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Old Covenant/New Covenant

There has been some discussion of late about Old Covenant/New Covenant. Are we supposed to keep all the commands of the Old Covenant etc?

We must understand that in the Old Testament God allowed it to be written from 2 perspectives:

1. He allowed His Will to be written down.

2. He also allowed some to record their own heart’s desires.

Let me give you some examples.

Here are some requests to the Lord by the writer of Psalms.

1. (Psa 119:133)  Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

2.(Psa 119:134)  Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts.

3.(Psa 119:135)  Make your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.

New Covenant/Finished Work says:

1. (Psa 37:23)  The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.

2.(Col 1:13)  Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

3. (2Ti 2:15)  Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Thus, the NEW “TESTAMENT” in His BETTER BLOOD—the DEATH of the TESTATOR, is solely dependent upon HIM and His FINISHED work.  The LAMB “was SLAIN” (Rev. 13:8) and DIED in the “MEETING” (see my book Chosen for Greatness) BEFORE the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8)!  BEFORE the “BEGINNING” began (Jn. 1:1), the FATHER DECREED (“Thou art My SON” – Psa. 2:7; AND “Thou art a PRIEST” – Psa. 110:4); and the SON AGREED (“LO, I come” – Psa. 40:6-8 with Heb. 10:5-10).  Within the Godhead, GOD essentially made this intertheistic, “EVERLASTING COVENANT” with HIMSELF (Heb. 13:20)—we are but the benefactors.  

New Creation, New Covenant, Behold All things Become New

It's gone, the Covenant that was established on 10 Commandments, many LAWS and whose benefits depended on the works of man. But a new one has come established on the Works of Jesus and His indestructible Life,

You are free from Works, Christ has purchased your full freedom AND YOU WILL NEVER BE CONDEMNED Again!

This is a new year. I am a new creation! His mercies are new every morning. Behold all things have become new.

Grace Rules

Grace was not an addition to LAW in order to make it less burdensome! It was God's intent all the way. for the law in fact lead us here. The system of the Law was totally replaced! It's Grace and Grace alone.

Faith is The Response of Your Heart to God's Truth!

Taking God's Opinions about you as totally true.

So When I say: All things work together for My good, or I am Healed; I'm not praying, or being some what 'spiritual', or talking to God.  That's just declaring what is.

Heb. 6:17- God willing more abundantly to show us(heirs) the immutability of His counsel, confirmed a promise by an oath; so that by two immutable things it became impossible for Jehovah to lie... 

He came sin.. that you  and I might become the righteousness of God.

He Became a curse... Now you are the blessing.

He became poor that you might be rich

He became.......... this...... that you might become....... that

Jesus took our imperfections and blotted them away...Now we are COMPLETE in Him.... without imperfections!

Believe!

He became the false you so you could become the real you.

We are perfect and complete in him.

This is the season of forgiveness, giving, loving one another,prayer and happiness. Psalm 91 vs 16 and He  is rewarding us with long life.

Christ has finished all the works available in order to please God. All that remains is therefore.......................................... REST. I've found out that Rest is hard work for most people.

I  cease from my own works and enter into the rest of God.

I don't believe in impossibilities;  it may seem hard, uneasy for others, but for me it turns around... For all things are POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT BELIEVES.

When things Go bad,.. It's not because I didn't pray, fast, or sin, or God is angry or even because I believe in God... No!... I don't believe in MYSELF, what power and authority is given me.

The New Creation is not an association of people who shout the blood of Jesus or go to church, but God living on earth in His fullness visibly!

Christ in us the hope of glory!

I am  God’s expression. I am not serving God

I give expression to Him!

God is not lacking servants

So don't occupy where you don't fit!

If you were working to get to Heaven, just stop and be happy for you have arrived

The Terminus of Life Is NOT Heaven...

But IMMORTALITY

You arrived in heaven when You were born from above.

(Fallen)Man Lived over 5,000 years outside his true habitation!... 

I am in Christ... and in Him I have my being!-

What do you think is life expectancy for the New Creature? FOREVER!!

THE REAL YOU

THE UNLOCKING, THE UNVEILING OF THE REAL YOU.

It is time for the real you to come forth. I am unlocking and unveiling the real you, the you I created you to be. The you that was created in My image and My likeness. My sons and daughters have acted not as one person, but as two, a false you and a real you, one way at one time and another at another time. I am conforming you to my image in this day and in this hour.

Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

You will bear the image of Christ ;you shall be transformed. When you come to the end of your ability, the false you, then is when you have arrived at the beginning of God’s ability, the real you, Jesus in you the hope of glory.

He, My Son Jesus, is the pattern that you are to fit. You have all the inherent instinct on the inside of you that longs to be like My Son. My plan is for you to be just like Jesus. He is the key that unlocks your true innermost personality. The image of Jesus is the mold that you are poured out of. Your labor then becomes simple, to enter into His rest. Cease from your own labor, the false you, and let Me unlock and unveil the real you, conformed to the image of Christ.

Heb 4:10-11 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

IN ACTUALITY WHEN GOD LOOKS AT YOU ALL HE SEES IS HIS PERFECT SON.

Colossians 1:20 declares that the blood of Christ reconciles us back to God, and cleanses us from all our sins and gives us peace with God, however in verse 22 Paul brings out the second operation of the Cross.

 "In the body of His flesh, He might present YOU holy, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight."

 It is one thing to know we are forgiven by faith in His precious blood, but it is a far deeper level of knowing to know that the human container is holy, total and complete.

 Yet this is the oneness that Jesus prophetically declared in John 17:21-23, "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfected in oneness." In the beginning stage of our walk with Christ, we know that we have the forgiveness of our sins, and we have the life of a wonderful Savior living in us, however it is a far deeper truth to know that we have an equally total and complete human you containing and expressing our wonderful Savior. 

Yet it is right here that most Christians get snagged and even stopped. Most of us love and worship the Savior that saved us, but we hate the human self that He saved. There is something definitely very wrong with such a contradiction. Paul clears it up in Colossians 1:27-28 for it says that

"we have a total Christ living His life in us, and verse 28 goes on to say that he (Paul) teaches and warns every man in all wisdom; that he might presents every man perfect in Christ Jesus. A perfect Christ in a perfect man! "

GRACE AND TRUTH CAME

John 1:17 - Grace and Truth

¹⁷For the law was given through Moses;

grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Why did Jesus have to be born? God chose to make covenant with man.. Jesus came in the form of a man with a body of a man in order to have dominion and authority. Jesus Christ was a man anointed with Holy Ghost. This made it perfectly legal for Jesus to destroy the works of the devil.

 The seed Mary received was the Word, the incorruptible seed that took on flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus Christ is the living Word of God. His name is Emmanuel meaning, “God with us.”

Luke 2:11 “For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

Is. 9:6-7 For unto us a Child is born,  ( Son of God) Unto us a Son is given; (Son of Man) And the government will be upon His shoulder.(Body of Christ) And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice.

Grace and Truth came.

Jesus Christ formed a perfect union of being a Spirit-Man manifested in a natural / physical body, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”(John 1:14). He was the LAST Adam so that WE may become the Second Man - Christ manifest in His many-membered Body; “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.”(1 Corinthians 12:12). We are no longer IN Adam as Jesus Christ was the LAST Adam; our true identity is created IN Christ! 

Grace and Truth came and was imparted to us.

Christ in Every Book of the Bible

Christ in Every Book of the Bible

In GENESIS He is the RAM OF GOD--the RAM CAUGHT IN THE THICKET
In EXODUS He is I AM THAT I AM (3:14)n LEVITICUS He is the DAY OF ATONEMENT In NUMBERS He is the SERPENT OF BRASS (21:9, cf. John 3:14)
In DEUTERONOMY He is the HIGH GOD (33:12 New RSV).
In JOSHUA He is the SCARLET THREAD (2:18)
In JUDGES He is THE ANGEL OF THE LORD In RUTH He is the LORD WHO BLESSES (3:10)
In 1 Samuel He is the FAITHFUL PRIEST (2:35)
In 2 Samuel He is the TOWER OF SALVATION (22:51)In 1 KINGS He is a GREATER THAN SOLOMON (chapters 3ff, cf. Matt. 12:42)
In 2 KINGS He is HEZEKIAH'S SUNDIAL AND HEALING POULTICE (20:7-11)
In 1 CHRONICLES He is the ARK OF THE COVENANT (chapter 15)In 2 CHRONICLES He is the ANTITYPE OF PASSOVERS (chapters 30, 35).
In EZRA He is RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY (throughout book)
In NEHEMIAH He is THE GREAT AND MIGHTY AND AWESOME GOD (9:32 New RSV)
In ESTHER He is the FEAST OF PURIM (9:20-23)In JOB He is the RESTORER OF SATAN'S OVERTHROW (Chapter 40)
In PSALMS He is the KING OF GLORY (24:7-10)In PROVERBS He is the FRIEND THAT STICKETH CLOSER THAN A BROTHER (18:24)
In ECCLESIASTES He is the GIVER OF LIFE AND BREATH (12:7)
In SOLOMON'S SONG HE IS MY LOVER WHOSE DESIRE IS FOR ME (7:10 NIV)
In ISAIAH He is the BEAUTIFUL BRANCH (4:2)
In JEREMIAH He is the KING, WHOSE NAME IS JEHOVAH ALMIGHTY (51:57)
In LAMENTATIONS He is His PEOPLE'S PORTION (3:24)
In EZEKIEL He is the RIVER OF LIFE (chapter 47)In DANIEL He is the ANCIENT OF DAYS (7:9-22)
In HOSEA He is LIKE THE SPRING RAINS THAT WATER THE EARTH (6:3 New RSV)
In JOEL He is a REFUGE FOR HIS PEOPLE (3:16)
In AMOS He is the RESTORER OF THE FORTUNES OF ISRAEL (9:14)
In OBADIAH He is the LORD WHO TAKES THE KINGDOM (vs. 15)
In JONAH He is the SIGN OF (the prophet) JONAH
In MICAH He is the GOD WHO PARDONS (7:18-19)
In NAHUM He is SLOW TO ANGER BUT GREAT IN POWER (1:3 New RSV)
In HABAKKUK He is our STRENGTH AND SALVATION (3:18-19)In HAGGAI He is the LORD WHO IS WITH US (2:4)
In ZECHARIAH He is the COMING KING (14:4)
In MALACHI He is the REBUKER OF THE DEVOURER (3:11)
In MATTHEW He is the SOLID ROCK (7:24-25)In MARK He is the IRREPROACHABLE In LUKE He is the DAYSPRING FROM ON HIGH (1:78)In JOHN He is the RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE (11:25)
In ACTS He is the BAPTIZER WITH THE HOLY GHOST (2:33, 1:5)
In ROMANS He is the END OF THE LAW SO THAT THERE MAY BE RIGHTEOUSNESS FOREVERYONE WHO BELIEVES (10:4 New RSV)
In 1 CORINTHIANS He is the FIRSTFRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION (15:20, 23)In 2 CORINTHIANS He is the SON OF GOD (1:19)
In GALATIANS He is our REDEEMER FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW (3:13)
In EPHESIANS He is HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH (2:22)
In PHILIPPIANS He is the NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (2:9)In COLOSSIANS He is ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY (2:9)
In 1 THESSALONIANS He is the RAPTURE (4:16-17)In 2 THESSALONIANS He is the LORD OF PEACE (3:16)
In 1TIMOTHY He is the GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE BLESSED GOD (1:11)In 2 TIMOTHY He is the RIGHTEOUS JUDGE (4:8)
In TITUS He is the HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE (1:2)
In PHILEMON He is the TRANSFORMER OF SLAVES INTO SONS (1:10)
In JAMES He is THE LORD OF GLORY (2:1)
In 1 PETER He is THE HEAD OF THE CORNER (2:7)
In 2 PETER He is THE MORNING STAR (1:19)
In 1 JOHN He is the PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS (2:2)In 2 JOHN He is GOD'S SON COME IN THE FLESH (vs. 7)
In 3 JOHN He is the TRUTH (vss. 4, 8)In JUDE He is our ONLY WISE GOD OUR SAVIOUR (vs. 25)


In REVELATION He is the LAMB AT THE CENTER OF THE THRONE; THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!!!

His Name is Wonderful

His Name is Wonderful

Isaiah 9:6-7 says: For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be on His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. There is no end of the increase of His government and peace on the throne of David, and on His kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on, even forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will do this.

During this Christmas season as we remember the Christ, let's look again at this amazing verse written 770 years before the birth of Jesus -- and see how it can be broken down for greater understanding.

CHILD = H3205-ya^lad-means fruit- A primitive root; to bear young; causatively to beget; specifically to show lineage: - bear, beget, birth ([-day]), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour,  (Born of woman Son of Man)

SON =  H1121-Ben which means INHERITOR, our Messianic Savior.

[anointed one, appointed one, arrow, bough, branch, servant born, steward, valiant, worthy, (Born of God,Son of God)

GOVERNMENT (misrah fe) = RESPONSIBILITY, DOMINION RULE, GOVERNMENT which He gives to us.

The shoulder of Jesus Christ is His Body, the Body of Christ.

AND HIS NAME = IDENTITY, NATURE, reputation, fame, glory, Name (as designation of God) memorial, monument.

And His Name is Wonderful! Imagine that name. "this word is a noun not an adjective!" Wonderful is His Name. His nature is Wonderful!

WONDERFUL = same word used as "SUPERNATURAL" (Judg. 13:18). Amazing, absolutely extraordinary, wondrous, wonders, astonishing, amazing, marvelous, a wonder.

COUNSELOR = Extraordinary strategist. One who brings words of eternal life with perfect wisdom. An adviser, wise leader, consult, Well-advised deliberator. One who determines, devises a plan, and guides to a purpose.

MIGHTY GOD = (Gen. 2:4, Deut. 10:17 - Isa. 10:21) The Victorious Father of Eternity. This word is equivalent to "Immanuel" (Isa 7:14). rwbg gibbowr adjective, noun masculine meaning warrior, strongest, soldier, champion, wealth, valiant, powerful, mightiest, skilled, prominent, hero, upright, champion, chief, and in charge.

GOD= el

EVERLASTING = perpetuity, forever, continuing future without end. He alone has total control over eternity.

FATHER = head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan, originator, benevolent protector, respect and honour, ruler or chief

PRINCE = The word for prince is Sar, which has many leadership descriptions such as captain, chief, ruler, keeper, governor, overseer, and commander. There are many more. OF PEACE - WHOLENESS, PROSPERITY, TRANQUILITY -

Jesus is birthed in us! He is our extraordinary Prince and personal analyst Who gives us dominion rule, a kingdom in us that will never end. When we allow His peace to come into our lives, there is no question that He is in us!

AND THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE WILL BE NO END.

THE WISDOM OF GOD

The Wisdom Of God

You have within you the Spirit of wisdom (Isaiah 11:2)—wisdom is the ability to use knowledge correctly—Jesus is made unto you wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30) and you are daily growing in it and in revelation (“For I always pray...that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him...” Ephesians 1:17 - AMP).

Wisdom has built her house on seven pillars, and a well-rounded life in Christ comes from embracing each of them.

1. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD (2 Peter 1:2; Philippians 3:3-10). It’s not enough to just know about God…you have to make the effort to get to know Him, and that comes from spending time with Him, communicating with Him on a regular basis, and experiencing a continual manifestation of His presence. God wants to be known, and you can know Him!

2. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF HIS PLANS AND PURPOSES. He made his ACTS known to the children of Israel, but He made His WAYS known to Moses (Psalm 103:7). Learning the ways of God is far superior to simply being aware of His acts!

3. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCRIPTURES. Study to show yourself approved unto God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed of his ignorance. Learn to rightly divide the logos Word so that you are able to receive the rhema word (2 Timothy 2:15). Wisdom is found in the Word!

4. Walk in the KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE—the kind that only comes by experience—by learning through trial and error…from your own mistakes…and by graduating maturely and soberly from the school of hard knocks. Jesus LEARNED obedience through the things He suffered (Hebrews 5:8)…Paul LEARNED how to be abased and how to abound (Philippians 4:11). Each new day is a learning opportunity if you know how to look at it correctly!

5. Seek to grasp a KNOWLEDGE OF PEOPLE so that you can deal wisely with them. (“But Jesus [for His part] did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men...He Himself knew what was in human nature [He could read men’s hearts].” – John 2:24, 25 AMP). Be wise as a serpent/harmless as a dove…be people-smart!

6. Embrace the KNOWLEDGE OF SELF—the truth that God desires in the inward parts (Psalm 51:6). Find your true self in the revelation of Christ…the more you know Him, the more you’ll know you!

7. Love PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE—to be, like Moses, “mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). Remember that knowledge is power! Yet understanding is necessary.