Good Morning Thursday...
Father thank You for this NEW DAY. As You Walk with us today, please keep us focused on The NEW LIFE You have given us in Your NEW COVENANT. Please continue to fill OUR NEW HEARTS & NEW MINDS with YOUR EVERLASTING PEACE and straighten The NEW PATHS You put before us. IN YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST's Glorious Name. Amen. - THE NEW… Part 3 (A New Covenant) A New Covenant Covenant (n.) - A binding agreement; a compact (a formal agreement or contract between two or more parties). When Our Father In Heaven, hollowed be His Name, made this earth and all living things that dwelled in it, He declared that it was “very good” (Genesis 1:31). All things seamlessly worked together, symbiotically, just as they were made to do. Can you even imagine the beginning? No sin, nothing wasted, no thing out of place, just… well, paradise. That’s how God’s Word describes it, in fact, if one does a word study on “garden,” paradise will soon pop up (thanks Brother Brandon). Also, if one does a word study on “Eden,” you will find in Hebrew it means “delight.” So, Our Father created a NEW “delightful paradise” and everything worked exactly as it was supposed to, exactly as He created it to. It truly must have been breathtakingly gorgeous. Indeed, it was perfect, just like Our Father and Savior, but only for a while. What happened? With one word… man. Our Great (to the 70th power) Grandma and Grandpa choose to trust someone other than Our Father, someone whose native language is lies. Genesis chapter 3 describes the scene. This NEW, glorious, delightful paradise went from “very good” to contaminated and cursed, and all because Adam and Eve didn’t obey. At this point Our Father could have abandoned them, washed His Hands, and been done, but… He Is Just Too Good For That. Rather, Our Father chose to give a lesson. What kind of lesson? A Love Lesson. Our Father, The Creator of Heaven and Earth, decided He would make a Covenant of Love with a nation of people He would lead. The people He would chose would be a peculiar people. He would be their God and they would be His People. In this covenant, God would guarantee His People: protection, guidance, wisdom, and His most powerful and favorite tool… Love. In return this nation would Love, be obedient, and follow only Him. God chose this nation to reveal Himself to, and these people would in turn share Him and The Truth with the entire world. God had a plan from The Beginning to fix “the curse” that Adam (Man) had subjected the earth to. The Covenant that God made with this nation was Amazing, Beautiful, and the most Awesome thing that had happened since the beginning of creation, that is until the children of Adam decided to disobey again, and again, and again, and again, and… well, you get the point. Now not surprisingly God Our Father, He held up His end of the covenant, even when this nation was continually unfaithful, committing spiritual adultery over and over. Though they were unfaithful, God never was. Despite all their rebellion, unfaithfulness, and cheating, The King of Heaven and Earth never left them and He never forgot them. While His People seemed to forget The Covenant they had made with Him, seemingly overnight, over and over, He never forgot or abandoned them. Just as at the beginning, God had every right to abandon, wash His Hands, and be done with this people, and all people for that matter, for they had committed unspeakable evil. Again, He chose something different, something better. This time He would make a NEW Covenant with all people of the earth, and all nations. He would not void His previous covenant, but He would supersede it with a better one. So God Did. Because it was apparent that humanity could not be trusted, His NEW Covenant of Love would be better because He would guarantee it with perfection, because He would come to fulfill it Himself. The NEW Covenant would be one with all of humanity, with anyone that would make a choice to believe He would fix the wrongs humanity had created. In this NEW Covenant, He would come to humanity Himself, as one of them, He would “tabernacle (dwell) among them”(John 1:14), and fix the curse that had been placed on humanity through man’s rebellion and evil. How would He fix it? In The Most Amazing and Miraculous Way ever known to anyone, He, The King Himself, would take the curse of humanity upon Himself. All the rebellion, all the ignorance, all the consequences of humanities evil actions which produced the curses in the first place, God would bear all these curses upon Himself. In fact, He would allow Himself to suffer our consequences, making a way, The Only Way that things could possibly be fixed. With His Amazing, Incredible, Selfless, and Loving Sacrifice, God would then usher in a NEW stage where our cursed humanity and the severed relationship with Him could be fixed. He Created a NEW Covenant, a repaired relationship, and showed us Himself what loyalty looks like. Through this NEW era and NEW relationship, He created a people who would, once and for all time, finally be humble, faithful, and loyal to The King of All Creation. HALLELUYAH! He Has Created a NEW Covenant, and… HE … IS… RISEN!!! 🔥 At The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), we celebrate the arrival of God Himself in the form of Our King and Savior Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, Jesus Christ. He came to us, and He did what we could not… He Fully Obeyed. At The Feast of Passover and The Feast of Firstfruits, we celebrate His Death and His Resurrection. But… with every single day, with every failure of ours, with every struggle we have, and triumph we are given, we should be celebrating God Almighty’s, Our Father’s, NEW Covenant. A covenant that we get to enjoy ONLY BECAUSE YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US, DIED FOR US. The promise that is The NEW Covenant, is a promise that Our King and Savior Loves, rescues, and redeems us. Our part? Be His Children, Love Him, Trust Him, and Obey Him as our Powerful King, Messiah, Savior, and God…as He originally intended. As our days in this world get more uncertain, may we take comfort, rest, protection, hope, and encouragement in what Our God and King has made NEW, His NEW Covenant. May we remember this NEW Covenant each and everyday, and truly commit to Living it faithfully, after all… God Himself Has Done ALL The Heavy Lifting. NEW Covenant… it just sounds so good, right? Thank You and Bless You YESHUA! Godly Questions To Ponder On: How has God Our Father been faithful to you in your Life? How have you endeavored to be faithful to your Creator and Father In Heaven? Are you in covenant with God Your Father and Savior? How do you live that out? The NEW Life and NEW Covenant Word: “BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING, says The LORD (Yahweh), when I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH — not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says The LORD (Yahweh). But THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, says The LORD (Yahweh): I will put My Law (Torah) in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know The LORD (Yahweh),’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says The LORD (Yahweh). For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jeremiah 31:31-34 “In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “THIS CUP IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD. THIS DO, as often as you drink it, IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.” I Corinthians 11:25 “Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a Light to the Gentiles, That You should be My Salvation (Yeshua) to the ends of the earth.’ ” Isaiah 49:6 “So then FAITH COMES BY hearing, and hearing by THE WORD OF GOD.” Romans 10:17 BONUS BREAD: Joshua Aaron - NEW Covenant: https://youtu.be/QhHGzTCouQA Please leave any questions, comments, insights, Biblical Nuggets, encouragement, or thoughts in the comments below.
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