From Law to Grace: Embracing the New Covenant

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The old covenant, God gave a law because men were lawless. It was intention that men would live by faith, but because sin was abounding, he saw it necessary to bring the ten commandments by the hands of Moses and many other laws to show the children of Israel that they were law breakers. [00:00:27]

Jesus Christ now is our passover lamb, that he satisfies the wrath of sin and passes over us, and so we can overcome the pharaoh, we can overcome the enemy, we can overcome satan through the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. [00:03:21]

So what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God did by sending his own son Jesus in the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin he condemned sin in the flesh that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us because of the work of the cross. [00:03:52]

The good news is that Jesus died and not only died for our sins but he rose again, and that we can also be raised up with Christ. I was reading here in Revelation in chapter 12, something in it says in verse 7 that a war broke out in heaven and Michael and his angels fought with the dragon. [00:04:09]

Now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come. When did this happen? I mean I know this happened at the cross. I don't know if it happened any other time but I know that at the cross this happened salvation and the power of Christ had come. [00:04:52]

The accuser of the brethren who kept what reminding us of sin, reminding us of the law, reminding us of all those things the do's and don'ts and the righteous requirements of the law have now been satisfied to the shed blood of Jesus Christ to those who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. [00:06:24]

We have to die to what we're held by so that we can be raised in the newness of his resurrection but if while the old man is alive if while we're still living for the flesh and while we're still practicing sin, we say that we are joined to Christ and there's no change, then people will look at us and call us hypocrites. [00:09:35]

We have to die to what we're held by so that we're no longer slaves of sin but slaves of Christ bond servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. The law was dealt with at the cross but there's many people today who are still under bondage they're still practicing sin they're still governed by the rule of the law. [00:10:02]

Jesus satisfied the righteous requirements of the law at the cross but now we have to die to what we're held by, this is baptism and Dan shared it we have to die daily, daily there's things that we need to die to because in my flesh dwells no good thing, so with the mind I serve the law of Christ. [00:11:18]

Grace is not a license to sin it's the power of God to deliver us and raise us up with Christ. Baptism there's one baptism death to the flesh down to what we're held by and being raised up in the likeness of his resurrection being joint heirs with Christ being seated with him in heavenly places. [00:13:07]

We need to love the word when the word comes and says if you look at a woman to lust after her you commit adultery in your heart, and he says you adulterers and adulteresses friendship with the world is hatred toward God anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. [00:19:09]

Jesus finished the work at Calvary but he also said something to us that we have a responsibility to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. This is how we pick up our cross and follow him and so proving that we are his disciples because it's God who works in us both to will and to do for his good pleasure. [00:21:01]

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