THE CROSS
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THE NEW COVENANT STARTS AT THE CROSS
2.1. THE CROSS REVERBERATED ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
Rev 13:8 "The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world". Zec 12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son".
The prophet Zechariah foresaw the coming of the Holy Spirit and Grace and how this was linked to the crucifixion of the Firstborn Son, Jesus Christ. The Book of Revelation prophetically declares the eternal timeless significance of the death of the Lamb of God on the Cross. The Cross is beyond doubt the most significant world changing event in history. There is nothing more significant either in the spiritual or physical realm than the Cross. It is the most profound, earth shattering event that reverberated both into the both past and future. The Cross of Christ is the core and the under laying foundation of our Christian Faith and belief system. All scripture, both before and after the cross, points to the Cross and its affects. Without the Cross, Jesus would be no more significant than any other religious teacher or Guru. It is the Cross defines Christ and Christianity. It is the great divide of history.
2. 2. WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED
1Co 1:23 "We preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles".
We do not just preach Jesus Christ – even Islam does that. Even Israel was prepared to accept Christ as the Prophet, a Rabbi and even a Messiah King. No! We preach Christ Crucified. This is the uniqueness of Christianity . We preach Christ - His life, death, resurrection, ascension and glorification at the right hand of God. The Cross was and still is, a huge stumbling block to many as it is offensive to all those who are religious, self righteous and feed on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
2. 3. JESUS FOCUSED ON THE ATONING WORK OF CROSS
Mat 16:21-23 "From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!" Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."
Some of Jesus’ closest disciples failed to see the significance of the Cross. Jesus whole earthly life had one ultimate purpose, the Cross, and he would allow no one to distract him from fulfilling this calling. Jesus knew the Cross would change everything as the cross would deal with the divide between man and God. Peter acting in the flesh, opposed Jesus going to the Cross - Jesus called him “Satan!” Peter got angry at Jesus’ arrest and tried to resist with the sword – Jesus again rebuked him. Eventually Peter was so upset with the prospect of the Cross that he ended up denying Jesus. Jesus atoning work on the Cross was the start of the New Covenant and is the foundation of the New Covenant of the Grace of Jesus Christ. From this incident we Peter see that man's flesh nature and natural intellect cannot understand (1 Cor.2:14) the Cross and will always oppose the Cross. The Cross and it's power ultimately has to be a spiritual revelation within the hearts of man, as it the natural it's just foolishness.
2. 4. THE CROSS DEALT WITH SIN ONCE AND FOR ALL
Col.2:13 "When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins".
Before the Cross there was no permanent atonement for sins. The Law of Moses was in force and bought death and a curse on all (this is expanded upon in part 3). No one was righteous in God’s eyes, no one could be saved. At the cross the power and dominion of Sin was destroyed once and for all - for all those who would be saved. The Cross opened the flood gate of God’s unearned and undeserved Grace (Jn.1:17), the forgiveness of sins. The Cross destroyed the power of Sin and provided a way for man’s "Adamic sin nature” to be put to death on the Cross with Christ (Gal.2:20). Now for those in Christ, all sin - past, present, future - is atoned for. (More on the issue of sin in part 4). This is the corner stone of the New Covenant and Grace.
2. 5. THE CROSS CHANGED JESUS’ FOCUS FROM ISRAEL TO ALL MANKIND
Mat 15:22 "A Canaanite (gentile) woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said. He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
Although Jesus is and always will be the Saviour of all mankind, Jesus’ earthly ministry was firstly and primarily to Israel (Mt.15:24) and its leaders - those under the Old Covenant Law of Moses. Most of Jesus teaching of this time were directed to Israel’s teachers, the Pharisees, who had wrongly interpreted the Law, did not understand the spirit of the Law and misapplied the Law. They had wrongly assumed that righteousness and salvation could be obtained by works (Ro.9:30-10:4). Jesus taught against their hypocrisy and their self righteousness. To those who chose Law Jesus preached Law, to those “Sinners” who were broken and contrite Jesus showed grace and forgiveness. During this time Jesus alluded to the fact that He was going to bring salvation also to the gentiles (Jn.10:16) but His ministry to the gentiles only really came into effect after the Cross, primarily through the Apostle Paul (Acts 9:15).
2. 6. GRACE IS NOW THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF GOD’S KINGDOM
Through the Cross the Law was fulfilled and done away with for Believers (Ro.6:14). The reign and rule of Christ and His kingdom is now bought into affect by the Spirit trough the system of grace - not religious rules, regulations and laws. The preaching of the Kingdom now goes hand in hand with the preaching of the good news of God’s grace (Acts 20:24) – his unearned, undeserved, forgiveness, blessing, favour and empowering.
2. 7. THE CROSS CHANGED OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
Col.1:20 "Through Jesus He reconciled to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross".
Under to Old Covenant we were salves to sin and alienated from God. But now God is no longer angry with us or out to punish us for our sins. We are now at peace with God (Col.1:20). In the New Covenant God no longer relates to us based on our performance or sin. In fact he remembers our sins no more (Heb. 10:17). God now sees us as part of Jesus. We are the Body of Christ. We are no longer God’s slaves or servants but beloved sons in Christ (Ro. 8:15) and God now relates to us as a loving and kind Father. (More on our new relationship with God in Part 6)
2. 8. THE CROSS CHANGED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
John 16:7 "But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counsellor (The Holy Spirit) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you".
Prior to the Cross, under the Old Covenant, the Holy Spirit came upon certain Godly people at certain times for a certain purpose. But His presence was not permanent. The Spirit was understood as the power of God that came and went as and when God determined. Due to man’s un-atoned sin the Holy Spirit could not live within people but only “come upon” them in a temporary way. After the Cross, under the New Covenant, the sin condition of man was dealt with and the Holy Spirit came through Jesus Christ to abide in His Body the Church; all those who believed and are regenerated. The Holy Spirit is now a permanent seal and guarantee within all those who are saved. The Holy Spirit is now understood to be the third person of the Trinity and not just a force or power. The power of the Holy Spirit now released within and through Believers for the ministry and work of God. It is life in the Spirit (Ga. 5:16) that fulfils the purposes of the New Covenant.
2.9. THE CROSS RELEASED REVELATION
John 12:16 "At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him". 2Co 3:14 "But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away".
Before the Cross there were certain aspects of God’s Kingdom and Jesus’ teachings which could not be fully understood (Lk.9:44-45). Firstly because those under the Law of Moses were spiritually blind and had a spiritual veil over them which stopped them from understanding God’s Grace and God’s true purposes. Secondly because it is only the witnessing of the Cross; Jesus, death, resurrection and ascension that can clarifies and fulfils the scriptures. Jesus warned his disciples that prior to the cross and the infilling of the Holy Spirit there were certain things that they simply could never understand (Mt.15:16) (Mt.16:11) and other things that were still to be revealed, such as God’s Grace and gift of righteousness (Ro.5:17) which could not come through ministry of the earthly Jesus but only through the ministry of the heavenly Jesus, our great Heavenly High Priest.
2.10. THE CROSS REVEALED THE FULL GOSPEL OF GRACE
Gal.1:12 "I did not receive the gospel (of grace) from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ".
During His earthly ministry Jesus never fully revealed Salvation by Grace, He simply alluded to it as displayed it in practice (Jn.8:1-11 and Lk.15). After the Cross, the glorified Jesus (Jn.12:16) reveal even more aspects of the Kingdom and Grace to the Apostle Paul (Gal.1:12). In a sense this was the final revelation and clarification of The Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom. All other scriptures need to be interpreted in the context of Jesus’ final revelations and scriptural teachings given to the Apostle Paul who was caught up into heaven and taught by the glorified Christ (2 Co.12:2).
2.11. THE CROSS DISARMED SATAN
Col 2:15 "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross".
Under the Law of Sin and Death (Ro.8:1) which was later reinforced by the Mosaic Law, God allowed Satan to accuse and afflict those who sinned. This Satanic power of condemnation and affliction has been removed through the Cross. Satan no longer has any Law given rights to attack or afflict those who are in Christ. In Christ and through the Cross, we now have victory over the enemy and we have a great High Priest and mediator in heaven, Jesus Christ, who intercedes and defends us.
2.12. THE CROSS CHANGED THE COVENANT
Heb.9:15 "For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. Col.2:14 Having cancelled the written code (The Law), with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross".
i) THE OLD COVENANT:
Prior to the Cross the Law of Moses was the only covenant effectively in force through which people could relate to God. Gentiles who wanted to know God had to covert to Judaism and come under the Law of Moses. The terms of this covenant are harsh and deadly as it is based on an unattainable holiness and righteousness that no man can fulfil. There are blessing and curses (Deut 28) based on ones behaviour. However no one can be justified and saved through keeping The Law of Moses (Gal.2:16) as the sole purpose of the Law is to lead people to Jesus, God’s Saviour (Gal.3:24) and remind Israel of the Abrahamic foundation that righteousness is actually by faith alone (Gal.3:8).
ii) THE NEW COVENANT:
Heb 8:6-13 "The ministry Jesus has received is as superior to the ministry of the Jewish High Priests as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the New Covenant is established on better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant (of the Law), no place would have been sought for another. But God found fault with the people and said: "The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbour, or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear".
The shedding of the blood of Jesus as an atonement for Sin heralded in this New Covenant of Grace in which sins are forgiven and forgotten. This New Covenant was no longer just for Israel but opened the door for all the gentiles to be saved as well. The New Covenant fulfilled and replaced the Old Covenant for all those who believe in Christ. The good news is that the blood of Jesus, instead of our own blood, is the blood seal for the New Covenant. The terms and conditions of the covenant are fully and eternally fulfilled by Jesus and not by us. The New Covenant is unique in a sense that it is intrinsically between two persons who are one; God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. We as believers, have access into this covenant not as ourselves but only as part of the Body of Jesus Christ (1Cor.12:27) which we are included into when we believe in Jesus as Lord and Saviour. One of the easiest ways to understand the New Covenant is that it was prepared by the loving Father for His Son. It is a relational, marriage agreement between His Son, Jesus, the bridegroom and the His Bride, the Church (Jn.3:29)(Rev.19:7). The good news of this covenant is that there are blessings upon blessing (Jn.1:16-17) and abundant overflowing grace.
FINDING JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
FINDING JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT:When reading the Old Testament we should be looking for shadows and types (Heb.10:1) of Jesus: His Cross, His Kingdom, His Church, His New Covenant, His Gospel of Grace.
The Old Testament is not a book of laws and principles to live by, but actually an Exposer of mankind's need to be saved and Gods plan for salvation through Jesus Christ. If you read with Spiritual eyes you will see prophetic symbols and types of Jesus everywhere in the Old Testament.
Jesus said "The scriptures are about me". They always point to Jesus in someway (Jn5:39), this should be the way we use them. You will find that if you read the scriptures in this way and in this spirit , to seek Jesus and His grace, they will come alive and make so much more sense.
Jesus is the key to unlocking the Bible - by the revelation of the Spirit.
We should value the whole of the scriptures, but interpret the Old by the New Testament, not the other way around. Be prepared to spend time to look and see, you will be greatly blessed.
I will be sending out some examples from time to time which I hope will excite you and provoke you to spend more time finding Jesus in the Bible and seeing the link between the Old and New...
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The Cross found in Israel's camp.
Map out the way Israel was called to set up camp around the Tabernacle and you will see hat from above they would have looked like a cross. A constant reminder to God of His Son and His grace towards this sinful people. See the symbolism?
Coming Next: Ezekiel 1 reveals the glorified Jesus??
A LIST OF THE THINGS GOD SAYS I AM
BY JESUS’ GRACE I AM...... Matt. 5: 13. I am the salt of the earth.
Matt.5: 14. I am the light of the world.
John 1: 12. I am a child of God and part of His family. (Rom.8: 16).
John 15: 1-5. I am part of the true vine, a channel of Christ’s life.
John 15: 15. I am Christ’s friend.
John 15: 16. I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit.
Rom.6: 18. I am a slave of righteousness.
Rom.8:14-15. I am a son of God and God is my Father. (Gal.3: 26 and 4: 6).
Romans 8: 17. I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him.
1 Cor.3: 16 I am a temple (home) of God. His Spirit (His life) dwells in me. (1Co.6:19)
1 Cor.6: 17. I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with Him.
1 Cor.12: 27. I am a member of Christ’s body. (Eph.5: 30).
2Cor.5: 17. I am a new creation and a new person.
2Cor.5: 18-19. I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation.
Gal.3: 26-28. I am a son of God and one in Christ.
Gal.4: 6-7. I am an heir of God since I am a son of God.
Eph.1: 1. I am a saint (1 Cor.1: 2)(Phil.1: 1)(Col. 1: 2).
Eph.2: 10. I am God’s workmanship handiwork created anew in Christ to do His work
Eph.2: 19. I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God’s people in His family.
Eph.3: 1 I am a prisoner of Christ (Eph.4:1).
Eph.4: 24. I am righteous and holy.
Phil.3: 20. I am a citizen of heaven right now. (Eph.2: 6).
Col.3: 3. I am Hidden with Christ in God.
Col.3: 4. I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life.
Col.3: 12. I am chosen of God, holy, and dearly beloved.
1Thes.1: 4. I am chosen and dearly loved of God.
1Thes.5: 5. I am a son of light and not of darkness.
Heb.3: 1. I am a holy brother, partaker of a heavenly calling.
Heb.3: 14. I am a partaker of Christ….I share in His life.
1Pet.2: 5. I am one of God’s living stones and being built up, in Christ, as a spiritual house.
1Pet.2: 9-10. I am a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession
1Pet.2: 11. I am an alien and stranger to this world I temporarily live in.
1Pet.5: 8. I am an enemy of the devil.
1John3: 1-2. I am now a child of God and will resemble Christ when He returns.
1John5: 18. I am born of God and the evil one cannot touch me.
WHY ASK WHY- WHEN GOD HAS DONE SUCH GREAT THINGS
WHY ASK WHY? – WHEN GOD HAS DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US.Why should I feel unloved when “neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord”. (Ro.8:39) Why should I feel condemned when the Bible says “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Ro.8:1) Why should I say “I can’t” when the Bible says “I can do all things through Him Christ who strengthens me”? (Phil. 4: 13). Why should my needs not be met knowing that “My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus?” (Phil.4: 19). Why should I fear when the Bible says ”God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and a sound mind?” (2Tim.1: 7). Why should I doubt or lack faith knowing that “God has allotted to each a measure of faith?” (Romans 12: 3). Why am I weak when the Bible says “The Lord is the strength of my life “(Psalm27: 1) and “People who know their God will display strength?” (Dan.11: 32). Why should I focus on my sins when God says “Heb 10:17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." (Heb.10:17) Why should I focus on The Law when the Bible says Rom 6:15 ..we are not under law but under grace? (Ro.6:15) Why should I allow Satan to have supremacy over my life, for “Greater is He that is within me than he who is within the world?” (1John4: 4). Why should I accept defeat when the Bible says “Thanks be to God who always leads us in His triumph in Christ?” (2Cor.2: 14). Why should I lack wisdom when “Christ became to us wisdom from God” and “God gives wisdom to all men generously and without reproach who asks Him for it?” (James 1: 5). Why should I be depressed when I can recall to my mind and therefore have hope that “the Lord’s loving-kindnesses indeed never fail, for his compassions never ever fail. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness?” (Lam.3: 21-23). Why should I worry and fret when I can “Cast all my anxiety on Christ, because He cares for me?” (1Peter 5: 7). Why should I ever be in bondage, for “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”(2Cor:3:17) and “It was for freedom that Christ set me free.”(Gal.5: 1). Why should I feel condemned when the Bible says “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8: 1) Why should I ever feel alone when Jesus said ”I am with you always, even to the end of the age.(Matt.28: 20). And I will never leave you nor forsake you?”(Heb.13: 5). Why should I feel accursed or the victim of bad luck when the bible says, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us in order that in Christ we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith?” (Gal.3:13-14). Why should I be discontented when, like Paul, I can ”Learn to be content in whatever circumstances I am?” (Phil.4: 11). Why should I feel worthless when “God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him?” (2Cor.5: 21). Why should I ever have a persecution complex, for “If God be for me, who can be against me? (Rom8: 31). Why should I be confused? “God is not the author of confusion, but of peace” (1Cor.14: 33) And, “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God.”(1Cor.2: 12). Why should I feel a failure when, “In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us?” (Romans8: 37). Why should I let the world bother me when Jesus said, “In the world you have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world?” (John16: 33).
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GRACE - A LICENCE TO SIN?
Question: Why, O why, do you who oppose Jesus' grace claim that preaching grace is a license to sin when the scriptures teach the exact opposite?Rom 6:14 Sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
CARNAL LOGIC
1Co 2:14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. It’s because Jesus’ grace is offensive to carnal, soulish, thinking (1Co.1:12-16) and can only be accepted in one's spirit by the Spirit. God's grace always offends and confuses all who ultimately exalt carnal knowledge and logic above Spirit revealed, scriptural, truth. There is no worldly logic in God's grace. No logic in the fact that God himself died for Sin and freely pardons ALL our sins. This is because it's God's heavenly wisdom, thinking and His ways are simply not man's ways. God's way of Grace offends the flesh and fleshy thinking but exalts the Spirit within that reveals the deep truths found in Christ alone and confirmed by the scriptures.
SIN IS BAD AND DESTRUCTIVE
Rom 6:1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Please hear me everyone... Sin is evil, destructive and harms us all. No one is sayings sin is good and no one is handing out licenses to sin. Anyone claiming that teachers of Jesus' Grace are saying sin is OK and sin doesn't matter, are simply confused or at worst, lying. What we are saying that sin isn't our focus and obsession anymore -Jesus is.
ANTI-LAW? – NO!
Rom 3:20 No one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin..... Rom 5:20 The law was brought in so that sin might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more. Are we anti the law. In no way! We are not anti the Law, we uphold the Law as the Law is good and powerful when used for its correct purpose. i.e. To emphasis and expose sin, especially the sin of self righteousness, and lead Sinners and Pharisees to Jesus and His Grace. We are anti the misuse of the Law which harms and condemns believers. At the moment the Law is being misused by many, as a means of bulling and controlling believers, as a tool for maintaining justification and sanctification and for instilling fear into believer’s lives – all of which is error.
GRACE IS GOD’S SOLUTION FOR SIN
Tit 2:12 Grace teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.... Rom 6:14 Sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. In some Christian circles, grace has become a swear word. But despite all this opposition to grace, let's be clear - whether you like it or not, the Bible teaches that God's solution for sin is His Grace released through the cross. Not our moralizing, not our ranting again sin, not our legalizing, not self righteousness, not our own logic and strength and not our denial of God's grace - its Jesus' grace alone that has dealt with Sin and empowers us to live righteous lives.
WORKS RELIGION
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? It may be that those who won't fully accept the gospel of God's Grace needs go elsewhere with their law gospel. There's a Mosque or an Orthodox Synagogue near you and the self righteous feel very comfortable there - living by laws, rules and regulations. I believe they are looking for good law preachers....but seriously brothers, don't abandoned the Gospel of Grace, God needs us to share the Good News, not the bad news of Law, works and condemnation.
A LICENSE OF FREEDOM
2Co 3:15 Even to this day when Moses is read (i.e. The Law), a veil covers their hearts. But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. I know freedom scares law preachers, because at the end of the day they don't believe the Word in the New Testament scriptures or the Holy Spirit’s ability within believers to do the work of holiness. They believe more in the power of sin than the power of the Cross. But where the Spirit of The Lord is there is freedom. In Christ, we preach HIS gospel of Grace and Kingdom (Acts 20:24) and we handout licenses of freedom from sin. The bold print is clear: We are forgiven and have freedom from the slavery to both sin and death. We are now citizens of a new Kingdom, with a new King - and by His Spirit we live.
NO SMALL PRINT
On a Grace License, signed with the blood of Jesus, there’s no hidden, horrible, legal conditions written in small print, so we are not afraid of being deceived or dragged off to court again. The conditions are clear, we are free, forgiven and now under Jesus’ grace and beloved children of the Father.
Finally, let's proclaim the good news; "Sin is no longer my master, because I'm under Jesus' grace". The question is for all of us: "Is sin still my master?" If so turn away from your dead works and unbelief, be humble, repent and accept Jesus' free gift of Grace and forgiveness today.
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