Showing posts with label New Covenant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Covenant. Show all posts

April 01, 2010

The Great Divide


Cleft of a Rock

The Cross of Jesus Christ is the Great Divide, a line in time and eternity that splits apart two eras: Law and Grace. In the Old Covenant from God, the Law was given, but in the New Covenant, Grace came - in the Person of Jesus Christ. Now we can be made new (2 Corinthians 5:17). We could never keep the Law and be righteous. But now, in Christ, we are the righteousness of God -- a free gift from the Only Righteous One (2 Corinthians 5:21). Believe and receive, and you will be forever a new creation!

Now we see that all Scripture must be filtered through the Cross of Jesus.  From the Law of Moses to Jesus' death and resurrection, people lived under the Old Covenant, B.C., otherwise known as the Law, the Ministry of Death.  But now, those who put their faith in Jesus Christ, have been transferred from the Old into the New, the Covenant of Grace, the Law of the Spirit and life, the Covenant of Promise.  Like our spiritual father, Abraham, we become righteous, through faith, by the power of God's saving grace.  It has always been by faith in His grace, and the Law showed us how much we needed it.  For there is none righteous, no not one, and there never will be -- except Jesus.  It is His righteousness that we receive when we believe.  We still cannot ever be righteous in ourselves, but we are no longer tied to the Law; we are captured by His Grace.


February 23, 2010

Kingdom Core Values

Just Us Princesses!

Love and mercy are the core values of the Kingdom. 

Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.  -- 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19, 21 

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. -- Hebrews 8:12

Under the New Covenant, we now look at God’s judgment through rose-colored glasses – colored by the blood of Jesus. “Since the Cross dealt with the issue of punishment, the judgment we experience in the Kingdom is judgment in our favor. It is accomplished as the enemy and his works are destroyed, and our Father, the Judge, restores to us that which he has stolen, killed, and destroyed in our lives. This is what judgment looks like in the New Covenant.” -- Kris Vallotton, Developing a Supernatural Lifestyle

If anyone is in Christ Jesus, that person is a new creation -- a child of the King -- a royal person!