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Faith that you’re right with God comes by hearing someone preach about the finished work of the Cross. This is why teachers must not get the Gospel wrong! Jesus, in fact, is the chief cornerstone by which the entire New Covenant is understood and received.

Jesus met all the stringent requirements of the Law, doing what only a professional could do. In other words, Jesus Nailed It! His life in you makes you an invaluable masterpiece, worth more than you could ever imagine!

God implemented the Feasts of the Lord over 1,500 years before Jesus would come. He hid in plain sight the solution to the world’s problem of a sin nature. The plan was never to remove sin by the blood of earthly bulls and goats. Only the blood of Heaven’s own Lamb could and did eternally make you righteous!

Healthy expectations are crucial to navigating life. It you know what’s in front of you there is a much better chance that you won’t be caught off guard. When it comes to what was accomplished on the Cross, we won Heaven. Let THAT be what your joy is set on – not something here on the earth.

By “overcoming the world” Jesus has guaranteed us His constant presence. Set your mind on the promise of this New Covenant and enjoy the peace that is rightfully yours in Christ!

Life comes at us hard and fast. This outward experience of life can be filled with massive ups and downs. Which is precisely why our great hope is not built on what the planet can offer us. Instead, we set our hope on the immutable and unchangeable plan of God to bless us entirely in the life to come.

The nature of God’s throne is grace and mercy. And with Jesus as our High Priest and representative, we are as sinless as He is in our spirits. This gives us absolute access to the throne of grace, where we find help in our time of need!

Jesus is our great High Priest, about whom we make our Great Confession – that we have been made righteous by our faith in the work that He has done. This is what churches should be rallying around, not allowing our gaze to be distracted from the miracle of this New Covenant!

Jesus is our Rest. There is no work required to maintain your righteousness. Don’t get me wrong – there was a massive and impossible amount of work needed to get you there, but Jesus did all the work for you. Your job is to REST!

The New Covenant we have with God through Christ makes it abundantly clear that we are fully forgiven of all our sins. Because the NOUN of sin has been resolved, the VERB of sin can no longer keep us from God’s perfect presence. Armed with this beautiful revelation, you can sit confidently in His presence, not because you get to sin, but because you are overwhelmed by His love.

Because the Cross worked, Jesus never has to die again. There are no more sacrifices needed for the forgiveness of sins. There is not another temple to be built or an altar to be used trying to cover sin. God ensures us that the blood of the Lamb of God would forever bring life to anyone who receives this debt payment as their own.

For centuries sins were only covered by the annual sacrifice of animals, serving as a type of better things to come. Jesus, the substance, died for the full-forgiveness of humanity once for all time! Receive the gift by faith and enjoy your constant right-standing with God.

It drove the self-righteous Pharisees mad when Jesus spent time with “sinners.” Their false traditions taught that to remain clean you must separate yourself from the unclean. Under their Old Covenant the clean were defiled by the dirty. Yet in this New Covenant the clean (Jesus) now justifies the unclean!

While the Law of Moses drives you out, the Grace of God draws you in. Preach the Law and people are sure to feel inadequate and unwanted. Preach the Grace of God and they will assuredly experience the overwhelming goodness and love of the Father!

The Bible points us to 2 methods for obtaining righteousness. The Old Method (Law) was measured entirely on your ability to keep the Law. Fail in one point and you’re still stuck in unrighteousness. The New Method (Grace) calls you completely right with God based solely on the work of Jesus. I choose Grace!

In the same way that you don’t keep paying your mortgage once it’s paid off, there is no more offering for sin once the debt has been settled. That is precisely what Jesus accomplished on the Cross, and it’s entirely what the Church should be declaring to the world!

The Resurrection is your proof of purchase, reminding you that your salvation is complete! It’s God’s exclamation point on the New Covenant, bringing humanity from a place of being spiritually poor to a position of being spiritually rich.

The great truth of the New Covenant is that you are God are counted as One being, because of what Jesus did. Jesus emphasizes the importance of this when He prayed for you. Life has plenty of ups and downs, and none of them prove whether God is good. What is proof, however, is knowing that your spirit has been perfected forever!

In 1st Century Ephesus, there seem to have been several women seizing authority to teach in the Church, without first qualifying. Paul’s instruction to the young Pastor, Timothy, is not a permanent restriction on women teaching men in the Church, but a temporary silence of some until they learn how to better teach the faith

The role of women in the church has been argued for two thousand years, and it doesn’t appear to be letting up. Missing the mark on this conversation could potential silence ½ of the world’s spiritual communicators. The conclusion I have thoughtfully come to from my study is that women have been given the same ministry opportunities as a man.

The greatest experience that the uninformed or unbelievers (see notes for definitions) can draw from visiting the church is to hear a succinct communication about who Jesus is as the Christ. In fact, the measure of whether God is even among a church is based on Jesus being clearly proclaimed.

Paul’s deep concern for the spiritual communicators in Corinth was that they brought clarity to the work of Christ. And while using the gift of tongues to communicate was quite popular in Corinth, it was never to be used without an interpretation. Why? Because the gift was intended to bring life and freedom to the church as they heard the Gospel preached in their own language. Communicating in ton...

Prophecy, the clear communication of who Jesus is and what He’s done, is the result of speaking in tongues with an interpretation. The point of 1 Corinthians 14 is not for more people to speak in tongues. Rather, it’s to make sure, beyond any other intention, that Jesus is well communicated to the Church. May the Church excel at declaring the mighty works of God to the world!

Love will never cease. It has use in this life and the life to come. Faith and hope will one day expire. As the body of Christ grows in the revelation of our perfected nature, the love of God will naturally and logically be reflected in our relationships with each other.