the humanity of the Son, in the Spirit.  And our humanity is immersed in the Father, allowing us to experience the Father in the depth of His being through the Son, in the Spirit.  The Son receiving all that the Father is, and communicating that to us, through his own flesh.  Making our humanity whole with His divine nature.  Healing us.  Crowning our humanity with His divinity.  This is communion.  It’s an opening up of yourself to be known by the substance/essence of someone else.  This is knowing God.  Partaking of the Father, through the humanity of the only begotten Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit. 

1st John 2:27 speaking of the Holy Spirit says the Spirit is the anointing that abides in us that helps us abide in the Son.  When we say the Spirit helps us abide in the Son, what we mean is the Spirit helps us to abide in the flesh of the Son.  For we are members of His body. 

Jesus says no one comes to the Son except the Father draws them.  The Father draws us to the Son by pouring out the Holy Spirit on all flesh.  The Spirit proceeds from the Father, drawing you to the Son, that through you abiding in the Son, you are able to have communion with the Father.  The Spirit gives us communion with the body of Christ, and that gives us communion with the Father.  

Jhn 16:15 says, All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 

Jesus is talking about the Holy Spirit.  He says the Spirit will take the things that are mine and show them to you.  He says all things that are the Fathers are mine …. That’s the communication.  Thats communion language … jesus is saying the Father brought me forth … he’s communicated all of himself to me from all eternity …. I’m going back to the Father so you see me no more, but the Spirit will take all things that are mine, that I have received of the Fathers person, and he will communicate them to your humanity.  

When Jesus says the Spirit will show us all things that are his.  It’s a rehearsal of the communion between the Father and the Son.  The Holy Spirit is our remembrance.  The Spirit continually rehearses in our hearts, the communion between the Father and the Son.  We may not see Jesus with our natural eyes, but the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of our understanding.  Helping us to touch and taste and handle and see the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, beholding ourselves in his glorified flesh.  The Holy Spirit brings us to the mercy seat, the meeting place of God and man, where we see we are in Christ and Christ is in us, and the Father is in Christ, and Christ is in the Father ….. that through communion with the Humanity of the eternal Son of God, we are refreshed by the presence of the Father ……